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Improving Diversity in Technology with Kimberly Bryant from BlackGirlsCode.com Scott sits down with Kimberly Bryant, a Biotechnology/Engineering professional and also the founder of BlackGirlsCode. Do we need more diversity in technology? Why? Are kids getting exposed to engineering as an option, and if not, why not? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Being a Phony with Jon Skeet "It's amazing how much you don't know when you have to explain something to someone else." Scott sits down with Jon Skeet at CodeMash and talks about being a phony, getting through interviews and why we do what we do. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning to Speak another Language with Zach Owens Zach Owens is a traveler. For the last year he's been living and working in China. While he's there he's taking Chinese classes and immersing himself in the culture. When does language learning become language fluency? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Framework Series: Service Stack with Demis Bellot Demis Bellot has put together an open source .NET and Mono REST Web Services framework called Service Stack. It's effectively a WCF replacement for some kinds of webservices. There's no XML and no code-generation. Why do frameworks like this exist and what kinds of things did Demis take into consideration when creating it? How does one balance performance vs. compliance? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutiae-ten with Richard Campbell It's the last show of the year, why not enjoy it with a chat with Richard Campbell! We talk tablets, economics, Christmas, and less. Always a treat to talk to Richard and ring out the year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Framework Series: Kendo UI HTML5 framework with Todd Anglin Kendo UI is a Web, Mobile and Data Visualization framework that's all HTML5,JS and CSS from Telerik. It's under a open source dual-license. Scott talks to Todd from Telerik about the thinking behind Kendo. Why not jQuery Mobile? How open source is it? Where does Todd see this framework going? Disclosure: Telerik is a sponsor of the show, but this podcast is unrelated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Framework Series: The eXpand Framework with Apostolis Bekiaris Before he worked for DevExpress, Apostolis Bekiaris worked on an open source project with others in the community based on a DevExpress commercial Framework. Now he works for the company! How does he balance open and commercial, how does the team choose features to support and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Framework Series: Steve Smith from NimblePros on Anti-Patterns Scott chats with Steve Smith from NimblePros about the 2012 Software Craftsmanship Motivational Calendar...specifically Anti-Patterns. Iceberg Class, Design By Committee, Reinventing the Wheel, there's some you know, some you don't. They are all anti-patterns and something to watch out for. Steve explains why. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Framework Series: The Chuck Norris Framework with Rob Reynolds Scott talks to Rob Reynolds, one half of the "Chuck Norris Framework." It's a collection of tools for development, build, deployment, and more. Why build your own framework? When do you know it's done? How do you balance work requirements and public requirements with your own ideas? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Understanding BDD and NSpec with Matt Florence and Amir Rajan Scott sits down with NSpec authors Matt Florence and Amir Rajan to talk about Behavior Driven Development (BDD). Where does one start with BDD? Is BDD just TDD with a fancier name or can it really chance how you design software? The NSpec guys set Scott on the right path. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Developing a mobile app for iPhone, Windows Phone 7 and Android with Toran Billups Scott sits down with micro-ISV mobile developer Toran Billups. Toran has written, published and sold his mobile application on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. In the process of writing BlueFlix, his Blockbuster Express movie application, he learned mobile development on three platforms. What was his experience and what does that tell us about the state of mobile development today? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website History of HTTP and the World Wide Web with Henrik Frystyk Nielsen One day Henrik Frystyk Nielsen met Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became his first graduate student. He joined the W3C and worked on HTTP and some of the first browsers. Henrik is one of the primary authors of the HTTP specification. He sits down with Scott and they chat about the history of the web from HTTP to the mysterious HTTP Status Code 418. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Damian Edwards explains The Realtime Web for ASP.NET with SignalR Damian Edwards and David Fowler have created a jQuery client-side library and an ASP.NET back end that promises to make real-time persistent connections available to .NET programmers. Long-polling, Server-sent events and WebSockets. What does it all mean? Damian sets us straight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Designing a better experience with Sara Summers Scott talks to Microsoft UX expert Sara Summers at the Heartland Developer's Conference. Sara has coauthored the recently published book for experienced designers, entitled Dynamic Prototyping. Sara loves to talk about big ideas, changing everything, breaking your toys, throwing away your designs and capturing new ideas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Visual Studio Performance and PerfWatson with Phil Price Scott goes directly to the source and talks to Phil Price from the Visual Studio team. Why is VS sometimes slow? When it is slow, what's really happening? What is PerfWatson and how will it help them make VS faster? All this and some hints in interesting improvements in the next version of Visual Studio! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Google's Steve Souders, Creator of YSlow on Web Site Optimization Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His book, Even Faster Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance. Steve is the creator of YSlow, one of the top 25 Firefox add-ons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Startup Series: Alex Papadimoulis on creating Inedo and The Daily WTF Not every startup starts up smoothly. Alex Papadimoulis shares his stories of near-failure moving from a consultancy to a software company while working on a wildly popular blog at night. What mistakes did his company make in sales and marketing, and how long did it take them to change course? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Startup Series: PostSharp from Open Source to Commercial Business with Gael Fraiteur Gael Fraiteur had a full time job while working on the side on his open source Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) project "PostSharp." He's since turned his project into a successful commercial entity called SharpCrafters. What did he learn along the way and what can we learn from his successes and troubles? We also learn about Aspect Oriented Programming and how AOP tools like PostSharp can help your projects today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Startup Series: Gibraltar Software with Kendall Miller Kendall Miller is a founder at .NET development tools vendor Gibraltar Software. They are two years into their their startup experiment and are becoming a small, mature company with some great products. How much did they need to fund their startup? How do they market and spread the word? What if there are free or open source versions of their software out there? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Startup Series: Growing ZocDoc with Nick Ganju Scott chats with Nick Ganju CTO of ZocDoc on how he's building his business with BizSpark and ASP.NET. Does he used Open Source? When do they write their own libraries and when do they buy? What kinds of issues does a .NET startup run into when hiring? