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Our first guest on CodeCast, Miguel Castro, makes a welcomed return visit to the show for, what is sure to be an AMAZING conversation!   You can watch or listen to our previous interview with Miguel Castro here.   About our guest Whether playing on the local Radio Shack’s TRS-80 or designing systems for clients around the globe, Miguel has been writing software since he was 12 years old. He insists on staying heavily involved and up-to-date on all aspects of software application design & development, and projects that diversity onto the type of training and consulting he provides to his customers and believes that it’s never just about understand the technologies, but how technologies work together. In fact, it is on this concept that Miguel based two of his Pluralsight courses, Building End-to-End Multi-Client Service Oriented Applications, which was #1 for several weeks, and Developing Extensible Software. Miguel is a Microsoft MVP since 2005 and when he’s not consu

The wonderful Mark Miller returns, and you will not believe what he has in store for our coding demo tonight! To see a little bit about what is being shown off on this episode, have a look here: devexpress.com/keyboard   About our guest Mark Miller is a 5-year C# MVP Alumni with strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great user interfaces. Mark is Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, and is the visionary force behind CodeRush. Mark is a top-ranked speaker at conferences around the world and has been writing software for over three decades. You can follow Mark on Twitter at @MillerMark

In this episode, we are joined by Microsoft MVP Phil Japikse who will be talking with us about Model-View-ViewModel for Windows Presentation Foundation. Not sure exactly what MVVM for Windows Presentation for Foundation is? Then you will want to make sure to watch, or listen to, this episode!   If you would like the files used in this demo, please visit Phil's downloads page on his website at http://www.skimedic.com/blog/page/Samples-and-Presentations.aspx   About our guest An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, developing software for over 30 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005. Phil is the Principle Architect for InterKnowlogy (www.InterKnowlogy.com), helping an amazing team create high impact software experiences. Phil serves as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group and the Cincinnati Software Arc

In this episode of CodeCast we are talking with Brian Noyes about single page applications!   A little about our guest Brian Noyes Brian Noyes is CTO of Solliance (www.solliance.net), a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP, and Pluralsight author. Brian specializes in building rich HTML and XAML clients and the services that back them with ASP.NET, WCF, and Azure. Brian is author of over a half-dozen Pluralsight courses, four books, and dozens of magazine and online publication articles. He is a frequent top rated speaker at conferences worldwide including Microsoft TechEd, VSLive!, DevIntersection, DevConnections, DevTeach, DevReach, and others. Brian got started programming as a hobby while flying F-14 Tomcats in the U. S. Navy, later turning his passion for software development into his current career. You can reach Brian through his blog at http://briannoyes.net or on Twitter @briannoyes.

In this episode of CodeCast, we are joined by Agile expert Steve Rogalsky!   A little bit about our guest, Steve Rogalsky Process hacker, Culture hacker. Passionate about family, working with people, solving problems, coaching, teaching, agile, lean, and continuous improvement. Through a variety of roles, Steve works with teams and organizations to help them use agile and lean principles and practices to improve their organizations and delight customers. Depending on the project or client, this could include roles such as agile coaching, agile project management, requirements and system analysis using agile techniques, agile testing, agile development, workshops, seminars, etc. Steve also help promote agile and lean techniques by speaking and volunteering at conferences and user groups.You can interact with Steve by visiting his website, and following him on Twitter below: Website - http://winnipegagilist.blogspot.com/ Twitter - @srogalsky   Have suggestions on future guests and/or topic

We are very excited to talk with Jessica Kerr about functional programming on this episode of CodeCast!   A little bit about Jessica Kerr Jessica wrote Java quietly for ten years, until she discovered conferences, speaking, functional programming, and the excitement of the software industry as it’s changing and growing three years ago. Now she has a dream job at Outpace Systems, writing Clojure from home while pairing remotely with great developers from all over the country. Meanwhile, she speaks at conferences and blogs. Her mission is to bring lessons from other paradigms back to object-oriented developers, to reveal the most useful bits in a way that’s immediately useful. To connect with Jessica, you can do so the following way: Web - http://blog.jessitron.com/ Twitter – @jessitron

In this episode of CodeCast we are joined by one of the directors of the Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC), Lee Brandt to talk about, and demo, some MongoDB. To connect with Lee, you can do so via Twitter at @leebrandt and you can also check out his GitHub repository here.   A little about our guest Lee Brandt After almost two decades writing software professionally (and a few years unprofessionally before that), Lee Brandt still continues to learn every day. He has led teams in small and large companies and always manages to keep the business needs at the forefront of software development efforts. He speaks internationally about software development, from both a technical and business perspective, and loves to teach others what he learns. Lee writes software in Objective-C, JavaScript and C#… mostly. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Visual C#, one of the directors of the Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC), and serves as the Regional Mentor for .Net user gr

If you have been to any developer conferences in the last few years, you have likely at least heard of our guest on this episode of #CodeCast. If you have not had the chance to hear Cory House give a presentation before, you are in for one heck of a treat as Cory talks about what is involved in becoming an Outlier! For those of you who have sat in on one of Cory's sessions before, you know EXACTLY what I am referring to. A brief bio about Cory House: "Cory is founder of Bitnative LLC, an agile software development and training consultancy, and creator  of OutlierDeveloper.com, a community for software developers who aspire to be exceptional. He is a Pluralsight author, Microsoft MVP in C#, INETA speaker, independent consultant, and blogger with 15 years experience in full-stack software development. As a software architect at VinSolutions, Cory specializes in creating C# .NET and JavaScript based single page applications for the automotive industry. He regularly speaks and coaches teams on clean cod

