This is the sixth episode of the StackOverflow podcast, wherein Joel and I discuss the following:
- A mercifully brief critique of Joel's Skype avatar. Of course, he should be using this image.
- The other programmer I'm working with, Jarrod, will be visiting me this week. It's his first visit to California! Welcome to the San Francisco Bay area -- geek mecca. We will get some pair programming time in.
- We'll also visit the Computer History Museum, one of my favorite places in the world. I like to refer to it as computer hardware pornography.
- An examination of the ASP.NET MVC development model as compared to the classic ASP.NET Form model.
- We'll be using JQuery as our JavaScript and AJAX framework, and ELMAH for error handling duties.
- A bit on the Fog Creek philosophy of error handling: crashes are automatically entered in Fogbugz.
- About crashing in general. I enjoy talking about this because I think it's incredibly important. Crash responsibly!
- Why you should pay people not to work at your company.
- Why am I so evangelical about Twitter?
- What should Joel talk about at the Rails Conference Keynote?
- Is it unfair to dismiss Java? Is the only difference between Java and COBOL that Java doesn't require you to type keywords in all capital letters?
- The rare topic that Joel and I agree on: presentations should be about entertainment first and information second.
- What's the best way to deal with the larger bandwidth requirements for a podcast? We're going to use up more than 1250 GB this month. Should we be on ITConversations?
- We would like to support OpenID for site logins.
- About my $5,000 donation to open source on .NET -- or more specifically, to ScrewTurn Wiki.
- A brief mention of Google DocType and the now defunct Google Answers.
- Is Google starting to have the Microsoft "big company" problem? Why can't big companies effectively spin off smaller companies?
- What is the Microsoft "Strategy Tax"?
- The list of new features in Vista. How many did you know about? More importantly, how many of these features do you use and care about?
- A mention of the [Software Engineering Radio](http://se-radio.net/ ) podcast.
- As usual, thank you for all the questions and for the Wiki edits! We appreciate all the interest in the private beta signups, too.
We also answered the following listener questions, with a lot of peripheral discussion on related topics:
- Warren Henning: Why custom build stackoverflow.com when you could use something off the shelf?
- Andrew Hay: Why did you choose to reinvent the default ASP.NET membership provider?
- Martin Wallace: Have you considered open sourcing the stackoverflow.com code?
- Daniel Thompson: What should be in the next version of Windows, and is it worth spending hundreds of dollars to upgrade?
If you'd like to submit a question to be answered in our next episode, record an audio file (90 seconds or less) and mail it to podcast@stackoverflow.com. You can record a question using nothing but a telephone and a web browser.
The transcript wiki for this episode is available for public editing.