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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.

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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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Ninject
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LLBLGen
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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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Rants

Sky+ built-in COPY failed during November, Star Trek DVD mountain!

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[As quoted in the Guardian SKY HASSLES: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/dec/14/technology-letters-blogs-full]

If you caught my tweets last month, you may have noticed that I noted that my Sky+ box was generating copy protection signals preventing my DVD recorder from recording the episodes of Star Trek from Virgin One and Bravo. Without going into huge amounts of detail, I figured that any time a “What’s on next” caption appeared and occasionally during advert breaks, a Macrovision-like signal was issued causing my DVD recorder to stop recording.

Whatever you may be thinking, I believe that I am entitled to record these episodes for a number of reasons. Firstly, I don’t have time to watch them live – I have a day job, a wife and a kid, time is in short supply. Secondly, the Sky+ hard drive is woefully small at 160GB, of which we get 80GB of personal space, whoopee (yes, I will be doing something about that later). Thirdly, I am simply recording what I would have watched anyway, I’m not recording it to keep per say…I’m happy to buy the DVD boxed set for that. And to be honest, Star Trek is *all* that I watch via Sky, all other programmes I could get via Freeview (if we had a decent signal where I live, moot point).

Courtesy of Liam Westley, today’s copy of the Guardian carried this article by George Cole. Sky could be so good for you…I don’t think so (sorry, couldn’t resist that, Gary!) This explains a lot.

In my humble opinion this is a huge FAIL for Sky. I had even gone to the lengths of buying one of these cables in order to normalise the signal from the Sky+ box to the DVD recorder. Sadly that cable failed miserably, dead on arrival…now I’m embroiled in the returns and refund process, more hassle…all thanks to Sky.

I will of course be testing the COPY feature again this month. However in the meantime, I have some 20+ episodes of Deep Space Nine to catch up on…and I can’t dump them to DVD as I have been doing most nights for the last 8-9 months. Yes, I do have 100+ DVDs chock full of Star Trek to catch up on!

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