Today is the key word, if you are reading this on Sunday or at a later date, sorry. The Software Engineering 101 workshop is going on today.  Here is how to join RIGHT NOW.  That’s right, it is going on RIGHT NOW. First thing is you need to have Live Meeting installed.  You can get Live Meeting here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/CD102447411033.aspx?ofcresset=1You’ll After the client is installed go to this URL: http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft After the site opens up, click this link: When the link is clicked this window will open: ...

  http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-46-using-powershell-to-be-more-productive-with-steven-murawski/     .NET developers have had the .NET Framework to themselves long enough. Why not let the ITPros have some fun and productivity that comes with using .NET? That is why we now have PowerShell. In this episode, we sat down with Steve Murawski to discuss PowerShell for the ITPro and .NET developer communities. We discussed the many ways to use PowerShell and how it can save time and sanity for highly productive developers and IT folks.

  http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-45-making-sense-of-what-was-oslo-with-lars-corneliussen/     At PDC 2009 Oslo was renamed to SQL Modeling and it left a lot of developers scratching their heads.  What better way to sort it all out than to talk with someone deep into the stack.  We sat down with Lars Corneliussen to see how this is all going to turn out and what it means for developers.  Definitely an interesting show as it paints a different picture about where things are going with M, M Grammar, SQL modeling, Entity Framework, Quadrant and so on.

  http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-44-soft-skills-every-developer-needs-with-brian-prince/     According to Wikipedia the definition for Soft skills is a sociological term relating to a person's "EQ" (Emotional Intelligence Quotient), the cluster of personality traits, social graces, communication, language, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that characterize relationships with other people. Soft skills complement hard skills (part of a person's IQ), which are the occupational requirements of a job and many other activities. In this episode. In this episode we sat down with Brian Prince, Developer/Architect Evangelist for Microsoft, to discuss the soft skills developers and software engineers need.  Brian has been speaking...

I committed a major faux pas as far as speakers go.  I woke up this morning and realized I had never published my slide decks for the full day Precompiler I did at Codemash 2010 on Back to The Bascis with .NET.  To correct this travesty I immediately grabbed the folder, compressed it and uploaded it to my site for the world to enjoy (or print copies of and burn, either way).  You can find all five decks along with some of the demos at the following URL: http://keithelder.net/Presentations/BackToBasics/Codmash2010-BackToBasics.zip Abstract: This all-day session is targeted to anyone new...

Ok, this is a total trivial post using PowerShell but it just shows some of the crazy fun things one can do with PowerShell.  Here is what this does. It uses the speech APIs in Windows to speak the number of lines of code found in a folder. $speak = new-object -com "SAPI.SPVOICE" $x = (dir -Include *.cs, *.aspx -Recurse | Select-String .).Count $speak.Speak($x) Of course if you just want the number of lines of code then just run the line in the...

Do you get those annoying messages from Exchange Server telling you your mailbox is over quota and you need to clean things up?  Me too! My problem is I run a pretty tidy mail system.  If I need something for later I archive it, otherwise I don’t keep it around. I also don’t use email for reminders of tasks (Evernote takes care of that).  But for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why I was getting these annoying alerts about my mailbox being full.  I finally had some time to research the problem during lunch today and here...

No doubt you’ve heard Bing marketed as the “Decision Engine”.  I’ve watched and used Bing over the past several months and the one thing that has impressed me the most is how quickly it has been advancing.  If your perception is that Bing is only good to find answers to programming questions you couldn’t be more wrong.  It does so much more and we are only seeing the beginning.  Cards Right now the Winter 2010 Olympics are underway.  A lot of people are no doubt traveling to Vancouver, Canada for the event.  If you go to Bing...

After over 6,600 views on the previous Visual Studio tutorial and multiple comments like “When is part two coming out?” I finally find the time to record and produce part two of this series.  This version is done in HD which provides a much better experience for those watching.  Be sure if you watch you watch from the YouTube website in full screen in HD. Part two walks through how to create one’s first project and runs the project using the debugger.

A lot of our listeners recognize the Deep Fried Bytes theme song.  We thought we’d allow you to carry it with you wherever you go.  Thus, we made DFB Ringtones!  Not only will this impress your friends but it could also score you a free t-shirt, sticker, mug or other prizes if we hear it at a community event.  Here’s how to get it onto your phone. Download the ringtones for your specific device: DFB Ringtone for the iPhone DFB Ringtone for Android and Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Setup Download the file to your computer and then plug in your phone.  Then copy the...

Easy. Use Java. Just saying. Actually this is a FAIL for Dockers not Java. It doesn’t matter which technology you use you can scale it (it just may cost more than others). You think they would have at least done performance testing on this before they released it. Wait, Dockers makes pants, so they obviously outsourced this. Ok, a complete FAIL for this consulting firm that got paid no telling what to build this and then after all was said and done it couldn’t even collect data.

You’ve no doubt heard of using a Blackberry to access email at work.  But did you know there is another company that supports a variety of devices including Windows Mobile and now the iPhone?  The company is called Good Technology and they recently released their enterprise email messaging application for the iPhone.  I’ve been using this for several weeks and it is time to answer the question: “Is this ‘Good’ enough to replace a Blackberry?” I meant to take some screenshots when I first installed this several weeks ago but I forgot...

  http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-43-talking-odata-and-sql-modeling-services-with-douglas-purdy/     In this episode, we sat down at PDC 2009 with Microsoft’s Douglas Purdy to discuss all things data. Do you remember Oslo from the previous PDC event? Well Oslo has been rebranded to SQL Server Modeling Services to help developers store and manage models for the enterprise. Modeling Services enables you to more productive when building and managing data-driven applications. We also get the low down from Douglas on a new web protocol for querying and updating data called OData.

  http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-42-how-to-get-more-business-from-microsoft-pinpoint/     In this episode, we sat down at PDC 2009 with Microsoft’s Pinpoint team members Chris Lange and Patrick Stirrat to discuss this new service.  What?  Never heard of Pinpoint? That's what we thought and that's why you'll want to listen to this episode.  Pinpoint is the fast, easy way for business customers to find experts, applications, and professional services to meet their specific business needs.  At the same time, Pinpoint helps developers and technology service providers quickly and easily get software applications and professional services to market—and engage customers who need what they offer.

I’ve been getting about oh, 3-7 emails a day telling me I should use someone’s service to optimize my website so I can be on the first page of Google.  I mean seriously, how do you think they found me in the first place!?  After getting fed up deleting emails I decided to respond.  Here is my email to said random person.  I think I was a little too polite, but I think the anger comes across nicely even in text.