Canopy Financial

In this weeks show, Larry sits down with some of the fine folks from Canopy Financial to discuss they started a business based on .NET technologies and tools. We also discuss Microsoft Start-Up Zone and how start-up companies can work with Microsoft to launch their businesses.

We also discuss the outcome of what Jeff Atwood was teasing us with Episode 18. A partner venture with Joel Spolsky to create a technical community portal called Stack Overflow. Joel and Jeff are also recording their weekly planning calls on offering that up as podcast, which is certainly a good listen.

We finish this week's episode by announcing our second Zune contest. One lucky winner will receive a Zune80 with custom artwork etched from ZuneOriginals.net. This contest is easy enough. Just send us your constructive feedback on what Microsoft can do better to support your work/personal life in utilizing Microsoft's tools and technologies. Send your entries to thirstydeveloper [at] live.com with the subject header of 'Zune Contest'.

Submit your feedback and your entry for a custom Zune80.

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http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD021-StartingUpOnDotNet.mp3

Blogs you should know

Larry's Pick: Jeff Moser's Software Development Adventures

Dave's Pick: Sara Fords Weblog / Visual Studio Tip of the Day

Ways to connect with Dave and Larry:

Dave's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile

Larry's Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile

Beth and the Stormtroopers

In this episode we talk with our pal Server Girl (Beth Humphreys) about Hyper-V the new virtualization technology included in Windows Server 2008.  Beth gives us a great overview of the technology and we chat about how developers can use Hyper-V technology to create a great developer rig.

Second Life Heroes Happen Here Launch

Before we jumped into the interview Dave spends some time talking about this last weekend's Heroes Happen Here launch event in Second Life (the 3D Virtual World).  The event was put on by the Second Life .NET Users Group and coordinated by our fellow Evangelist Zain Naboulsi.  You can read Zain's blog post on the event and check out some photos.

Show Links

Hyper-V information (includes link to download RC0 or latest released version): http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/virtualization-consolidation.aspx

Hyper-V management tools for Windows Vista: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949758

Currently tested guest OSes: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-faq.aspx

Download / Listen to the show

 http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/TD020-ServerGirlonHyperV.mp3

A blog you should know

Dave's Pick: Ben Armstrong's Virtual PC Guy

Larry's Pick: Paul Thurrott's Win Super Site

In this episode, Dave and Larry sit down with Richard Campbell at the recent Deeper in .NET conference held in Milwaukee, WI. Richard is Product Evangelist for Strangeloop Networks and is co-host of .NET Rocks and RunAs Radio. Richard shares with us his insights on how to build scalable web applications.

Also, Dave and Larry announced the upcoming Visual Studio 2008 virtual launch in Second Life on April 26th, 2008, 9:00am - 4:00 PST. Zain Naboulsi has all of the details.

Download / Listen to the Show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD019-RichardCampbell.mp3

Blogs you should know

Larry's Pick: Damon Payne: Hand Waving Software Architect

Dave's Pick: LifeHacker.com

Dave's Software Pick: FeedDemon

Jeff Atwood
photo by Adam Kinney

This week Dave Interviewed Jeff Atwood author of the Coding Horror blog during the recent Microsoft Technology Summit.  Larry and Dave also spend some time talking about their favorite geek movies.

Download / Listen to the Show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD018-JeffAtwood.mp3

Blogs you should know

Larry's Pick: Jeff Brand's Slickthought.net 

Dave's Pick: Tim Heuer's Method ~ of Object ~ Failed

This week we interviewed Jeff Webber who created the Farseer Physics Engine, which is a 2D Physics engine originally written for XNA, but was ported to support Silverlight with help from Bill Reiss of Blue Rose Games.  You can check out some samples written on Silverlight 2.  Jeff is using the physics engine to create some cool games, which you can check out at Farseer Games.  You can follow Jeff at the Farseer Games Blog.

