Jon Galloway : Podcast

Guest (and occasional co-host) on Jesse Liberty's Yet Another Podcast

Jon Galloway — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:05:16 GMT

I was a recent guest on Jesse Liberty's Yet Another Podcast talking about the latest Visual Studio, ASP.NET and Azure releases.

Download / Listen:

Yet Another Podcast #75–Jon Galloway on ASP.NET/ MVC/ Azure

Co-hosted shows:

Jesse's been inviting me to co-host shows and I told him I'd show up when I was available. It's a nice change to be a drive-by co-host on a show (compared with the work that goes into organizing / editing / typing show notes for Herding Code shows). My main focus is on Herding Code, but it's nice to pop in and talk to Jesse's excellent guests when it works out. Some shows I've co-hosted over the past year:

Yet Another Podcast #76–Glenn Block on Node.js & Technology in China

Yet Another Podcast #73 - Adam Kinney on developing for Windows 8 with HTML5

Yet Another Podcast #64 - John Papa & Javascript

Yet Another Podcast #60 - Steve Sanderson and John Papa on Knockout.js

Yet Another Podcast #54–Damian Edwards on ASP.NET

Yet Another Podcast #53–Scott Hanselman on Blogging

Yet Another Podcast #52–Peter Torr on Windows Phone Multitasking

Yet Another Podcast #51–Shawn Wildermuth: //build, Xaml Programming & Beyond

And some more on the way that haven't been released yet. Some of these I'm pretty quiet, on others I get wacky and hassle the guests because, hey, not my podcast so not my problem.

Show notes from the ASP.NET / MVC / Azure show:

What was just released

Visual Studio 2012 Web Developer features
ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms

Strongly Typed data controls
Data access via command methods
Similar Binding syntax to ASP.NET MVC
Some context: Damian Edwards and WebFormsMVP
Two questions from Jesse:

Q: Are you making this harder or more complicated for Web Forms developers?

Short answer: Nothing's removed, it's just a new option
History of SqlDataSource, ObjectDataSource

Q: If I'm using some MVC patterns, why not just move to MVC?

Short answer: This works really well in hybrid applications, doesn't require a rewrite
Allows sharing models, validation, other code between Web Forms and MVC

ASP.NET MVC

Adaptive Rendering (oh, also, this is in Web Forms 4.5 as well)
Display Modes
Mobile project template using jQuery Mobile
OAuth login to allow Twitter, Google, Facebook, etc. login

Jon (and friends') MVC 4 book on the way: Professional ASP.NET MVC 4
Windows 8 development

Jesse and Jon announce they're working on a new book: Pro Windows 8 Development with XAML and C#
Jon and Jesse agree that it's nice to be able to write Windows 8 applications using the same skills they picked up for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone development.

Compare / contrast ASP.NET MVC and Windows 8 development

Q: Does ASP.NET and HTML5 development overlap?

Jon thinks they overlap in the MVC world because you're writing HTML views without controls
Jon describes how his web development career moved from a preoccupation with server code to a focus on user interaction, which occurs in the browser
Jon mentions his NDC Oslo presentation on Learning To Love HTML as Beautiful Code

Q: How do you apply C# / XAML or HTML5 skills to Windows 8 development?
Q: If I'm a XAML programmer, what's the learning curve on getting up to speed on ASP.NET MVC?

Jon describes the difference in application lifecycle and state management
Jon says it's nice that web development is really interactive compared to application development

Q: Can you learn MVC by reading a book? Or is it a lot bigger than that?

What is Azure, and why would I use it?

Jon describes the traditional Azure platform mode and how Azure Web Sites fits in
Q: Why wouldn't Jesse host his blog on Azure Web Sites?

Domain names on Azure Web Sites
File hosting options

Q: Is Azure just another host? How is it different from any of the other shared hosting options?

A: Azure gives you the ability to scale up or down whenever you want
A: Other services are available if or when you want them

Jon talks ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET Web Pages 2, and Visual Studio 11 on Jesse Liberty's "Yet Another Podcast"

Jon Galloway — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:07:00 GMT

Jesse Liberty interviewed me about all the new Developer Preview releases for web developers. He asked me a lot of great questions over the course of a 45 minute interview.

