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The One with the Great Outdoors

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:52:09 GMT

Richard is back in Vegas for Mix10, and looking for great interviews and a co-host. Who should he meet, none other than Tim Sneath himself, who steps up, well outside, to help out. We talk to NxtGenUG 'old timer' Brad Abrams about WCF RIA Services, John Harris about Expression Blend 4, and his keynote appearance, and Telerik's Todd Anglin, about Telerik and Web Standards

The One With Uncle Jimmy

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:20:19 GMT

It's PDC09 and Rich, at the Pluralsight party, brings us Interviews with Pluralsight's Co-Founder, Aaron Skonnard, Microsoft's Chris Smith (F#) and Ford McInstry (AppFabric). We also get the day 1 reflections from Chris Hay, and Black Marble's Rob 'Boss' Hogg and Ian Angus. Rich has a brief chat with work colleague Andy Brown and last, but not least, Sara Ford gives us one of her true 'Uncle Jimmy' stories.

The One With The 31 Pizzas

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:47:39 GMT

It's a Saturday, but it doesn't stop NxtGenUG from loitering around the community - Today it's the XNA day organised by XBLIG-UK and NxtGenUG. Richard is joined by organiser,top XNA Man and extreme Pizza Stair Climber, Edward Powell to review the day and we have interviews from Rare's Head of Software Salvatore Fileccia and Microsoft's Robot Paul Foster - All your SWAG are belong to us

The One With The Odd Timeline ...

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:02:19 GMT

It's been a while, but the Boyz are back, but will it be to stay? Yes, Rich and Dave return to their staple podcasting format with chat including 'Costall World', 'Swagmeister', events and an interview, this time with Richard Hopton of NxtGenUG Oxford who talks about BBC micros, rewriting Delphi apps and why Community matters ... welcome back!

The One with the stand in

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:53:06 GMT

Rich decides to podcast from the Silverlight UK Launch party, so he grabs the person nearest to him to help. It turns out his guest co-host is none other than Microsoft's General Manager Ian Ellison-Taylor. They talk about the Launch, Silverlight and Expression before Ian introduces interviews from Mix09 with Laurence Moroney Talking with Rich about Madonna in PlayBoy, Adam Kinney talking about Silverlight and WPF's Positioning, before rounding off with (Mr PDC) Mike Swanson talking about the mammoth task of organising conferences like PDC and Mix09 Phew - star studded or what! (log in and rate this podcast to have a chance to win some retro swag)

The One With Dr Sex and Mr D ...

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:08:12 GMT

It's the Microsoft UK Challenger event itself!! Yes, the Tutti Frutti's role up to Aberystwyth Uni and find Dr Sex is on their corridor. There ain't much time for podcasting but the team manage to snatch a few moments here and there to try to give some feel to the event for you. Amongst the noise of the end of event party Dave attempts to interview Tom Gibbs captain of the winning Airbus team, and if you listen carefully you may even get a hint from the captain of the World Champion Team on how to succeed at Challenger events! 39 out of 92 was the Tutti Frutti's final position - a wop bam a loo bam a wop bam boom!

The One With The Tutti Fruttis ...

Tue, 26 May 2009 18:06:09 GMT

Here's a different podcast, it's Dave broadcasting from the Peak District on the final training weekend before the Microsoft UK Challenge Event. What's it all about? Listen on as Dave along with fellow UK Community chaps Steve Smith, Tim Leung and Gavin Osbourne along with Microsoft's Steve Loader give it rocks in the Peaks all in the name of fun, fitness and charity! Interviews with Guy Chessell from Microsoft, Martyn Helliwell from UPH/Monkey Business and Adele Churchill from the NSPCC. Phew, feeling out of breath just writing that ...

The One Which Stings Your Eyes ...

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:32:25 GMT

After a lengthy absence Dave and Rich get back to podcasting. They're at the 2009 March Coventry NxtGenUG meeting where Alan Dean is talking about REST. John Price has his book of REST-ful jokes, but thankfully he's not on this podcast. Rich is attempting a world record for the number of times Silverlight is mentioned in a podcast and he talks about not seeing Ireland when visiting there to run the Silverlight Assault Course with Chris Hay, John Price and John McLoughlin. Dave's been REST-ing (sorry) but has recently been helping Allister Frost get FEST09 together and preparing a talk about Quantum Computing. He also mentions his Nugget on CONTAINSTABLE his third favourite keyword. Alan Dean joins the podcast for a chat about REST and his upcoming book ... P.S. The Location Rich couldn't remember was Upavon - and the REST is history.

