Alt.NET Podcast

18: Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net

James Avery - javery@infozerk.com — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:53:00 GMT

As a follow up to the last podcast that featured Mike Moore and Scott Bellware discussing Alt.Net I spoke with Jeremy Miller to put out a vision for what he feels Alt.Net should represent and how it can be a positive thing in the community. This will be the last episode here on this topic, I promise to get back to normal technology discussions (next episode is about BDD and TDD).

We talk about the following things:

-James
My Blog
Follow me on twitter

17: The State of Alt.Net

James Avery - javery@infozerk.com — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:53:00 GMT

Mike Moore came out of retirement for one more conversation with Scott Bellware on the current state of Alt.NET.

Scott's Tweets:

The Curve:

Mike and Scott cover the following:

Crossing the Chasm
Teaching, Symbology, and Intellectual Materialism – The Chasm is a Vacuum
"Lonely people commiserating together."
Technology evangelism
Progressive software development
Software craftsmanship
SOLID principles
Chad Meyers Posts
"Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right." - Ani DiFranco
Orthodoxy & dogma

-James and Mike

16: State of IronRuby 2009

James Avery - javery@infozerk.com — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:13:00 GMT

In my first solo-episode of the IronRuby podcast I talk with John Lam to get an update on the IronRuby project.

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We discuss the following:

-James Avery

15: Domain Driven Design

Mike Moore - javery@infozerk.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:19:00 GMT

In this episode, I talk with Rob Conery and James Avery about Domain Driven Design.

We discuss the following:

Understanding the business
ASP.NET MVC Storefront
Rob Conery limps and learns about Domain Driven Design
Philosophical underpinnings of DDD
Redundancy in the Space Shuttle
Bounded Context
Aggregate Root
Applying Domain-driven Design and Patterns
State Pattern
Continuous Improvement
And best of all, listen along as Rob drops the names of the following people:
- Brad Wilson
- Dave Laribee (twice)
- Scott Hanselman (twice)
- Scott Bellware (twice)
- Ben Taylor (twice)
- Jimmy Nilsson
- Jimmy Bogard
- Eric Evans

This is my last episode hosting the Alt.NET Podcast. I want to thank the many gracious guests that have helped make the podcast such a success, and the listeners that have supported us and endured my scratchy voice. I hope that both the Alt.NET and the larger .NET communities have benefited from the podcast. James Avery is taking over the podcast and I am very excited to see where he goes and what improvements he makes.

~Mike Moore

14: Object Databases

Mike Moore - javery@infozerk.com — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:18:00 GMT

In this episode, I talk with Rob Conery and James Avery about object databases.

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We discuss the following:

Object Database
Database Styles
- Integration Database
- Applicatioon Database
Matisse
DB4Objects
Crazy Talk: Reducing ORM Friction
Database YAGNI
Adoption of Object Databases
Object Query Language

13: Ruby on Rails

Mike Moore - javery@infozerk.com — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:18:00 GMT

In this episode, I talk with Brian Eng and Jeff Cohen from the Softies on Rails blog, and James Avery about the Ruby on Rails web framework and what Alt.NET can learn from it.

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We discuss the following:

Ruby on Rails
Softies on Rails blog
Rails for .NET Developers
IronRuby
Learn a new language each year
Domain Specific Languages
Hacker Mentality
Sneaking Ruby into the Enterprise
Rake
Rails’ “Sweet Spot”
Separation of Concerns
Test Driven Development
Agile Mindset
Writing the book
Opinionated Software
JRuby
Making Open Source contributions
Importance of software documentation

12: More JQuery in ASP.NET

Mike Moore - javery@infozerk.com — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:16:00 GMT

In this episode Chris Brandsma, Rick Strahl, Dave Ward, Bertrand Le Roy, and Scott Koon conclude their discussion of Microsoft’s jQuery in ASP.NET announcement¹.

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¹ Steven Harman lost his hard drive part way through and was unable to remain on the call. You can leave him your heart felt condolences on his blog.

11: JQuery in ASP.NET

Mike Moore - javery@infozerk.com — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:16:00 GMT

In this episode Chris Brandsma, Rick Strahl, Dave Ward, Bertrand Le Roy, Scott Koon, and Steven Harman discuss Microsoft’s jQuery in ASP.NET announcement.

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The panel discusses the following:

JavaScript
jQuery
Microsoft shipping jQuery in ASP.NET
- John Resig’s announcement
- Scott Guthrie’s announcement
CSS3 Selectors
Code Generation
Is this a “Win” for ALT.NET?
Microsoft accepting user-contributed code

The panel’s conversation continues in the next episode…

10: OOP in Ruby

Mike Moore - javery@infozerk.com — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:15:00 GMT

In this episode, I talk with Scott Bellware about object-oriented programming in Ruby, and Ruby’s object model. This is taken from a private conversation, and the audio quality suffers at times. Much thanks to Scott for allowing this to be released.

We discuss the following:

The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming screencasts with Dave Thomas
“Actually I made up the term “object-oriented”, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.” — Alan Kay
Is C++ Object-Oriented?
IronRuby + C# = Awesomeness
Object Thinking
Neal Ford’s Meme Agora blog
Polymorphism by Inheritance vs. Behavior
Overuse the Matrix analogy
Message passing vs. method invocation
IronRuby and the DLR
Polyglot Programming
Microsoft Live Labs Vota
One language to rule them all
Mentors and mentorship

P.S. I first met Scott when I interviewed him on the Rubiverse podcast a year ago. You may also find that conversation interesting.

9: State of IronRuby

Mike Moore - javery@infozerk.com — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:14:00 GMT

In this episode, I talk with Aaron Junod and Michael Letterle on the state of the IronRuby project for the .NET framework.

We discuss the following:

Why Ruby?
Dynamic Typing
How Ruby has affected the industry
Microsoft accepting community contributions
What about running IronRuby on Rails?
What about running IronRuby on the ASP.NET MVC?
Sneaking Ruby into the enterprise with IronRuby
IronRuby’s readiness
Ruby Programming Language
try ruby!