Episode 106

J Wynia on Spark View Engine

Episode 105

Nathan Blevins on Lego Mindstorm

Episode 103

Steve Andrews on GeekGive

Episode 102

Phil Japikse on Automated Testing

Episode 101

Brian Sherwin on Refactoring

Episode 100

This is a very special 100th episode of Technology and Friends - a show I have been creating for over 18 months. Thank you to all who participated.

Thank you for watching Technology and Friends

Episode 94

In this show, Joe Wirtley discusses how he addressed the challenges in building an e-commerce site.

Episode 93

In this interview, Dr David Truxall describes the features of Microsoft Team Foundation Server

Episode 92

At the 2010 ann arbor Day of .Net, I hosted a panel discussion in front of a live audience.

Michael Eaton, Jay Harris, Patrick Steele, Jim Holmes and Jason Follas described how they cope with the information overload of keeping up with technologies.

Episode 91

Matt Van Horn and I began by talking about Expression Blend and the conversation moved toward collaborations between developers and designers

Episode 90

BizSpark and WebsiteSpark are low-cost software options that Microsoft offers to startup companies. In this interview, Microsoft Partner Evangelist John McClelland describes these programs.

Episode 89

In this interview, Dane Morgridege describes the Entity Framework - an object relational mapping tool from Microsoft.

Episode 88

In this interview, Microsoft Product Unit Manager Cameron Skinner describes the architecture tools that his team built into Visual Studio 2010

Episode 87

In this interview, Day of .Net organizers John Hopkins and Jason Follas describe what went into planning this event and what were the results.

Episode 86

In this episode, David Hoerster describes how he uses jQuery and WCF to create rich, interactive applications.

Episode 85

In this show, David Isbitski and Matt Van Horn describe Behaviors, a feature that allows you to easily enhance the user interface of your Silverlight applications.

Episode 84

In this interview, John Petersen describes how to use jQuery, JSON and Ajax to enhance an ASP.Net MVC application.

Episode 83

In this interview, Eric Greene describes the advantages of using a Content Management System to rapidly build a flexible web site

Episode 82

Episode 81

In this interview, Jennifer Marsman describes some of the new features of Windows 7 and how a developer can use those features to build more powerful applications.

Episode 80

Episode 79

In this interview, Brian Genisio describes the Prism documentation and library and explains how he uses it to build applications.

Episode 78

In this interview, Jim Holmes discusses the importance of unit testing in writing high-quality, maintainable code.

I have been recording and producing the online TV show Technology and Friends for over a year. After over 70 episodes, I have found things that work well for me. This series is a detailed account of how I put together each episode.

Part 1: Preparation

Part 2: The Interview

Part 3: Equipment

Part 4: Post-Production

Part 5: Sharing with the world

In the last article, I explained how to edit a video and export it to a single MPG file. In this article, I will discuss how I share this video with the world.

Export

After I finish editing the video in Adobe Premiere Elements, I export it to a single MPG file. This is done by selecting the "Share" tab in the top right section of the editor. On the Share tab, I use the following settings: Personal Computer |MPG | NTSC DVD Standard. I enter a file name and select a directory and click the [Save] button to create a single MPG file containing my complete show.

Once I have a single MPG file, I can easily share it with others.

Upload

I upload the exported WMA file to a video-sharing site. I use Viddler because it is free and provides reasonably high-quality playback.

Viddler provides the ability to upload a file directly from their web site. I add metadata, such as a name and a description to each video.

Share

I link these videos from both DavidGiard.com and TechnologyAndFriends.com.

Viddler provides a button ("Embed This") that generates the HTML necessary to embed a video into a web page. I copy this HTML and paste it into a post on my two sites. Above the embedded video, I add some text to describe the video and any relevant links, such as the guest’s blog. I release both posts on the same day.

After releasing a new episode, I promote it via Twitter. I also send an e-mail to my guest, telling him or her that the interview is now available. Often my guest will link to the show from a blog or tweet, driving more traffic. If we are discussing someone else in the video, I often will e-mail that person or organization. After interviewing Jamie Wright about 37 Signals last year, I e-mailed 37 Signals to tell them about it. They linked to the video, which drove over 10,000 viewers to watch it.

My goal is to release at least one video every week, so I usually have a backlog of videos recorded, produced and ready to release.

Final Thoughts

On average, it takes me approximately 2 hours to produce a 20-30 minute show. This is in addition to the hour or so it takes to set up, prepare and record a show. So far, I’ve done this almost 80 times.

Episode 77

In this interview, Mike Amundsen explains the concept of REST and how a developer can use this pattern to build web applications.