The One With The Revolution ...

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:50:06 GMT

There's revolution in the air ... John and Chris bolstered by their triumphant set of interviews collected at PDC 2008 are plotting a coup ... Rich and Dave are yesterday's news, they never got the awesome Workflow interview you'll hear, they weren't there for the WCF interview or any of the other great stuff you'll hear about on this the final podcast from PDC. So join the revolution brothers, meet the new boss ... same as the old boss ...

The One With Ass The Experts ...

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:51:35 GMT

Meanwhile back at PDC, John and Chris don't seem to know their Ass from their elbows, as the drink gets to them ... Still the show is saved by some great content on Silverlight Controls from Shaun Burke and about PDC organisation from Mike Swanson and none other than ex-UK DPE Tim Sneath. Perhaps John and Chris might have sobered up by Part 3 ...

The One With Iced Tea ...

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:50:24 GMT

TechEd is over. The Boyz are supping some drinks at Barcelona airport and reminisce about the past week. Interviews with Steve Teixeira (Daniel Moth's boss), Kurt Claeys (Speaker Idol winner), Graham Coleman (techEd Ticket Winner) and the Fitch TechEd crew round off a packed set of podcasts, kindly sponsored by Wrox Press. Roll on Berlin 2009!

The One With 5 Euro T-Shirts ...

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:32:43 GMT

Day 4 TechEd see the finals of Speaker Idol, Non-Free Swag and podcasting in the middle of the road. Yes, the main speaker competition is over and the Boyz manage to speak to the third placed finalist Anthony Harris on their way back to the hotel. Also in this episode a couple of cracking interviews, one on Silverlight on the Mobile Platform from Georgio Sardo and another with "Mr WCF" himself Aaron Skonnard ...

The One With Sucking Software ...

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:39:57 GMT

Day 3, TechEd Barcelona. Dave, Rich and John are joined by Jeff Wharton, Speaker Idol Winner 2007 as they chat about today's 3rd heat of this years competition. In between times they Boyz catch some great interviews with Neils Berglund, Pat Helland and the outrageous David Platt!

The One With The Background Music ...

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:35:44 GMT

Day 2 TechEd and there is a bit of a drought on Interviews as the speakers are focussed on prepping their sessions! Nevertheless, Dave employs several natty judo moves and pins down Dave Gristwood, Mike Aiken and Hans Verbeeck for three great interviews on Track Ownership, Windows Azure and Owning TechEd respectively, swag on!

The One With Lots Of Swag ... Eventually ...

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:48:01 GMT

TechEd Day 1. The 'Swag Crunch' has hit the European mainland and the Boyz arrive to find chaos in the swag markets. Up steps the Swagmeister and with some rapid insider dealing stabalizes the situation ... Meanwhile they attend the keynote with Jason Zander and see some cool new stuff with Visual Studio 2010. They also speak to Hans Hantson on AgilePoint, the DevExpress Boyz and two conference delegates Steve Ward and Graham Coleman.

The One With The Ticket, The Witch and the Wardrobe ...

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:43:30 GMT

Enter a show beyond your imagination, or in this case beyond Richie's smalls. Yes, the Costall has a magic cupboard and he and Dave embark on an adventure which takes them to PDC Los Angeles 2008. However it turns out to be a very a short adventure when they get chucked out by an over zealous security guard! It's a good job that NxtGenUG Coordinators John McLouglin and Chris Hay save the day by recording a series of fantastic interviews with such notables as Chris Anderson and Don Box who talk about 'Oslo' and 'M'. Listen on ...

The One WIth The RIA End ...

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:12:06 GMT

It's the conference season, and there's PDC, TechEd, VBUG Conference and DDD7. The boyz just don't know which way to turn. But TechEd 2008 looms large after PDC and they guys take a trawl through the speaker list for this techEd, and boy does it look good! In between times Rich talk about Silverlight (again!) and Dave is working on his "Developer's Guide to Network Admin". Finally there's a cracking interview with two top UK Community blokes, John McLoughlin and Rich Allen from NxtGenUG Southampton. Rock On!

