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874 Michele Bustamante Starts Up a Startup

Carl and Richard talk to Michele Leroux Bustamante about her experiences creating startup companies. Michele talks about getting started with a new company, deciding whether or not to take external funding from investors or just bootstrapping the company yourself, and how cloud technologies like Azure and programs like BizSpark have lowered the cost of infrastructure so that the main expense of a startup is wages. The conversation also digs into all the important things that developers don't know about being successful with a startup - it's not just about software! And don't forget about the dirty jokes at the end of the show!

Michele Leroux Bustamante is Managing Partner at Solliance (solliance.net), cofounder of Snapboard (snapboard.com), and is recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. Michele is a thought leader with over 20 years speclializing in building scalable and secure end-to-end system design, identity and access management, and cloud computing technologies - for companies of all sizes. Michele shares her experiences through presentations and keynotes all over the world, and has been publishing regularly in technology journals. Michele wrote the best-selling book "Learning WCF" (O’Reilly 2007). Visit her blog at michelebusta.com. @michelebusta

Links from the Show

Azure WebState on CodeProject Link

Thiel Fellowship Link

Michele's Snapboard on Azure Link

Michele's Blog Link

Mark Suster's Blog Link

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing Link

TechStars

Kickstarter Link

Indiegogo

Fake Grimlock

60 minutes Date

Thursday, May 23, 2013

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Azure General Interest

873 Derik Whittaker Migrates from XAML to HTML

Carl and Richard talk to Derik Whittaker about his experiences migrating from being a XAML developer to being an HTML developer. The conversation starts out talking about the death of Silverlight - or at least the severe neglect! From there, Derik describes the group of tools he uses to bring MVVM design patterns to HTML development. Along with some weird digressions on WinForms, this is a fun show and a great starting point for anyone ready to leave Silverlight behind!

Derik Whittaker is a Software Architect who specializes in all things .Net. Derik has been building enterprise systems on top of the .Net technology stack for over 12 years and along the way has picked up a thing or two about how to create killer systems. During his 12 year career Derik has worked in many different industries ranging from Marking, Healthcare, Retail, Insurance, Automotive and Online Entertainment. Currently Derik is working for a Technology startup (VStrator.com) in Raleigh North Carolina helping them build a killer technology solution which will enable coaches to better train their athletes.

Derik believes that the job of a developer is more than just turning syntax into working 1’s and 0’s. He believes that our job is to produce a system which gets out of the users way and allows them to do their job better.

Derik has been awarded the Microsoft MVP in C# for the past 5 years. Along with being an MVP he is also a member of the ASPInsiders group and a PluralSight author. Derik is a community leader, helping to organize events such as Raleigh Code Camp, Chicago Code Camp and Chicago's Codeapalooza. Outside of coding you can find Derik hanging out with his beautiful wife Tiffany and his 2 awesome boys Brendan and Ryan.

Links from the Show

Elijah Manor on Good JavaScript Habits for C# Developers Link

HTML for the XAML Developer on Pluralsight Link

Metro for Winforms from Telerik Link

MVVM for WinForms Link

Vstrator

TypeScript Link

Knockout JS Link

jQuery

Twitter Bootstrap Link

Moment JS

Underscore JS

50 minutes Date

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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Azure General Interest

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