497  Live from DevReach, Sofia, Bulgaria

Recorded in front of a live audience at DevReach Bulgaria, Carl and Richard talk to Christian Weyer, Shawn Wildermuth, and Hadi Hariri about Silverlight, Data Transports, and whatever else was on their minds.

Christian Weyer is co-founder of thinktecture, a company providing in-depth technical consulting and training services for software architects and developers. Christian has been focusing on the ideas and concepts of service-orientation and their practical translation in customer projects in the past few years, with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Cloud Computing being the main areas and technologies applied recently. Recently, he tries to focus on the end-to-end aspects of application architecture, design and implementation. This obviously includes client technologies like the iPhone platform. Christian was selected as one of the Microsoft MVPs for Connected Systems and is an independent Microsoft Regional Director for Germany. Get in touch with him at christian.weyer@thinktecture.com.

Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft Data MVP, member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, a Data Insider a Connected Technology Advisor. He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including SDC Netherlands, VSLive, WinDev and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CoDe Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years in software development regularly blogs about a range of topics including Silverlight, Databases, XML and web services on his blog (http://wildermuth.com).

Hadi Hariri is a developer, speaker and Technical Evangelist at JetBrains. His passions include software architecture and web development. Book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, Hadi has been speaking at industry events for over a decade. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and three sons. He is also an ASP.NET MVP and ASP.NET Insider.

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