Deep Fried Bytes: Windows Azure - The Overlord in the Cloud

deepfriedbytes.com — A discussion with Steve Marx, Program Manager for Windows Azure, about the new Windows Azure service from Microsoft. read more...

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Deep Fried Bytes: PDC Roundtable w/ StackOverflow & Herding Code

deepfriedbytes.com — Keith and Woody grabbed a few other podcasters to have a roundtable discussion on the last day of Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in October 2008. The discussion was very lively and after you listen to this first part head over to the Herding Code podcast to listen to the conclusion of the discussion from PDC. read more...

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Community Convergence XLVII

blogs.msdn.com — Welcome to the 47th Community Convergence. We had a very successful trip to PDC this year. In this post I’ll outline some of the highlights, and give you a chance to share in some of the excitement by linking to online versions of the talks from the C#, VB, IronRuby, IronPython and F# teams. Speakers at these talks include Anders Hejlsberg, Luca Bolognese, Paul Vick, Lucian Wischik, Dustin Campbell and Alex Turner. Several of these talks were among the top rated events at the conference, with Anders’ talk once again garnering the most attention and generating the most excitement. read more...

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Running an Agile Team, A Year Later

deepfriedbytes.com — Are you holding back on adopting Agile practices? Listen in as Sara Ford, Codeplex Program Manager, explains first hand the benefits of working in an Agile team and why she wouldn't go back to the traditional Microsoft methodology. read more...

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Staying Sane in Today’s Software Development World with Billy Hollis

deepfriedbytes.com — Even the best developers on the planet have concerns about how fast new technology is being released and the impact it is having on today’s developers. Do you feel overwhelmed and are afraid that you are getting behind learning new Microsoft technologies like WPF, WCF, WF and Silverlight? Keith and Woody sat down with Billy Hollis and had a therapy session to get down to why and how we can cope with learning these new technologies. read more...

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Building the “Good Enough” Framework

keithelder.net — At DevLink a few weeks we held open spaces on the theme of “good enough”. I started a topic on building internal application frameworks and re-usable code bases, thus the title. This was an interesting topic to me because my role at work the last several months has been to create this very thing. It is an interesting hat to wear because instead of a team’s clients being entrenched in the business, the clients are fellow developers. The question is how do you go about building this type of framework and what are the things you should watch out for as you go down this path. Below are notes taken from this open space session along with other guidance. Please feel free to continue this conversation here and within your own blogs. read more...

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Deep Fried Bytes: A Practical Look at Silverlight 2 Part 1

deepfriedbytes.com — Now that Silverlight 2 is at the Olympics and making a big splash, we wanted to explore this fascinating technology more. Microsoft Silverlight 2 is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Keith and Woody sit down with Shawn Wildermuth about the past, present and future of Silverlight 2 and get into some of the truths about this exciting technology. read more...

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Episode 7: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee – Part 2

deepfriedbytes.com — Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to the design of software, based on two premises. For most software projects, the primary focus should be on the domain and domain logic (as opposed to being the particular technology used to implement the system) and complex domain designs should be based on a model. David Laribee wraps up his discussion with hosts Keith and Woody about the growing design practice and how it can be used with the .NET platform. read more...

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