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My one-hundred-and-sixteenth podcast is up. One of the big announcements coming out of TechEd this week was Microsoft' "Velocity" product, a distributed in-memory cache. I sit down with two of the architects of the project and try to get the real story. Check out Dare's excellent analysis of Velocity as well as the MSDN Page for ...

It looks like this will be Philly.NET's BIGGEST EVER code camp.  Check out these stats, sent from Bill Wolff: · 590+ registered, expect close to 450 attending · 8 rooms like last time · Park on the west or north side, north (back of building) is closest to the common and session rooms · Attendees and speakers must register, ...

The Beta of .NET 3.5 and VS2008 SP1 is out. I'm sure everyone is blogging the heck out of it, so I'll try to add my own specific kind of value. There's fixes, many improvements (some subtle, some dramatic), and some new technology. Should You Fear This (Beta) Release? Maybe a little bit. Don't be afraid of the new assemblies or the bug fixes, I ...

My one-hundred-and-ninth podcast is up. Recorded at the Microsoft MVP Summit, this show is about the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data subsystem that's being added to ASP.NET. I sit down with Scott Hunter, a Program Manager for ASP.NET (everyone in the division is required to be named Scott, BTW ;) ) and dig deeper into Dynamic Data. Dynamic Data ...

There's a lot of folks excited about ASP.NET MVC as an option for creating ASP.NET websites. As I say in my ASP.NET MVC talks, however, I figure about 5% of people creating ASP.NET sites will care about ASP.NET MVC. I say that for a number of reasons. ASP.NET MVC is a big paradigm shift. It enables the developer to make a more testable site, to ...