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Technology Round Table Podcast - "Hello World" Edition

We're starting up a technology round table podcast. By we, I mean:

Our goal here is to provide you with some interesting discussions loosely centered around the world of development on the Microsoft platform. We've just finished our first show, and - while we're aware that it's not ready for prime-time, we're looking for some alpha testers to give it a listen and give us some feedback.

Let's start with our four known issues:

  1. It's way too long - I edited this down to one hour, but our goal is to keep these in the 1/2 hour range.
  2. Audio levels - My voice is quieter than everyone else's. Maybe that's a good thing.
  3. We're just getting used to the format - None of us has done a podcast before. I've edited out several awkward pauses and the like, but it's not at all polished just yet.
  4. No branding - We'll probably come up with some kind of catchy name, set up a website, and maybe include a 2 second musical bumper at the beginning. And maybe get a blimp and a mascot. But that's all later.

So, you're warned. Want to alpha test it and give us some feedback?

Show #1 - Topics

  1. .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta 1
  2. Entity Framework and OR/M's in general
  3. Twitter-bashing (easy, but fun!)
  4. Ninject dependency injection framework

Listen

Technology Round Table #1: .NET 3.5 SP1, Twitter, ORM's, and Ninject

Errata: I said in passing that SubSonic is under MIT license. It's not, it's under Mozilla Public License.

10 Comments

  • Awesome! Can't wait to listen

  • @Chad I actually did spend a few hours editing out um's, parts where two people spoke at once, and parts where we agreed we'd talked to long on a subject. The original recording was about 20 minutes longer. But, agree. Thanks for the feedback.

    Also, with regard to length - very much agree. We're going to be shooting for about 30 minutes, and I think that'll require us to focus on one main topic per week. What do you think of that format?

  • Grab The Levelator. It'll fix the vast majority of your level problems in post.

  • Is there a podcast RSS feed?

  • @Garth Thanks, giving The Levelator a try. I was planning on dusting off my copy of Sound Forge and messing with the compressors, but it sounds like The Levelator is easier and designed for podcasts.

  • Great stuff. I especially liked the part about that sweet new DI framework. What was it called again? Ninject? *grin*

    Just kidding. In all seriousness, though, great podcast. Keep them coming! Oh, and thanks for the free press. ;)

  • If you want to beat DotNetRocks...
    - make it shorter - 20 min;
    - try to stay as focused as possible, except for the some kind of resonable humor;
    - provide transcript as well;
    - do not podcast just to podcast, do it when you feel you have something to say;

  • Hi Jon -- just wanted to let you know that on 2 different computers, both using FF 2, when I load your main page, or this articles page with comments, it automatically redirects me to "login.live.com/blahblahblah"

    Not sure why this happens. Probably some odd configuration on my machine, but it happens on 2 different machines, and only with FF 2.

    Just thought you might want to know.

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