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Code to Live SPX and Tuning Motorcycles Through Software

joshholmes — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:30:00 GMT

Josh Holmes sat down with Rob Karmes and Kevin Gray from SPX and talked about their solution to tune motorcycles via software. I gotta say, I'm jealous - I love motorcycles and software but haven't figured out, other than my demos, how to marry the two passions. We talked about their solution, see a motorcycle wiring harness strapped to a board that they program and test against and chat about the opportunities that working in that industry afford (did I say I’m jealous?)…

Code To Live Bidtopia

joshholmes — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:18:11 GMT

Josh Holmes and John Mullinax sits down with the folks behind www.Bidtopia.com at Microsoft’s Detroit launch event for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008 to talk about how they went from being the biggest seller on eBay to one of the biggest eBay competitors in less than 30 days. Also, hear real life stories of disaster recovery, “startup style”, after a tornado wipes out their primary warehouse and office space, and learn the origin of the origami boulder.

Yahoo! Messenger Application for Vista

joshholmes — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:14:15 GMT

Josh Holmes caught up with team from Yahoo! that's working on the Yahoo! Messenger Application for Vista. We talked a lot about the new feature set that went live yesterday (including an easter egg...) and how the process of developing a WPF application with Developer and Designers went for them.

Code to Live Student Edition: University of Michigan students discuss the Workplace of the Future

Jennifer Marsman — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:36:27 GMT

Jennifer Marsman interviews a group of students from the University of Michigan on the Workplace of the Future, how mobile devices will play a role, and what they expect their employers to provide them.

Code to Live: Rich Weston, Morty Nivers and Tom Messbauer on Sharepoint Skinning in Silverlight

joshholmes — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:07:42 GMT

Josh Holmes had the pleasure of catching up with Rich Weston, Morty Nivers and Tom Messbauer of Neudesic. They are doing some interesting things with Silverlight on top of Sharepoint. They have two different paths that they are persuing - a complete reskin and integration.

Code To Live: Dave Donaldson on CodeKeep

joshholmes — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:47:18 GMT

Josh Holmes caught up with Dave Donaldson to talk about the cool project that he started back in 2005 called CodeKeep. This is a fantastic example of a passionate guy putting up a project that everyone can benefit from with no financial motivation.

This is one of the longer episodes so far (close to 30 minutes) but there's a lot of great content here.

Code To Live: Mark on Web 2.0 in the Classroom

joshholmes — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:49:57 GMT

Josh Holmes had the pleasure of catching up with Mark Frydenberg (aka CheckMark, a Senior Lecturer at Bentley College in ~~Boston~~ Waltham, MA. He has an interesting take on teaching computer science and is leveraging Web 2.0 techniques to teach his students about computer science. His efforts in the classroom were written up in this New York Times Article. Also check out his Popfly interview with Bob Familiar at Josh Holmes caught up with Chris Madrid after the ArcReady in Cleveland and interviewed him about the Microsoft Services Engine. This is a very cool open source solution that MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services) uses as part of their services offerings.

Check out the project talked about in this episode at http://www.codeplex.com/servicesengine.

Code to Live: Rich Weston and Morty Nivers on the Phizzpop Design Challenge

joshholmes — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:45:09 GMT

Josh Holmes caught up with Rich Weston and Morty Nivers from Neudesic and talked about the Phizzpop Design Challenge.

See Josh's full writeup on the event at the Phizzpop Design Challenge Austin.

Also, this is my first attempt at a remote interview with Camtasia, Live Meeting to share the screen with me and then I recorded the phone conversation...

Code to Live: Richard Hale Shaw on WCF

joshholmes — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:44:50 GMT

Josh Holmes had the pleasure of catching up with Richard Hale Shaw and talking to him about his thoughts on WCF. We talk about that the technology enables as well as Richard's thoughts on why WCF has not been as widely adopted as it should have been.

Code to Live: Richard Hale Shaw on C# 3.0 and LINQ

joshholmes — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:05:27 GMT

Josh Holmes had the pleasure of catching up with Richard Hale Shaw and talking to him about some of the exciting new things in C# 3.0.

Code to Live: Jeff Palermo and Nick Parker on ASP.NET MVP Framework

joshholmes — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:21:09 GMT

Chris Koenig interviews Jeff Palermo and Nick Parker about the ASP.NET MVC Framework.

Code to Live: Wally McClure talks about Ajax and Astoria

joshholmes — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:21:24 GMT

Josh Holmes caught up with Wally McClure of the ASP.NET Podcast at DevLink and talked about Ajax and Astoria.

Code To Live: Alan Stevens talks on Visual Studio Extensibility

joshholmes — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:57:00 GMT

Josh Holmes caught up with Alan Stevens at DevLink in Nashville and interviewed him about Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX).

Code To Live: Juval Lowy and Steve Loethen talk about WCF

Musketeer — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:31:20 GMT

At a break in a recent .net roadshow, Juval took some time to talk with Steve about his companies experiences with WCF, what he thinks the futures holds for it, and how it should change.

Code To Live: Jay Wren on the Boo Programming Language

joshholmes — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:31:25 GMT

Jay Wren, the self appointed evangelist for Boo, agreed to meet with Josh Holmes and talk with me about Boo the programming language.

Code to Live: Jeff Julian, John Alexander and Rob Foster on Sharepoint

joshholmes — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:32:33 GMT

Rob Foster, Sharepoint MVP and author, talks about the things that are new and exciting in Sharepoint development and the things that enables from a user's perspective. Jeff Julian, XML MVP, and John Alexander, Solutions Architect MVP and Regional Director, talk about the new things that Sharepoint 2007 and Moss 2007 brings to their consulting practice.

Code to Live: Rob Howard and Richard Hale Shaw on Opening the .NET Source Code

joshholmes — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:40:55 GMT

In this show, Rob Howard and Richard Hale Shaw discuss their opinions on opening up the .NET Source code and how that was done.

XNA Development Part 4: Facing (or Aiming at) Your Opponent

Jennifer Marsman — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:24 GMT

Jennifer Marsman walks through sample code detailing how to make one sprite turn to face another in your Windows or XBOX 360 game using the XNA Framework.

XNA Development Part 1 Getting Started with the XNA Framework

Jennifer Marsman — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:11:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman shows you the software needed to get started using the XNA Framework to develop games for Windows and the XBOX 360.

XNA Development Part 2: Differences Between Windows and XBOX Game Development

Jennifer Marsman — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:27:32 GMT

Jennifer Marsman discusses the differences between developing a Windows game and an XBOX 360 game using the XNA Framework.

XNA Development Part 3: The Five Essential Gaming Methods

joshholmes — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:40:56 GMT

Jennifer Marsman walks through the essential methods that you need to understand in order to develop a Windows or XBOX 360 game using the XNA Framework.

Code to Live: Dave Redding and John Stevens on XNA and Independent Gaming

joshholmes — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:34:13 GMT

In this inaugural show, hosts Steve Loethen and Josh Holmes interview Dave Redding and John Stevens about XNA and game development.

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What is Code to Live?

joshholmes — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:11:12 GMT

Coding isn’t just a paycheck, it’s who we are! Tour the US with your hosts Steve Loethen and Josh Holmes as they interview fellow code warriors and get to the bottom of the coolest software in the world – yours.