Podcasts

Derek Hatchard posted his list of podcasts. I liked his post and thought I might do the same thing.  I think podcasts are the easiest way to stay up to date.

The first two on my list are also the first two on his list:

• this WEEK in TECH
• Windows Weekly

When there's a new show for either of these, it will jump to the front of my queue because the content tends to be time sensitive.  tWiT is honestly not quite as informative as it is entertaining.  Windows weekly is great, except Leo likes to waste time comparing everything to Apple.

Let's look at Derek's other picks:

• Venture Voice

Venture voice is new for me, I'll give it a try.

• Jumping Monkeys, which is about parenting in the digital age

I thought I was going to be interested in Jumping Monkeys - I've listened to it a couple of times, but it just doesn't work for me. 

• the occasional .NET Rocks episode

I listen to most episodes of .NET Rocks, at least partially.  Since I don't spend a lot of time writing .Net code, I stand to learn a lot.

• Devcasting (my own podcast )

Yes, Derek, I think I've heard every episode of Devcasting.  It's interesting to hear how you guys are making a living. 

Of the channel 9 shows, I like The MicroISV Show and ARCcast.

I'm going to add a few:

 

• Developer Night In Canada - Microsoft's connection to the Canadian developer community
• Security Now! - Sometimes hard to listen to, but most often very informative.
• Off the hook - From the 2600 crowd.  No, not the Atari 2600.  I used to get a kick out of these guys, but I don't listen often anymore.
• SQL Down Under - Excellent interviews with the big names in the SQL Server world.
• Plumbers at Work - Kind of like a Canadian tWiT, only more out of date and less entertaining.  Sorry, guys.  But I do like to listen for the Canadian perspective.  It's been a while since they've put together a show...
• Canadian IT manger podcast - I've been listening in the hope that some useful information will come from this, but this is really the marketing side of Microsoft.  There is no conversion, only boring, well prepared questions and answers.  Microsoft doesn't give managers any credit at all as far as I can tell.
• Hanselminutes - This is really a great show.  Too many shows are over an hour long, when they could have been 20 minutes.  Hanselminutes is usually 30 minutes a week, and Scott's mantra is "I'm not going to waste your time".  Excellent.
• RunAs Radio - .Net Rocks for IT guys.  Also hosted by Richard Campbell, produced by PWOP.  There's a bright future for this show.
• PowerScripting - Powershell for beginners.  Since it's version 1.0, we are all beginners, aren't we?

And just to prove it isn't all tech all the time,

• The Curling Show - Can you believe this is hosted by an American?
• The Acapodcast - I love accapella music, and this is a really great show.

So that's about it.  Anybody else care to share?