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Podcasts

048 – Cristiano Betta on Geek Dinners

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Sixth the in the Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008!


Cristiano and Miss Geeky. In case there’s any doubt, Cristiano is on the right…you can perhaps tell by his name badge?

You can find some photographs taken at this particular geek dinner over at Flickr.

I stumbled upon this particular geek dinner after spotting an entry appear through Facebook. I was glad that I did, it was a thoroughly enjoyable event! Moo.com brought along many of their top people who were able to provide a great background to the legend that is Moo.com!

In this podcast, Cristiano discusses the concept behind geek dinners, how they advertise, how they take payment and what you need to do in order to attend their next geek dinner!

Podcast feed – subscribe here!

This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/048-Cristiano-Betta.mp3

Resources
Cristiano’s web-site
Geek Dinners – the web-site
Moo.com

The Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008
01 – Kyle Baley on ALT.NET and Brownfield Development in .NET
02 – Aaron Parker on Microsoft Application Virtualisation
03 – Caroline Bucklow from IT4Communities: charitable software development
04 – Eileen Brown on IT Professionals, TechNet, Women In Technology & Girl Geek Dinners
05 – Stephen Lamb on security, community, Linux and Twitter
06 – Cristiano Betta on Geek Dinners
07 – David Yack and Jonathan Carter on ALT.NET, MVC and Community
08 – Andrew Fryer on SQL Server 2008 and “upgrade”
09 – Viral Tarpara on Collaboration, SharePoint, Open Source (Port 25) and Community
10 – Guy Smith Ferrier on Internationali[s|z]ation, VS2008, .net 3.5, C# language features
11 – Matt Dunstan on event management, “engagement” and life as an Application Platform Manager
12 – Stephen Lamb on his new role in marketing / PR

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Podcasts, Security, Social Networking

047 – Stephen Lamb on security, community, Linux and Twitter

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Fifth the in the Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008!


Stephen, with the TVP Building 2 Christmas tree in the background!


“Identity management is important. As soon as folks know what you look like, every Santa and his elf want to podcast with you!”


One of Stephen’s sessions at the Birmingham launch (mentioned in the podcast!)

Heroes Happen Here

Earlier this year, 2008, Birmingham was host to the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here product launch. VBUG’s Andrew Westgarth and myself were allowed to roam around recording interviews with many of the Microsoft Executives and Microsoft evangelists!

In this podcast, we’re sitting on a comfortable sofa with Microsoft’s Stephen Lamb. Recorded in March 2008, it is before Stephen switched to his PR role, so the topic is security. However, HHH was a community event too, so we chat about community for a bit too.

I do have a more recent podcast with Stephen, recorded early December 2008. It covers Stephen’s new PR role and will be released as part of the Twelve Podcasts of Christmas!

Podcast feed – subscribe here!

This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/047-Stephen-Lamb.mp3

Resources
Eileen’s blog
Andrew Fryer’s blog
Stephen Lamb’s blog
Viral Tapara’s blog

The Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008
01 – Kyle Baley on ALT.NET and Brownfield Development in .NET
02 – Aaron Parker on Microsoft Application Virtualisation
03 – Caroline Bucklow from IT4Communities: charitable software development
04 – Eileen Brown on IT Professionals, TechNet, Women In Technology & Girl Geek Dinners
05 – Stephen Lamb on security, community, Linux and Twitter
06 – Cristiano Betta on Geek Dinners
07 – David Yack and Jonathan Carter on ALT.NET, MVC and Community
08 – Andrew Fryer on SQL Server 2008 and “upgrade”
09 – Viral Tarpara on Collaboration, SharePoint, Open Source (Port 25) and Community
10 – Guy Smith Ferrier on Internationali[s|z]ation, VS2008, .net 3.5, C# language features
11 – Matt Dunstan on event management, “engagement” and life as an Application Platform Manager
12 – Stephen Lamb on his new role in marketing / PR

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General, Podcasts

What podcasting kit do I use?

