After a long hiatus, the Thirsty Developer is back to kick off Season 2. In this episode, we introduce the listeners to a new member of the Thirsty Developer team, Adam Hoffman. Dave and Adam wax poetic about the old Commodore 64 days and learn about Adam’s role at Microsoft as well a hobby project of his – the Cloud Car (aka. Car-Puter).

Hosts

Dave Bost, http://davebost.com, @davebost

Adam Hoffman, http://stratospher.es, @stratospher_es

Show Notes

The Commodore 64 and our favorite peripherals

Mike Benkovich’s Cloud Computer Soup to Nuts Webcasts

Windows Azure for the ASP.NET Developer Series

Project Detroit (“Microstang”)

Clemens Vasters on the Azure Service Bus (Channel 9)

Books: Back of the Napkin (Dan Roam), Understanding Comics (Scott McLoud)

Picks of the Week

Pluralsight

http://mp3car.com

Napkin Academy

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In this episode, Dave and Larry sit down and discuss what excites them with some of the recent announcements coming into the technology industry from the likes of Google, Apple and Microsoft.

Show Notes

The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown

Join the Cause - Prompt your users to upgrade their browser

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In this episode, Clark and Larry pull up a bar stool in Madison with Developer’s Steve Evans and Lance Larsen to discuss the latest tips, tools and guidance around using JavaScript in your application development.

Show Notes

Madison .NET Users Group

JS Bin - an open source collaborative JavaScript debugging tool.

JavaScript compacting tools: SquishIt, Minify

IE9ify - jQuery Site Pinning plugin

QUnit - JavaScript testing suite

JSLint - JavaScript code quality tool

JSMock - Mock Object library for JavaScript

jQuery - JavaScript library

xkcd - Exploits of a Mom ("Bobby Tables")

Brandon Satrom's Blog

Twitter: @davebost, @csell5, @larryclarkin, @thirstyd

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