Rhonda Tipton's WebLog

There is a new podcast in town that I have started listening to. It is called the Wizards of Smart and is hosted by Jonathan Birkholz (@rookieone) and Ryan Riley (@panesofglass) and has kind of a “Stackoverflow-ish” format in which they banter back and forth on a range of topics.

I believe it is a great resource whether you are learning application development or trying to keep up with the ever-changing field. Check it out.

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Below are the podcast episodes that I enjoyed and learned the most from in 2008.

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Hanselminutes – Starting Small with F# with Dustin Campbell
Hanselminutes – Michio Kaku on making the “impossible” possible
Hanselminutes – Digital Photography Explained (for Geeks) with Aaron Hockley

.NET Rocks – Show #311: Kirk Munro on Powershell and PowerGUI
.NET Rocks – Show #348: Scott Stanfield on Deep Zoom and PhotoSynth!
.NET Rocks – Show #388: Bob Martin (Uncle Bob) on Being a Professional!

Run As Radio – Show #64: Using Powershell with VMWare!
Run As Radio – Show #76: Kim Tripp Indexes Everything!
Run As Radio – Show #80: Itzik Ben-Gan Goes T-SQL on us!

Herding Code – EPISODE 13: BACK TO BASICS
Herding Code – EPISODE 18: MATT PODWYSOCKI ON F#
Herding Code – EPISODE 27: WHAT EVERY WEB DEVELOPER NEEDS TO KNOW

Thirsty Developer – 18: Jeff Atwood
Thirsty Developer – 33: Women in Technology Panel
Thirsty Developer – 39: Sketchnotes

PowerScripting Podcast – Episode 21 with Jeffery Snover!
PowerScripting Podcast – Episode 40 roundtable discussion with Jeffrey Snover, Keith Hill, Oisin Grehan, and Joel Bennett

Deep Fried Bytes – Episode 3: Twitter War Stories
Deep Fried Bytes – Episode 19: Looking into the C# Crystal Ball with Charlie Calvert and Bill Wagner
Deep Fried Bytes – Episode 15: Visual Studio Tips and Running an Agile Team with Sara Ford

Polymorphic Podcast – Develop with Passion like Jean Paul Boodhoo
Polymorphic Podcast – Debugging Made Easy
Polymorphic Podcast – Introduction to Dynamic Data

Radio TFS – Team Foundation Server Power Tools
Radio TFS – Basics of TFS Version Control

Pixel8 – 5 Ways to Know If Your Software Sucks
StackOverflow -  Podcast #17: Software development team
The Command Line – TCLP 2008-10-29 Rant: Information Overload

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Happy New Year!!!

I have listened to the new podcast Deep Fried Bytes and I have to say I have found another favorite podcast.   In Episode 2, they talk about interviewing and being interviewed.  I enjoyed listening to all of the stories, but have to agree with The Coding Geekette on not really caring for the comments of making interviewees cry.

Other new podcasts that are full of information

• Alt .NET Podcast
• Technology Round Table
• Stack Overflow

My top 6 tech podcasts at the moment

• .NET Rocks
• Hanselminutes
• Deep Fried Bytes
• The Thirsty Developer
• PowerScripting Podcast
• The Mike Tech Show

Here is my full list of podcasts.  These are the ones that I listen or have listened to and like.

This week I have listened to a couple of great podcasts on PowerShell/PowerGUI.  DotNet Rocks, DNR TV and Run As Radio have all recently interviewed Kirk Munroe from Quest Software.  In the podcasts, both the administrative and development aspects of PowerShell are covered.

• Kirk Munro on Powershell and PowerGUI (.NET Rocks)
• Kirk Munro on PowerGUI (DNR TV)
• Kirk Munro on PowerShell and PowerGUI (Run as Radio)

I highly recommend giving them a listen.

Also, it looks like there is a podcast geared toward PowerShell.

• The PowerScripting Podcast

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Other Links
Kirk Munro’s Blog
MS Windows PowerShell Page
PowerGui Home Page

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Happy Learning!

I downloaded the CodeMash Podcast Series last week and started listening to them this morning on my way to work.  I have to say the ones that I have listened to so far are very interesting.  My favorites are the interviews with Bill Wagner, Sara Ford and Keith Elder.  I highly recommend giving them all a listen.

This is a list of my favorite Technology podcast episodes for 2007.  There were so many to chose from, but these are the ones that I remember learning a lot from.

.NET Rocks

• Steve McConnell Makes Sure We’re Code Complete
• Dan Appleman Talks About Discoverability!
• Jeff Atwood on the Human Side of Software Development
• Scott Stanfield on the Importance of Aesthetics
• Open Source Panel Discussion at DevTeach, Vancouver

.NET Rocks TV

• Brian Noyes on Windows Presentation Foundation Part 1 ~ Part 2
• Jean-Paul Boodhoo on Demystifying Design Patterns Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Part 3 ~ Part 4 ~ Part 5
• Venkat Subramaniam on Fundamentals of Agile Design Part 1 ~ Part 2
• Scott Hanselman on Debugging in .NET 2005 Part 1 ~ Part 2
• Scott Hanselman on Windows PowerShell

Hanselminutes

• Squeezing the most out of Continuous Integration – with Jay Flowers
• Sychronizing Internet Calendars
• Be a Better Developer in Six Months
• 2007 Ultimate Tool List
• Software Architecture with Dan Appleman

Run As Radio

• Pat Hynds on Storage Technology
• Brad McGehee On Being a Better DBA
• Trey Johnson Helps Us Get Business Intelligence
• Doug Toombs Adds to Our Toolbox
• Kim Tripp and Paul Randal Answer Our Queries on SQL Server 2008

Polymorphic Podcast

• Design Patterns Bootcamp: Model View * Patterns
• ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts – Interview with Darren Neimke
• Interview with Scott Hanselman

ARCast – Channel 9

• Bridging The Gap from C++ to C#
• The Agile Architect with Jeffrey Palermo
• Major Leauge Baseball on Silverlight

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Happy learning !!!

Mohammad Azam  has a new podcast on KoffeeKoder titled Introduction to FIT.  It has good sound quality and I have already learned what FIT is.  I highly recommend it and hope the series continues as I feel I can learn a lot from it.

Mohammed has also composed a plethora of content for for ASP Alliance, GridViewGuy and other sites as well as maintaining a great blog.  I really don’t know how he does it.

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I listen to podcasts like .NET Rocks, Hanselminutes and Run as Radio on a weekly basis.  This week I am listening to last week’s episodes.  Last week’s episode of Run as Radio was very informative to me because I love to hear about tools for developers and IT pros. 

The interview was with Doug Toombs who is very knowledgeble about his tools. They talked in depth about the following tools:

• FileZilla
• WireShark
• WinDump
• NGrep
• SIW
• TrueCrypt
• SyncBack
• TestDisk

I thouroughly enjoyed the episode and recommend giving it a listen.

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