Download / Listen to the Show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD017-Farseer.mp3

Blogs you should know

Larry's Pick: Zune Insider

Dave's Pick: XNA Team Blog

Dave's Bonus Pick: Games on your Zune!?! What? How? When? by Laura Foy from Channel 10

Kevin Farner

This week we interviewed Kevin Farner of Gomoll Research and Design about ways that designers and developers can work better together.  You can follow Kevin at the Gomoll Blog.

Books to learn more about design (Courtesy of Kevin)

Paper Prototyping

Designing web navigation

Designing Interfaces

Communicating Design

Don't make me think

About Face

Download / Listen to the Show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/Shows/TD016-DesignersandDevelopers.mp3

Blogs you should know

Larry's Pick: Creating Passionate Users (archive) by Kathy Sierra

Dave's Pick: iRhetoric by Karsten Januszewski

Adam Kinney

This week's interview was recorded on location at MIX 08.  We talk with Adam Kinney (aka the Silverlight Surfer), who is the technical evangelist for Silverlight.

This week we were joined in studio by our fellow evangelist, Beth Humphreys (aka Server Girl).  She is an Infrastructure Architect Evangelist who spends her days (and many nights) making servers safe for developers and architects.

Download / Listen to the Show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/TD015-Silverlight2.mp3

Blogs you should know

Larry's Pick: Guy Kawaski on how to change the world

Dave's Pick: Sessions site from Mix Conference

Beth's Pick: IdentityBlog by Kim Cameron

Ed Chaltry

This week we talk with Ed Chaltry, the CTO of Centare Group and a Certified ScrumMaster about SCRUM, which is an Agile process that can be used to manage and control complex software and product development using iterative, incremental practices. 

Download / Listen to the Show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/TD014-SCRUM.mp3

Show Links

Control Chaos SCRUM Site

Ken Schwaber's Agile Software Development with SCRUM book

Blogs you should know

Larry's Pick: Dan Rigsby and his many great posts on WCF

Dave's Pick: Roy Osherove's Blog on Unit Testing, Agile Development, Architecture, Team System & .NET

Drew Robbins
By Sebastian Bergmann

This week we talk with Drew Robbins, the technical evangelist for IIS7 about some of the great new features of IIS, which released in late 2006 on Windows Vista and is also included in Windows Server 2008. 

Download / Listen to the Show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/TD013-DrewbyOnIIS.mp3

Show Links

PHP on IIS

ACID2 Test

IE8 and the ACID2 Test

Blogs you should know

Larry's Pick: Onion Blog by Fritz Onion

Dave's Pick: IE Team Blog 

Norb and Ben

This week we talk with Ben and Norb from Frozen Code Base, a game development studio based out of Green Bay, WI.  They have released their first title ScrewJumper on XBOX Live Arcade and have a second title coming out soon.  Ben is the founder of the company and Norb is their chief designer.  As we talked about the game development process and creating games for XBOX live hilarity ensues.

Download / Listen to the Show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/TD012-ScrewJumping.mp3

Show Links

XNA Creator's Club

XNA Game Studio 2.0

Blogs you should know

Larry's Pick: Major Nelson by Larry Hryb

Dave's Pick: Let's Kill Dave! by David Weller

Paul Hacker

This week we talk with Paul Hacker, who is a Microsoft MVP on the Team System platform.  We discuss the advantages and best practices around Continuous Integration.

Download / Listen to the Show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/TD011-ContinuousIntegration.mp3

Show Links

Larry and Dave will be attending MIX.  How about a listener Meetup?

Dave will be attending SXSW Interactive

Paul Hacker is the Editor in Chief of TFS Times and is the leader of the Team System SIG in Indianapolis, IN as well as the co-host of the Radio TFS podcast.

Blogs you should know

Larry's Pick: Chris Bernard's Design Thinking Digest

Dave's Pick: Ron Caron's Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/

This week we talk with Matt Goebel of Crowe Chizek about building .NET applications with Globalization and Localization in mind.