Download / Listen:

Yet Another Podcast #49–Jon Galloway: What’s New In ASP.NET

Here's a rough transcript:

How can I find out what's been released and get more information?
- Jon talks about the http://asp.net/vnext page which has links to everything you'd want to know about the new releases
What is a Developer Preview?
What's the difference between ASP.NET, ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET Web Pages?
What's the difference between ASP.NET Web Pages and WebMatrix?
What are the highlights in ASP.NET core?
- Asynchronous support
- Advanced Validation features
- AntiXSS support (we talk about why you'd want to use it)
- WebSockets
- Bundling and Minification support
What's new in ASP.NET Web Forms?
- Strongly Typed Data Controls
- Model Binding
How does it help to have ASP.NET Web Forms pick up some features from ASP.NET MVC?
What's new in ASP.NET MVC 4?
- Default project template - new look, adaptive rendering
- Display modes
- Mobile template using jQuery Mobile
Is it possibly easier to get started with ASP.NET MVC by first learning ASP.NET Web Pages?
Is it time to learn ASP.NET MVC 4 if you haven't yet?
What's new in Visual Studio 11 for Web Developers?
Where does HTML5 fit into these new releases?
What's WCF Web API, and how does it relate to all these new releases?
- Link: WCF Webb API Preview 5 Is Now Available
- Jesse's just written a blog post recommending a WCF Data Data Service - is that still valid, or should he be recommending WCF Web API? How do you pick which one to use?
What's new in ASP.NET Web Pages 2?
- Link: The Top 7 New Features in Web Pages 2 Developer Preview
- Resource Manager
- Login support using OAuth and OpenID
- Maps Helper to insert maps using Bing, Google Maps, etc.
How did this all this content get put together?
Jon and Jesse talk about HTML support that was just included in Blend.
Jon talks about NuGet updates and the ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes feature.
Jon circles back to where all the information is at:
Jesse asks Jon about Professional ASP.NET MVC 3

Herding Code podcast update: 3 years, 115 episodes and 25TB of traffic later...

Jon Galloway — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:08:29 GMT

Back in May 2008, K. Scott Allen accidentally called my on Skype, and we joked that we should start a podcast. And then we did - we roped in Kevin Dente and Scott Koon since the four of us tended to argue quite a bit on Twitter anyways - and kind of figured it out as we went along. Along the way, we've recorded 115 episodes (pretty much an entire week of audio), discussed the comings and goings of myriad technologies, and had the opportunity to talk to some incredible guests.

If you're not currently listening or subscribing, you can find shows and show notes here, and subscribe here.

Bandwidth

Initially, I tried to host the audio on SkyDrive, quickly found out that SkyDrive files didn't send correct media headers so it wouldn't work with FeedBurner. At Scott Koon's recommendation, I set up a simple WordPress blog at Site5 which has turned out to be a great decision. They've had great uptime and phenomenal prices. We pay about $7/month for an unlimited storage and bandwidth, and they've delivered that with great uptime as well. Here's a look at the download bandwidth per-year:

Year	Bandwidth (GB)
2008	1830.36
2009	6134.74
2010	10705.6
2011 (to date)	6678.78
Total	25349.48

Popular shows

Here's a look at our top 25 shows of all time - the listener count is actually a bit higher since we also distribute via BitTorrent, but the order is pretty accurate. Remember that some of these shows have had 3 years to build up a count, so it's pretty cool to see two of the last 15 (102 and 106) already showing on this list:

