Chris Sells on DotNetBeatBox!
The #dotnetrocks IRC chat during the show is great for lots of reasons - there's a lot of side commentary, there are side questions and answers with some .NET experts, and you can interact with Carl, Rory, Jeff, and sometimes the guests.
This show also happened to be a bit light on the technical side. It was good hearing about how Chris learns new technologies, etc., but if you want to skip to the 5 minutes of hard facts (the explanation of the Content and Context properties in Avalon - as Chris says, the core of how Avalon works), skip to 1:33:50 on the full show feed, or 29:30 in part B.
As an added bonus, you can hear my personal Moment of Zen about a minute later. My favorite .NET Rocks moment to date. Out of the blue, while Chris was explaining the Content property, Rory started beatboxing. Quietly first, then louder and louder. It turns out that some deranged lunatic in the chat room talked him into it. Okay, it was me. Rory makes a great Subserviant Chicken. It's all down hill from here.
This week .NET Rocks! regular guest (and guest host) Chris Sells joins Carl and the gang for a really fun discussion (after he comments on the mail and news) about Longhorn and WinFX, Longhorn features on XP, working on the MSDN Smart Client DevCenter, VS.NET 2005, learning about new technologies, learning by teaching, and Avalon. He answers some good technical questions from live listeners, and overall makes the two hours fly by. Of course you get the mail, news of the week, Weird Wide Webb, and Ask Rory. Richard is away this week so Carl gave away an iPod to a lucky listener!
http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks[Via Carl Franklin]