Episode 76

In this interview, DevExpress evangelist Gary Short discusses technical debt and its effects on a software project.

Episode 75

Sam Corder is the founder of the MongoDB-CSharp open source project In this interview, he describes the use of MongoDB and other document database

Episode 74

Debbie Must describes the unique challenges of deploying her software and how she attacked these challenges.

Episode 73

In this interview, Corey Haines talks about software craftsmanship, what it means to him and his plan to improve the quality of coding in our industry.

Episode 72

C# MVP Darrell Hawley spends a lot of his time programming in Python these days. In this interview, Darrell describes the Django framework for developing web applications in Python.

Episode 71

In this interview, Tim Wingfield describes the Kanban system and how he uses it.

Episode 70

Dave Bost, the host of the popular Thirsty Developer podcast discusses what goes into each episode and some of the technology he uses to record and produce the show.

Episode 69

Shortly after CodeMash, chief cat herder Jim Holmes discusses what went into the planning and what makes this conference different.

Episode 68

James Bender, Mike Wood and Chris Woodruff created NPlus1.org to assist software architects, lead developers and those aspiring to these roles. In this interview, James and Mike discuss the goals and accomplishments of NPlus1.

Episode 67

In this interview, Steven "Doc" List discusses the concepts behind Open Spaces and Community Courtyards and his role in facilitating these events.

Episode 66

In this interview, Mary and Tom Poppendieck define competency, describe the importance of leadership and define the factors that make up these qualities.

Episode 65

Wrox just released a new book 'Testing ASP.Net web applications' by Jeff McWherter and Ben Hall. In this interview, Jeff and Ben discuss the importance of testing, the different types of tests and how to effectively test your web application.

Episode 64

In this interview, author and developer Bill Wagner discusses the dynamic features in the upcoming C# 4.0.

Monday evening, my show - Technology and Friends - appeared on Channel 17 (CTN) in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

I'm happy to announce that more episodes of Technology and Friends will be available on Comcast cable in my area. If you have Comcast cable in Washtenaw County, you can watch the show on Channel 17 at the following times.

Four episodes are scheduled to air over the next two weeks. The times are listed below.

The three episodes (Episode 48: Phil Japikse on HopeMongers.org; Episode 57: David Truxall on Debugging; and Episode 60: Stephen Toub on Parallel Computing) will air back-to-back-to-back at the following times.

November 30, 2009	5:00 PM
December 3, 2009	2:00 PM
December 4, 2009	9:00 PM
December 5, 2009	6:00 PM
December 6, 2009	Noon
December 7, 2009	4:00 PM

Episode 58: Sai Naik on the benefits of SharePoint will air at the following times.

December 9, 2009	11:00 PM
December 10, 2009	8:30 PM
December 12, 2009	11:00 AM
December 14, 2009	8:00 PM
December 16, 2009	4:00 PM
December 19, 2009	7:00 PM

As always, you can still view episodes on this site.

Episode 63

In this conversation, independent consultant Michael Eaton describes the challenges developers face estimating software projects. He then describes approaches to these challenges, based on his experience.

Episode 62

In this episode, Jay Harris discusses the challenges integration code from different team members and how Continuous Integration can help solve these challenges.

Episode 61

Chris Woodruff organized the 2009 Grand Rapids Give Camp which helped dozens of charities with software projects. On the final day of the Give Camp, Chris sat down with us to describe what went into the camp and what was accomplished.

Episode 60

Stephen Toub, lead Program Manager on the Microsoft Parallel Computing Platform team, sat down with us to discuss the reasons why parallel computing is important, the challenges in writing code to take advantage of multiple cores, and what Microsoft is doing to make it easier for developers to write this code.

Links:

Parallel Computing Developer Center

Parallel Programming with .NET

Episode 59

In this episode, Chris Woodruff discusses how to use RIA Services to separate concerns in a Silverlight application.

Episode 58

In this interview, Sai Naik describes the advantages of SharePoint and where it is a recommended solution.

Episode 57

In this interview, Dr. David Truxall discusses the art of debugging and dives into WinDbg and other tools to debug production issues.

Episode 56

In this interview, Microsoft Architect Evangelist Brian Prince describes what makes Windows 7 faster, more reliable and simpler.

Episode 55

In this interview, Microsoft IT Evangelist Matt Hester describes the new features and enhancements in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2.

Episode 54

Kirstin Juhl came to software development from a career in manufacturing, where she learned about Lean principles. Now she sees those same principles being applied to software development. In this interview, she describes Lean in both worlds and compares the two.