The One With The Swag Crunch ...

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:53:50 GMT

There's tension in the air as the Boyz are brought to book by Ian Cooper on the emerging crisis in the Swag Market. Is NxtGenUG greed to blame? Can Microsoft put together a plan to bail out the UK Community? Meanwhile at the UK MVP Open Day it's business as usual as Rich and Dave get an audio demo of Photosynth from UK IT Pro DPE James O'Neil' and have a great interview with new World Wide MVP lead Toby Richards

The One With More Timetravel ...

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:28:52 GMT

The Boyz return back from the furture with Part 2 of their REMIX podcast and part 2 of th euber interview with Bill Buxton and Scott Guthrie. Dave can't get peoples names right again, and Rich pontificates about his new HD camera and his favourite sessions from REMIX 2008 ...

The One With Timetravel ...

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:17:01 GMT

Welcome back to the world of Rich & Dave's podcasts. It's been a while, but the boyz are back with a top notch interview with none other than the two top speakers at REMIX UK 2008 - Scott Guthrie and Bill Buxton! Yes, the first part of a 50 min chat/interview with two of the top brains from Microsoft also featuring Chris Hart from the Second Life User Group and Software Legend Dave Sussman. There's also a walkabout chat from Dave & Rich at REMIX and a chat with VJ Matt Loomis. Meanwhile the boyz are a bit confused about exactly which day of REMIX they're on ...

The One WIth The Moth Balls ...

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:38:10 GMT

Its only right that as an Icon of the UK Developer Community departs for pastures new, that he is given the whole program to tell you about himself and his blog. Yes, Daniel Moth steps up to the microphone to host this show. He is helped along the way by Daniel Moth,Daniel Moth,Daniel Moth and Colin. There's a final interview with Guy Smith-Ferrier and messages of goodwill from the UK Community. We're gonna miss him, but fear not, he's left us all a parting present we can party on down to anytime! Yes, let's make the "Daniel Moth Club Mix" the hit of the summer! Take it way ...

The One With The Aston Martin ...

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:34:11 GMT

Ooer ... Rich interviews (and shares Kentucky Whiskey with) one of his heros: podcasting legend and dotNET Rocks founder Carl Franklin. They chat about podcasting and how dotNET Rocks got started. Dave's been MOSSing it again and playing with IE8 after a tip off from Phil Winstanley. FEST08 gets a plug too as the Boyz go through the lineup. Finally, Rich does an interview at MIX08 in Vegas (honest!) from inside an Aston Martin, way above his class, but then he has no shame ...

The One With The Tiling ...

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:23:11 GMT

Rich has a really interesting 'Costall world' where he talks about Tiling ... eh? We're introduced to Lisa Theunissen and invited to "Take A Backseat Boy" ... blimey this is all bizaare ... Dave's been doing Guitar Tricks but don't worry he ain't singing. In between times some technology gets mentioned, oh yes, Functional Programming and Dave Sussman talks about some ASP.NET Futures stuff - cool!

The One With The Bell End ... (Part 2)

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:44:48 GMT

As promised, Part 2 of the Boyz 2007 Review hits the airways. As they continue their walk around London on New Years they also walk down memory lane of the second half of 2007 from July through December. On the way they re-live "Dave Does Raymond Baxter", "Rich Meets his Nemesis - Alan Elston" and also remember some other great interviews including Chris Hay at MIXUK and Michael Howard and Ted Pattison from TechEd 2007. There is also a couple of previously unrealesed interviews one where Daniel Moth is the interviewer! Blimey!

The One With The Bell End ... (Part 1)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:48:54 GMT

After dragging Rich to Lapland last year for New Years, Dave decides that London is a better bet for a Review of the Year. So the Boyz see the New Year right inside Big Ben! Soon however they move out into the London Streets and chat about what a great year 2007 has been for the UK Developer Community and NxtGenUG. They get so exited, they rabbit on too long and TechnoTotty breaks up the podcast, so this is Part 1 of 2, and covers January to June 2007. In this part they revisit classic NxtGenUG moments such as "Not at MIX07", "Aye Yi Yi Yi", "Richie Destroys 4 Chaps" and previously unreleased footage of "Dave Completely Loosing It at MVP Summit" ... Happy New Year!

The One With The Pistachio Nuts ...

