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, guest host Andrew Brust joins us for a review of the shiny new toys shown at CES in Las Vegas, NV. Andrew shares his thoughts and observations at CES on Android, slates, tablets, 3D TV, Internet TV, and more.

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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 discuss WinCache for PHP 1.0, Moonlight 2.0, and having a backup strategy.

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2009 has been one heck of a year:

• Started a Podcast
• Got a Cat
• Made new friends
• Learned to love House Music
• Got deep into WPF, Silverlight and Azure
• Continued my addiction to PC gaming (Modern Warfare 2 anyone?)

and a lot more….

So what’s next? Lots of goals, but only time will tell how life moves forward.

So here we go folks… Best wishes to all in 2010! Thank you for everyone's continued support, its really not forgotten or lost on me as we all struggle forward together.

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.

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In this episode guest Milan Negovan talks about health monitoring in ASP.NET and what to do when things go wrong! (Starts at 24:47).  We cover different options on exception handling & instrumentation in web applications.

Peter and I talk about Eclipse support for Windows 7, the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network, and other news stories.

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This episode was recorded live from the Fairfield / Westchester Code Camp in Stamford, CT.   Thanks to the University of Connecticut CITI campus for hosting us!!!

(Click here to see a picture of me right before the recording, thanks Peter for taking that picture and posting it without tell me lol)

Just a reminder that today 11/17 (and tomorrow) will be very big days for announcement @ Microsoft PDC 2009.

Standard announcements are expected around various key cloud technologies (Windows Azure, SQL Azure, .NET Services, etc) along with some surprises that promise to be unexpected (even to most of us Microsoft employees).

You can watch today’s live Keynote at 8:30am PST (11:30am EST) here: http://microsoftpdc.com/, they will be using Silverlight and Smooth Streaming so it should be a wonderful experience.

Ask Questions!

Also during the day Channel9 folks will be holding live sessions with your chance to participate and ask questions over Twitter. The biggest names in Microsoft development will be there and the full schedule is online here:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NicFill/Channel-9-Live-at-PDC09-Schedule/

(Schedule is subject to change)

10:30 AM - Welcome to Channel 9 Live at PDC09
Charles Torre, Nic Fillingham and Dan Fernandez   
11:00 AM
Charles Torre and Special Guest
11:30 AM
Charles Torre, Mark Russinovich and Patrick Dussud    
12:00 PM
Scott Hanselman and Steve Marx
12:30 PM
Scott Hanselman and Special Guest
1:00 PM
Scott Hanselman and Bob Muglia
2:30 PM
Charles Torre and Dave Campbell    
3:00 PM
Charles Torre and Yousef Khalidi    
3:30 PM
Jeff Sandquist and Ray Ozzie
4:00 PM
Charles Torre and Erik Meijer
4:30 PM
Dan Fernandez and Special Guest
5:00 PM - This Week On Channel 9 - PDC09 Daily Show Edition
Dan Fernandez and Special Guest

Yesterday http://maps.bing.com released a site update, I must admit the simpler interface and new features are a welcome change.

But as a developer what excites me more is the release of the SDK’s. Integrating mapping technology into various web products is a huge deal and the level of integration possible with the Silvelright control is key to my excitement level (i’m such a Silverlight geek!)

To get you (and me) started I've compiled this simple set of key links that should clear up any confusion caused by the official site:

• Explore: Main Bing Maps Developer Site
• Get Access: Get a Key to use the SDK
• Download: Download the Silverlight SDK (or see the online AJAX SDK)
• Documentation: MSDN Documentation for AJAXor Silverlight (for full list including web services see here)

I look forward to see what people do with this technology, enjoy folks!

I really want to thank everyone who attended our session on Silverlight and Windows Azure. Below are the links to both the demo application and the slide deck we used.

• Slide deck, which covers:
• Windows Azure Overview
• Silverlight Overview
• Intro for the Demo Application
• Demo Application which demos:
• Silverlight Application talking over WCF to Windows Azure
• Windows Azure hosting Silverlight application
• Windows Azure worker role processing uploaded files to both create a Thumbnail and a text-to-speech conversion of TXT files into WAV files (using .NET Speech API)

If you have any feedback, we would love to hear from you as well.

This upcoming Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 9:50am I will be presenting with my Microsoft colleague Shrenik Jhaveri on Windows Azure and Silverlight 3. The Fairfield / Westchester .NET User Groups CodeCamp event is always excellent and I presented last year as well. Here is what you can expect:

We will once again hold 24 sessions (75 minutes each) across 4 tracks, given by some of the best regional and local developers, and will include topics such as LINQ, Azure, C# 4.0, PowerShell, F#, SQL Analysis Services, MVC, Silverlight, and so much more!

Hope to see some of you there!

Location: University of Connecticut, here is a map to the location (address is not easy to find in Mapping services).

For complete info click here.

Today I decided to install TFS 2010 Basic Edition on my laptop to keep better control of my side projects such as Connectedshow.com or presentations.

Doing some quick searches I found a video (see it here) by Julio Casal talking about this particular version of TFS. The video was a great resource but I needed something more basic, a quick install guide to get me started. During the start of the video Julio talks about just such a blog post, but all the links search engines bring back were dead. Doing a little digging, i found the real working post here.

Julio does a great job at providing a super detailed step-by-step guide, but if you feel up to it here is my cliff notes version:

Summary Steps for install TFS 2010 Basic Edition

• Download the TFS 2010 Beta 2 ISO
• Don’t confuse this with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Ultimate edition itself
• The install is an ISO so you’ll need a way to mount it, highly recommend Virtual CloneDrive
• Optional: Installation guide
• Run the setup on the ISO using either x86 or x64 bit edition
• Go through a typically geeky install process, choose options you want to install (I did not install the Build Server)

Once the install is completed you will begin the configuration steps in a new wizard:

• When you reach a section called “Team Foundation Server Configuration”, here you must choose the “Basic” option
• The rest of the setup is straight forward and will also install SQL Server 2008 Express as the TFS database (if you have nothing else already installed)

Finally I was able to connected using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, create my project through the local URL “http://mymachinename:8080/tfs” and add/manage my project using VS 2008!

Much thanks to Julio for putting together some great content to get me started!