The Hello World Podcast
Episode 55: Rick Strahl

Rick Strahl is the Big Kahuna and janitor at West Wind Technologies located on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii. Between windsurf sessions and spikey haired adventures, Rick has been a software developer for over 25 years, developing business and Web applications since the very early days of the Web when you needed a hand crank (or a pair of wire splicers) to get online. Today Rick builds client centric Web applications and services for customers with HTML5, JavaScript and mobile Web technologies, using AngularJS on the front end, and  the ASP.NET stack on the back end. Rick’s company West Wind Technologies also produces a number of developer related tools including West Wind WebSurge, West Wind Web Monitor and Html Help Builder.  He also maintains a host of open source libraries at  http://github.com/RickStrahl and you can find Rick’s blog at weblog.west-wind.com or contact him directly at rstrahl@west-wind.com.

Direct download: Episode55.mp3
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Episode 54: Jeff Handley

Jeff Handley works at Concur and is focusing on the UI for web applications. He previously worked at Microsoft as the Development Lead for NuGet and WCF RIA Services. Jeff has been building and maturing software projects for 20 years. His largest projects have covered education, healthcare waste management, fantasy football, credit/mortgage, and point of sale. Throughout his career, he keeps getting drawn back to web application development.

Direct download: Episode54.mp3
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