Listen / Download this show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/TD010-GlobalizinAndLocalizin.mp3

Show Links

Dave writes about working some permalink magic

Sleepless in Chicago is this weekend in Chicago where the winners of a SharePoint development competition will win an all expense paid trip to the Office Developers Conference in San Jose, CA, Feb. 10 - 13, 2008 

Dave and Larry will be in Las Vegas for MIX'08. Did someone say listener meetup?

Are you going to MIX'08 or SxSW? If so drop a note to thirstydeveloper [AT] live.com for a Thirsty Developer listener meetup!

Blogs you should know:

• http://visitmix.com
  • Restyle challenge, http://visitmix.com/2008/restyle/
  • Flotzam mashup challenge, http://www.visitmix.com/blogs/News/403/
  • The Signal Podcast, http://www.visitmix.com/blogs/TheSignal/
• 37 Signals, http://www.37signals.com

This week Larry sits down with C# MVP, Mark Strawmyer, to share stories of projects of old and utilizing some of the new analytic features found in Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite to measure product complexity.

Listen / Download this show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/td009-CyclomaticComplexity.mp3

Show Links

Larry's experience of a week without Flash

Sleepless in Chicago is coming to Chicago the weekend of February 1st and to various cities throughout the country.

Office Developers Conference 2008, San Jose, CA, Feb. 10 - 13, 2008 

Dave and Larry will be at the Silicon Prairie Social II in Lisle, IL on Jan. 24th.

ArcReady - http://www.arcready.com

DevCares - http://www.devcares.com

MSDN Events - http://msdnevents.com

VS, SQL, Windows Server 2008 Launch, http://heroeshappenhere.com

Are you going to MIX'08 or SxSW? If so drop a note to thirstydeveloper [AT] live.com for a Thirsty Developer listener meetup!

Blogs you should know:

• Team System Rocks, http://teamsystemrocks.com
• Robert X. Cringely, http://www.pbs.org/cringely

Kevin and George

DevCamps are un-conference events that are starting to pop up in the developer community that provide a casual environment and a lot of energy for like-minded developers to come together and learn from one another about a particular technology area. In this episode of The Thirsty Developer, we sit down with George Durzi and Kevin Marshall, from Clarity Consulting, who recently hosted a DevCamp around SharePoint and affectionately termed it MOSSCamp.

Also, in this episode, we announce the winner of our first listener contest. Thomas Emge correctly answered the question of "When and Where is the kick off launch event for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008", and that of course is in Los Angeles, CA on February 27th, 2008. Microsoft is hosting numerous launch events across the world. To find one if your area, head on over to http://heroeshappenhere.com.

Listen / Download this show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/td008-MOSSCamp.mp3

Show Links

ArcReady - http://www.arcready.com

DevCares - http://www.devcares.com

Sleepless in Chicago is coming to Chicago the weekend of February 1st and to various cities throughout the country.

MIX'08, Las Vegas, NV, March 5 - 7, 2008

MIX University

Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter

Blogs you should know

• Rob Bogue, SharePoint MVP, http://thorprojects.com/blog
• SharePoint Team Blog, http://blogs.microsoft.com/sharepoint
• Adam Kinney, Silverlight Surfer, http://adamkinney.com

MOSSCamp - http://mosscamp.net

Facebook Developer Toolkit Team

A few weeks ago we met up with Ryan Powers, Jonathan Schuster and Kevin Marshall from Clarity Consulting to talk about a project they've been working on called Facebook Developer Toolkit. The initial project was a collaboration with the Microsoft Visual Studio Express team in Redmond and is now an open source project hosted on CodePlex. If you're a .NET developer and want to start building applications for the Facebook platform, you definitely need to check out the Facebook Developer Toolkit. If you'd like to contribute to the project, head on over to the Facebook Developer Toolkit Project Page.

Also, be sure to listen to the show for a chance to win a custom 80GB Zune from Zune Originals.

