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Connected Show #40 - Migrating World Maps To Azure

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:18:21 GMT

In this episode, guest Brian Hitney joins Peter to discuss how he migrated the My World Maps application to Windows Azure. Brian talks about migration issues, scalability challenges, and blowing up shared hosting. Also, Dmitry and Peter rap about Dancing with the Stars, the XBox 360 Kinect, Dmitry's TWiT application for Windows Phone 7, and 'Camp Gowannas'.

Connected Show #39 - The Battle Of The 5s

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:15:13 GMT

In this episode, guest Andrew Brust joins Peter to re-cap the recent Microsoft PDC 2010 conference and Silverlight 5 Firestarter. Andrew and Peter discuss the latest Azure platform developments, including VM role, Admin mode, and SQL Azure sharding. Also, Andrew provides us with some blue badge analysis on the future of Silverlight in an HTML5 world.

Connected Show #38 - WCF? Droid Does!

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:38:30 GMT

And, we're back! In an increasingly diverse world of mobile devices, the .NET developer is likely to end up supporting multiple mobile platforms. In this episode, guest Roger Heim joins Peter to talk about connecting .NET & WCF Services with Android clients. Also, Dmitry unknowingly joins the show with his take on the PDC 2010 announcements. Peter covers the (in)sanity of Silverlight v. HTML5.

Connected Show #37 Spelunking Windows Phone 7 Development

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:14:41 GMT

In this episode, "guest" Dmitry Lyalin joins Peter to talk about building a real world Windows Phone 7 application. Dmitry unveils that he is developing a Windows Phone 7 application for Leo Laporte's This Week In Tech (TWiT) network. Dmitry walks us through the phone tool experience, how he developed the TWiT application, and the challenges he faced. Also, Dmitry and Peter cover the latest Microsoft developer news, including ASP.NET security, Windows Phone Dev tools RTM, & the Internet Explorer 9 Beta.

Poyomi's architecture: .NET meets NoSQL and RabbitMQ

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:19:04 GMT

Article on using ASP.NET MVC with NoSql (CouchDb) and RabbitMQ.

How to Remove .SVC from WCF REST Service : The CodeGain

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:30:52 GMT

In this article you will learn, How to Remove .SVC from WCF REST Service

ASP.NET and the Padding Oracle Attack: Wrap-up

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:00:52 GMT

Based on the news that was released at the time, it appeared that this vulnerability was just an issue AES. It turns out that this was false and that that this attack works against ANY BLOCK CIPHER meaning 3DES was also vulnerable. This wrap-up links to some mitigation techniques and also discusses how to protect against padding oracle attacks using Digital Signatures.

7 Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programme

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:00:52 GMT

Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programme

jQuery UI 1.8.5 Released to Microsoft CDN - Example with Live Demo

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:15:52 GMT

jQuery UI 1.8.5 Released

What is an MVP? - How to become an MVP?

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:45:52 GMT

A Direct Answer to Famous Question!

Connected Show #36 - Steve Marx on Azure

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:16:01 GMT

In this episode, the one and only Windows Azure Tactical Strategist, Steve Marx, joins Dmitry and Peter to give us an update on the Windows Azure platform. Steve talks about common real world Windows Azure use patterns, including storage and compute instance configurations. Steve uses some strategic tactics to tell us what's in the tea leaves for the future of Azure. Peter also responds to "cat ladies & acne-laden teenagers" by sharing "The Memo".

Connected Show #35 - Cat Ladies & Acne Laden Teenagers

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:17:42 GMT

In this episode, Dmitry and Peter cover the latest news around the Microsoft developer space, including Windows Azure updates, interoperability, & Windows Phone 7. They also talk about the new Visual Studio LightSwitch. Is it really for cat ladies? Peter & Dmitry discuss who the target audience is for LightSwitch as well as how some in the community feel it may or may not impact professional Microsoft Developers in the industry.

Connected Show #34 - Apache Stonehenge M2

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:46:30 GMT

In this episode, guests Ben Dewey & Kent Brown join Peter to discuss the latest release of the Apache Stonehenge project. Ben & Kent talk about the .NET, Java, and PHP interoperability project and how it now handles identity. (Interview starts at 26:21) Also, Dmitry & Peter rap about Web Farms, Ribbons & Bows, Windows Phone 7, and Power Tools. They also take us on another trip to Dmitry's SoapBox!

Dmitry's Soapbox (Connected Show Podcast episode #33)

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:58:27 GMT

Guest host Andrew Brust is back again, joining Dmitry & Peter to talk about all of the tech news from Microsoft's Wordwide Partner Conference in Washington, DC. The trio talks about WebMatrix, Internet Explorer 9 Preview 3, Windows Phone 7, and the newly announced Windows Azure Appliance. A raging Dmitry also shares his poppin' passion for HTML5

Connected Show #32 - CoApp: Do EPIC Schtuff!