Rank	Show Title	Downloads
1	HerdingCode 0063 Victory in Software Development	29762
2	HerdingCode 0010 LINQ	15410
3	HerdingCode 0011 Glenn Block Part 1	13521
4	HerdingCode 0005 Firefox 3 Released	13084
5	HerdingCode 0049 Search with Bing and Wolfram Alfa	12976
6	HerdingCode 0012 Glenn Block Part 2	12307
7	HerdingCode 0064 Phil Haack on MVC 2	12078
8	HerdingCode 0035 Fun at work	11476
9	HerdingCode 0051 Greg Young on Our Grand Failure	10510
10	HerdingCode 0046 Mistakes and News Recap	10481
11	HerdingCode 0037 Jon Udell	10014
12	HerdingCode 0047 Joe Brinkman on Webforms vs MVC	9869
13	HerdingCode 0048 Dustin Campbell on Visual Studio 2010	9751
14	HerdingCode 0102 Tim Caswell on Node js	9664
15	HerdingCode 0027 What every web developer sh...	9659
16	HerdingCode 0009 Rob Conery on SubSonic, MVC Storefont, and the Silverlight Ninja Squad	9402
17	HerdingCode 0058 Presentation Patterns with Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell, Rob Eisenberg and Glenn Block	9389
18	HerdingCode 0050 Damien Guard on LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, and Fontography	9316
19	HerdingCode 0013 Back To Basics (but which ones?)	9266
20	HerdingCode 0038 NHibernate Performance with David Penton, and Ben Scheirman	9255
21	HerdingCode 0087 Jeff Atwood on Area 51 and Stack Overflow	9213
22	HerdingCode 0032 Windows 7 First Impressions	9118
23	HerdingCode 0059 Web Standards with Milan Negovan	9001
24	HerdingCode 0106 Mark Rendle on Simple Data	8980
25	HerdingCode 0015 Chris Tavares	8975

Our top show of all time is Victory in Software Development, talking about an interesting post K Scott had written. I think it was a really interesting discussion, but it's not clear how that show got so many listens. Stats don't really show anything obvious. Strange.

The full archive is here. For nostalgia's sake, you might want to check out our Hello World first show.

Show Topics and Guests

The one rule we've tried to stick to is avoiding the standard .NET podcast circuit. There are some great, well produced, very popular podcasts out there that cover the standard fare pretty well, and we thought it was important to try to surface topics and guests who are a bit below the radar, especially for the majority of our listenership with a mostly Microsoft development background. I listen to a lot of podcasts, and we try not to duplicate what any of the others are covering.

A lot of our show topic and guest ideas have come from guest recommendations, so I recently set up the Herding Code Guest Suggestion form to make it easier to submit ideas. Got any?

Show Notes

The show notes and links take a lot of time. We've had a good amount of volunteer help on these from Ben Griswold over the years, as he has time available. He really stepped up the quality there - pretty much any topic mentioned during a show is listed in the show notes with links provided. Thanks!

Podcast Announcement Posts

Before we set up a site for the podcast, I used to post the episodes here. When I set up the separate site, I thought it was important to keep this blog and the podcast separate. In retrospect, that doesn't make any sense. I'm going to try to at least announce each show here, but also put in some sample code and additional info that I found interesting while editing and compiling notes.

Hear me talk about MVC 3 on Jesse Liberty's Yet Another Podcast

Jon Galloway — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:21:44 GMT

Jesse Liberty interviewed me about ASP.NET MVC 3 recently on Yet Another Podcast. It was a lot of fun being a guest on a podcast for a change. Here are some of the highlights:

Some introductory chatter about Herding Code and whatnot (skip to 3:50 if you're not interested)
Jon's history of MVC releases (and Jesse's reminder that MVC is an old pattern that predates ASP.NET by decades)
An overview of what's in new in MVC 3
- Razor
- Javascript / jQuery
- Model Validation
- Advanced features like Dependency Injection
Links to some of the top MVC information on the ASP.NET website: http://asp.net/mvc and http://asp.net/mvc/mvc3
Razor view engine - why another view engine, what it's like, why Jon loves working with it
Support for Javascript / jQuery, incl. change in validation to jQuery validate
Jesse asks Jon if all ASP.NET developers should learn MVC, and if there are cases where you'd want to stay with Web Forms
Jesse asks Jon about how to learn about MVC 3 since the MVC books out now all focus on MVC 2
- Jon mentions that MVC 3 builds on MVC 2 so the "old" books are still of use
- Jon mentions some additional additional places to learn about MVC 3 (previously blogged here)
- Jon mentions mvcConf
Jesse asks about the current release status of MVC, how to install it, etc.

It's a quick 30 minute show, check it out - and don't forget to subscribe to YapCast.

