In this episode, guest Mark Pollack joins Peter to discuss the Spring.NET application framework. In a world driven by POJOs and POCOs, Mark tells us about how he originally created Spring.NET for a team of Java developers to enable a similar development experience in .NET.

Since then, the framework has grown from a simple IoC container to a more powerful framework capable of separating cross-cutting concerns from business application logic.

Also, Dmitry and Peter discuss Snoop, FastCGI 1.5, Windows Mobile wish lists, Windows Azure X-Drive, PHP MEF, Gaming Addictions, and other bad habits. Is this a Developer talk show or what?!

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Show Notes & Resources

Items Discussed During the News & Banter with Peter & Dmitry

Snoop for WPF developers

• Snoop Utility: http://snoopwpf.codeplex.com/
• Cory Plott updates it for 64-bit & VS 2010: http://www.cplotts.com/2009/12/08/snoop-now-with-64-bit-support-and-more

Fast CGI 1.5 for IIS 5.1 & 6.0:

• Get it here: http://www.iis.net/expand/FastCGI
• FastCGI 1.5 Release Announcement: http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2010/01/18/fastcgi-extension-1-5-for-iis-5-1-and-iis-6-0-rtw.aspx
• Ruslan Yakachev Announces Fast CGI 1.5: http://ruslany.net/2010/01/fastcgi-extension-1-5-for-iis-5-1-and-iis-6-0-rtw/
• Differences in FastCGI across IIS versions: http://ruslany.net/2010/02/fastcgi-module-differences-across-iis-versions/

SQL Server 2008 R2 & Visual Studio 2010 Coming soon:

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Coming in May 2010: http://www.sqlmag.com/Articles/ArticleID/103468/103468.html?Ad=1
• Visual Studio 2010 Coming April 12, 2010: http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2010/01/13/9948172.aspx
• Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Available 2/9/2010: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/02/08/vs-2010-net-4-release-candidate.aspx
• Thirsty Developer Podcast on VS2010: http://thirstydeveloper.com/2010/01/28/TheThirstyDeveloper83VisualStudio2010TestingToolsWithRamCherala.aspx
  

Bing Maps Silverlight sheds its Beta tag: http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/maps/archive/2010/01/19/bing-maps-beta-no-more.aspx

Windows Phone 7 stuff:

• Windows Phone at MIX 10: http://live.visitmix.com/News/Windows-Phone-at-MIX10
• Joe Belfiore, CVP of Windows Mobile Program Management, to Keynote MIX 10: http://live.visitmix.com/News/Joe-Belfiore-to-Keynote-MIX10--Eleven-New-Windows-Phone-Sessions-Announced
• Windows Phone Sessions at Mix: http://live.visitmix.com/Sessions#/tags/WindowsPhone
• Mobile World Congress: Barcelona: http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/index.htm

PHP MEF:

• Maarten Balliauw’s announces PHPMEF 0.1.0 Released: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2010/01/22/PHPMEF-released!.aspx
• Maarten announce PHPMEF back in December 2009: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2009/12/02/PHP-Managed-Extensibility-Framework-e28093-PHPMEF.aspx
• PHP MEF – Get the bits here on CodePlex!: http://phpmef.codeplex.com/

Windows Azure Tools:

• Windows Azure Tools & SDK 1.1 Released: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2010/02/02/windows-azure-tools-and-sdk-1-1-released.aspx (Use this with VS2008 or VS2010 RC…  NOT VS 2010 Beta 2!)
• Maarten Balliauw on X-Drive for Azure: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2010/02/02/Using-Windows-Azure-Drive-%28aka-X-Drive%29.aspx
• X-Drive for Azure from the Azure Team: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2010/02/02/beta-release-of-windows-azure-drive.aspx

Jon Skeet Facts: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts

Items Discussed During the Mark Pollack interview

• Spring.NET Framework: http://www.springframework.net/
• Spring.NET Community Forums: http://forum.springframework.net/
• Spring.NET Sample Applications: http://www.springframework.net/examples.html
• Mark on Twitter: http://twitter.com/markpollack