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:30:31 GMT

In this episode, guest Garrett Serack from the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center joins Peter to discuss CoApp, a new package manager for the Windows platform. Garrett tells us how CoApp will help make it easier for developers and users to build and install open source software on Windows. (Interview starts at 34:15) Also, Dmitry and Peter rap about Windows Phone 7, WCF, Outlook PST files, Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools, and IQueryable killing his cat.

Connected Show #31 - PHP On Windows

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:35 GMT

In this episode, guests Kanwaljeet Singla, Don Raman, and Wade Hilmo from the Microsoft IIS team join Peter to discuss the evolution of PHP on the Windows Platform. The IIS folks tell us about the improvements made to Windows in order to support PHP, including: Fast CGI, WinCache, PHP 5.3, the Web PI, and the SQL Server driver for PHP. (Interview starts at 24:31) Also, Dmitry and Peter rap about Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Expression Studio 4, & some 'select developer' news about Windows Phone 7! All in Klingon to boot!

Connected Show #30 - You Don't Find Skeet, Skeet Finds YOU!

Tue, 25 May 2010 01:15:14 GMT

In this episode, the man, the myth, the legend: C# MVP Jon Skeet joins Peter on a whirlwind tour into the bowels of the C# language. Jon talks up lambdas, expression trees, and other C# goodness. Prepare to have your brain tickled! (Interview starts at 31:18) Also, guest host Andrew Brust joins Peter to rap about phpBB in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, Office 2010, Windows Phone 7, and HTML5 video.

Understanding Navigation on Windows Phone 7

Thu, 13 May 2010 15:00:52 GMT

Taking a look at the Windows Phone 7 Api and understanding how to navigate between pages. In this episode we are going to focus on learning about the various ways you can navigate from page to page within your application. Because WP7 is based off of Silverlight 3.x you are able to utilize all the native silverlight navigation techniques such as static routing (hard wiring the .xaml path), using routes and using the NavigationService.

Creating and using the Application Bar w/ Windows Phone 7

Thu, 13 May 2010 11:15:52 GMT

Taking a look at how to create the Application Bar for Windows Phone 7 When creating an application with Win Phone 7 you may need to create an application bar which contains menus or icons. In this episode we will show you how to create both global app bars as well as local app bar

Connected Show #29 - Get LIT With Silverlight & WPF4

Sun, 09 May 2010 18:45:52 GMT

In this episode, guest Pete Brown joins Peter to discuss the recent releases of Silverlight 4 & WPF4. Pete talks about how to "light up with COM" and do some crazy sh---tuff on your client. Mics, webcams, and sensors, oh my! WPF or Silverlight? Which one should you be looking at when deciding a client platform technology? Pete helps walk us through those decisions as well as the deltas between the two XAML-based platforms. (Interview starts at 13:34) Also on tap, guest host Dane Morgridge joins Peter to cover the latest Microsoft developer & interoperability news including: Enterprise Library 5 and new SQL Server drivers for Java & PHP. Be sure to catch up with Dane & Andrew Duthie on their Community Megaphone Podcast.

Connected Show #28 - It's Codeplex dot COM!

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:54:30 GMT

In this episode, Microsoft's own Sara Ford joins Peter to discuss her work on the CodePlex.com open source software hosting platform. Sara dishes on how the Codeplex.com team evolved the site over time using Agile methodologies, as well as her own journey from Visual Studio tipster to Silicon Valley Technology Evangelist (Interview starts at 21:39). Also on tap, guest host Dani Diaz joins Peter to cover the latest Microsoft interoperability news including: Nick Knocks, CoApp, SQL Reporting Services for PHP, oData, and PHP on Azure.

Connected Show #27 All Mixed Up!

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:52:39 GMT

In this episode, guest Andrew Brust joins Dmitry and Peter to discuss the latest happenings from SxSW and Mix10. On tap this time around: XP Mode hardware restrictions removed, Silverlight 4, Windows Phone 7 development, and IE9 support for HTML5. Andrew also talks to us about the potential of oData for interoperability and easy data access on the web.

Connected Show #25 - Is That A Phone In Your Pocket?!

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:06:53 GMT

In this episode, guest host Andrew Brust joins Peter to cover the Windows Phone 7 Series news from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Also, Andrew and Peter discuss the latest developer & interoperability news, including: The Enterprise Library roadmap from the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team, Zend Framework's support for Windows Azure, and innovation at Microsoft.

Learning how to use Manual Mocks for Testing

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:15:01 GMT

Taking a look at how to use manual mocks for testing Often times when creating unit tests we need to work in isolation in order to cover the paths we are attempting to test. When we want to test in isolation you can use a testing technique where you mock out your dependencies. When using Mocks you can either do it manually (what we are looking at) or you can use a mocking framework like Rhino Mocks. Either way you achieve the same results.

Mercurial integration with Visual Studio

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:30:03 GMT

Since codeplex is supporting Mercurial. It seems like a good idea to use an integration package for Visual Studio.