Carl Franklin

.NET Wonk

Chris Kinsman and Jesse Ezell discuss their .NET success stories on .NET Rocks!

In this, the second installment in our ongoing ".NET Success Stories" series, Carl talks with Jesse Ezell and Chris Kinsman about projects they have developed and successfully deployed with Microsoft .NET languages, tools, and technologies.

Chris talks about a huge project done for an insurance company that successfully uses ASP.NET and Windows Forms with autodeployment. As well, he talks about some applications he wrote for slot machine management at a casino.

In the second half, Jesse Ezell discusses an application he helped develop for Articulate Software that utilizes Flash as a server application to convert Powerpoint presentations to Flash.

http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks

Chris Kinsman is president of Vergent Software, one of the founders of Guided Design and formerly the VP of Technology for DevX.com, a web site that provides information for developers. He has extensive experience with ASP, Web Farms, Clustering, Data Access, and Scalability. His books include "Visual Basic.NET Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, ADO.NET and XML" and "C# Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, ADO.NET and XML". Chris has spoken at a variety of conferences including VSLive and Microsoft TechEd, and is the track chairman for ASPLive.

Jesse Ezell is the co-founder of Activehead, a .NET consulting company in Joplin, Missouri. Jesse has been working with the .NET framework since the early betas, is an active member of the .NET community, and spends the majority of his time designing and coding .NET software solutions.

Comments

Nicholas Sing said:

Cool! I'm listening to it right now!!!
# February 16, 2004 11:23 PM

Jason Mauss said:

hey Carl, I saw some pics of your "studio" that you posted for the first live show you did. Could you tell your listeners the specs of the gear in that room? I saw a bunch of LCD's and other interesting stuff (instruments). My "home office" includes:

Toshiba Laptop
HP Laptop
2 PC "Towers"
21" Sony Trinitron - display for both PC's
Copier/Scanner/Faxer/Printer Machine
1 Electric Guitar
1 Acoustic Guitar
Practice Amp + Effects pedals
27" Sony Vega TV - for the XBox ;-)
# February 18, 2004 6:43 AM

Carl Franklin said:

Sure, although my insurance company has the big list, I'm doing this from memory:

Mackie 2408 8-Bus mixer
2 Presonus Digimax 8x Preamps with lightpipe out and built in limiters
2 Echo Layla 24/96 digital audio interfaces
Several ProCo balanced patchbays (everything is balanced in my studio)
Audio PC is a custom P4 2.6GHz, 2GB Ram and about 500GB storage
Behringer compressors and limiters
Viewsonic 23" LCD Monitor
2 MPC P4 2.6GHz, 1GB RAM and Benq 17" LCD monitors for hosting Skype calls
Mackie powered monitors (model # escapes me for the moment)
The Audio PC is running Sound Laundry to clean up background noise of the signal going to the media server
Keyboard PC is a P4 2.6GHz 2GB RAM and 200GB HD running GigaSampler; Native Instruments B4, FM7, and ABSynth; and a custom MIDI routing program that I wrote in VB.NET
Keyboard PC is connected to a rack containing an MOTU Midi Timepiece MIDI Interface, Alesis MIDIVerb, and a 12-channel Mixer
Kurzweil PC-88x Controller
M/Audio small MIDI controller (again, model number eludes me)
Boss MIDI Pedal for controling overall volume and switching leslie simulator on and off
1983 Gibson Les Paul standard, recently refretted, refinished, and re-outfitted with new hardware and EMG active pickups
1980 Fender Precision Bass (dinosaur)
1993 Taylor Koa dreadnought (forgot the model number)
1990 (or so) Strat Plus with Lace Sensor pickups (like Clapton's)
Boss Guitar Effects pedal on steroids
Mesa Boogie DC-5 tube combo amp
Peavy Delta Blues tube amp
Yamaha Custom Maple 5-piece drum kit
2 100 foot 16x4 audio snakes
Shitloads of microphones (SM57s and 58s, Marshall tube condensors, 3 AT-4033s, 2 AT-4050s, countless others)
Misc stands, cables, picks, etc.

I probably missed a few things, but you get the gist of it.
# February 18, 2004 8:54 AM

Jason Mauss said:

heh, that's awesome. I hope business travel takes me out towards New London sometime. Love to stop by and check that out.
# February 18, 2004 10:40 PM

Carl Franklin said:

My door is always open!
# February 18, 2004 11:00 PM
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