Short Version:

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Longer version:

I'm starting a podcast about technology, software, programming. I know, right!? Finally, an innovative idea in a crowded marketplace! But wait, let me tell you more.

I'm taking a cue from Mike Rowe's new podcast The Way I Heard It. His tagline is "the podcast for the curious mind with a short attention span".

I'm also borrowing from the Lightning Talks format. Quick, to the point, focused. Single serving podcast episodes.

I'll still be hosting, asking questions, and interviewing. But mainly, I'll be trying to stay out of the way and let you do the talking.

My goal is to release short (10-15 minutes tops) podcast episodes.

You're a tech-minded person. Can you talk for 5-10 minutes about a book, a tool, a library, a framework, a methodology, a database, an idea, a programming language, etc? Can you answer a few simple, general questions about it?

If this sounds like fun, please fill out this Google Form for the Cross Cutting Concerns podcast. That form will help me organize a little bit, and is a preview of the format that I have in mind.

Hello, again! "Weekly Concerns" is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.

• Pete Shearer from the Pete on Software podcast kindly invited me to be on his show so I could shamelessly plug AOP in .NET:
  • Episode 5 of the Pete on Software podcast
  • AOP with Matthew Groves blog post, from Pete's blog.
  • Pete also did an Intro to AOP with PostSharp blog post.
• "Pete, Pete, Pete, enough about Pete already!" Okay, okay.
• I was reminded again recently how bad I am with regular expressions and how much I don't like them. Well, I came across a "fluent" interface for regular expressions called VerbalExpressions. I haven't used it yet, but it's something to keep an eye on.
• These sorts of questions aren't common on Stack Overflow anymore, but check out the answers for Strangest Language Feature. There are some answers that I found very cool and some that were real head-scratchers. Not a lot of C# answers in there; I guess C# isn't a very strange language :)
• Another tool to help remote pair programming: go-pty-screen

This is only partially related to aspect-oriented programming, but Avdi Grimm was nice enough to have me as a guest on the Wide Teams podcast (a podcast about remote work and remote workers). In episode 72, I talk about being a remote developer and I talk about the upcoming book just a little bit.