Over the last few weeks I’ve been getting more into Podcasts, mainly
because it’s something to keep my mind active while taking Kai on long
walks in his stroller.
Anyhow – I’ve checked out A Very Spatial Podcast, and while this is germane to GIS, it’s not really my thing. And the ESRI Podcasts (Instructional and Speaker series) are somewhat interesting, but certainly aimed at more of their core end-user audience.
I was looking for something more developer oriented, something I could
use tomorrow, or at least sometime in the next 6 months. Here’s what
I’ve found and have subscribed to via iTunes…
HanselMinutes
Scott Hanselman is a whip smart .NET developer, who writes the ComputerZen
blog (you should read this). These are short (30 minute) discussions
that can cover all kinds of interesting .NET and Windows related stuff.
I highly recommend the Xml show, the Functional Testing show, and Code
Generation show. This is very compact information, and I typically
listen to the shows a few times to absorb it all. This is the first
podcast that I’ll listen to.
DotNetRocks
I had given this a look a year or so ago, but the audio quality was not
too great, and I think there was a huge focus on
“wont-this-be-cool-at-.NET-2.0″ when I was still working in v1.1. I
gave it another go, and I have to say this is really good. It’s not as
focused as the HanselMinutes, but still covers great topics – this
weeks topic is “Atlas”.
Polymorphic Podcast
This is another .NET Podcast, with recent shows on Architecting Ajax
Applications, User Experience, ASP.NET Event Lifecycle. Typically 30
minutes in length.
That’s what I’ve got in the iPod right now – any other great .NET developer podcasts I’ve missed?