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:25:15 GMT

Day 5, and as TechEd draws to a close, we find the Boyz celebrating a brillant week of sessions, Speaker Idol, networking and Pistachio Nuts. We catch a fantastic interview with Rafal Lukawiecki after his Top Voted Session on Data Mining, and also with Mario Sprutzerfrom Austria the Tools and Languages Track Owner at TechEd 2007. Dave is in shock with his session ratings, and is getting ready to get lathered at the Speaker Dinner, and we finally find out what Mick Lohan from GAMTUG has to say ...

The One With The Pack Of ******s! ...

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:07:14 GMT

Day 4 and TechEd Developers 2007 is reaching a cresendo. The session ratings are on the up, the country parties are done, its Speaker Idol final day! In a gargantuan contest between 4 superb presenters, there can be only one winner. The Boyz speak to the winner of Speaker Idol and the 'missing' judge, whilst Dave gets a 15 minute whirlwind from David Platt and realises his year's ambition: a cracking interview with Ted Pattison, trainer, author and speaker extraordinaire!

The One With The Sewage ...

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:57:33 GMT

Dave and Rich head back to the hotel after a hard day at TechEd. What's that smell? Controversy reigns over speaker idol after Michael Howard marks the Australian guys down for being Australian. Dave speaks to Bart De Smert, last years speaker idol winner, who now works for Microsoft. Rich interviews Shanku Niyogi, Product Unit Manager at Microsoft, and ticket winner Richard Evans on his daily report. Recorded in Pong-o-Vision.

The One With Dave's Phone ...

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:39:16 GMT

Day 3, Dave breaks into an interview with Andy Wigley and Peter Foot to try to get his phone upgraded, but there's no hope! We catch up with some more Speaker Idol contestents and Dave meets up with Sondre Bjellas, Regional Director from Norway. Richard Evans gives us a review of his day, thankfully, John's still at a party so no more "Arribas"!

The One With The Arriba! ...

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:20:02 GMT

Day 2 and the boyz are getting into the swing of things, learning Spanish too ... John give's us his best Arriba after telling us about the house wreck of a media centre session, Rich talks about the Keynote, and Dave's been talking F# in a fishbowl. Don't miss a great interview with Michael Foord on IronPython, it's a cracker ...

The One WIth The Baby ...

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:23:44 GMT

They're leaving on a jet plane, hopefully they'll not be back again! The boyz are off to Barcelona, and in between checkins, in flight meals, landings and registration, they find time for a quick podcast. Richard Evans, the TechEd Ticket Competition Winner joins them and they chat with chief "TechEd Organiser Man" Neil Palmer from Fitch Live, the company behind TechEd. We also have the first swag review and John expands his vocabulary beyond "All Wright"...

The One With Bruce ...

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:36:31 GMT

It's getting really,really close to TechEd now, and the boyz are so happy they can hardly count, well they can't even say what number podcast this is! Rich has been driving cars really fast, almost 40 mph, and Dave has been mixing it with the VBUG crowd at their annual conference. So check out a bunch of interviews with Andy Westgarth, Tim Leung, Rob MacDonald, Ken Spencer and some of the delegates, and watch out for a special visit from Bruce Forsyth... Good Game, Good Game ...

The One With 3 Red Lights ...

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:06:50 GMT

The UK Community is buzzing, and in yet another arena, the DDD event comes to life in the form of SQLBits, a one day free event held at Microsoft UK just for the SQL Server guys! Dave spent the day there and so this podcast features 7 different interviews with speakers, organisers and attendees at SQL Bits 2007, and no jokes about broken XBox 360s, well not many anyhow ...

The One With The Missing Teeth ...

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:13:13 GMT

What's happened to Dave's and Richie's teeth, has somebody nicked them? They can't seem to get a word out straight on this one, but somehow, the boys give some early insight into who is going to be at TechEd. Another competition is announced for some FREE WPF training, Rich is talking Halo 3 of course, Dave is talking XML/XSLT of course and is now a 'proper' MVP, and John pops in to tell us what colour Antartica is. Featuring an interview with Alan Elston.

The One With The Foghorn ...

