As I mentioned in one of my TechEd Barcelona posts, I bumped into Carl Franklin, Richard Campbell, and Stephen Forte at lunch, and as I started to go into how I wound up at TechEd Barcelona, Richard made an executive decsion, and decided that they should record the conversation for a future .Net Rocks episode. Well, it is now part of the TechEd Europe Interviews show. If you are not a regular listener to .Net Rocks, you might want to download a couple other shows too, and get a feel for the show. They just updated the site, so besides the tried and truth mehtod of downloading shows, you can even play (most) of them right from each show's page. But with each show clocking in at around an hour, you may just want to download them to your personal MP3 device (or harddrive) and listen to them while working or evan better, while commuting to work. Because of bandwidth issues, trying to download all those files using HTTP is just too slow, so you may want to download a BitTorrent client (a peer to peer file sharing protocol) and follow the instructions. Carl has been recommending Azureus, which is an open source Java client, but I prefer uTorrent, which alone not open source, but is free (but is supported via donatations). Either tool has worked for me, and speeds up downloads dramatically.
So, what did I talk about on this show? XPathmania, and the Visual Studio Extensibility contest, what else? It was how I got a free trip to TechEd Barcelona. During the interview, I was asked about the total number of entries received, and didn't have an exact answer, but you can check out the list yourself. Oh, and if you are not a long time reader of this blog, you might want to go back and listen to my first .Net Rocks show, #62, recorded back in May of 2004. I actually drove up to New London to do that show (most guests just call in) and got to see how the show was done. That show is part of the Rory Blyth era, where the comedy was almost as good as the technical info.