.NET Rocks! – Catching up with Charles Petzold

Carl and guest co-host Mark Dunn talk with Charles Petzold about the life of the father of modern computing, Alan Turing. Charles talks about his book, “The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine.”, and also discusses writing books, blogs, and online media. Microsoft Download Link…

.NET Rocks! – Steve Teixeira on Parallelism

Carl and Richard talk to Steve Teixeira, Product Unit Manager for the Parallel Development Tools team within Developer Division’s Parallel Computing Platform organzation at Microsoft. The conversation is mostly around the future of parallel computing highlighting offerings that Microsoft is currently working on. Microsoft Download Link…

.NET Rocks! – Glenn Block and Brian Noyes on Prism

While at TechEd 2008 in Orlando Carl and Richard recorded this interview with Glenn Block from Microsoft and Brian Noyes from iDesign about the Prism project, formally named Composite Application Guidance, which promises to simplify and organize WPF development projects. Microsoft Download Link…

.NET Rocks! – Live from devLink 2008!

Carl and Richard break out the microphone during Karaoke night (don’t worry) at the DoubleTree bar in Murphreesboro, TN, to talk to staff and attendees of the devLink Technical Conference (August 22-23). Microsoft Download Link…

.NET Rocks! – Soma!

Richard and Carl talk to Microsoft Executive S. Somasegar about his experiences at Microsoft from his early days working on systems like OS/2, NT, Windows 2000 to overseeing the Developer Division of Microsoft. Microsoft Download Link…

.NET Rocks! – James Kovacs Inverts our Control!

James Kovacs talks about the Castle Windsor project, and gives the clearest definitions of Inversion of Control (IOC) containers, Dependency Injection, and the reasons why we need to think about these techniques. Critical listening for all .NET developers. Microsoft Download Link…