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Startup Series: Building Octopus Deploy with Paul Stovell This week Scott skypes with Paul in London. He's recently moved from Australia and has simultaneously launched his own micro-ISV focused on convention-based deployments made easy. What's involved? How did it get started and what does this Octopus Deploy do? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Startup Series: Inside the DuckDuckGo Search Engine with Gabriel Weinberg In this first Startup Series episode, Scott talks to Gabriel Weinberg about DuckDuckGo, his new search engine. How dare he go up against Google? He dare with better, more relevant search results. Learn how to be an overnight success in just 15 short years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Design Process - Redesigning Scott's blog with Jeremy Kratz Scott talks to designer Jeremy Kratz about the design process from yellow legal pad to complete design. What kinds of things should a designer take into consideration? Where does design stop and CSS begin, or is there a distinction? Should YOU hire a designer? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft Research: Trinity is a Graph Database and a Distributed Parallel Platform for Graph Data Scott talks via Skype to Haixun Wang at Microsoft Research Asia about Trinity: a distributed graph database and computing platform. What is a GraphDB? How is it different from a traditional Relational DB, a Document DB or even just a naive in-memory distributed data structure? Will your next database be a graph database? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Within Windows with Rafael Rivera Scott sits down with Rafael Rivera to talk about the black box that is Windows. Or is it? Rafael doesn't take no for an answer and shares stories of breaking apps to fix them. No more secrets, this week on Hanselminutes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft Web Platform and Azure direction with Scott Hunter Scott Hanselman and Scott Hunter (also known as Scotts the Lesser) talk about recently Azure/Web reorg, the direction that ASP.NET and Azure are talking, and how they see open source fitting into the future at Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Polyglot Programming and .NET - Lessons Learned with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape Scott sits down with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape. They recently released Web Workbench to the community for free with support for LESS, SASS, and CoffeeScript. Interestingly, they used C#, F#, JavaScript and Ruby to create this app. Why was polyglot programming right for what them? Is it right for you? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Script# compiles to JavaScript: A Real World Implementation at Earth Class Mail Scott talks to Matt Clay and Matt Davis at Earth Class Mail about how they used Nikhil Kotari's Script# compiler to write JavaScript from C# source. Why did they do it? What were the benefits? The problems? Would they do it again? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digging into the Kinect SDK with Dan Fernandez Scott gets schooled on the Microsoft Research Kinect SDK by Dan Fernandez. What happens when I plug a Kinect into my PC? What's included with the SDK and what's not? What work happens in the hardware and what happens in software...and more importantly, what can I build? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Semantic Markup is Dead! Clean vs. Machine-coded HTML Scott talks to Erik Meijer about the idea that JavaScript is an assembly language. What assumptions can we make and how could this idea fundamentally change how we develop software on the web? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glimpse - A client-side Glimpse into your server Scott talks with open source developers Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar from the Glimpse Project. Their very innovative (and all JavaScript and HTML!) debugger tool for ASP.NET has taken the community by storm. How did they do it and how can Glimpse make your live better? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Basics of Web Security with Barry Dorrans Scott sits down with Microsoft Security Engineer Barry Dorrans to get a general sense of the basics of Web Security in 2011. Who are the groups in the news most often? What threats are nailing websites most often today, and are they different from classic threats? Where do we start to protect our sites? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside IronJS - A complete JavaScript/ECMAScript open source implementation on the .NET DLR Scott talks to open source developer Fredrik Holmström about IronJS. It's a very complete implementation of JavaScript written in F# on top of the DLR. It's even faster than IE8 now and getting faster every day. How does something like this get built? What can you use it for? What are the Iron* languages used for and how can you get involved? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nancy, Sinatra and the Explosion of .NET Micro Web Frameworks with Andreas Håkansson Scott chats with open source developer Andreas Håkansson about his .NET micro web framework called Nancy which is inspired by a Ruby framework called Sinatra. Why do we need frameworks like this? What kinds of sites and services can they support and how do they related to ASP.NET? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Community vs. Evangelism vs. Marketing vs. Authenticity with Brandon Watson Scott sits down with Brandon Watson, a Director on Windows Phone. He works with the Developer Community, but what does that really mean? Scott pushes on this point to better understand his own job at Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Personal Systems of Organization - Rey Bango interviews Scott Hanselman Tables turned this week and Rey Bango interviews Scott on his personal systems of organization. How has Scott synthesized the systems of Stephen Covey, David Allen, J.D. Meier and the Pomodoro Technique into a living system that works for him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Before The Show: Off the Cuff Conversation with Jeff Atwood Sometimes the most interesting conversations happen before or after the show. Often they happen with Jeff Atwood. I (Scott) called Jeff to get some audio for our other show http://thisdeveloperslife.com and was recording as soon as Jeff and I started chatting. Here's our unedited random personal phone call that I thought might be fun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open Source vs. Making Money vs. Freaking Lasers - Are we all Evil? With Chris Sells Scott chats with Chris Sells about the pressure to release software as Open Source versus pressure to make money as a business. How are Google, Microsoft and Apple evolving over the years and what should we as developers do about it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Network Attached Storage and Windows Home Server with Travis Illig Scott chats with fellow home storage enthusiast Travis Illig about NAS options (Network Attached Storage) available today. Both Scott and Travis purchased (and told their friends about) Windows Home Servers. Where are their Home Servers now, and what are they using going forward? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This is not your father's WCF - All about the WebAPI with Glenn Block Glenn Block is with Scott in The Netherlands and tries to get Scott up to speed on what's new in WCF. Scott thinks WCF is scary and heavyweight. How does WCF fit into a world of Web 2.0 lightweight APIs? What's the WCF WebAPI and how does compare to services in ASP.NET MVC? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A C++ guy learns JavaScript - Chris Sells moves to the Web Scott talks to Chris Sells after Chris has been up since 7am writing JavaScript and HTML. What's the world coming to when one of the world's foremost managed code experts starts writing Web Code? How is he finding JavaScript and what should you do about it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rise of the Micro-ORM with Sam Saffron and Rob Conery Scott's at Mix this week and he sits down with Sam Saffron and Rob Conery to talk about their Micro-ORMs. What have they done in less than 400 lines of code, that the rest of the planet needs a dozen assemblies for? Should you abandon your ORM and start writing inline SQL? All this and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update with Phil Haack Mix 11 is today so Scott got the scoop from Phil on the new tools being released. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website .NET API design that optimizes for Programmer Joy with Jonathan Carter Scott sits down with Jonathan Carter to brainstorm about optimizing APIs for programmer happiness, rather than programmer productivity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remote Eclipse/Java Development using TFS at Microsoft with Martin Woodward Scott talks to Martin Woodward, a Microsoft Program Manager who lives and works in Northern Ireland on the Java-based Eclipse plugin for Team Foundation Server. Martin Woodward is the Program Manager for Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere and part of the Team Foundation Server group at Microsoft. He helps to ensure that Eclipse and cross-platform developers are an active part of the TFS eco-system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Entity Framework 4.1 CodeFirst with Jeff Derstadt and Tim Laverty This week Scott sits down with the lead dev and lead PM for Entity Framework to talk about the improvements from the first version. What's improved and changed? What do they think about NHiberate or just doing SQL on your own? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Selenium for Web Automation Testing with Jim Evans Scott chats with Jim Evans from the Selenium team about how to get into Web Automation Testing. What's new in Selenium v2? Can you use Selenium with any browser? How does .NET fit into the process? All this and more in this Web Testing Episode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JavaScript and jQuery: Moving beyond Alert() Scott talks to Elijah Manor and Dave Ward about how one can take their JavaScript knowledge to the next level. What are the major concepts I should study? Which plugins are the must-haves? What's "Modernizr" and how does it, along with the concept of feature detection make my life easier? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Opinionated Cloud - Learning about AppHarbor Scott sits down with Rune from AppHarbor. AppHarbor has some strong opinions about how the cloud should work and how applications should be deployed. Is there room for another cloud offering? Is the cloud about elasticity or something else? What's a Cloud and what's Platform as a Service. All this and more as Scott gets educated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ASP.NET Web Forms - Reports of my Death of been exaggerated, with Damian Edwards Scott chats with Damian Edwards about new features coming in ASP.NET WebForms, new techniques, controls, model binding, HTML 5 and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Organizing your own Virtual Technical Conference - MVCConf Post-Mortem Scott talks to Javier Lozano and Jon Galloway (and Eric Hexter in spirit) about MVCConf. Thousands of viewers logged in and watched hours of top technical content on ASP.NET MVC this last week. How was it organized? How was it paid for? Can you put together your own free conference? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ReactiveUI extensions to the Reactive Framework (Rx) with Paul Betts Scott sits down with Paul Betts and talks about extensing the Reactive Framework. We currently manage our UI events as they are pushed to us. How does programming - and asynchronous programming - change if we change the way UI events are consumed? The ReactiveFramework extends .NET, and Paul's extended that with his Open Source Reactive UI framework. Let's see if Paul can teach Scott a new trick. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HTML5 Basics with Mads Kristensen Scott chats with Mads Kristensen about HTML5? What exactly is this thing? Is it evolutionary or revolutionary? Should you start working with HTML5 now, or should you wait for some unknown future? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professional Technical Speaker Tips from Scott with Drew Robbins Scott and Drew are shattered, having just finished presenting 8 solid hours of technical but upbeat content in The Netherlands. They're doing WebCamps and take a moment to talk about presenting. How do you start? How do you stay focused and recover from errors? How can you move up from smaller venues to the big rooms? All this, plus Scott's lost his voice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On WebMatrix with Rob Conery WebMatrix was relesed on the 13th of January. Some folks have said its very existance is confusing. Do we need another IDE? What's Microsoft trying to pull here? Scott talks to ex-Microsoftie Rob Conery on his unfiltered take. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Executable Specifications with Gojko Adzic, Jonas Bandi and Aslak Hellesoy This week Scott learns about Executable Specifications with Gojko Adzic, Jonas Bandi and Aslak Hellesoy. What's all this talk about BDD, Cucumber, Gerkin and SpecFlow? Where's the best place to start and how to Acceptance Tests fit into my existing projects? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Agile Consultant to Agile Team Member with John Wilger Scott sits down with former agile coach John Wilger to talk about his experience going to work for the company he originally consulted with. What kinds of issues do small teams deal with when moving from traditional software develoment processes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutiae-nine with Richard Campbell Happy holidays! It's a totally random chat show with Richard Campbell. What's next for Windows Phone 7? Will Scott give up his iPhone? How many Kindles can one man own? Is Kinect the future of computing? All this and less on this episode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transitions - Exploring issues moving from small companies to large corporations Scott talks to his friend John Batdorf about their move from small consultancies to large corporations. What kinds of issues do we deal with as employees and what kinds of issues do IT departments come upon as companies grow? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kayak, OWIN, Open Source Web Servers and more with Benjamin van der Veen Scott sits down with open source developers Benjamin van der Veen to talk about his C# Web Server, Kayak, as well as OWIN, Open Source Web Servers and his thoughts on where server-side web development is going. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Knockout Javascript with Steve Sanderson Steve Sanderson has created an interesting MVVM Javascript library for ASP.NET MVC. Yes, you read that right! MVVM on the client, MVC on the server, living together happily may make a more enjoyable development experience. All this plus HTML, data binding, jQuery, text boxes over data, ASP.NET and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Plight of the Remote Worker with Pete Brown Scott and Pete have both worked for Microsoft for a while now as remote workers. What works, what doesn't? Why is Scott obsessed with video portals and cameras and does it help? Pete shares his thoughts and tips on the remote life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The MVVM Pattern with Laurent Bugnion Scott talks to Laurent Bugnion about the often misunderstood Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. What's the different between this pattern and MVC? Can I use this pattern for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone 7, and what Open Source projects can support this pattern? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Developing Indie Games for Xbox 360 and XNA with George Clingerman This week Scott talks to George Clingerman, a member of the Independant Xbox Game Development Community (Indie Games). George is a business developer by day and a game developer by night, using C# and managed code in both instances. How does this all work and how can you develop and sell your own games? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creative Outlets with Rob Conery Rob joins Scott this week as they talk about their new (and very different) podcast "This Developer's Life." Why does Rob feel the need to create? What's the process? How does one create their own podcast and what are some tips for not just success, but feeling good after! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ASP.NET MVC 3 RC and NuGet Package Management with Phil Haack It's PDC week and Scott's on campus with Phil Haack talking about ASP.NET MVC 3 RC and the NuPack^H^H^H^H^H^H^H NuGet Package Manager. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deeper into the Netduino with Chris Walker from Secret Labs Scott chats with Chris from Secret Labs about the Netduino Open Source hardware platform. How does Netduino and Netduino Plus relate to the .NET Microframework and which parts of Open Source? What can I build with it and it how? What kinds of capabilities does this little piece of hardware have, and can it give even smaller? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Misunderstanding REST with Mike Amundsen Web Services with SOAP are a pretty well understood thing, but what's all this appeal about REST? Is REST just CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) for the Web? Is it a pattern, a style or dogma? Recognized REST expert Mike Amundsen sets Scott straight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making a hobby a job - Talking with Eric Herbrandson about his Silverlight-based MicroISV Eric Herbrandson has been working on the site creating a Silverlight-based audio mixer at night and weekends. What's the best way to hold down a full time job while pursuing your passion? Was it hard for Eric to learn a new technology and apply it to his little ISV? And some tech chat about his product, AudioOrchard, what was possible and what wasn't. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Things Done with Lane Newsom Scott chats with Getting Things Done (GTD) practitioner and MBA student Lane Newsom. How does she apply the principals of GTD in a practical way to her daily life? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Naked Objects Framework with Richard Pawson Richard Pawson wrote his PhD thesis on "Naked Objects." Scott sits down to chat with Richard about the framework. Too complex? Too simple? How does Naked Objects apply in today's object oriented systems and what does it learn from yesterday's? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website .NET Micro Framework with Colin Miller Scott talks to Colin Miller about the .NET Micro Framework. It's a "tiny CLR" that runs in as little as 64k! He explains how it started with the SPOT Watch (remember that) and how it's grown to an Open Source project under the Apache 2.0 license with a broad ecosystem and dozens of hardware boards available from partners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Sink on Distributed Version Control Systems Scott chats with Eric Sink from SourceGear about DVCS. How bad IS SourceSafe? What kinds of things should you think about when moving to more modern source control system like SVN? Then what about moving to a proper distributed system? Mercurial vs. Git and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Continuous Web Deployment with Jon Tørresdal This week Scott talks to Jon Tørresdal from Norway via Skype. Jon is an Architect for a Norwegian insurance company, and an editor for InfoQ. His agile team practice Scrum and Jon shares his experiences making web deployment a no-click affair. What are the tools and techniques you need to make your automated build automate deployment to a production web farm? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OpenID and OpenAuth with DotNetOpenAuth open source programmer Andrew Arnott Scott talks to Andrew Arnott about OpenID and OpenAuth. What are these two protocols, how do they relate to each other and what do we as programmers need to know about them? Do you use Twitter? Then you use OpenAuth and may not realize it. Andrew works at Microsoft and works on the side on his open source project DotNetOpenAuth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OpenID and OpenAuth with DotNetOpenAuth open source programmer Andrew Arnott This week, Scott talks to Andrew Arnott about OpenID and OpenAuth. What are these two protocols, how do they relate to each other and what do we as programmers need to know about them? Do you use Twitter? Then you use OpenAuth and may not realize it. Andrew works at Microsoft and works on the side on his open source project DotNetOpenAuth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 Scott talks to Jeff Wilcox, a Developer on the Silverlight Team about developing on Windows Phone 7. What kinds of performance can we expect from the phone? Jeff Wilcox shows Scott some tips and tricks on how to get the smoothest animations from your phone. Frame Rate Counters and more fun are explained! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 Scott talks to Jeff Wilcox, a Developer on the Silverlight Team about developing on Windows Phone 7. What kinds of performance can we expect from the phone? Jeff Wilcox shows Scott some tips and tricks on how to get the smoothest animations from your phone. Frame Rate Counters and more fun are explained! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Expression SuperPreview with developer Mike Calvo Scott talks to Mike Calvo, a Microsoft Lead Developer based out of Minnesota (!) about Expression SuperPreview. SuperPreview helps developers and designers with cross-browser CSS and HTML issues. How'd they build it and with what? What's inside? How does the cloud fit in and how do they support Safari? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Expression SuperPreview with developer Mike Calvo Scott talks to Mike Calvo, a Microsoft Lead Developer based out of Minnesota (!) about Expression SuperPreview. SuperPreview helps developers and designers with cross-browser CSS and HTML issues. How'd they build it and with what? What's inside? How does the cloud fit in and how do they support Safari? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building your own Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 with Pete Brown Scott catches up with Pete Brown after they've both built their "Ultimate Developer PCs." Any regrets? What'd they learn and how you can learn from their mistakes and successes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building your own Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 with Pete Brown Scott catches up with Pete Brown after they've both built their "Ultimate Developer PCs." Any regrets? What'd they learn and how you can learn from their mistakes and successes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning about NHibernate 3 with Jason Dentler Scott chats with Jason Dentler about NHibernate and their new 3.0 release. Jason is the author of the upcoming "NHibernate 3 Cookbook" from Packt Publishing. Is NHibernate hard and scary? Jason gets Scott up to speed and talks open source community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning about NHibernate 3 with Jason Dentler Scott chats with Jason Dentler about NHibernate and their new 3.0 release. Jason is the author of the upcoming "NHibernate 3 Cookbook" from Packt Publishing. Is NHibernate hard and scary? Jason gets Scott up to speed and talks open source community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 with Phil Haack ASP.NET MVC matches forward. Scott talks to Phil Haack about today's Preview 1 release. There's new features to make dependency injection easier, an all new "Razor" ViewEngine, and much more. How do they choose these features and how can the community help? