Brandon and Clark rap about careers and how’s Brandon’s has lead him to Kendo UI. Oh yea, did we mention he’s leaving Microsoft.

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Musing #64: Good Bye Brandon Satrom, Hello Brandon Satrom

In this episode, Clark and Mark talk across a lot of time zones to Ian Randall and Ben Gracewood about how to set up and organize a technical conference. Ian and Ben are creating “CodeMania” which is a developer’s conference slated for March 2012 in Aukland, New Zealand. This is an interesting behind-the-scenes view of what goes through the minds of organizers trying to create the ultimate technical discussion and learning environment.

Musing #63: Organizing a Conference with CodeManiacs Ian Randall and Ben Gracewood

In this version, we grab a table at the local pub and talk microcontrollers. Brothers, Min and Lwin Maung walk us through the Arduino and Netduino revolution. By the end of the show, we decided to hack Clark’s garage door. We will save that for another show.

Musing #62: Arduino and Netduino with a Couple of Microcontroller Geeks

We’re live from Austin TX at the epic HTML5.tx conference. In version 56 we asked the warriors from Drifting Creatives to blow up the DeveloperSmackdown.com site. They did exactly that! They walk us through what’s wrong, why they would change it. Of course they served us that plate of humble pie in front of 100 of our closest friends. After that Brandon and Clark talk about where the site should start adopting HTML5.

Musing #61: Live from HTML5.tx: Drifting Creatives destroys the DeveloperSmackdown.com website

In this version Mark and Clark talk to Keith Casey and John Sheehan of Twilio. Keith and John are Twilio evangelists who talk to developers and help them create reliable and scalable voice and text messaging apps with Twilio technology.

Musing #60: Talkin Twilio and Telephony with Keith Casey and John Sheehan

In this version Mark and Clark sit down with FrogSlayer’s Sam Hooker. We talk to Sam about how he took the creative built by Drifting Creatives and built HTML5TX.com.

Musing #59: Building HTML5tx.com with FrogSlayer's Sam Hooker

What do you do when your on the road at 1AM? Easy, talk about JavaScript after after imbibing on a few cocktails. Clark and Brandon explore the resurgence of JavaScript today and talk about a number of populate JavaScript tools. Brandon even decides to show off his beat boxing skills.

Musing #58: A few beers and JavaScript with Brandon Satrom

In this version Mark and Clark sit down with Microsoft Director Jay Schmelzer and talk about the newly released Visual Studio LightSwitch. Jay flips on the LightSwitch for us as he walks us through just what exactly Visual Studio LightSwitch is and how it all works.

Musing #57: Turning on the LightSwitch with Jay Schmelzer

In this version Clark and Mark sit down with Gavin Braman and Martin Hooper, founders, owners and warriors of Drifting Creatives. Gavin and Martin were the designers behind html5tx.com. Listen to us as we try crawling into their heads and see just how they came up with such badassery.

Musing #56: Creating the HTML5tx.com design with Drifting Creatives Gavin Braman and Martin Hooper

In this episode (part 2), we complete the interview on location at Adler Planetarium. Mark and his guest cohost sister, Michelle (Nichols) Yehling talk to astronomer Dr. Mark SubbaRao of Adler Planetarium and Principal Software Architect Jonathan Fay of Microsoft Research about the details of developing the Worldwide Telescope, the conversion to Silverlight, Kinect in the WWT and future plans at Adler.

Musing #55: Kinecting with the Cosmos with Jonathan Fay, Dr. Mark SubbaRao & Michelle Yehling (Part 2)

In this episode (part 1), we are on location at Adler Planetarium, Mark and his guest cohost sister, Michelle (Nichols) Yehling talk to astronomer Dr. Mark SubbaRao of Adler Planetarium and Principal Software Architect Jonathan Fay of Microsoft Research.

Musing #54: Kinecting with the Cosmos with Jonathan Fay, Dr. Mark SubbaRao & Michelle Yehling (Part 1)

In this show, Mark and Clark sit down with Matt Hidinger and talk about the building CTA Watch for Windows Phone 7. Matt discusses his experiences over this past year and shares a great deal of passion about the platform.

Musing #53: Building CTA Watch for Windows Phone with Matt Hidinger

In this episode, we talk to Glenn Leifheit, a Senior Information Security Consultant at FICO in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota about security – what to think about, where to start, approaches and best practices.

Musing #52: Application Security with Glenn Leifheit

In this episode, we talk to Keith Burnell, a Software Engineer with Skyline Technologies in Green Bay, Wisconsin about a topic near and dear to all three of us: Test Driven Development.

Musing #51: TDD with Keith Burnell

Thank you for the support, Developer Smackdown is 2!?!? Yes you heard it right. 50 shows in 2 years. Clark and Mark start the show musing a bit and then dive into how might you learn using NuGet as an example.

Musing #50: Developer Smackdown is 2 and we just hit show #50!! How do you learn?

Developer Smackdown is a weekly technical audio podcast hosted by Clark Sell and Mark Nichols. Clark and Mark muse about anything related to the software industry and the developers behind it. On Developer Smackdown we try to not only give real world practical advice but have that honest conversation you would hae with your colleges after work. © Copyright 2009 – 2011 by Developer Smackdown.

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