Vishwas Lele talks about thinking of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server as an application platform for .NET development. With all of the power and flexibility of MOSS, it can no longer be categorized simply as a web portal.
Michael Dunn tells Carl and Richard about Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 which has incorporated Live Communication Server with Speech Server. Speech Server is one of the key development elements of OCS, providing the ability for .NET developers to build applications that can both speak and understand speech with minimal coding.
Jon Harrop introduces Carl and Richard to F#, a functional language that runs under the CLR. F# performs like C#, but being a functional language, has interactive scripting (similar to Python) but is rooted in the strong type inference and safety that other functional languages like ML focus on. Being in the CLR means you can build certain parts of your application in F# and then reference them from other languages, the same way VB.NET and C# interoperate.
Remi Caron, one of the organizers of the SDC conference in the Netherlands, tells Richard and Carl how using standard toolsets and software packages helps him stay focused on his customers’ software problems and deliver more powerful solutions faster.
Donald Farmer talks about data mining with SQL Server and related technologies, including a fascinating discussion about using algorithms for predicting future trends.
Udi Dahan calls in from Israel to talk common sense about SOA. His pragmatic approach to the topic is refreshing and timely.
Carl and Richard talk to David Hayden about the new features of the Microsoft Enterprise Library 3
Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about his work with Subtext (a derivative of the .Text blog software package) and his work on various open source projects.
Carl and Richard talk to Anand Raman and David Wright about Sandcastle, an internal tool for generating code documentation that is now available to the general public.
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