The chatter
This is a special episode of TinyThings.
That isn’t to say that other TinyThings episodes aren’t special. All TinyThings episodes (all two of ‘em) are special in their own ways. Each one is like a child, and I love each one as much as the others, and if one of them came to me and said, “Mommy, which of us is the prettiest?” I’d say, “You’re all the prettiest, my dear. You’re all the prettiest…”
I spoke with Rob Miles a couple months ago about interviewing him for one of the show’s episodes. He’s a software engineering instructor at a university out in the UK, and he has a passion for little, tiny devices that beep and bloop.
As you may have learned from the first episode, Rob is also the Gadget Guy who’s doing the reviews on the show.
I figured that, if he was going to be doing the reviews, that you all really ought to get to know him. For this reason, this episode is the “Getting To Know Rob Miles” episode.
We conducted the interview using skype, and were both very impressed. Carl and I used skype for some .NET Rocks shows nearly two years ago (two years! I can’t believe it’s been that long…), and it’s come a long way since then. Where Carl and I found it nearly unusable for cross country calling, Rob and I managed a transatlantic conversation with no lag and only a few hiccups.
On a side note, if you happen to have a Windows Mobile 5.0 device, it’s entirely possible that you have skype installed on it. They’re doing pretty well, them skype people.
What you can expect from this episode
- Rob talks about game development on Windows Mobile devices
- Rob talks about considerations for developing apps that will run on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices – from the same codebase
- Rob sugar coats his opinions of native over managed development for devices
- Rob wraps things up at the end with a review of one of his favorite new gadgets
Notable Quote
I still don’t know what Rob meant by this, but I’m enjoying it all the same:
I agonized over the bonus ham for a long time - I thought it might offend people.
Episode Links
This show clocked in at about 57 minutes, so I didn’t split the file. I think that’s small enough to fit on a CD. However, not having burned an audio CD in about twenty years, I’m not as confident as I could be about this. If I’m wrong, then please notify me and I’ll split the sucker.
Show downloads:
- The show - HiFi - 26MB MP3 - Get it
- The show - LoFi - 13MB MP3 - Get it
Blogs:
Rob’s MSDN articles:
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