This week I was able to catch up with fellow Perth MVP, Brian Madsen.  Notorious for being too busy to attend our weekly coffee meetings, Brian is one of the rising stars when it comes to the Perth developer community.  After taking on board running the SQL Server user group he has also recently started a community portal, CSharpZealot, focused on providing a forum for Perth based developers to communicate.  There is more information on other Perth developer activities across at my blog. 

And the show goes a little bit like this….[Listen to the Podcast]

[Opening music - big thanks to the guys of Minder for the use of their track Chess]

00:15 – Intro
00:42 – User group sessions – Joel Pobar, Shane Morris (July), Nick Wienholt (August – hopefully)
00:52 – Weekly coffee group – Tiger Tiger
01:15 – Welcome Brian Madsen
01:38 – Micromine
02:00 – Web development – moving from php/asp to ASP.NET
03:00 – Shift to WinForms
04:15 – Silverlight v’s Flash
06:25 – WPF
07:50 – C# to XAML script tool
08:23 – Third party controls – Infragistics, Dundas
09:15 – SQL Server User Group
10:35 – CSharpZealot
11:02 – Perth .NET
11:50 – Job opportunities in Perth
13:45 – Forums on CSharpZealot (Orcas, Ajax, broad reach C#)
15:00 – Building the Perth IT community
16:03 – Community Server 2007
16:50 – Perth .NET Meeting – Joel Pobar – June 7th!!
Listen to the show HERE