Wednesday, December 24, 2008
CodeCast Episode 8: Rod Paddock - Editor-In-Chief of CoDe Magazine

Our 8^th episode of CodeCast is our special 2008 holiday show. Host Ken Levy interviews Rod Paddock, Editor-In-Chief of CoDe Magazine.

Interview

·         Rod Paddock (@ 00:27): Rod Paddock - http://dashpoint.com

News and gadget links

·         CoDe Magazine – http://codemag.com

·         CoDe Focus – http://codemag.com/focus/

·         Xiine – http://xiine.com

Length: 24:31

Direct download: CodeCast_008.mp3 - Size: 22MB

Thursday, December 18, 2008
CodeCast Episode 7: Twitter, F#, WPF, Surface

In episode 7, co-hosts Markus Egger and Gary Short join Ken Levy discussion news, programming languages increasing in usage such as F#, and using Twitter within a business environment. This episode interview iclues Markus Egger interviewing Tim Huckaby from VS DevConnections 2008 discussing WPF and the Microsoft Surface.

Interview

·         Tim Huckaby (@ 29:27): Tim Huckaby

News and gadget links

·         F# - http://msdn.com/fsharp

·         Twitter

Book Links

• Foundations of F# on Amazon.com

Length: 39:59

Direct download: CodeCast_007.mp3 - Size: 37MB

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
CodeCast Episode 6: PEX, Twitter, AJAX

In this show, hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss the new PEX from Microsoft Research followed by an in-depth discussion on Twitter (part 1 of 2). This episode interview is with Dino Esposito in a discussion with host Markus Egger, recorded at VS DevConnections 2008 in Las Vegas.

Interview

·         Dino Esposito (@ 27:06): Dino Esposito’s Blog

News and gadget links

·         PEX

·         Netgear SPH200W WiFi Phone with Skype

·         Sandisk SD Plus USB

·         Twitter

Length: 33:45

Direct download: CodeCast_006.mp3 - Size: 31MB

Thursday, November 27, 2008
CodeCast Episode 5: VSX, VSIP, Aggiorno, DBI-Tech Controls

This 5^th episode of CodeCast includes host Ken Levy with a new segment on news and gadgets, and three interviews all related to VSX and VSIP (Visual Studio Extensibility and Visual Studio Industry Partners). Interviews are with Microsoft and with two different Microsoft partners who are VSIP members. Missing from this show are co-hosts Markus Egger and Gary Short who where both at various conferences and other travel.

Interviews

·         Terry Clancy (@ 9:19) http://msdn.com/vsx, http://msdn.com/vsip,  http://visualstudiogallery.com/

·         Federico Zoufaly (@ 18:44): Aggiorno

·         Alan Sheed (@ 25:00): DBI-Technologies

News and Gadget links

·         Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

·         Live Search SDK, http://dev.live.com

·         Windows Live Agents 5.1

·         Microsoft .NET Services SDK

·         Azure Services Training Kit - PDC Preview

·         Microsoft Surface Data Sheet

·         Microsoft Store

·         Safari Books Online

·         Microsoft Downloads

·         Microsoft Download (Silverlight beta version)

·         Zune Client 3.1

·         Zune Pass

There is no exit music from a community band in this episode but we will include more in random future episodes as it becomes available to us. We are working on improvements to the audio recordings both in studio and with interviews. These interviews were all recording at PDC, and we have improved our recording techniques since then for interviews. We will try to keep each show at around 30 minutes each like this one. episode 7 we should be out of what we might consider CodeCast beta mode. J

Length: 30:27

Direct download: CodeCast_005.mp3 - Size: 28MB

Thursday, November 20, 2008
CodeCast news for late Fall 2008

Hey CodeCast listeners. While we haven’t posted a new CodeCast show here in a couple of weeks, we have two new episodes coming this week. While conferences, event travel, holidays, and other things that come up this time of year have delayed the release of our next episode, we expect to be on track for about one show per week after this week. Hopefully the down time has allowed people to catch up on our previous 4 episodes already online.