A lot of folks have asked me what “kit” I use to record my podcasts…

The NxtGenUG chaps, Dave’n’Rich, John’n’Chris, etc., are avid supporters of the Edirol products, such as R-09 and R-09HR units. The Edirol kit certainly very good, and would seem to fall into the ‘you get what you pay for’ sector.

So here is what I use: an iRiver H320 device with a 20GB hard drive. I was given this particular unit back in 2005, it has served me well both as a podcast recording device, MP3 player and FM radio. Earlier this year the battery started to fail to hold its charge, I replaced the battery at a cost of £12.

Here’s a photograph of the device:

1 – I use a Sony ECM-DS70P Microphone. This a good microphone that is capable of picking up conversation without the need for it to be directed specifically at the person who is speaking.

2 – The iRiver device itself. I use the ROCKbox firmware, it supports a variety of codecs and file formats including MP3 and FLAC. The iRiver supports dual-boot, so I can switch between ROCKbox and the default firmware. ROCKbox has the advantage of a feel-good factor whilst recording as it offers record level bars.

3 – The iRiver lapel mic, as supplied with the device. This worked well for my first 40 or podcasts, however it doesn’t have the professional look of the Sony microphone.

4 – Headphone socket, line in, line out and a connector for the optional but not supplied remote control. To the right of the “4” stamp, there is an internal microphone. I’ve used this once, by accident, I thought I was recording via the external mic, but no…one lost podcast. I had, however, remembered to press the record button!

5 – Power socket, USB 1.1 host and USB 2.0 device connections. The iRiver can connect to your digital camera and suck the photographs from the camera to the iRiver HDD.

I personally think the kit is rather good. The problem I have relates to the location at which the podcast is recorded! More often than not, it’s in a pub or another equally noisy environment. The podcasts that I have recorded in a quiet environment demonstrate this point. I’m thinking specifically about podcast number 45 with Caroline and number 12 with Jerome. Both of these were essentially recorded in a closed environment where noise was at a minimum.

Getting hold of an iRiver H320 or H340 series device is probably a matter of going to eBay. From recent excursions to the MP3 player market, I’ve noticed that the number of devices with an external microphone socket are few and far between. An external mic socket is, in my opinion, a key requirement.

I’ll certainly be looking for a like-for-like replacement when the time comes to choose something else.

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Podcasts

046 – Eileen Brown on IT Professionals, TechNet, Women In Technology & Girl Geek Dinners

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Fourth the in the Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008!

Heroes Happen Here

Earlier this year, 2008, Birmingham was host to the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here product launch. During the event a number of podcasts were recorded, some with Microsoft Executives, others with Microsoft IT Pro evangelists such as Andrew Fryer, Stephen Lamb and Viral Tapara. Expect to see podcasts with Andrew, Stephen and Viral appearing over the next few days (part of the Twelve Podcasts of Christmas!)

This podcast is with Eileen Brown who looks after the IT Pro’s! Eileen has some great content, she very succinctly explains the motivation behind the IT Pro team, the TechNet programme, Women In Technology and .

Podcast feed – subscribe here!

This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/046-Eileen-Brown.mp3

Resources
Eileen’s blog
Andrew Fryer’s blog
Stephen Lamb’s blog
Viral Tapara’s blog

The Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008
01 – Kyle Baley on ALT.NET and Brownfield Development in .NET
02 – Aaron Parker on Microsoft Application Virtualisation
03 – Caroline Bucklow from IT4Communities: charitable software development
04 – Eileen Brown on IT Professionals, TechNet, Women In Technology & Girl Geek Dinners
05 – Stephen Lamb on security, community, Linux and Twitter
06 – Cristiano Betta on Geek Dinners
07 – David Yack and Jonathan Carter on ALT.NET, MVC and Community
08 – Andrew Fryer on SQL Server 2008 and “upgrade”
09 – Viral Tarpara on Collaboration, SharePoint, Open Source (Port 25) and Community
10 – Guy Smith Ferrier on Internationali[s|z]ation, VS2008, .net 3.5, C# language features
11 – Matt Dunstan on event management, “engagement” and life as an Application Platform Manager
12 – Stephen Lamb on his new role in marketing / PR

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Developer Events, Podcasts

045 – Caroline Bucklow from IT4Communities: charitable software development

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Third the in the Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008!

