The future of .net

Couple of days ago i listened to one of the more interesting and funnier podcast from .NET Rocks!- Future of .NET Panel at DevTeach Toronto.

The tile is intriguing enough, the speakers are know to me from various sources and i feel nothing but respect for all of them. Highly recommended.

The shows speaks about DSL, about lack of development constraints in the .net development world, there is also few words from Ted Neward about comparison of java and c#. A huge accent is given on poor API support for testability in most of the microsoft development products...

Speaking of which, more than a year ago i discovered podcasting.

Getting to hear and learn proven developers thoughts on certain topics was a great revelation for me. Beside that, i was able to get tips, advices, to know what tooling are they using, to hear about the latest trends and hypes in .net developer community - in other words, i felt that i'm catching up with the current .net flows in our broad community.

The whole idea with podcasting and commuting was a great news for me. However, having a commute time of less than 4 minutes from my home to work (i'm riding a bike regullary) was not quite suitable for listening to podcasts. I mostly listen to them while traveling. But what is also handsome with the podcasts, at least the ones that i'm listening to, are the pdf transcripts of the shows that i often use to print out.

One other good podcast that i gladly recommend is hanselminutes. The host is Scot Hanselman, and the themes he speaks about can be described as everyday issues in a developer's life. He tend to host various and interesting guest which are in some way specialists in their area of work, so one can realy learn a lot from them.

Another interesting phenomena related to podcasting is screencasting (podcasting on steroids). With increased bandwidths and improved web technologies, taking a video screening instead of audio recording was a natural way to go. I would like to talk about that in more details on some of my future posts.

So stay tuned and happy listening!