We are working on improving each episode, not only in content but also in audio recording quality. In the next couple of episodes, there will be some noticeable improvements in the audio recording quality as we learn and enhance our equipment and techniques especially with the co-host recordings.

Based on listener feedback, we will work on keeping each show right at about 30 minutes in length. We are not sure we will be able to include a song from the community bands. We will probably include songs from community bands as we receive content to use, but it probably won’t end up being for each show exit. As always, we welcome feedback and ideas from CodeCast listeners here at http://codemag.com/codecast.

CodeCast Team

Thursday, November 13, 2008
CodeCast Episode 4: State of .NET, IE8, ASP.NET MVC, and O'Reilly Media

Hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss the new State of .NET events, IE8, ASP.NET MVC, followed by an interview from PDC with two editors from O'Reilly Media. More on ASP.NET MVC can be found at http://asp.net/mvc.

• Interview (@ 27:40): John Osborn and Laurel Ruma from O'Reilly Media discussing new books, eBooks, Safari, and more. http://oreilly.com/. John is on Twitter at http://twitter.com/johnatoreilly/ and Laurel is at http://twitter.com/laurelatoreilly.

The exit music is from Rick Strahl's band Two Bit Thief, song is City Boys - http://west-wind.com/music/Two%20Bit%20Thief/.

Length: 38:18

Direct download: CodeCast_004.mp3 - Size: 35MB

Thursday, November 06, 2008
CodeCast Episode 3: PDC, C#, IE8, and Surface

In this third CodeCast show, hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss a quick final summary of PDC 2008, then introduce a series of interviews with folks from Microsoft interviewed at PDC:

• Interview 1 (9:29): C# community and C# 4.0 0 - Charlie Calvert - http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie
  
• Interview 2 (21:51): IE 8 for developers - Pete LePage - http://blogs.msdn.com/petel
  
• Interview 3 (29:26): Surface - Robert Levy - http://blogs.msdn.com/surface

The exit music is from Rick Strahl's band Anti-Trust, song is No Privacy - http://west-wind.com/music/anti-trust/

Length: 42:24

Direct download: CodeCast_003.mp3 - Size: 39MB

Tuesday, November 04, 2008
CodeCast Episode 2: Live from PDC 2008

In our second episode of CodeCast we have Ken Levy, Gary Short, and Markus Egger report live from Microsoft PDC 2008 in Los Angeles, October 27-30. This show is about 30 minutes and broken into 3 discussion segments discussion the various news and buzz at this year's Microsoft PDC (Professional Developer Conference).

This show exits with music from the community: Rick Strahl's band Anti-Trust with a song called Day By Day. http://www.west-wind.com/music/Anti-Trust/.

Upcoming CodeCast episodes will include various additional PDC interviews with Microsoft employees, Microsoft partners, and community members.

Sessions from PDC are all online at http://microsoft.com/pdc. The next PDC has been announced for next year in L.A. again, November 17-20 2009.

Length: 31:48

Direct download: CodeCast_002.mp3 - Size: 29MB

Thursday, October 23, 2008
CodeCast Episode 1: The Pilot

Welcome to the CodeCast, the Late Night Show for .NET Developers, with your hosts Ken Levy, Gary Short, and Markus Egger.

This episode introduces the podcast, the hosts, CoDe Magazine, as well as previews the upcoming PDC 2008 (Microsoft Professional Developer Conference) and several of the technologies expected to make an appearance at the event.

Links for references made in the show:

1. Microsoft Surface video referenced in episode 1: http://snurl.com/4j9jv
2. Xiine URL as referenced in the show: www.Xiine.com

For the special CoDe Magazine subscription offer mentioned in the show, click here.

Direct download: CodeCast_001.mp3 - Size: 41MB