As part of the London .NET User Group, as the pre-cursor to the main event (Sebastian Lambla’s Put your web-forms to REST – how to build rest-y architectures with .net), Caroline spoke about IT4Communities – an initiative that helps marry up charities in need of development work with willing developers.

Over the course of 15 minutes Caroline passes on a lot of good information, it’s well worth investing the time to hear what Caroline has to say!

This user group meeting was held at the offices of MRM Worldwide, they had a most impressive spread of beer, wine and food:

Podcast feed – subscribe here!

This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/045-Caroline-Bucklow.mp3

Resources
IT4Communities

The Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008
01 – Kyle Baley on ALT.NET and Brownfield Development in .NET
02 – Aaron Parker on Microsoft Application Virtualisation
03 – Caroline Bucklow from IT4Communities: charitable software development
04 – Eileen Brown on IT Professionals, TechNet, Women In Technology & Girl Geek Dinners
05 – Stephen Lamb on security, community, Linux and Twitter
06 – Cristiano Betta on Geek Dinners
07 – David Yack and Jonathan Carter on ALT.NET, MVC and Community
08 – Andrew Fryer on SQL Server 2008 and “upgrade”
09 – Viral Tarpara on Collaboration, SharePoint, Open Source (Port 25) and Community
10 – Guy Smith Ferrier on Internationali[s|z]ation, VS2008, .net 3.5, C# language features
11 – Matt Dunstan on event management, “engagement” and life as an Application Platform Manager
12 – Stephen Lamb on his new role in marketing / PR

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Podcasts

044 – Aaron Parker on Microsoft Application Virtualisation

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Second the in the Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008!

It was a hot summer day back in May 2008. As geeks, the sun wasn’t an attraction, we had other things to do. We had a Vista Squad user group meeting to attend! Aaron Parker was speaking about application virtualisation using Microsoft’s SoftGrid product (now known as Microsoft Application Virtualisation).

Podcast feed – subscribe here!

This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/044-Aaron-Parker.mp3

Resources
Aaron’s blog

The Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008
01 – Kyle Baley on ALT.NET and Brownfield Development in .NET
02 – Aaron Parker on Microsoft Application Virtualisation
03 – Caroline Bucklow from IT4Communities: charitable software development
04 – Eileen Brown on IT Professionals, TechNet, Women In Technology & Girl Geek Dinners
05 – Stephen Lamb on security, community, Linux and Twitter
06 – Cristiano Betta on Geek Dinners
07 – David Yack and Jonathan Carter on ALT.NET, MVC and Community
08 – Andrew Fryer on SQL Server 2008 and “upgrade”
09 – Viral Tarpara on Collaboration, SharePoint, Open Source (Port 25) and Community
10 – Guy Smith Ferrier on Internationali[s|z]ation, VS2008, .net 3.5, C# language features
11 – Matt Dunstan on event management, “engagement” and life as an Application Platform Manager
12 – Stephen Lamb on his new role in marketing / PR

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Podcasts

043 – Kyle Baley on ALT.NET after ALT.NET Beers II

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One of Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008!


Kyle Baley: follow Kyle on Twitter

Earlier this year I was priviledged to be able to record a short podcast with Kyle Baley. I’m not usually so slow at getting content such as this produced and published online. 2008 has been different, I’ve spent a lot of time in London and as such have enjoyed / endured the travel that goes with that. I’ve also endured my first dental work in many years, costly financially and in time too. All things told, everything mounts up and something has to give…finding time has been hard! FWIW, a 15 minute podcast like this one takes roughly an hour to produce.

