After a bit of a hiatus, Spaghetti Code returns with a discussion of UI patterns with Adam Grocholski.  Starting of with a brief discussion of patterns, the conversation then moves into a review of the various UI patterns including MVC, MVP and MVVM.

Spaghetti Code Talks with Donn Felker about how developers can use mocking in their unit tests and some of the approaches to being successful.

Spaghetti Code is joined by guests from New Horizons to talk about all of the different developer community groups and activities and why developers should get involved in their community.  We talk about TechFuse, Code Camps, User Groups and a whole lot more.

Spaghetti Code reconvenes the Minneapolis Developer Roundtable for an interesting conversation about what Microsoft can do for .NET developers to make 2009 a good year.  Topics range from community involvement to technology, along with a little “airing of grievances”.  All in all, it’s a great conversation that produces some interesting insights and opinions.  Make sure to leave your comments on what Microsoft can do to make 2009 better for .NET developers.

Spaghetti Code sits down with follow Microsoftie Bill Maurer to discuss what is new in VSTS 2010 and TFS 2010.  Code-named “Rosario”, this upcoming release marks the introduction of some ground breaking features for app dev and ALM.  Bill gives us the highlights of this release in a fun, fast paced interview.

Spaghetti Code interviews Mike Hodnick to talk about his experience learning how to develop on Silverlight 2 by creating a game.  Mike talks about the various things he did to create the game, lessons learned, and covers some interesting things like using a physics engine, rendering, performance, and more.

Spaghetti Code hit the road and went the Minneapolis MSDN Dev Con on January 13th.  I was able to sit down with the event’s speakers and spend a few minutes talking about what they presented on at the conference.  Despite snow covered roads and drive-time temperatures hovering at –14 degrees, more than 325 people showed up to listen to the guys talk about the latest and greatest technologies on the Microsoft platform.

Speaker Time Markers
- Robert Boedigheimer #1 - 00:49
- Mike Benkovich - 06:53
- Jason Bock - 12:19
- Todd Van Nurden - 18:56
- Phillip Wolfe - 26:45
- Bill Maurer - 32:12
- Rocky Lhotka - 38:53
- Shannon Braun - 48:22
- Robert Boedigheimer #2 - 54:42

Spaghetti Code goes roundtable style with notable Twin Cities developers to talk about what's in store for 2009.  We cover several topics and technologies and have a great discussion to close out 2008.           

Spaghetti Code discusses Microsoft Powershell with Neil Iversen. Neil describes how Powershell is the combination of command line simplicity with the power of .NET.  He also talks about how Powershell can make life easier for developers and how Powershell exposes new capabilities to the applications they create.

Update:  There were some issues with the podcast upload to my hoster.  Hopefully they have been resolved and everything is good to go.

Spaghetti Code joins Matt Milner and Shannon Braun to discuss their thoughts and experiences from the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2008.  Matt and Shannon discuss their ideas on Windows Azure, Windows 7, .NET 4.0 and more.  An entertaining and insightful discussion covering the gamut of technologies introduced at PDC 2008.