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ARCast.TV - The Mono Project with Miguel De Icaza

rojacobs — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:33:45 GMT

Have you had Mono? No, not the virus... I'm talking about the Mono project. If you hadn't heard about it, this is a version of .NET that runs on Linux. While I was in Boston for the ReMix conference I had a chance to chat with Miguel about his work with Novell and the Mono project.

ARCast.TV - Major League Baseball on Silverlight

rojacobs — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:26:42 GMT

At the recent ReMix event in Boston I was privileged to chat with Justin Schaffer who has been working on mlb.com for a number of years. When you consider the challenge of connecting with fans and being a prime mover in the new technologies of the web he has a fascinating job.

ARCast.TV - TDD / MVP with Ron Jacobs

rojacobs — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:11:34 GMT

Most of the time I am the host of ARCast but recently I went to New Zealand where Luckas Svoboda hosts ARCast New Zealand www.arcast.co.nz and he wanted to inteview me for their show. I thought it would be fun to share this episode with you.

ARCast.TV - Get A Clue with Lou Carbone

rojacobs — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:35:20 GMT

If you been to Mix or perhaps Tech-Ed New Zealand then you had the privilege of listening to a really smart guy named Lou Carbone. Lou is not an architect or developer but he is someone who is thinking very hard about user experience and he is definitely somebody you ought to listen to.

ARCast.TV - Expression for Architects with Shane Morris

rojacobs — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:02:33 GMT

Designers... yes they are a strange breed but so are architects. Microsoft recently released a bunch of tools called Expression and while I was at Tech-Ed Australia I recorded a quick chat with designer Shane Morris to discuss what this tool set is all about.

ARCast.TV - Team Foundation Server Down Under

rojacobs — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:09:53 GMT

So I was in Australia at Tech-Ed when I bumped into some people like Steve Riley (who is an awesome speaker and security guru) and some other guys named Justin and Michael who work for some big organization that we won't name here

These guys started using Team Foundation server and made there Java and Cobol writing colleagues so jealous that they had to have it too. Why does this matter? Just listen to what they were able to do with this amazing product.

ARCast.TV - Rapid Response with Udi Dahan

rojacobs — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:04:44 GMT

Udi Dahan is a solution architect from Israel and just the other day Udi and I answered a couple of questions from the MSDN architecture forum about layering and business rules.

ARCast.TV - Change Your Life By Podcasting with Carl Franklin

rojacobs — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:35:04 GMT

Ready for a change of pace? I'm warning you... this video is very low-tech. You could say it's non-tech but a lot of fun. Have you heard of .NET Rocks? Well Carl is the co-host and so I run into him in a variety of places but we never really had a chance to talk. So on this episode - enjoy about 10 minutes of a fun chat.

Oh yeah and a special second anniversary look back at ARCast.TV

ARCast.TV - Every Class a WCF Service with Juval Lowy

rojacobs — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:44:11 GMT

Ready for a radical idea? My friend Juval Lowy eats, sleeps, lives and breathes WCF. There are few people who understand it like he does and I sat down for a quick chat with Juval at the Tech-Ed 2007 Fishbowl in Orlando to see what his radical ideas were.

ARCast.TV - Spring.NET with Mark Pollack

rojacobs — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:50:39 GMT

Spring is a popular Java framework for building applications that Mark Pollack had become quite familiar with. However he wanted to write applications in .NET so Spring.NET was born. In this episode I caught up with Mark at Tech-Ed US where we told me all about it.

ARCast.TV - Security Chat from Slovenia

rojacobs — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:40:14 GMT

You're a geek right? Hint: You wouldn't be reading this if you weren't. Don't you love having a really geeky chat about security? One where you talk about root kits and ways in which security can be breached? That's just the kind of conversation we had in Slovenia for this episode of ARCast.TV

ARCast.TV - WCF Session Behavior from Slovenia

rojacobs — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:38:38 GMT

Back in MayI popped into a conference in Slovenia to give a couple of talks and while I was there we did a live ARCast recording with some of the MVP's from Slovenia. In this first segment I chat with Matevz Gacnik architect MVP about how WCF makes use of sessions.

ARCast.TV - Tuning The Development Process at Spot Runner

rojacobs — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:47:29 GMT

When Marco DeMello came to be VP of Engineering at Spot Runner he came to a small engineering team with a startup mentality. It was a perfect fit for a scrappy small startup but with success the engineerig team and process had to mature to support the demands of the business. In this episode we discover what it took to put in place a process that supports TDD, Continuous Integration, performance and scalability testing and virtual server integration labs for a world class process.

