Elegant Code Cast

Code Cast 11 - Mark Miller

Daddy Starr — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:49:05 +0000

Mark Miller, bad boy of .Net, Millinater of Mondays, and Chief Architect for DevExpress, C# MVP, and living legend joined us here on the Elegant Code Cast.

Do I even need to tell you about the show?

Elevator buttons
WPF
Controlling Windows with your eyeballs
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle robots

This one has it all. And you know what? Besides being stuffed with gray matter, Mark is just a nice guy.

Code Cast #10 Richard Hundhausen

Daddy Starr — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:17:54 +0000

Richard Hundhausen is President of Accentient, a training and consulting company specializing in MS Team System. Additionally, Rich is a published author, a MS MVP in Team System, and a Microsoft Regional Director. In other words, wow. This guy knows Team System and the industry.

Richard has a very popular talk that he has done at several conferences entitled, Team System Worst Practices. This year at Tech Ed Developer, Rich was good enough to let me plug my recorder right into his sound board while giving this talk, and that is the majority of this cast.

Additionally, Rich sat down with me to talk a bit about Team System and the landscape in front of us with project Rosario, the next version of Team System.

This combines to make the longest Elegant Code Cast we have ever produced at 1 hour, 25 minutes. It is not my goal to regularly produce shows this long, but this was a great opportunity to learn a lot from a very knowledgeable guy.

Enjoy this over the course of 3 runs, or 2 commutes :).

Code Cast #9 - Ward Bell

Daddy Starr — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:41:01 +0000

Ward Bell, VP of Product Management for IdeaBlade, talked to me at TechEd about DevForce, his company’s ORM product for .Net developers. It didn’t stop there. Ward dropped knowledge on several other things including:

Entity Framework
Silverlight
Designing for Testability
Data access for RIAs

and of course, qualities of Elegant Code.

Code Cast #8 - Jarod Ferguson

Daddy Starr — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:32:14 +0000

This week’s Code Cast is a discussion with Jarod Ferguson, an Elegant Coder who takes us through several topics including:

Scrum
The Seattle Alt.Net conference
Open Spaces
The Entity Framework
The Web Client Software Factory

and plenty more.

Code Cast #7 - Darrel Carver and Mike Moore

Daddy Starr — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:47:14 +0000

In this episode of the Elegant Code Cast, we talk with Mike Moore of the RubyVerse podcast and Darrel Carver, our last guest. Mike listened to Darrel’s interview and had some views of his own on the state of software development.

This discussion focuses primarily on the familiar question of programming as an art or a science, but touches on some of the promising technologies leading us into the next level of our craft. I hope you enjoy the discussion.

This podcast was recorded with Skype.

Code Cast #6 - Interview Darrel Carver

Daddy Starr — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:29:56 +0000

In this Code Cast, we meet Darrel Carver, a 30 year veteran of the software industry, an accomplished software architect, and an Elegant Coder.Darrel gives us a little historical perspective on our craft as we explore things like minimalism, the role of the architect, and Model Driven Architectures. This is a great talk.

Code Cast #5 - Interview With Matt Milner

Daddy Starr — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:08:48 +0000

This week’s Elegant Code Cast is an interview with Matt Milner of PluralSight.

Matt is an amazing presenter and fount of knowledge on WCF, WF, and BizTalk. He drops some great knowledge on these subjects and enterprise SOA, along with some discussion of Oslo, Microsoft’s new Model Driven initiative.

Code Cast #4 - Interview With Scott Nichols

Daddy Starr — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:48:19 +0000

Today’s interview with an Elegant Coder is with Scott Nichols, a solution architect with many years experience in very large IT organizations. Scott shares his wisdom on several subjects including:

The role of prescribed architectures and different kinds of architects
A look into large systems and companies and scaling development into the hundreds of developers
Why to stay in touch with the technical community
Microsoft’s CAB framework
Practical uses of CSLA in team environments and a deeper look at how to use CSLA
Optimizing systems for performance

Code Cast #3 - Interview with Chris Brandsma

Daddy Starr — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:29:09 +0000

In this episode of the Elegant Code Cast, we visit with Elegant Coder Chris Brandsma. Chris is a senior developer at Mobile Data Force in Boise, Idaho. Chris provides some great details on subjects ranging from AJAX and RIA separation of concerns to LINQ and Lambda expressions.

He also gives us a glimpse of what it is like to live your life visiting other people’s development shops. Did you know source control is stil optional in some organizations?

Chris is a true code craftsman and this shows in his clear explanations of some very advanced programming concepts. If you haven’t played with Lambda expressions, anonymous delegates, or LINQ, start with this podcast.

Code Cast #2 - Interview with Scott Schimanski

Daddy Starr — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:28:54 +0000

This episode of the Elegant Code Cast features an interview with Scott Schimanski, a long time technologist, programming language aficionado, and currently QA Manager for Healthwise, Incorporated in Boise, Idaho. Scott is a certified Project management Professional, Scrum Master, and Adjunct Professor in Computer Science at Northwest Nazarene University.

In this discussion, Scott discusses his experiences with Agile software development from the tester and QA perspective. Scott also shares several QA focused tools and how his team has found success by applying tools like Ruby, WATIR, Team Foundation Server, and others.

One technical note, I have figured out why the recorder is picking up the background ambient noise. I look forward to future recordings not having the underlying air conditioner hum in it. I apologize to Scott and the listeners for not having a cleaner track.

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