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Last week Woody and I were at DevLink 2008.  While we were there we recorded several episodes that will be coming out soon.  The first to come out is a great conversation with Joe Stagner about security.  While Joe works for Microsoft, don’t let that fool you because he’s into all sorts of things including Linux and PHP.  Joe tells some great stories about security that I know you’ll enjoy.

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Can you believe we made it to Episode 10!?  It is such a nice round number isn’t it?  If you think about it, technically we only have two more episodes than Michael Phelps has gold medals.  Episode 10 is part two of our Silverlight discussion with Shawn Wildermuth.  Honestly, I think this episode is the best of the two, mainly because we have a “rusty washers” segment in it that really runs Silverlight through its paces. 

In this episode we welcome a new sponsor to the show, DevExpress, the makers of Coderush and Refactor Pro among a ton of other things.  Just a little FYI, they have a grid specifically for Silverlight that comes with the source code.  Check it out.

What interesting facts will you learn in this episode?  Let’s see.  You’ll probably learn that I have a riding lawn mower and have to mow way too much grass.  You’ll also learn that Woody would get the gold medal for the tallest grass in his neighborhood along with some great guidance about how Silverlight should be used.

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The Olympics are upon us and NBC has been making a lot of waves about having 2,000 hours of streaming Silverlight video available online. This is a great time to catch up on your Olympic Badminton and other sports online that don’t get a lot prime time coverage.  Yesterday I actually did watch a match of Olympic Badminton only to realize that I missed my Olympic dreams.  I seriously used to be really good at Badminton and think I could have played in the Olympics based on what I saw.  Before that I got to watch some basketball where Lebron and Kobe put on one heck of a slam dunk show over the Chinese.

In celebration of the Olympics and their use of Silverlight, in Episode 9 of Deep Fried Bytes we talk Silverlight with Shawn Wildermuth.  We call it a “practical” look because what you will hear is what I think is a very down to earth discussion about where Silverlight fits into a developers bag of tricks and more importantly where it doesn’t.  I guess you can call it guidance on some level.  Shawn’s a wealth of knowledge as you’ll find out when you listen to the show.  Best of all, he’s from the South and loves anything Deep Fried.  We hope you enjoy this episode.

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In episode #4 we recorded a show with Joe Stump from Digg.Com.  In that show we talked about how a site like Digg.Com scales using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.  I thought it would be cool to do the same kind of show but look at it from the standpoint of using Microsoft technology.  What better place to get the scoop on something like that than Microsoft itself!?  Thus we sat down with Brad and Jim from MSCOM which run the IT department at Microsoft that is in charge of Microsoft.Com.  Here are some interesting facts we learned:

• They use all Microsoft technology.  Have been for years.
• Do not run a firewall.
• Have 80-120 servers that power Microsoft.com across two data centers.
• Support over 350 applications.
• 35,000 concurrent sessions
• 15,000 requests / second
• 5Gb/s to 500Gb/s of throughput
• 260 Million unique visitors per month visit the site world wide.  55 million from the United States.
• Microsoft.Com was once run from one computer under someone’s desk.
• They take availability seriously and use products before they launch to put them under stress before customers get them.

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Last week we published part one of our discussion about Domain Driven Design with David Laribee.  Today we published part two. 

Part two pretty much picks up right where part one left off..  This episode is longer than part one coming in at forty seven minutes long.

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