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:43:00 GMT

After their long climb up the stairwell (listen to podcast #39), Rich and Dave reach the top of the lighthouse, so to the sound of waves, seagulls and foghorns, they look back at Day 2 of MIXUK. Amongst interviews with Robby Ingebretan and the ubiquitous Scott Guthrie, and between highlights of 'Swagily Fortunes', Dave apparently has lost his flute but marvels at Simon Peyton Jones' presentation technique while Rich reminisces about the scouts and wonders what we all need to do to live, thrive and survive ...

The One in the Stairwell ... well ... well

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:29:44 GMT

Its MIXUK 07 and Rich and Dave are mixing it with George Moore, Phil Winstanley in a "Festival of silverlights!". Rich inteviews Mick from Ireland, Dave's in the thick of it with The Vista Squad, and in between times, they find themselves on the inside of a lighthouse ...?

The One With The Spinning Balls ...

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:21:10 GMT

Back to 'normal' podcasting, Dave and Rich are cranking up the hype for TechEd Developers 2007 in Barcelona with the Great TechEd Ticket Treasure Hunt! Meanwhile Rich is injured in "training", Dave is storing his stuff in the clouds somewhere on SkyDrive and wondering why he has to read things backwards and we have 2 interviews: an absolute cracker with Software Legend Juval Lowy and another short interview with his host in the UK Michael Groenewald of Iterative Training. Enjoy!

The One that makes your ears bleed

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:27:38 GMT

Chocs away! Dave and Rich take a break from the norm, and fly on down to Fairford for the Royal International Air Tattoo 2007. The boys talk to one of the organisers: John Howe; meet with a charity hoping to put a Vulcan back in the air, the Next Generation Air Cadets, a USAF rescue crewman, a logistics ground crew man for the EuroFighter 'Typhoon' and the unforgetable Hank Melville. Dave gives a performance to rival Raymond Baxter with an incredible commentary on the F18 Hornet flying display - not to be missed!!

Royal International Air Tattoo site.
Vulcan to the sky trust

The One With 5D... D... D...

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:05:26 GMT

It's the post DDD5 podcast, and its just as well Dave recorded something, 'cos Rich never turned up! Rich makes some feeble excuse about missing another great DDD, but avows to ensure Dave's XSLT Session underpins all the other sessions by marking it right down! Featuring interviews with Phil Winstanley, John Thomson, Andy Westgarth and delegates at DDD5 including Simon Harryiott. Links mentioned by Dave: Moore's Law Video - http://youtube.com/watch?v=UgW-8LlGAfw, Mona Lisa in MSPaint - http://www.dailycupoftech.com/2007/07/03/ms-paint-mona-lisa/ Microsoft Stealth Search Engine - http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-silicon-valley-team-building-stealth-search-engine/

The One With The Live Audience ...

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:16:23 GMT

This is a first ... Well for Rich and Dave anyhow, a round of applause on a podcast introduction! Its the first LIVE podcast, recorded at the Community Leaders Day (CLD) on 29th June 2007. In front of most of the UK key Community Leaders, plus a good crowd of the Microsoft DPE staff, Rich and Dave strut their stuff and talk about how they go about actually making podcasts. With a live audience and questions, this is a podcast with a difference, even by NxtGenUG standards ... enjoy! Oh, by the way 'Paris Hilton' ...

The One which Festers ...

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:09:06 GMT

Its FEST07 at last, with the waiting over and in fact the day it self over (sniff), the Boyz look back at a great day of speakers, pizza, technology and 'swag'. With interviews with Rafal Lukawiecki , Mike Taulty, Daniel 'The Greek' Moth, Oliver Sturm, Lorna Brown and attendees Chris Sexton and Bob Morris, you can re-live it if you were there, or capture the atmosphere if you couldn't make it! Its a long one, so make sure you have the bytes to handle it!!

The One With The MIX Up ...

Mon, 07 May 2007 17:13:17 GMT

It's MIX07 and the Boys are in Las Vegas at the Venetian. Rich is absolutely buzzing from the keynote all about Silverlight. Dave is absolutely buzzing with One Arm Bandits, Hold 'em Poker, Blackjack and Roulette. He's on a mission to secure the financial future of NxtGenUG. On the way, they talk about Silverlight and Silverlight Services (well Rich does), speak to Alex Homer and listen to Elvis and Roy Osherove singing, but thankfully not Dave ...

The One That's Raring To Go ...

