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ARCast.TV - Andrew Espinosa of Monster.com on adoption of ASP.NET AJAX

bobfamiliar — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:48:00 GMT

Andrew Espinosa, Principal User Experience Engineer at Monster.com, discusses their adoption of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX with Bob Familiar. Andrew talks about some challenges they had and what the benefits are now that they have ASP.NET AJAX deployed.

ARCast.TV - Jim Holmes and Philip Jordan on Excel Services

bobfamiliar — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:24:00 GMT

Jim Holmes and Philip Jordan from Quick Solutions on how to easily leverage IP and business models that need to live in Excel using Excel Services.

ARCast.TV - Dennis McCarthy on Platform as a Service (PaaS)

bobfamiliar — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:22:00 GMT

Bob Familiar interviews Dennis McCarthy, a software architect at Kronos about his research into leveraging Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 as an S+S Platform.

ARCast.TV - Greg Galipeau on ASP.NET MVC

bobfamiliar — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:05:00 GMT

In this interview, Greg Galipeau of RDA discusses three different patterns -- MVC, MVP and ASP.NET MVC with Dr. Zhiming Xue “Z”, Microsoft Architect Evangelist. He articulates the advantages and disadvantages inherent in each pattern, and explains when to use one versus another when creating Windows forms applications and web applications.

ARCast.TV - Roy Osherove on Test Driven Design

bobfamiliar — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:56:00 GMT

Denny Boynton talks to Roy Osherove about what it's like to write tests in the real world where we have lots of dependencies, and how to replace them for testing purposes. They also discuss where a tool like Typemock can come in handy.

ARCast.TV - Essential WCF

bobfamiliar — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:04:00 GMT

Authors Steve Resnick, Rich Crane and Chris Bowen discuss their new book Essential WCF with Bob Familiar.

ARCast.TV - Sundar Swaminathan on MOSS for Public Facing Web Sites

bobfamiliar — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:50:00 GMT

SharePoint Server has long been viewed as an "intranet-in-the-box" and has enjoyed great success behind corporate firewalls. But what about using MOSS to build public-facing, high volume commercial web sites? In this episode, Denny Boynton sits down with Sundar Swaminathan of Quilogy, the lead architect of Energizer.com (yes, the site with the bunny that goes on and on and on...), and talks about why he chose to use MOSS as the architectural foundation of this high visible site.

ARCast.TV - Biff Gaut discusses the Microsoft Certified Architect Program

bobfamiliar — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:55:00 GMT

More than 100 people at Microsoft and from the IT industry in the world today have become Microsoft Certified Architects since the program was launched about two years ago. For people who are interested to become an MCA, they may wonder what it is like to go through the certification process. In this interview with Biff Gaut, who earned his MCA title during the pilot phase of the MCA programs, Dr. Zhiming Xue “Z”, Architect Evangelist of the Microsoft DPE East Region, and George Cerbone, Microsoft MCA Program Manager and an MCA himself, interview Biff Gaut about the untold aspects of the grueling interview process, the trade-offs candidates have to make, and the key things to do before the interview day.

ARCast.TV - Juval Lowy on Interface Based Design

bobfamiliar — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:10:00 GMT

Should you use abstract classes or interfaces? What about WCF service contracts? Is the decision which one to use a design decision or a direct product of the technology at hand? Why is .NET allowing you such wide range of options, and why are other technologies (from COM to WCF) restricting you? In this ARCast, Juval Lowy of iDesign will demystify these age-old questions and share his insight and perspective with Denny Boynton.

ARCast.TV - Simon Guest on Architecture at Microsoft

bobfamiliar — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:29:00 GMT

Join Simon Guest, who leads the platform architecture team in Redmond, as he shares his thoughts on the industry, the architect community, and how Microsoft thinks about architecture with Bob Familiar.

ARCast.TV - Extensible ERP with SingularLogic

rojacobs — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:21:24 GMT

"L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!" ("Audacity, audacity - always audacity!")
- Georges Danton

Imagine this... you are in the enterprise software market competing against global players. Not only that, but you are the technical director making decisions about the future technical direction of your product suite. Would you make the bold move of embracing cutting edge technology? In this episode we meet Elias Theocharis of SingularLogic who made just such a move.

ARCast.TV - SOA and TDD at Bosch

rojacobs — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:31:07 GMT

Talk about two topics that I care about... Wow. I had a fascinating conversation with the guys from Bosch in Chicago. You gotta hear this one.

