Announcing Arc on the Street. This is going to be an opportunistic podcast. I've got a podcast recording rig that I've been playing with (many posts to come later about the rig). The best part about it is that it's very portable and all battery powered.

So I was having a drink with my friend Dave Redding who was asking about patterns. I pointed him to Christian Gross's Foundations of Object-Oriented Programming using .NET 2.0 Patterns book. Turns out that he already knew some about patterns and had used the Command Pattern in the past. Well - in our first "Arc on the Street" Dave is going to tell us about that implementation and a little bit about patterns in general. At the time of the recording, I was thinking that I would do two series "Dev on the Street" and "Arc on the Street" but I've decided that it make more sense to just have one and for me to concentrate on the architect level topics.

I'm feeling inadequate It's kind of amazing, this is a hot blogging day for me and Scott Hanselman still has me outpaced even though he's in Tanzania at the moment.

What's even more amazing is that all of his posts are interesting and informative.

Not to sound too much like a fan boy (borrowing a line from Scott himself) but several times this week I've been asked questions and the answer has been listen to X Hanselminutes on topics from Reflection to contact management in A Better Outlook. I've been doing a lot of driving lately and I've caught up on a lot of the Hanselminutes that I haven't had time to listen to before.

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I got a Kensington FM transmitter for my IPod (bought before the Zune came out...) and listen to a ton of podcasts while driving. (I'll post about those soon and add them to my blogroll.)

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It's been cool getting to "know" Scott through the podcasts. If you don't listen to it, you should. I've learned about a lot of little things that I have not had time to explore and gotten better explanations to a lot of things that I already knew.

Some examples:
I have not had time to investigate PowerShell

Windows PowerShell (MONAD) Part II
Jeffrey Snover, PowerShell Architect
Microsoft Command Shell (MONAD)

This is one of the best and most concise explanations of how Scrum works

The Line of Scrummage

I have changed how I do email because of this one

A Better Outlook

I was actually mentioned in this one about one of my little pet topics Code Generation

Code Generation

What was fun about this was how surprised he sounded when he said my name.

I also like the non-programming topics, such as HDTV, Diabetes Technology and the Hanselminutiae topics.  

Link to http://www.hanselman.com

Dianne Marsh and Bill Wagner (Senior Consultants at SRT Solutions and central to getting CodeMash going) are both on DNR this week!

Link to CodeMash Organizer and CodeMash Speaker Mash it Up on Dot Net Rocks | SRT Solutions

I had the great pleasure of being on .NET Rocks speaking about SQL Everywhere and a whole lot more! I really should have gotten them a better photo - but such is life.

http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=202