Kyle is one of the many well-respected CodeBetter.com bloggers. Recorded live outside Italian Graffiti (their web-site does need a face lift, yes?) near Soho, London, just after ALT.NET Beers 2, organised by Sebastien Lambla. There is some traffic noise, please grin and bear it, one has to grab podcasts with superstars as and when they arise, rarely is there a quiet room to hide in!

Photos of the event can be found here.

Kyle Baley and Donald Belcham are working on a book, Brownfield Application Development in .NET, published by Manning. This podcast was recorded in June 2008, the dates given in this podcast were accurate at the time of recording! Please visit the Manning web-site for further release information.

Podcast feed – subscribe here!

This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/043-Kyle-Baley.mp3

Resources
Kyle’s blog (and on Twitter)
Kyle and Donald’s book
CodeBetter (and on Twitter)
Joel on Software

StructureMap
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The Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008
01 – Kyle Baley on ALT.NET and Brownfield Development in .NET
02 – Aaron Parker on Microsoft Application Virtualisation
03 – Caroline Bucklow from IT4Communities: charitable software development
04 – Eileen Brown on IT Professionals, TechNet, Women In Technology & Girl Geek Dinners
05 – Stephen Lamb on security, community, Linux and Twitter
06 – Cristiano Betta on Geek Dinners
07 – David Yack and Jonathan Carter on ALT.NET, MVC and Community
08 – Andrew Fryer on SQL Server 2008 and “upgrade”
09 – Viral Tarpara on Collaboration, SharePoint, Open Source (Port 25) and Community
10 – Guy Smith Ferrier on Internationali[s|z]ation, VS2008, .net 3.5, C# language features
11 – Matt Dunstan on event management, “engagement” and life as an Application Platform Manager
12 – Stephen Lamb on his new role in marketing / PR

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Podcasts

The Twelve Podcasts of Christmas!

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Ho ho ho!

Starting today, Friday 12th and running up to the 23rd, I will be posting a podcast each day for 12 days!

What to expect: a mix of community chats with speakers and guests at the likes of Heroes Happen Here, VistaSquad event speakers, Microsoft staffers, and ALT.NET evangelists.

If it’s safe for broadcast (after edit), you might hear what happens when you put a handful of Microsoft MVPs around a table and throw in some beer! We have tried this mixing MVPs and beer before, it worked rather well, check out podcast number 15!

Here’s the first one, Kyle Baley on ALT.NET and Brownfield Development in .NET.

The second podcast of Christmas 044 – Aaron Parker on Microsoft Application Virtualisation

The third podcast of Christmas 045 – Caroline Bucklow from IT4Communities: charitable software development

The fourth podcast of Christmas 046 – Eileen Brown on IT Professionals, TechNet, Women In Technology & Girl Geek Dinners

The fifth podcast of Christmas 047 – Stephen Lamb on security, community, Linux and Twitter

The sixth podcast of Christmas 048 – Cristiano Betta on Geek Dinners

The seventh podcast of Christmas 049 – David Yack and Jonathan Carter on ALT.NET, MVC and Community

The eighth podcast of Christmas 050 – Andrew Fryer on SQL Server 2008 and “upgrade”

The ninth podcast of Christmas 051 – Viral Tarpara on Collaboration, SharePoint, Open Source (Port 25) and Community

The tenth podcast of Christmas 052 – Guy Smith Ferrier on Internationali[s|z]ation, VS2008, .net 3.5, C# language features

The eleventh podcast of Christmas 053 – Matt Dunstan on event management, “engagement” and life as an Application Platform Manager

The twelfth podcast of Christmas 054 – Stephen Lamb on his new role in marketing / PR

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Community, Podcasts

042 – Ian “Sometimes brutal, always honest” Smith – Daily Dot Net Show – we discuss Blu-ray, HD-DVD, LCD, Plasma, Community, etc.

