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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,…

Joe Chiu, who works on the Microsoft Surface team at Microsoft, has developed an RSS/podcast client for Windows Mobile phones in his spare time. The app is called FeedMe and it’s a lightweight and easy-to-use client for both Professional (PocketPC) and Standard (smarthphones) Windows Mobile…

Scott Prevost is General Manager and Director of Product for Powerset, the company whose semantic search engine was recently acquired by Microsoft. In this interview he describes the history of Powerset's natural language engine, and explains how it works as part of a hybrid approach to…

Roger Barga, a principal architect with Microsoft's Technical Computing Initiative, is leading the development of Trident, a "workflow workbench" for science. In its first incarnation, the tool will enable oceanographers to automate the management and analysis of vast quantities of…

Ted Semon, a retired software engineer, chronicles the efforts to develop a space elevator on the Space Elevator Blog, and volunteers for The Spaceward Foundation which administers competitions to develop several of the core technologies that will be needed to build the elevator.   Ted…

Tony Hey, VP for the External Research Division within Microsoft Research, leads the company's efforts to build external partnerships in key areas of scientific research, education, and computing. He's been a physicist, a computer scientist, and dean of engineering, and for five years ran the…

Podcast producers will like this one, but so will anyone who’s ever wondered how to directly link to an artist, album, playlist, or podcast on Zune. Now there’s a new page of Zune Social to help with that: http://social.zune.net/links/ZuneLinks.aspx. Here, you can do a search for anything…

The Media Center RSS Reader application lets you read RSS news items on your Media Center TV as well as watch and/or listen to podcasts and watch video blogs. Originally developed for XP Media Center, there is now also a version for Vista Ultimate. The application adds a new option to Media Center's…

So due to the last minute rush of GDC we weren't able to get Tony Hynes on film for this weeks update so Tony sent us some info via text which I am now sharing with you. First let's talk this week's titles: We have Bullet Witch, a world on the verge of destruction in the year…

Paul Thurrott is probably best-known for his SuperSite for Windows. When he's not keeping such a complete collection of news and information about Windows he can also be found on This Week in Tech: Windows Weekly.Paul sat down and chatted with James Woodcock at length about every aspect of…