Carl and Rory Catch Up
Carl and Rory catch up after Rory's long haitus. Topics include Smartphone programming, responding to an article blasting OOP, and much more.
Guests:
Rory Blyth
Rory Blyth is an independent contractor working in Portland, Oregon who began coding at age 5 on a Timex Sinclair 1000, skipped childhood, never went to prom, started working for The Man, and has been loving it ever since. He was also co-host of .NET Rocks! from episode 50 to 100. He had a hilarious nerdy blog called Neopoleon, and has been known to call out the weirdos that landed on his surreal blog posts by reading what they typed into Google.
Carl Franklin
Carl Franklin is a Microsoft MVP for Sensors and Devices, co-host of .NET Rocks! - the longest running .NET podcast (2002), and Executive VP of App vNext. Carl has been a leader in the .NET community since the very beginning with hands-on training, application development and consulting, and community evangelism.
Carl is also an accomplished musician and audio/video producer. In 1999 he started Pwop Studios, a full-service audio and video post production studio in New London, CT, where Carl records and produces the podcasts as well as music and video projects - both for The Franklin Brothers Band and the public. In 2013, Carl released his first solo album, Been a While, which features a tune with legendary jazz/blues guitarist John Scofield on guitar, as well as an incredible group of musicians local to New London, CT.
In 1994, Carl and friend Gary Wisniewski started Carl and Gary's Visual Basic Home Page, the first non-Microsoft VB website on the Internet. He wrote two books on Internet Programming in Visual Basic for John Wiley and Sons and taught VB6, VB.NET and ASP.NET development onsite at many Fortune 500 companies and also at his training facilities in CT.
Links:
- Open-source .NET Compact Framework Library http://opennetcf.org
- Article: OOP Better in Theory Than Practice? http://shrinkster.com/3dm