Technology And Friends

Episode 266: Jeff Fritz on MVC vs Web Forms

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

In this video, Telerik Evangelist Jeff Fritz and I contrast ASP.NET web forms and ASP.NET MVC.

Episode 265: Chris Love on Touch Interfaces for Mobile Web Applications

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

In this interview, Chris Love describes the challenge of building cross-platform mobile applications and about his DeepTissue JavaScript library that facilitates building touch and gesture interfaces into a mobile application.

Episode 264: Hoop Somuah on Azure Services for Halo

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Hoop Somuah works on the Xbox Halo team, which uses Windows Azure to store and share user data. In this interview, Hoop talks about the challenges of storing massive amounts of data in the cloud.

Episode 263: Shawn Weisfeld on UserGroup.tv

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Shawn Weisfeld started usergroup.tv as a way to record and share user group presentations. In this interview, Shawn discusses his reasons for doing so and what it takes to share all these videos.

Episode 262: Scott Koon on the Problem with Software Development

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Scott Koon has some strong ideas about the problems plaguing the software industry today. And the biggest problems have nothing to do with technology.

Episode 261: Atley Hunter on Windows Phone 8

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Atley Hunter has more apps in the Windows Phone store than anyone else. In this interview, he discusses the development process and what he loves about the Windows Mobile platform.

Episode 260: Brady Gaster on Azure Web Sites

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Evangelist Brady Gaster describes the features of Azure Web Sites and how to create your own site.

Episode 259: Rachel Appel on Azure Mobile Services

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Evangelist Rachel Appel discusses the features and advantages of Windows Azure Mobile Services.

Episode 258: Kristin Cederquist on Nanoparticles

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

In this interview, chemist Kristin Cederquist discusses research on nanoparticles and practical applications of this technology.

Episode 257: Stan Schultes on Bar Camps, Economic Summits, and SparkGrowth

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Stan Schultes has been organizing bar camps in Florida for years. In this interview, he discusses the next event he is planning along with his SparkGrowth project, designed to provide economic summits and other events across the region.

Episode 256: Mark Dunn on ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Views

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

In this interview, former .NET Rocks host Mark Dunn discusses ASP.NET MVC 4 and how it can automatically be route requests from mobile devices to a view specifically designed for smaller displays.

Links

http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-4/aspnet-mvc-4-mobile-features

http://dunntraining.com/

Episode 255: James Bender on BDD

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

In this interview, James Bender discusses BDD (which may stand for either "Business-Driven Development" or "Behavior-Driven Development") and "Acceptance Test-Driven Development"

Episode 254: Brian and Stephen Sherwin on Controlling your Robot Army with C#, NetDuino and Kinect

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

With the help of this father Brian, Steven Sherwin programmed a robot to respond to commands from a computer and from a Kinect. In this interview, Brian and Steven, describe the project and what they learned along the way.

Episode 253: Kevin Griffin on Winsitter

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Kevin Griffin discusses his new product Winsitter, which simplifies server monitoring for network administrators.

Episode 252: Chris Woodruff on Data Experience

DavidGiard@DavidGiard.com (David Giard) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT

In this interview, Chris Woodruff coins the phrase "Data Experience" to describe the patterns and architecture by which we expose and interact with data in our applications.