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Kevin Wolf (@bytemaster) give us an overview of the HTC HD2.  There's a general look at the device, Kevin's favorite wimo apps running on it, and a light ad-hock comparison with the iphone, android g1, and the HTC TouchPro2.  Interview by James Cuomo and Joe Healy ( @devfish ). …

In this episode, guest Stephen Bohlen joins Peter to discuss the Agile software development methodology.  Stephen talks about what it means to be agile, how agile can improve the software development process, and what boiling molasses may portend for the future of “software engineering”.Also,…

This screencast with Chris Bowen looks at development using ASP.NET Web Forms, scripting, and Ajax.  It's based on a session given on the Northeast Roadshow and walks through Web Forms, adding client-side behavior with Javascript and jQuery, improving UI interaction with…

In this episode, guest Maarten Balliauw joins Peter to discuss his implementation of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for PHP and linking (non-pun intended) PHP to Microsoft Office Excel via the PHPExcel project. Maarten is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET and a PHP developer. Also, Dmitry and Peter…

Wondering how WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) fits in to your developer life? This screencast, presented by Chris Bowen, is based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow and introduces WCF for developers, covering the motivation, mechanics of creating distributed…

Don't look now, but there's a new pattern in town - Model-View-ViewModel or MVVM.  Within the last year or so, this architectural model has been building up a significant following among Silverlight and WPF developers.  In this session, Jim O'Neil, Developer  Evangelist, will…

There are many places to find help for developers, but there are some programs that aren't widely known.  This screencast, based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow, briefly reviews some of these.  From reporting bugs and feature requests, to finding support from Microsoft and…

It's been over two years since LINQ was released as part of .NET 3.5, but there's still a lot of mystery in terms of how LINQ works.  This session, originally delivered as part of the Northeast Roadshow, starts off with a brief overview of the motivation and history of LINQ, and then goes…

In this episode guests Sumit Chawla & Tim Wise join Peter to discuss offloading a Java server infrastructure to Windows Azure to save pizza money (Starts at 40:31). Guest hosts Gary Russo and Sara Chipps also join me for a wrap up of PDC 2009.

At PDC 09, I had a chance to catch up with my former colleagues at Sybase who were in the Big Room demonstrating PowerBuilder 12.  PowerBuilder, the premiere client/server development tool of the mid-90s, boasts hundreds of thousands of deployed applications over the years, and…