ARCast.TV - Accountable Architecture: Working with WebTrends

rojacobs — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:02:00 GMT

So you agree you are accountable for results right? Well how are you going to do it? What does this world of AJAX and Silverlight and Web Services mean for the science of determining how engaged an audience is with your web property? On this episode we are joined by Clay Moore who will fill us in on what it is like to work with WebTrends.

ARCast.TV - Accountable Architecture with WebTrends

rojacobs — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:26:03 GMT

Do you like your job? Plan to keep it? Then you had better be accountable for results. At the end of the day the guys who cut the checks don't really care how "cool" your thing is if you can't proove that it is working. This is what the guys at WebTrends are all about.

ARCast.TV - Lightspeed from Mindscape

rojacobs — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:18:08 GMT

One of the cool things I get to see as host of ARCast.TV is how people change over time. When I first met Jeremy Boyd he was a consultant, Microsoft MVP and Regional Director. Now you can add Entrepenuer to that list as well. On this episode I talk with Jeremy and JD Trask about Domain Driven Design and the company (Mindscape) and framework (Lightspeed) they created.

ARCast.TV - App Of The Future: The Internet Service Bus (Part 2 of 2)

rojacobs — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:05:41 GMT

Ever wonder what apps will be like in 2010? Its not that far off really. I was thinking about this when I heard what the BizTalk Services team did and saw their previous C9 ARCast.TV - App Of The Future: The Internet Service Bus (Part 1 of 2)

ARCast.TV - App Of The Future: The Internet Service Bus (Part 1 of 2)

rojacobs — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:02:12 GMT

ARCast.TV - Get A Clue with Lou Carbone

rojacobs — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:04:31 GMT

If you been to Mix or perhaps Tech-Ed New Zealand then you had the privilege of listening to a really smart guy named Lou Carbone. Lou is not an architect or developer but he is someone who is thinking very hard about user experience and he is definitely somebody you ought to listen to.

ARCast.TV - Expression for Architects with Shane Morris

rojacobs — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:40:22 GMT

Designers... yes they are a strange breed but so are architects. Microsoft recently released a bunch of tools called Expression and while I was at Tech-Ed Australia I recorded a quick chat with designer Shane Morris to discuss what this tool set is all about.

ARCast.TV - Team Foundation Server Down Under

rojacobs — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:45:52 GMT

So I was in Australia at Tech-Ed when I bumped into some people like Steve Riley (who is an awesome speaker and security guru) and some other guys named Justin and Michael who work for some big organization that we won't name here ;)

These guys started using Team Foundation server and made there Java and Cobol writing colleagues so jealous that they had to have it too. Why does this matter? Just listen to what they were able to do with this amazing product.

ARCast.TV - Rapid Response with Udi Dahan

rojacobs — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:16:55 GMT

Udi Dahan is a solution architect from Israel and just the other day Udi and I answered a couple of questions from the MSDN architecture forum about layering and business rules.

ARCast.TV - Change Your Life By Podcasting with Carl Franklin

rojacobs — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:20:57 GMT

Ready for a change of pace? I'm warning you... this video is very low-tech. You could say it's non-tech but a lot of fun. Have you heard of .NET Rocks? Well Carl is the co-host and so I run into him in a variety of places but we never really had a chance to talk. So on this episode - enjoy about 10 minutes of a fun chat.

Oh yeah and a special second anniversary look back at ARCast.TV

ARCast.TV - Every Class a WCF Service with Juval Lowy

rojacobs — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:48:43 GMT

Ready for a radical idea? My friend Juval Lowy eats, sleeps, lives and breathes WCF. There are few people who understand it like he does and I sat down for a quick chat with Juval at the Tech-Ed 2007 Fishbowl in Orlando to see what his radical ideas were.

ARCast.TV - Spring.NET with Mark Pollack

rojacobs — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:19:16 GMT

Spring is a popular Java framework for building applications that Mark Pollack had become quite familiar with. However he wanted to write applications in .NET so Spring.NET was born. In this episode I caught up with Mark at Tech-Ed US where we told me all about it.

ARCast.TV - Security Chat from Slovenia

rojacobs — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:44:57 GMT

You're a geek right? Hint: You wouldn't be reading this if you weren't. Don't you love having a really geeky chat about security? One where you talk about root kits and ways in which security can be breached? That's just the kind of conversation we had in Slovenia for this episode of ARCast.TV