Jon Galloway

While at NDC13 this June, K Scott and I (joined by Rob Conery as honorary guest host) recorded a lot of Herding Code podcasts in a cool podcast booth. It was an interesting audio challenge. The conference provided us some great audio equipment - nice microphones and a good mixing board. However, the booth was open on top and in the middle of the conference room floor at an indoor stadium, so there was a lot of background noise. On the one hand, that's just part of the fun of live podcasts at a conference, but I wanted to minimize it.

The Kickstarter funding period for AGENT (The World's Smartest Watch) ends Jun 20 at 1 PM. The project's almost at 10x the funding goal, so I really see this as a last opportunity to get an amazing watch for $100 off the $249 MSRP.

I've been building a lot of Windows 8 virtual machines lately, and I've noticed that the product key / activation steps have changed from Windows 7 to Windows 8. With any of the Windows 8 ISO's I've used, there's an install wizard step that you can't pass until you've entered a valid product key. For most cases, I think that's an improvement. If I'm really installing Windows (and I count 9... wait, 10 Windows machines in my house right now), then sure, let's get that product key thing done once and for all.

You may have heard some talk about OWIN and the Katana Project over the past few years. Let's get the (kind of boring and abstract) definitions out of the way, then talk about why they're exciting and how you can learn more.

Back in 2008 I had a blog series going where I did occasional blog post / news recaps with lists of interesting things. (Fun note: I ran that using ma.gnolia.com and stopped around the same time, but not necessarily because, they bit the dust.). I used that to post interesting things I'd been reading about, and given unlimited time would write long, insightful blog posts about.

Whew! Seems like we just got back from the Winter tour, and we're off again! We've got eleven international events coming up in March and April. Some are already sold out, so register today! And let your friends and co-workers who don't read blogs know, too, because there