Welcome to podcast#42. In this, what should really be a homage to Douglas Adams, Ian Smith and I sit down in a rather expensive London hotel and chat about all things in the media space. We chat about HD-DVD, Blu-ray, DDD, WebDD, NxtGenUG, London .net User Group, VBUG, Mix08, community events and much more. It’s my longest podcast so far – Barry Dorran’s held the record until now. Given that I’ll be catching up with Barry at IMTC 2008 and DDD Ireland, it’s likely we’ll see him want to beat that record!

This is a great podcast, well worth listening to – Ian has some great advice to give. Check out the “alpha” version of the dailydotnetshow below – amazing sound quality, some great “media driven test-driven development” – Ian realises that the alpha’s not perfect and know what to do in order to make the show that one bit better when it goes live!

Given the extreme cost of this podcast, please do consider the PayPal link on the right hand side of this blog!

Podcast feed – subscribe here!

This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/042-Ian-Smith.mp3

Resources
Daily Dot Net Show
http://dailydotnetshow.blogspot.com/
Ian on Twitter
Ian on Flickr
The demise of HD-DVD
Movies on a flash card

22 February
Spencer Kelly finds out why Blu-ray won the high definition war and Kate Ledger explores the rapidly expanding virtual worlds which are gaining popularity as people search for the perfect alternate existence.

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Community, Development, Podcasts

041 – John O’Brien – Windows Live Developer MVP

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Welcome to podcast#41. Microsoft MVP John O’Brien takes time out to catch up with me whilst I was in Brisbane! We’re chatting about Windows Live, Microsoft Virtual Earth and Community in Australia.

Podcast feed – subscribe here!

This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/041-John-OBrien.mp3

Resources
Soul Solutions
ViaWindowsLive

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Community, Developer Events, Podcasts

040 – DevExpress – TechSummit 2007 – Mark Miller on CodeRush and Refactor!Pro


Craig Murphy (wearing a DCon polo shirt!), Mark Miller

Welcome to podcast#40. Microsoft MVP and DevExpress IDE Architect, Mark Miller gets vocal about CodeRush and Refactor – IDE productivity tools from Developer Express. Over the course of 30 or so minutes, we discuss Mark’s favourite refactorings for WinForms/desktop code and for ASP.NET code. We also touch on how DevExpress choose which refactorings make it into the product.

The use of CodeRush is covered, as is the clever use of Gina and Sara – two models who could type but had never coded before. DevExpress ran a competition at DevConnections whereby attendees could win some cash if they could beat the models in a coding competition. The models had CodeRush and Refactor available to them, the attendees did not! I’ll be writing more about this competition later this month, but in the meantime, consider this – the story of an attendee who used a competing refactoring tool, and lost!

Recorded live in the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, there is some background noise, apologies for that.


“I did not steal a dollar bill, no sir!”

Podcast feed – subscribe here!

This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/040-DevExpress-TechSummit-Mark-Miller.mp3

Resources
Mark’s Blog
Developer Express

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Community, Developer Events, Podcasts

039 – DevExpress – TechSummit 2007 – Oliver Sturm on the eXpress Application Framework

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We’re taking all that grunt work of creating a new application out of the whole thing and that’s the most important idea really.

Welcome to podcast#39. Oliver Sturm, community evangelist, Microsoft MVP and DDD speaker takes some time out to talk to me about the eXpress Application Framework, eXpress Persistent Objects, the DevConnections challenge. Oliver crams a lot into this podcast and does so very eloquently.

Ironically, Oliver lives “just down the road” from me – I could have popped down and recorded this podcast with him at his home. Instead, we both found ourselves over 7,000 miles from home…such is our dedication!

Recorded live in the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, there is some background noise, mainly from the bar, the slot machines and the general ambiance associated with the surroundings.

Podcast feed – subscribe here!

This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/039-DevExpress-TechSummit-Oliver-Sturm.mp3

Resources
Oliver’s Blog
Developer Express

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