In this episode of CodeCast we are joined by Richard Campbell of the super popular .NET Rocks podcast! Richard Campbell has been involved with microcomputers and software since 1977. His career has spanned the industry both on the hardware and software sides, from manufacturing to sales, service, game development, line-of-business software and large scale systems. He’s been deeply involved in creating new businesses around software, hardware, services and products in a huge range of roles, including technical, management and financing. During the halcyon days of the DotComBoom he was a consultant to venture capital firms providing technical due diligence and architectural direction. Today Richard consults with a number of clients on software architecture and future directions of technology. He is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. He’s a partner in PWOP Productions, creating a variety of multimedia programs including “.NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers,”

Maybe you have seen this episodes guest at a developer conference like KCDC or St. Louis Days of .NET, but if you have not had the chance to hear Brad Urani present, you are in for a treat! In this episode, Brad joins JJ and Gus to talk about his development background and to do a demo on Ruby on Rails. Enjoy!

Pleased to be joined by Jeff Fattic who is a developer technology specialist from Microsoft!  

In this episode we are joined by developer, speaker, author and just general technology lover, Scott Hanselman.  

Welcome to episode 11 of #CodeCast! In this episode we are joined by Android developer, author and entrepreneur Donn Felker from Arizona, here to talk about developing for Android and other developing tips. We talked about using Android Studio, Eclipse and why he enjoys developing for the Android platform. Donn has been involved in the creation of numerous well known Android apps such as: Groupon My Fitness Pal Eventbrite GetHuman Travel WODs Some of the books that Donn has been involved in writing are: Android Application Development for Dummies Android Tablet Application Development for Dummies To learn more about Donn, make sure to visit his website www.DonnFelker.com. Also you can connect with Donn on Twitter at @donnfelker

No you are not imagining things, it is Alejandro Ramirez from the STLTechTalk podcast talking coding on #CodeCast ! In this episode, Alejandro will be walking us through Xcode as it relates to iOS app development with how to start a project in Xcode. We covered storyteller, linking apps, creating new views, using pointers from controls to functions. Very exciting stuff! If you have yet to catch an episode of CodeCast, this will be a great one to get started with!

On this episode of CodeCast JJ & Gus are joined by John V. Petersen who stopped by to talk about some different types of code than you are used to hearing on CodeCast. This other type of code being talked about tonight is codes of conduct. John is an 11 time Microsoft MVP and has been speaking at developer conferences across the world for some time now. He has seen both the very good side of conferences, and also the very bad side of conferences and he has a lot of great thoughts to consider as you will hear in this episode. Want to connect with John after the show? You can do so via the methods below: Twitter - @johnvpetersen on Twitter Web - www.codebetter.com/johnvpetersen/   Another website that John is associated with is: ACTOnline.org 

We are pleased to bring you Keith Dahlby who has had his presentations described as “terrific!”, “very interactive!”, and “the best I’ve seen all hour!" who was nice enough to join us to talk about all sorts of things such as GitHub and one of his projects www.up-for-grabs.net. You can find more from Keith by catching him the following ways: keith.lostechies.com github.com/dahlbyk On Twitter - @dahlbyk

For Episode 7 of CodeCast we are pleased to be joined by ASP.NET Insider, Windows Azure Insider, and ASP.NET MVP, Javier Lozano! As more and more is learned about various ways that Azure can be used, Javier showed off many different Azure services. Some of the programs used in this demo are: Visual Studio Azure WebMatrix Notepad To connect with Javier: Twitter – @jglozano Website - http://lozanotek.com/

Guest Rob Vettor is a Senior Developer Consultant with Microsoft, helping Microsoft Enterprise customers write better software. Rob focuses on application architectural guidance and the Microsoft web and data technologies, including ASP.NET MVC, Web API and Entity Framework.  An INETA Regional Speaker, user group leader, former 3-time C# MVP and recent co-author of the book Entity Framework 6 Recipes, Rob is a frequent presenter at regional technical conferences and has built systems for a number of corporations, including Avanade, Raytheon, American Express and Jack Henry and Associates. Rob lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, twin sons, two dogs and mountains of .NET books.   What was talked about or demoed?   Entity Framework 6 and the benefits of using this tool. Visual Studio integration   App Package picks Gus's Pick: AutoMapper NuGet call Install-Package Automapper JJ's Pick: Start developing Universal Windows Apps with this solution XPlatformCloudKit on GetHub Rob's P

In Episode 5, we were joined by Brian A. Randell who is a Visual Studio ALM MVP (ALM is "Application Lifecyle Management"). Brian not only still does some coding, but he helps teams to improve their processes from idea to shipping into production, to management and monitoring. In addition, he’s become obsessed over the last few years with natural user interfaces and how to create compelling user experiences regardless of platform. In addition to this, Brian has also co-authored “Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2013” from Wrox Publishing which you can purchase on Amazon here. How to connect with Brian: Twitter - @brianrandell Website - www.mcwtech.com/blogs/brianr/ Demo shown  Visual Studio Online team setup