Thu, 03 May 2007 17:44:47 GMT

Richie thinks he'd died and gone to heaven, not only is this podcast full of stuff about Games, he's been to a NxtGenUG meeting all about XNA gaming and he's been talking to slightly weird sounding women. Meanwhile Dave wants an introduction to Microsoft Anna and he's been doing Office Demos at the OUG and has been organizing more training with Dinis Cruz ...

The One With The Guy From Orange ...

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:01 GMT

In the aftermath of the MVP Summit, the podcast kit is smokin'. Still, on with the show including some forgotten interviews from the MVP Summit with some 'unusual' interviewees ... Rich is still talking to his PC and seems to be flirting with Microsoft Anna despite playing with the Vista snipping tool. Dave on the other hand is being featured on Blogs from Oz and trawling through a monster Internet Security report from Symantec. But its all going Orange in Bristol! Our friend and top speaker Guy Smith-Ferrier has started a new User Group there and to celebrate we feature Steve, Steve, Brian and Guy in an interview with the "4 Chaps From Blighty"...

The One With The Maracas ...

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:41:15 GMT

Its the last day of the MVP Summit, the boys dive deep into XML and dynamic language sessions all NDA unfortunately so don't expect them to say anything ... But an interview with Russ Nemhauser uncovers his love for the Mac and concern with some project management methodologies. Brad Abrams gets the NxtGenUG treatment as does Florien Eichinger MVP Lead Germany. Finally the boys sign off with a song ... Aye, Aye,Yi, Yi ...

The one with the 'SwagFather' ...

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:13:51 GMT

With the MVP Summit in full swing, Seattle has fallen victim to an army of 'swaggers' controlled by the mysterious 'Swagfather'... Meanwhile back at the Washington State Convention Centre, Rich and Dave have a great interview with Microsoft VP Richard Kaplan about customer service, with Chris Anderson and Don Box about DSL and with Carlos Figueroa ASP.NET MVP from ... Ecuador.

The one with 3 Vice Presidents ...

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:44:49 GMT

The boys are aiming for the Top! In a podcast packed with 3 great interviews, Dave and Rich ask Bill Gates a question (well Dave gets to ask the question ...), they chat at length with Vice President in charge of Development 'Soma' Somasegar and at the MVP Summit party, just by the Curry, they meet with 4 MVPs from the Middle East including Kuwait, Jordan and Egypt and have a great informal discussion ...

The one with A dubious reputation ...

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:44:55 GMT

After the Derek Snyder debacle, Rich and Dave settle down to the business of interviewing and speak to the Community Development Team about Reputation and Codeplex, finding out why Richard Costall and Richard Campbell are not the same person and to the Worldwide MVP Lead Sean O'Driscoll ...

The one without Mike Hall ...

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:46:04 GMT

The boys are a bit down. Early rise, $80 Taxi, 30 min journey either way. Result? No Security, no Swag and no real interview with Derek Snyder on Windows Mobile. It was all a bit of a mess really. Couldn't even pin down Mike Hall to stand in ...

The one with the duck ...

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:13:11 GMT

It all starts on a Duck, then it goes Quackers ... Rich and Dave along with Alun and Chris take a tour around Seattle on a WWII amphibious vehicle with a madman at the wheel. Back on dry land they meet up with Jeffrey Palermo C# MVP organiser of the coincidentally named 'Party with Palermo' and they also corner Data Access 'Legend' Bill Vaughn who's passionate about making Data Access better and has the best "bankruptcy to job" ratio in IT! Tune in, its a cracker!

The One With The Mile High Club ...

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:30:39 GMT

It's Summit Time! 747's, Kitchen's, Old Age Pensioners and The Mile High Club all play a part in the Flight To Seattle Podcast. Dave and Rich speak to Alun Rogers, Dave speaks to Chris Seary, Alun and Chris speak to themselves and in amongst it all, thank God, we get some real content from Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal on SQL Server and 'Katmai' ...

The one with summit in the box ...

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:59:31 GMT

With the MVP Summit approaching fast, Dave and Rich receive a box with something in it from Florien of Microsoft EMEA to keep them company on their trip ... Meanwhile, Rich chats with Kevin McDaniel of Microsoft at the MSDN Roadshow about DPE and Community, and talks about his little bot. Dave 'The Rolling Stone' gathers MOSS and waxes lyrical about 'Longhorn' virtualization ...

The one with the big announcement ...