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 with Phil Haack ASP.NET MVC matches forward. Scott talks to Phil Haack about today's Preview 1 release. There's new features to make dependency injection easier, an all new "Razor" ViewEngine, and much more. How do they choose these features and how can the community help? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Code First Databases with Entity Framework (Magic Unicorn Edition) Scott talks to Jeff Derstadt, Senior Dev Lead in the Database and Modeling Group. They released a CTP (Community Technology Preview) of a simplified Code First model for creating, describing and accessing databases using the Entity Framework. Scott digs in and finds out if this is the Data Access technology for him (and maybe you). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Code First Databases with Entity Framework (Magic Unicorn Edition) Scott talks to Jeff Derstadt, Senior Dev Lead in the Database and Modeling Group. They released a CTP (Community Technology Preview) of a simplified Code First model for creating, describing and accessing databases using the Entity Framework. Scott digs in and finds out if this is the Data Access technology for him (and maybe you). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art is Shipping - Bridging Designers and Developers with Jin Yang Scott sits down with designer Jin Yang to talk about the fundamental differences between developers and designers. Are we a totally different breed? How should designers and developers work together? Should designers code their own sites? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art is Shipping - Bridging Designers and Developers with Jin Yang Scott sits down with designer Jin Yang to talk about the fundamental differences between developers and designers. Are we a totally different breed? How should designers and developers work together? Should designers code their own sites? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutiae-eight with Dan Fernandez This weeks it's a very sick Dan Fernandez from Channel 9 who joins me on the show for a random Hanselminutiae. We talk iPads, Windows Phone 7, Hulu Plus, TimeSvr, innovation and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutiae-eight with Dan Fernandez This weeks it's a very sick Dan Fernandez from Channel 9 who joins me on the show for a random Hanselminutiae. We talk iPads, Windows Phone 7, Hulu Plus, TimeSvr, innovation and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating the Ultimate Developer Machine 2.0 - How can we get a 7.9 WEI Score for under $3k? Creating the Ultimate Developer Machine 2.0. It's that time again. Pete Brown and I want to know how we can get a 7.9 WEI Score for under $3k. We enlist Larry Larsen from Channel 9 as well as Jeff Kirkham and Chris Kirk from the WinSAT team. These guys work on the WEI score itself. Can we make it happen? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating the Ultimate Developer Machine 2.0 - How can we get a 7.9 WEI Score for under $3k? Creating the Ultimate Developer Machine 2.0. It's that time again. Pete Brown and I want to know how we can get a 7.9 WEI Score for under $3k. We enlist Larry Larsen from Channel 9 as well as Jeff Kirkham and Chris Kirk from the WinSAT team. These guys work on the WEI score itself. Can we make it happen? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demystifying Microsoft's Application Server: Windows Server AppFabric with Karandeep Anand Microsoft's Application Server is out and it's called AppFabric. Scott chats with Karandeep Anand from the Distributed Application Server group at Microsoft about Windows Server AppFabric. It's released and it's part of Windows itself. How does it related to Azure? What's included, and where's Velocity? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demystifying Microsoft's Application Server: Windows Server AppFabric with Karandeep Anand Microsoft's Application Server is out and it's called AppFabric. Scott chats with Karandeep Anand from the Distributed Application Server group at Microsoft about Windows Server AppFabric. It's released and it's part of Windows itself. How does it relate to Azure? What's included, and where's Velocity? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Punditry, Politics, Race, iPads, The Onion and the Web with Baratunde Thurston Scott's in DC this week and he sits down with multimedia personality Baratunde Thurston. He's a Web Editor for TheOnion.com, a founder at JackAndJillPolitics.com, a host on the Science Channel and the author of the upcoming book "How To Be Black." He tells Scott how. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Punditry, Politics, Race, iPads, The Onion and the Web with Baratunde Thurston Scott's in DC this week and he sits down with multimedia personality Baratunde Thurston. He's a Web Editor for TheOnion.com, a founder at JackAndJillPolitics.com, a host on the Science Channel and the author of the upcoming book "How To Be Black." He tells Scott how. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MVC Turbine and IoC made easy with Javier Lozano Scott talks to Javier Lozano about his open source MVC Turbine project and how it makes Dependency Injection and inversion of control extremely easy. These concepts can be tricky to jump into and usually require custom code in your app. MVC Turbine makes it easy to get up and running in minutes with ASP.NET MVC and IoC. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MVC Turbine and IoC made easy with Javier Lozano Scott talks to Javier Lozano about his open source MVC Turbine project and how it makes Dependency Injection and inversion of control extremely easy. These concepts can be tricky to jump into and usually require custom code in your app. MVC Turbine makes it easy to get up and running in minutes with ASP.NET MVC and IoC. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Relationship Tips with Scott's Wife Scott's on vacation this week at the beach and Scott's Wife Mo joins him on the show to share Geek Relationship Tips. Is it hard to be married to a geek? What are some techniques for avoiding conflict and having a drama-free relationship? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geek Relationship Tips with Scott's Wife Scott's on vacation this week at the beach and Scott's Wife Mo joins him on the show to share Geek Relationship Tips. Is it hard to be married to a geek? What are some techniques for avoiding conflict and having a drama-free relationship? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World Airplane Travel Tips with James Senior Scott and James are on a world tour and racking up the miles. James shares some of his best travel tips and tricks, and Scott shares how he moves through airport security as fast as possible. It's Techie Travel with James and Scott this week on Hanselminutes, recorded from Sydney, Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World Airplane Travel Tips with James Senior Scott and James are on a world tour and racking up the miles. James shares some of his best travel tips and tricks, and Scott shares how he moves through airport security as fast as possible. It's Techie Travel with James and Scott this week on Hanselminutes, recorded from Sydney, Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Type 1 Diabetes and Running Marathons with Gary Schmidt Gary Schmidt from runningwitht1.com runs marathons and triathlons. He also wears an insulin pump 24 hours a day, just like Scott. These two Type 1 diabetics chat about what's involved in being both diabetic and active. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Type 1 Diabetes and Running Marathons with Gary Schmidt Gary Schmidt from runningwitht1.com runs marathons and triathlons. He also wears an insulin pump 24 hours a day, just like Scott. These two Type 1 diabetics chat about what's involved in being both diabetic and active. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and LinFu with Philip Laureano Scott talks to AOP expert Philip Laureano about Aspect Oriented Programming. Is it the missing piece of the Object Orient Programming puzzle? It sounds scary but is it? Should I start using IL Rewriting and Dynamic Proxies on my next project, or is it too dangerous? All this and more as Scott and Philip learn about LinFu, an Open Source project that enables these scenarios and more! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and LinFu with Philip Laureano Scott talks to AOP expert Philip Laureano about Aspect Oriented Programming. Is it the missing piece of the Object Orient Programming puzzle? It sounds scary but is it? Should I start using IL Rewriting and Dynamic Proxies on my next project, or is it too dangerous? All this and more as Scott and Philip learn about LinFu, an Open Source project that enables these scenarios and more! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Podcast about Podcasts with Joel Spolsky The worst show ever? Perhaps, but it's Meta! It's Joel Spolsky this week, the other half of the StackOverflow Podcast, chatting with Scott this week about podcasting. How does Joel record shows? How does Scott? Is this the end of the StackOverflow show? How does Leo Laporte manage? Should we visit his house? All this, plus sour grapes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Podcast about Podcasts with Joel Spolsky The worst show ever? Perhaps, but it's Meta! It's Joel Spolsky this week, the other half of the StackOverflow Podcast, chatting with Scott this week about podcasting. How does Joel record shows? How does Scott? Is this the end of the StackOverflow show? How does Leo Laporte manage? Should we visit his house? All this, plus sour grapes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Atwood on the Future of Stack Overflow There's no Stack Overflow podcasts lately so Scott's got Jeff on the show so we can get our Coding Horror fix. Jeff shares some of the thinking behind recent changes on StackOverflow.com and how they plan on building a community outside just techies. Also, Jon Skeet, Needlepoint, Bows and Arrows, and Mustache people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Atwood on the Future of Stack Overflow There's no Stack Overflow podcasts lately so Scott's got Jeff on the show so we can get our Coding Horror fix. Jeff shares some of the thinking behind recent changes on StackOverflow.com and how they plan on building a community outside just techies. Also, Jon Skeet, Needlepoint, Bows and Arrows, and Mustache people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Lam and the Science of Fitness Sedentary Scott chats with Fit John Lam about the science of fitness. If you're a coder you you use huge amounts of data and statistics to plan your next move, why not do the same when working out? John talks about the software and hardware folks use to measure not just where they ran and how far, but also their Watts per Kilo of body weight! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Lam and the Science of Fitness Sedentary Scott chats with Fit John Lam about the science of fitness. If you're a coder you you use huge amounts of data and statistics to plan your next move, why not do the same when working out? John talks about the software and hardware folks use to measure not just where they ran and how far, but also their Watts per Kilo of body weight! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ASP.NET MVC Contrib with Jeffrey Palermo Scott sits down with Jeffrey Palermo to chat about his thoughts around ASP.NET MVC and the MVCContrib Project. What's the MVCContrib Project for? What value does it bring to the platform, and what's the story behind it joining the CodePlex Foundation? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Media and the Business of Social - The Wynn Resorts Scott sits down with Jade Bailey, who manages social media and online services for the Wynn in Las Vegas. How does a world wide brand use social media to serve its customers while still remaining authentic? Is Twitter a legitimate customer service choice? Does a company need a Facebook page? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles Petzold on Windows Phone 7 Series Charles Petzold wrote the book on Windows. Specifically, he wrote "Programming Windows, 1st edition" in 1988. This was the book I learned on and I still have it on my shelf. Charles has never stopped writing and is now working on a free book for Microsoft Press called "Programming Windows Phone 7 Series." I get the scoop from Chuck in this interview recorded in the waning hours of Mix 10 in Las Vegas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Windows Phone 7 Series - The Developer Experience with Charlie Kindel Scott's at Mix this week in Las Vegas, and he gets a second to sit down with Charlie Kindel from the Windows Phone team. What's the real developer story? What can these phones do and how do we program them? They talk aesthetic, controls, IDEs and hardware details. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open Data Protocol (OData) with Pablo Castro Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services and OData - what's the difference and the real story? How does OData work and when should I use it? When do I use OData and when do I use WCF? Scott gets the scoop from the architect himself, Pablo Castro. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What does a Social Media Consultant Do? - with Liz Burr This week Scott talks to new media consultant Liz Burr about working in Social Networking. What does a social media consultant do? Is it PR or marketing? How much is science and how much is gut? Are social media people more than just the popular kids from High School? Liz helps Scott work out his school issues. Also: People of Color and their role in Social Media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women in Technology in the Muslim World Scott's in Egypt today and he had the opportunity to sit down with Lamees and Abeer, two successful women in IT. Lamees is a programmer transitioning to Systems Analysis, and Abeer is a veteran Senior Systems Analyst and Agile Project Manager at Dashsoft. Nearly 50% of the people at Cairo Code Camp are women. What is Egypt doing right to encourage so many women to choose technology as their career? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP Scott sits down with Tatham Oddie to talk about the WebFormsMVP open source project created by he and Damian Edwards. What does it add? Can we have the best of both worlds, convenience and testability? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Making of a Hanselminutes Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy Two Englishmen in a row? What a sellout I am. This week I chat with Chris "ChrisNTR" Hardy, an ASP.NET programmer by day who writes C# code for the iPhone by night. He took it upon himself to answer a tweet from me and write the beginnings of a "Hanselminutes iPhone Application." How did he do it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Skeet - World's Greatest Living Programmer, or just a nice English guy? I tease! It's show 200, and we've got Jon Skeet. Jon writes Java at Google, but he's also got a new book out called C# in Depth, Second Edition. Jon is also well-known for his answers on StackOverflow, gaining him the title "The Chuck Norris of Programmers." Listeners can get 40% off with code "HanselC40" at http://manning.com/skeet2 until March 15th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Craigslist Works - with Jeremy Zawodny Scott chats with Jeremy Zawodny, a developer at Craigslist on how the system is put together. How many servers do they have? How does it all fit together and what are the major technology problems they have to solve? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer Scott sits down with Erik Meijer from the Cloud Programmability Team to hear about the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx). Rx is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections. Sound boring? Not even a little. Rx is a prescription for awesome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dynamic Language Runtime, IronRuby and IronPython with Jimmy Schementi Scott sits down with Jimmy Schementi to find out what's the scoop with the DLR. Is it baked? What do I need to do to get started? What's the status of IronRuby - is it done? Will IronPython be a first class language or is it already? All these questions and more will be answered. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website .NET 4 CLR, Framework and Language Chat with Jason Olson Jason Olson works (or worked, as you'll hear) for Microsoft in DPE. In this episode he takes Scott a little deeper into some of the new features in .NET 4, including security, CLR changes, C# 4 and VB 10 improvements and the new Task Parallel Library. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open Source, Microsoft and The WiX Project with Rob Mensching The WiX Project was the first big Open Source project out of Microsoft over 10 years ago! Scott talks to project lead Rob Mensching about how the WiX Installer project got started. How much trouble did he have with Microsoft bosses and Legal? What's next for WiX? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hello World: Computer Programmer for Kids and Other Beginners Scott chats with Warren Sande and he 10 year old son, Carter, about their new book "Hello World: Computer Programmer for Kids and Other Beginners." Listeners can get 40% off Hello World! from Manning.com with the code "hanselm40". The offer is valid until Jan 31, 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Axum - A domain-specific concurrent programming language with Niklas Gustafsson Scott talks to Niklas Gustafsson about Axum (formerly Maestro), an incubation project at MSDN DevLabs. Axum is a new language based on the Actor model that targets the CLR. It focuses on making concurrency fundamental with principles of isolation, agents, and message-passing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spark View Engine for ASP.NET MVC with Louis DeJardin Scott chats with new Microsoft employee and ASP.NET team member about his open source ASP.NET MVC ViewEngine called "Spark." It's a totally new DSL (Domain Specific Language) that might make your MVC Views more fun to write! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solver Foundation and Optimization with Nathan Brixius Scott's on campus and talks to Nathan Brixius, a Senior Developer working on the Microsoft Solver Foundation library. Solver Foundation helps break down complex multi-variable problems in a clean, declarative way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of Powershell with Lee Holmes and Jason Shirk Scott's in Redmond this week and he sits down with Lee Holmes and Jason Shirk from the Powershell team. What's the state of Powershell now that it's built into Windows. What does 2.0 buy me and what features could I exploit more effectively? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009 Holiday Geek Gift Guide with Richard Campbell It's the day after Thanksgiving (in the US) and we're making our way deep into the holiday season. Scott chats with Richard Campbell and they each share their best gadget gifts for the geek in your life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta with Phil Haack This week Scott's at PDC but just before he left he chatted with Phil Haack about his exciting release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta. They chat about the changes, and Scott gets a surprise phone call from The Gu. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Software Tester James Bach and The Voyage of a Buccaneer-Scholar Scott's in Sweden and he sits down with well-known Software Tester James Bach to talk about what it means to be an unconventional learner. James has had success in the software industry even though he dropped out of school at age 14. His new book "Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar" explores the issue of nontraditional learning as it relates to success later in life. James is an interesting dude. I hope you enjoy the show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website .NET Debugging 101 with Tess Ferrandez Scott's in Sweden this week and he sat down with master debugger and ASP.NET Escalation Engineer Tess Ferrandez. She explains .NET Debugging 101. What's a dump file? Do you need PDBs? How do you use WinDBG and what are the best ways to debug memory issues, perf problems and hangs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spolsky, Atwood, Blyth, Hanselman = Crazy-Delicious || Content-Free? What do you get when you put Spolsky, Atwood, Blyth, and Hanselman in the same room? A crazy Content-Free podcast recorded backstage at the San Francisco DevDays conference. This episode runs a bit longer than usual and the sound quality isn't up to our usual standards. This is Scott's fault, not Lawrence's, our fantastic editor. :) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preview of ASP.NET 4 with Scott Hunter Scott's in Seattle this week and catches Microsoft Program Manager (and one of 1000 Scott's) Scott Hunter who shares insights in the history and future of ASP.NET 4. What's coming in VS2010 Beta 2? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutes Live: Gadgets, Hi-Def, WebCams, 4G and More This wacky episode of Hanselminutes was recorded at 3am on a sad, sad Saturday morning with an intrepid group of UStream and Twitter users who watched Scott chat about gadgets and technology and ultimate fail to save the video. This is the only artifact. This is fortunate because Scott does an audio podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The History and Future of Web Standards with Molly Holzschlag from molly.com Scott's in Mexico this week and he's sitting down with Molly Holzschlag. Molly is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author and correctly works for Opera as an evangelist. She explains the history of HTML, SGML and XML and we chat about where we think the web is headed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monomania - Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware Scott chats with Mono Product Manager Joseph Hill and Monospace conference organizer and continous learner Scott Bellware about the state of Mono. Is Mono competition or diversity? How hard are cross platform apps? Can you really write apps for your iPhone in C#? Where can you learn more about Mono? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Return of 3-Tier Architecture - RIA Services with Brad Abrams Brad Abrams runs a number of teams at Microsoft, most recently working on "Rich Internet Application Services" (RIA). Scott grills Brad on the rebirth of 3-tier architect, XML, REST and JSON. What's this thing about and is it the best way to write data-centric apps with Silverlight? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutes Live: Open Source and the Codeplex Foundation In this unusual episode of Hanselminutes, organized late at night over Twitter, and recorded as a community conference call, Scott moderates a discussion on open source and the new CodePlex Foundation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside a Visual Studio Plugin - CodeRush with Mark Miller Mark Miller thinks and talks fast. Fortunately he codes fast also. He works on CodeRush for DevExpress, a very intense Visual Studio plugin that helps you visualize and refactor code. How is it built? How does it break the rules? Scott digs in. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutiae-seven with Richard Campbell Too much? Too soon? We like Richard so darn much that we had to keep talking on this show. Scott and Richard talk about personal PBXs, multi-core PDAs, iPads and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Udi Dahan and NServiceBus Udi Dahan is an Enterprise Development Expert and also the author of NServiceBus. Udi educates Scott on how a service bus works, and how it fits into a world of brokers, workflows and services. