Episode 27 - Mahesh Krishnan at TechEd

Richard Banks talks with Mahesh Krishnan live from TechEd Australia about Silverlight, books, Blend and developers.

Links:
Mahesh Krishnan blog @maheshkrishnan

Duration 31:13 mins | Download mp3

Episode 26 - NSubstitute

Richard Banks talks with Anthony Egerton and Anonymous Dave about their new mocking framework - NSubstitute.

Links:
NSubstitute
Anthony Egerton blog @guywithbeard
Anonymous Dave blog @davetchepak
Mocking Framework Comparison

Duration 33:04 mins | Download mp3

Episode 25 - Entity Framework with Matthew Wills

Richard Banks talks with Matthew Wills about Entity Framework 4 and even lets Matthew try and convince him that Entity Framework is a reasonable data access framework. They also talk about the differences of EF v4.0 and both NHibernate and EF v1.0. If you're interested in your data access options then this episode worth listening to.

Duration 32:07 mins | Download mp3

Episode 24 - The Developer Experience Index

Richard talks with Matthew Wills about certifications, their value and what might whimsically be called the developer experience index. Comments and thoughts on this are very much sought after and should be left either here or preferrably at Richard's blog at http://richard-banks.org

Links:
Java Black Belt Factory

Duration 23:51 mins | Download mp3

Episode 23 - Code Contracts with William Tulloch

Code contracts bring to reality the premise of design by contract and in this show Richard Banks talks with William Tulloch about contracts, how they work and why you should think about using them.

Links:
William Tulloch (@wtulloch)
Code Contracts at Microsoft DevLabs
Kevin Hazzard - Code Contracts Series

Duration 31:09 mins | Download mp3

Episode 22 - Troy Hunt on Developers and Security

This episode sees Richard Banks talking with Troy Hunt live from DDD Sydney, about that non-sexy subject of security, how developers should think about it and some of the things that can and have gone wrong when people don't pay attention to it.

Links:
Tory Huny (@troyahunt) - TroyHunt.com
OWASP
NetSparker
iPad Info Leakage
Email with Password Disclosure

Duration 30:25 mins | download mp3 (27.9Mb)

Episode 21 - Anthony Borton at DDD Sydney

Richard talks to Anthony Borton, live at DDD Sydney, about what it takes to run the Australian ALM conference, the Professional Scrum Developer course and various other things.

Links:
Anthony Borton (@anthonyborton) - Enhance ALM
Australian ALM Conference
New Zealand ALM Conference
Scrum.org
Queensland ALM User Group

Duration 31:20 mins | download mp3 (28.7Mb)