Download / Listen

Yet Another Podcast #29 Jon Galloway on MVC 3

Guest on the first episode of Jesse Liberty’s new podcast: YetAnotherPodcast.us

Jon Galloway — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:28:02 GMT

I was privileged to be invited to join Jesse Liberty on the inaugural YetAnotherPodcast show, hosted by Jesse Liberty. Jesse brings a fascinating viewpoint to the software development discussion, because:

He’s very experienced – he’s been programming for a long time, and has been writing books (like this bestselling C++ book, apparently used by the early Egyptians) for quite a while, but
He’s managed to keep on the cutting edge throughout his career, through .NET, Silverlight, and now Windows Phone 7 development
He’s a total crackup, sometimes intentionally

Jesse and I work on the same team at Microsoft, and I always enjoy talking to him. I was happy to hear he wanted to start a new podcast, and enjoyed helping him get set up. Here’s the pitch:

This is not your momma’s podcast.

Here are my guiding principles:

Do not waste the listener’s time

This is not radio

Discuss, don’t interview

Focus, focus, focus

These half dozen principles lead to the following decisions (every one of which may change over time!)

Focus: Our central topic will be Windows Phone 7, with secondary topics including Silverlight, Programming and Best Practices

Not Radio: No intro, no outro, no bumbers, no announcer

Don’t Waste The Lister’s Time: The shows run as long as they take. No fixed format. Count on something between 20 and 40 minutes, except when they are longer or shorter.

Discuss: Lots of guests, but no interviews, no canned questions, lots of real programmers discussing real issues

Don’t Waste The Listener’s time: Useful information or shut up.

Jesse and I spent the first episode talking about ALT.NET and Open Source, and he’s posted a second episode with Erik Mork about Windows Phone 7. Now how about a John Papa episode to get the “bald guy league of justice” trifecta?

Yet Another Podcast Show #1 – Alt dot net & Open Source [mp3]

Upcoming Guests on HerdingCode: Rob Conery, Glenn Block, [your suggestion here]

Jon Galloway — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:52:00 GMT

We’ve done eight episodes of Herding Code in round table format, but we’ve always anticipated bringing on some guests once we had our act together. We’re excited about having Rob Conery as our first guest Tuesday night (7/15). We’ve also had a few folks tell us they’re willing to appear in future shows, including Glenn Block and Scott Bellware.

We’d love to hear you questions for these guest (especially Rob, since he’s confirmed for this week) as well as your recommendations for future guests. While you can always leave comments here or on the Herding Code site, the simplest way to give us feedback is by filling out this quick six question survey.

Our Round Table Podcast gets legit - Now we're the Herding Code Podcast (herdingcode.com)

Jon Galloway — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:02:19 GMT

We’ve been experimenting with a weekly technology round table podcast for the past five weeks; now we have our act together to the point where we’re ready to officially launch it. We’re at HerdingCode.com, and you can subscribe to our feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/HerdingCode on your iPod, Zune, or whatever crazy podcast client you choose.

By we, I mean:

K. Scott Allen (a.k.a. OdeToCode)

Scott Koon (a.k.a. Lazycoder)

Kevin Dente

Jon Galloway

Head on over and give it a listen. On the current episode, we ~~argue~~ discuss whether Silverlight is just another flavor of ActiveX, or if it’s here to stay.

Herding Code 6: Silverlight - Fad Or Fab?

Technology Podcast #5 - Firefox 3

Jon Galloway — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:31:51 GMT

Show #5 - Topics

Firefox 3... that's it

Listen

Download (click the play button to listen)

Announcements

The Name, The Feed, etc.

This is our last podcast hosting the audio on SkyDrive, I promise. I’d planned to take care of it last weekend and a family emergency… um… emerged. You can help! Please take our super quick survey to vote on a name for our podcast.

I'd hoped we could use SkyDrive to host the audio and set up a nice podcast feed on top of it via FeedBurner, but it turns out that SkyDrive doesn't send the media type with MP3 enclosures in a way Feedburner expects, so that's out. I'm looking into other hosting options, please comment in our survey if you’ve got any recommendations. We’ve been wanting to keep our costs down so we have the option of continuing long term without requiring sponsorship, but we’ll get our site set up for you for next week’s podcast. Honest.

The Audio

I think we finally nailed the audio this week. Thanks to Joe Pruitt and others for some great suggestions on how to set this up.

Technology Round Table Podcast #4 - iPhone v2 and K. Scott Allen's report from TechEd 2008

Jon Galloway — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:23:00 GMT

Show #4 - Topics

iPhone v2 announcments from WWDC
TechEd 2008 recap by our roving reporter, K. Scott Allen

Here's our temporary podcast feed.