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:11:50 GMT

Fresh from a great WebDD event, Dave and Rich, talk about the joys of being a conference delegate, and of bagging a great interview with non-other than Mr ASP.NET himself Scott Guthrie. Rich talks about Ultimate Downloads, Halo3 (of course), Dave is all excited about the uber Swag give-away that is the 'Wow' prize draw, plus XSLT (of course) and then there is that big announcement ...

The One With Cruz Control ... (Part 1)

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:31:30 GMT

In the first of a 'sub-series' of podcasts, Dave and Rich chat to Dinis Cruz, security consultant extraordinare! How did Dinis get into security work? what is OWASP all about? What's this security training that's on offer with Dinis? Also the return of the theme ...

The one with a spark of Imagination

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:52:38 GMT

Dave and Rich explore the history of Microsoft's Imagine Cup and catch up with 6 of the finalists to see how their applications are evolving. Dave takes his shirt off for medical science and Rich enters the magical world of dragons. Featuring Imagine Cup teams from: Brazil, China, Croatia, Germany, Italy and Norway. One spark of imagination is all it takes!

The one with the yellow snow

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:07:08 GMT

In a 'right royal' podcast, Dave and Rich hike up to Lapland to have an End of Year Review. Over a glass of mulled wine, they reminisce about the last 8 months, revisit some old podcast highlights, pick their favourite technologies of 2006 and their favourite swag item. At first getting home through the storm seems a problem, but somebody is at hand to give them a lift home ...

The one with no swag

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:39:38 GMT

Being slightly freaked out by a disturbing lack of swag due to DDD4, Dave and Rich vow to make sure they're not going to be lacking in the stuff in 2007. Rich is getting all excited by a Halo 3 Beta, and talks about some major events in 2007, Dave's XP laptop has been fully "Vista'd" and he talks about Upgrading to Vista and getting Virtual Server 2005 to work with it. There is a great interview with non other than Ed Gibson and Santa pays a visit ..."

The one with 4D.. D.. D..

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:33:00 GMT

Its Saturday, its DDD4, it's DDD4, plus its also Crackerjack... Dave and Rich set off to find the secret of the success of DDD (DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper) and along the way interview many people, incuding Richard Fennell, Craig Murphy, Andrew Westgarth, Tony Rogerson and Ian Cooper.. Live from DDD4. plus we get an in depth explanation on why Expression Web will not be available on MSDN Subscription.

The one with 'Girl Friday' (TechEd Day 4) ...

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:04:51 GMT

Concerned by the paucity of female interviewees in recent podcasts and attempting to redress the balance, Dave and Rich spend Friday coraling any speaker who is, or appears to be, of the fairer sex! Catherine Heller, Carolyn Chau, Julie Ray, Debbie McMahon, Sarah Blow and Cyra Richardson all get to say their piece, but the party has a mystery gatecrasher "Michealer Hall" ... It's Girl Friday!!

The one with a Song (TechEd Day 3) ...

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:50:27 GMT

The boys rugby tackle the Architect of Powershell Jeffrey Snover as he comes out of a lift, 'Barcardi' is back, getting his second wind, Roy Osherove talks about Testing and we find out that if Carlsberg did TechEd Parties, they would almost be as good as the Norwegian Party ...

The one with Mike Hall

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:08:58 GMT

... I'm in. I've hacked the NxtGenUG site, this is Mike Hall, those boys are real waste of space. I've been waiting for 4 days for this podcast to appear, so I've done it myself. It's all about Embedded Operating Systems, which is the only interesting thing on this site. Please download it now!! My blog is http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall. Go there now for some useful information for a change ...

The one with a walkabout (TechED day 2)

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:48:39 GMT

Day 2 of TechED, Dave and Rich take a walk around the conference, encountering Toilet Cleaners, Chefs, Ladies removing their tops and random delegates. Featuring an interview with Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg, the Norwegian Imagine Cup team, Mark Seemann, and our 'mystery' delegate - Geff Lombardi.

The one with TechED Day -1: Germany 3 USA 2

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:49:04 GMT

Day One of TechEd and Dave and Rich get to speak to over 130 delegates on XML/XSLT and XPath. The guys interview Microsoft's Steve Swartz and Clemens Vasters, Bob Beuchemin from SQL Skills, a daily report from Geff 'Bacardi' Lombardi,Folker Will and Juergen Pfeifer.