ARCast.TV - Taking TV Ads to the Long Tail with Spot Runner

rojacobs — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:58:46 GMT

In the past TV ads were only for the big guys with Madison avenue advertising agencies producing multi-million dollar contracts. And the little guys? They were the one who put up those cheesy ads that look like they were shot with Dad's movie camera. But today there is a new company that is helping bring TV ads to the little guys with a difference... they actually look good! Spot Runner is an amazing company and on this episode we meet the co-founder David Waxman as we architects learn about the business drivers for the architecture.

ARCast.TV - Office Business Apps @ Epicor (Part 3)

rojacobs — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:09:45 GMT

In this final installment with Epicor we discuss the challenges, the hard things about making this all work and take a look at a demo of the Epicor integration with Outlook 2007

ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications @ Epicor (Part 2)

rojacobs — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:30:29 GMT

What if you were architecting a solution for this scenario. Your company sells multiple enterprise applications (ERP, Financials, CRM etc.) and you want to support multiple client front ends including office applications. How would you do it? What elements would you put in place to make it possible and what kind of problems would you run into?

This was the challenge for architects Bart Elia and Mike Parsons. In this episode we drill into their solution for building Office Business Applications with Epicor.

ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications at Epicor (Part 1)

rojacobs — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:55:51 GMT

When you build software you want your customers to get the most for the dollar. That means thinking outside the box when it comes to reaching customers. This is exactly what Epicor has done with their enterprise software by leveraging integration with Office. This sounds easy but there is a lot to think about.

ARCast.TV - Healthcare in Japan

rojacobs — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:57:07 GMT

Imagine the challenge of creating a system that can store healthcare records for patients across hospitals, clinics and doctors offices throughout Japan. Oh yeah and the records need to be stored in a format that will still be accessible 100 years from now. Wow - what would you do? This is the challenge of a lifetime for Kazuo Furuyama and Architect MVP from Japan.

ARCast.TV - PlentyOfFish.com How one man beat the big guys

rojacobs — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:58:53 GMT

Have you ever met someone who is simply amazing? Well I have and that someone is Markus Frind. A few years ago he was just another victim of the .com bust in Vancouver BC. An ASP developer he decided he needed to learn ASP.NET so he created a dating site called PlentyOfFish.com. Online dating is a very big business with large companies and multi-million dollar budgets but Markus and his one man operation took them on and today he is a force to be reckoned with.

ARCast.TV - DinnerNow.net Windows Cardspace (Part 2)

rojacobs — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:13:57 GMT

Do you ever get those nasty phising emails? Of course you do. You and I know what to do with these but what about dear old grandma? How can we protect people from being tricked into giving away usernames and passwords? How about by changing the way we ask people to identify themselves. This area needs a rather large overhaul and Windows Cardspace is a very cool way to do it. On this episode Nigel Watling and I chat about how Windows Cardspace is used in DinnerNow.

ARCast.TV - DinnerNow - Architecture Overview and Workflow

rojacobs — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:39:17 GMT

Sometimes when facing a new technology stack what you need is a good example. It is difficult to know how things ought to be put together and reading the reference documentation just doesn't cut it. Recently I met with the team that built DinnerNow.net. This amazing example shows how to put all the pieces of an app together using .NET 3.0 in an interesting business scenario. There is a lot to learn but these guys are a great help. In this first episode I chat with Matt Winkler about the DinnerNow scenario, architecture and how Windows Workflow Foundation is used.

ARCast.net - Do Atomic Transactions violate SOA Autonomy Tenet?

rojacobs — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:55:14 GMT

This morning I recorded another ARCast Rapid Response with Juval Löwy (after all the posters on the forum asked for him by name). The question was titled Distributed Transactions and Services. I was happy to see among those who responded many of our Architect MVPs such as Roger Sessions and Arnon Rotem Gal Oz who has been a guest on ARCast as well. Juval and I had an interesting discussion about this and his answer is different than what everybody else (including myself) has been saying. So check out this ARCast Rapid Response.

ARCast.net – ARCast Rapid Response with Michele Leroux Bustamante

rojacobs — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:53:46 GMT

Don’t you love to start new things? We just started a new fiscal year here at Microsoft which means I have new goals and though ARCast had a terrific year in 2006, now I have to come up with new and better things for ARCast. So here is the deal, I want to expand the conversation that we have to include you! That’s right, the community of architects and aspiring architects worldwide that have been asking questions on the MSDN architecture forums have some new help in the form of an ARCast Rapid Response. Who knows, your question might end up getting answered on one of these shows. We select some interesting questions then get some really smart people like architect MVP Michele Leroux Bustamante to answer them as soon as possible after you posted them. Now that’s a rapid response.

ARCast.net - The Agile Architect with Jeffrey Palermo

rojacobs — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:32:40 GMT

Perhaps you have heard people talking about an "Agile" approach or other strange terms like "Scrum" or "Extreme Programming". You may be familiar with these terms but if you are an architect that is not, you need an update my friend and today we have for you Agile coach and party animal Jeffrey Palermo to bring you up to speed.