Listen

Download (click the play button to listen)

Announcements

The Name

We're closing in on a name (and thus a domain and a website and a real podcast feed, etc.). Here's our current list, please give us your feedback or alternate suggestions.

BytecodePodcast
Four Horsemen On Software
Four Horsemen Podcast
Technology Roundtable Podcast

The Audio

Audio quality's a bit worse this week. We're working on it - it's harder than you'd think (you should have heard what the source audio files sounded like). Right now we use Skype for the call, but everyone records their own audio and I edit and clean it up. We use Call Graph as a backup in case someone's audio recording doesn't work. UPDATE: Fixed a problem with K Scott's audio. Much better now.

The Hosting

So far we've been hosting the audio on SkyDrive. We've been planning to host it ourselves, but I'm wondering if SkyDrive's hosting would be sufficient provided that we had a solid podcast RSS feed. This should only be a problem if you can't access the files for some reason - it's requiring a login, or blocked by your corporate network or something. Please let me know if you have problems with this episode so we can make an informed decision. Other alternatives we've considered are the Site5 Uberplan and Amazon S3. Got any input there?

Technology Round Table Podcast #3 - Should Developers Learn C? + TechEd 2008 Keynote Announcements

Jon Galloway — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:20:10 GMT

Show #3 - Topics

Should developers learn C?
TechEd 2008 Keynote Announcements
Microsoft "Velocity" distributed caching solution

Here's our temporary podcast feed.

Listen

Technology Round Table #3: Should developers learn C? + TechEd 2008 Announcements

Thanks for your patience (and great feedback) as we get our act together here. We've decided to make the content the top priority, and get the non-content details (feed, website, branding, etc.) next. Any suggestions for website address, podcast name, or any other ways we can improve?

Technology Round Table Podcast #2 - AJAX Frameworks

Jon Galloway — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:48:00 GMT

Last week I posted the first in a new podcast series with K. Scott Allen (a.k.a. OdeToCode), Scott Koon (a.k.a. LazyCoder), and Kevin Dente. We got some great feedback, but we decided to ignore it and continue the podcast. So here's another one!

But seriously, this one's a lot shorter (too short?) and you'll hopefully find the sound quality's improved. We've also heard from several people that, while it's easy for a group of geeks to criticize anything and everything, that doesn't necessarily transfer into useful information.

Show #2 - Topics

Google's announcement that they'll host several popular AJAX libraries
ASP.NET AJAX
AJAX Control Toolkit
Misc. IE8 issues, including changes to how they'll handle JavaScript loading

Here's our temporary podcast feed. This is temporary, we'll get this on Feedburner when we've got the website set up.

Listen

Technology Round Table #3: Should developers learn C? + TechEd 2008 Announcements

Jon Galloway : Podcast

Guest (and occasional co-host) on Jesse Liberty's Yet Another Podcast

Download / Listen:

Co-hosted shows:

Show notes from the ASP.NET / MVC / Azure show:

Jon talks ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET Web Pages 2, and Visual Studio 11 on Jesse Liberty's "Yet Another Podcast"

Herding Code podcast update: 3 years, 115 episodes and 25TB of traffic later...

Bandwidth

Popular shows

Show Topics and Guests

Show Notes

Podcast Announcement Posts

Hear me talk about MVC 3 on Jesse Liberty's Yet Another Podcast

Download / Listen

Guest on the first episode of Jesse Liberty’s new podcast: YetAnotherPodcast.us

Upcoming Guests on HerdingCode: Rob Conery, Glenn Block, [your suggestion here]

Our Round Table Podcast gets legit - Now we're the Herding Code Podcast (herdingcode.com)

Technology Podcast #5 - Firefox 3

Show #5 - Topics

Listen

Announcements

The Name, The Feed, etc.

The Audio

Technology Round Table Podcast #4 - iPhone v2 and K. Scott Allen's report from TechEd 2008

Show #4 - Topics

Subscribe

Listen

Announcements

The Name

The Audio

The Hosting

Technology Round Table Podcast #3 - Should Developers Learn C? + TechEd 2008 Keynote Announcements

Show #3 - Topics

Subscribe

Listen

Technology Round Table Podcast #2 - AJAX Frameworks

Show #2 - Topics

Subscribe

Listen