The one with TechED Day - 0: Belgium 3 Italy2

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:38:02 GMT

The boys arrive in Barcelona for TechED Developers conference. In a very European flavoured Podcast, we hear from 'Bacardi' Lombardi, Delegate of the day, coverage of the MVP dinner and an interview with Gunther Beersaerts.

The one with the Airport

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:33:07 GMT

Well, Dave and Rich have made it to the airport for TechED Developers - Barcelona 2006. Rich gets excited over a Swedish Magazine, and is now talking to his Vista machine. Dave downloads Windows Desktop Search to tide him over until Vista arrives. The guys then chat over their TechED favourites. Featuring an Interview with Microsoft's Steve Clayton on the Vista launch and the Microsoft Partner Program.

The one with The Bug.....

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 05:56:03 GMT

In a slightly different podcast, Dave and Rich accost various delegates at this years VBUG Conference. They find out why Benjamin Mitchell 'smoked' his audience and how to get the words 'Violin, flute and website' into one sentence!! Plus, Dave talks about precision timing and Rich reminices about Message Queues....

The one with a beautiful Vista

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:31:57 GMT

Its Episode 8 and Rich and Dave begin to feel the nerves of presenting at TechED in Barcelona. Rich has Vista RC1 running on his laptop, and talks about SoapBox; Microsofts answer to YouTube. Dave talks about his work with Sharepoint and Access, the launch of NxtGenUG Oxford, his pick of TechED sessions. Featuring an interview with Darren Strange - UK Product Manager for Office 2007. Catch up with the latest NxtGenUG events, including a training course with Dinis Cruz.

The one with You've Got Mail..

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:06:17 GMT

Dave and Rich return from the MVP Day a little tired, and Rich especially is a bit distracted, why does he keep checking his email? Never mind, there are 2 great interviews one with Ged Mead MVP in Visual Development and Karen Young Regional Manager on the MVP Program. Rich talks about a 'Tesco Fiasco', Halo and the goings on on the MVP day. Dave raves about his Virtual PCs and has a tip about loading the latest Vista Release, but is Rich paying attention ...?

The one with A Small World ...

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:25:10 GMT

Rich arrives back after his holidays to the sad news about Steve Irwin, but he's not down for long as he whips out his Atlas Toolkit! Dave's all excited about "Virtual TechEd" (Arrrrrrriba!), DDD4 and of course Ed Gibson! The featured interview is with Paul Sheriff of PDSA Incorporated who chats with Dave at VSLive! (January 2006) about Table Adaptors, Sharepoint and the new LINQ features of .NET 3.0. There is a theme of course, can you spot it? 'Swag' is at stake, so listen carefully!

The one with TechED ...

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:37:33 GMT

Viva Espana! Dave and Rich talk about Microsoft's TechED Barcelona Developers Conference in November 2006. Rich updates us on a millionaire wannabee; Remi Frazier, the Halo Sprinters and his fun exploits with Atlas. Dave talks about Powershell, a .Net command line tool, already in release candidate and about an article he's just had published bridging the gap between Developers and ITPros.. Featuring an interview with Josh Holmes recorded at VSLive! (January 2005). Josh, talks about his sessions, his favourite features and why LINQ solves technology overload.

The one with two MVP's

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:12:44 GMT

Featuring an Ex MVP and now Microsoft employee: Daniel Moth on life in Microsoft. Rich talks about his impressions of XLinq and dave thinks VirtualEarth is the best thing since Ordinance survey maps!

The one with added security

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:51:11 GMT

Episode 3 - Dave turns up late, Rich reveals his secret Halo 2 gaming style, gets his knuckles rapped over security and Dave mentions his trip to Office DevCon. Featuring Steve Lamb on Security and TehnoTotty solves another problem.

The one with the Sock Puppet

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:22:42 GMT

You asked for it, so you got it. Sock Puppets, World Cup, Karaoke, TechnoTotty and Mike Taulty on Microsoft WCF and his favourite book of all time

The one where it all began

Mon, 29 May 2006 09:02:17 GMT

NxtGenUG take a dive into podcasting, in this the first of hopefully many shows. Rich talks about Vista and exploits with his 360 and Dave uncovers two excellent tools, one of which he touts as the best download of the century.