Andy presents Phil with his goal of learning a new language this year. They discuss Ruby, C++, F#, a deeper .NET knowledge, and other possibilities. Ruby Feeds Ruby Home Ruby on Rails Tutorial Rails Tips Riding Rails Ruby Inside Ruby on Whales Ruby Source Literate Programming Ruby Rogues Podcast Enjoy the music? Check out the free album and videos: The Wandering Madman

Phil and Andy discuss some of the recent news around the Windows Phone platform. In this cast, they focus on some apps, new phones, and general direction of the platform. Also, listen at the end for some boopers and a pretty funny review of an app. Windows Phone App Links Ask Ziggy Face Swap PhotoFunia XBox Companion MetroTube Techno Kitten Adventure! Windows Phone Models Nokia Lumia 900 NOT the N900 HTC Titan II Comparison Smoked by a Windows Phone Videos Faster than Windows Phone? - Recap Day 1 Recap Day 2 Recap Challenge 1 Challenge 2 Challenge 3 Challenge 4 Challenge 5 (I believe it was scratched and done as Challenge #9 instead) Challenge 6 Challenge 7 Challenge 8 Challenge 9 Challenge 10 Challenge 11 Challenge 12 iPhone 4S vs. Windows Phone Other Windows Phone Videos Really?! Commercial Windows Phone 7 commercial (Podcast Intro) FaceSwap Photos

Phil rants about AT&T’s DSL Technical support. Lies.. all lies…

Phil talks about the experiences that he and his development team have with MongoDB, in the Azure cloud. Doesn’t sound pretty. Other Links MongoDB Official Site MongoDB C#/.NET Driver Documentation Article about MongoDB, from Pulse News [[SENSOR ALERT]] MongoDB is webscale cartoon (humor) [[SENSOR ALERT]] Is MongoDB Web scale? (humor)

Phil and Andy talk about security, in general. What does it mean to your site? They go on to talk about passwords and how they manage their private information. Other Links Password Strength Comic

Phil talks about his experiences at CodeMash and what it had to offer. He also has some entertaining stories… Hanselman Vs. Carbone Other Links CodeMash Official Site CodeMash 2012 Report CodeMash Pictures - by Kevin Deenanauth Pictures - Taken by Kevin Deenanauth Main Stage Phil’s Phone Typing Contest I think Phil is confused Type faster! Type faster!!! Wait… what is the sentence we are typing? Hanselman Vs. Carbone Hanselmen Carbone

Andy and Phil talk HTML5 & WinRT.

Phil and Andy don’t know the recorder is still running. Let’s hear what they have to say… Other Links Dojo/Kata Dojo Toolkit Groupon Windows Phone App Tasks Windows Phone App Vevo Windows Phne App Word of the day Windows Phone App Evernote Windows Phone App

Phil and Andy are back! They startup the podcast after about 1 year of hibernation! These tow discuss the Lucene Indexer, Solr, and Lucene’s .NET Port. They touch on how to start using Lucene, what it’s for, and ways of implementing it. Other Links SimpleLucene LinqToLucene

Andy & Phil discuss the use of SignalR, Phil rants about the marketing of “fast & scalable’ web servers, and discusses some mystery topics. Other Links SignalR NuGet Package “Title” Fastest web server (the one Phil likes) G-WAN Benchmarks (the one Phil rants about)