Listen / Download this show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/td007-FacebookDeveloperToolkit.mp3

Show Links

Larry is speaking at the Indianapolis .NET Developers Association on January 10th.

Sleepless in Chicago is coming the weekend of February 1st.

Larry will be attending MIX'08 in Vegas.

Dave will be attending South by Southwest.

Facebook Developer Toolkit Project Page

Ryan's article on Silverlight 1.1 on Facebook Canvas Page using ASP.NET and Facebook Developer Toolkit.

For this episode, we sat down with Gerry Heidenreich and Damon Payne in Milwaukee, WI to discuss Project Euler.  Project Euler is named after Leonhard Euler, who was a mathematician in the 1700's.  Gerry and Damon spend some of their free time solving mathematical problems on the Project Euler site.  You can read Gerry's blog at http://edsid.com/blog/ and Damon's Blog at http://damonpayne.com.

Listen / Download this show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/td006-ProjectEuler.mp3

Show Links

Project Euler - http://projecteuler.net

Damon's "Multithreading large workloads" post - http://www.damonpayne.com/PermaLink,guid,fdb0de99-446c-428b-ba98-14ef8c5dfaf0.aspx

Way Back Machine on ProjectEuler.net - http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://projecteuler.net/

Brad Jones

Brad Jones is Microsoft MVP based out of Indianapolis, IN and the editor of Code Guru.  He also is the founder and president of the Indianapolis .Net Developer Association.  This is the fourth and last interview in our series of that were recorded at the IndyTechfest in Indianapolis, IN.  We talked with Brad about what it takes to put on a community event like the IndyTechfest.

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http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/td005-bradjones.mp3

Rob Bogue

Rob Bogue is Microsoft SharePoint MVP and a consultant, based out of Indianapolis, IN.  This is the third in our series of interviews from the IndyTechfest in Indianapolis, IN.  We talked with Rob about his presentation at the event, which was on SharePoint in the Enterprise.  Rob has a lot of knowledge to impart on SharePoint, he even "wrote the book" on it (or co-authored one of the books).  You can check out Rob's blog at: http://thorprojects.com/blog/.

Listen / Download this show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/td004-robbogue.mp3

Tim Landgrave

Tim Landgrave is an architect with the consulting division of Microsoft, based out of Louisville, KY.  This is the second in our series of interviews from the IndyTechfest in Indianapolis, IN.  Tim spends a lot of time talking with customers about how to get the most of the .NET framework and other Microsoft technologies, and we spent a few minutes with him discussing the current state of the framework.  You can check out Tim's blog at http://timlandgrave.com.

Listen / Download this show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/td003-timlandgrave.mp3

Chad Campbell

Chad Campbell is a software developer with Crowe Chizek, based out of Louisville, KY.  We met up with Chad a few weeks ago at the IndyTechfest in Indianapolis, IN, where he was set to give a talk called "Silverlight on Every page".  We caught up with him at the speaker's room and asked him to talk about his technique for using Silverlight 1.1.  You can Check out Chad's blog for more thoughts and Silverlight at http://cornucopia30.blogspot.com/.

Listen / Download this show

http://thirstydeveloper.com/shows/td002-chadcampbell.mp3

Adam Salvo

The Thirsty Developer is on the air with the inaugural episode of the new podcast series.  For this episode, we traveled to Madison, WI to interview Adam Salvo, who is a lead developer with Terso Solutions. We talked with Adam about their recent migration to Visual Studio 2008 and Team Foundation Server 2008.  They were early adopters of VS 2008 / TFS under the "go live" provision of the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 EULA.  We will hear about the features in Visual Studio 2008 that attracted them to an early adoption.

Terso Solutions builds and manages intelligent enclosures (which are cabinets and refrigeration units) that hold medical supplies used in hospitals and research labs.  In addition to the hardware devices themselves, Terso has a software back end infrastructure that is created with BizTalk Server, Windows Servers and customer .NET

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