This week Carl and Mark throw down a few pints at the historic Dutch Tavern in downtown New London, CT and you’re invited! Listen to stories from their recent week of teaching a VB.NET class to 27 people, challenging code puzzles, interesting characters, and of course, beer.
This is a very relaxed show, but don’t think you won’t learn a thing or two. C’mon! Just have one more Black and Tan!
Note: The show starts out a bit noisy, then gets better. There were some rowdy people in there when we first started recording, and they left shortly afterwords.
Another Note: We found out about feedster.com well after we had recorded this show. Feedster is indeed the “google for blogs” that Carl and Mark were talking about in the show.
This is a rare opportunity to have a conversation with people at Microsoft who are so closely tied to VB and VB.NET. They talked about new features in Whidbey, the next version of Visual Basic expected out in 2004 sometime, including some features that nobody knows about outside of the Alpha program! You’ll have to listen to find out what they are!
Carl and Mark talked about the things they like and have disliked about VB in the past, and how VB.NET has really brought the language to the forefront of the serious development community. As well, they ask some interesting questions like, “what parts of the .NET Framework were written in VB.NET” and other goodies. There are plenty of laughs as well. If you’re a VB programmer, you’ve got to hear this!