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Optimizing Your Website with Jeff Atwood and Stackoverflow It's the return of Jeff Atwood. He and the team have been making lots of great speed optimizations to Stackoverflow lately. What tools are they using? What kinds of speed improvements are they seeing, and what can you do to exploit their experience? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutiae-six with Richard Campbell In this sixth episode of our micro-series "Hanselminutiae," Scott and Richard Campbell chat about all things technological. It's a bit random at times, but at least we enjoy it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All About Microsoft with Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley writes the All About Microsoft blog for ZDNet and has worked as a journalist covering Microsoft for years. Scott and Mary Jo chat about Windows 7 and the future of Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Return of Uncle Bob Scott and Uncle Bob meet again, this time in Norway and in person. Uncle Bob tries to answer the question Are You Professional. Scott and uncle Bob chat about software craftmanship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kanban Boards for Agile Project Management with Zen Author Nate Kohari Today Scott chats with Nate Kohari, author of Ninject, about Nate's new Kanban-inspired project "Zen." Are project boards something your agile team should be thinking about? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove In this show recorded in Norway, Roy Osherove educates Scott on best practices in Unit Testing techniques and the Art of Unit Testing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Successful Cross Platform .NET Development - Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover Scott chats with Aaron Bockover of Novell about the Banshee Project - a cross-platform Media Player. It's a Mono Application that runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. What are the hard-won secrets of cross platform .NET dev? Aaron and his team know the answers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Convention Over Configuration with Jeremy Miller. Scott's Norway interviews continue this week, this time with Jeremy Miller, author of Structure Map. Scott and Jeremy chat about fluent interfaces, Convention Over Configuration and how to best simplify your systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Windows Presentation Foundation explained by Ian Griffiths Scott chats with Ian Griffiths about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Why is it so hard to master? What techniques should the WinForms developer learn first? Scott's working on a side project, and he and Ian brainstorm ways for Scott's application to use WPF more effectively. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Working Effectively with Legacy Code with Michael Feathers Scott's in Norway this week and he sits down with Michael Feathers. Michael is the author of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code." What is legacy code? Are you writing legacy code right now? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer When's Silverlight 10 coming out? These versions are moving pretty fast. Scott chats with Tim Heuer to try and make sense of it. How does offline for Silverlight work? What's the best way to keep on the this new tech. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Software Metrics with Patrick Smacchia Scott sits down with Patrick Smacchia, lead developer of NDepend, and talks about Software Metrics. What metrics lie beyond Lines of Code? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Powershell 2.0 Scott's at TechEd and bumps into Hal Rottenberg and Kirk Munro. Hal's a Powershell IT guy and Kirk's a Powershell-focused Dev. What's new in Powershell 2.0 and what's in it for the .NET developer or Windows power user? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BBSs and Wildcat! from Mustang Software Scott chats with founders of Mustang Software (creators of Wildcat! BBS) Jim Harrer and Scott Hunter about the BBS era. We start at 300 baud and work our way up. Remember Hayes modems, v.32bis, Fidonet, Compuserve? This is the show for you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JavaFX and the Web's Four Virtual Machines In this episode Scott talks to Joshua Marinacci from Sun, a Staff Engineer working on JavaFX. JavaFX, along with Flash and Silverlight battle to be The VM for the Web. We chat about how JavaFX approaches things and muse on who will win the web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IronPython with Michael Foord Michael Foord makes his living as a Python programmer. More specifically has an IronPython programmer. He chats with Scott about his company's use of IronPython, the DLR and why they picked Python over C# or VB. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Visiting Fog Creek Software and Joel Spolsky Scott's in New York this week and he stops by the Fog Creek Software offices on Broadway and chats with Joel Spolsky. Why did they write their own compiler? How long have they used VBScript? What does Joel think about online community? All this and less in this episode! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutae-five with Richard Campbell Be warned! We may just waste your time with this show. It's Hanselminutae #5 with Richard Campbell. We talk books, Windows, Economics, being a Millionaire, Multiple Monitors, TweetDeck, and much much less! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dealing with Diversity in Agile Teams with Aslam Khan Scott chats about Diversity with Aslam Khan. He is a software architect and coach from South Africa. He shares his experience growing up South African, and how he applies his experience to working with Agile software development teams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A C64 Emulator with Silverlight 3 by Pete Brown Scott digs deep with Pete Brown about the Commodore 64 Emulator he is writing in Silverlight 3. Is Silverlight fast enough? What about offline support? What Silverlight 3 features made the job easier? All this and next steps in this week's show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ASP.NET and the Mobile Web Scott's at Mix09 in Las Vegas this week and he sits down with Chris Woods, a Program Manager on the Mobile Browse Platform Team. They've just open sourced a MASSIVE database of mobile device capabilities, enabling better mobile development for ASP.NET developers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tables Turned - Mo Interviews Scott Hanselman Scott's wife Mo turns the tables in this interview and talks to Web Developer Scott Hanselman. How does he fit it all into a day? What about work life balance? Is Scott bored with technology? When will the madness stop? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Code Generation and T4 with Kathleen Dollard Scott chats with Kathleen Dollard about the past and the future of Code Generation. Scott's infatuated with T4, but does it have a future? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fit is Dead, Long Live Fitnesse - with Ward Cunningham and James Shore You may have heard the terms "Fit" and "Fitnesse" bandied about by the software engineering literati. What are they? Are they useful? Are they used at all? Does your testing strategy need some fitnesse? The creator of Fit and the coordinator of the Fit project chat with Scott and answer the hard questions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Uncle Bob Martin: SOLID, this time with feeling. Uncle Bob Martin responds to the hullabaloo around the SOLID principles from Show 145, his time on the Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky StackOverflow podcast, and offers his reasoned response. Is it time for a Software Apprenticeship Program? Other possible titles for this show: "He's back and he's pissed." "Bob's your Uncle." "Joel Who?" "SOLID State" "I got your tests right here!" "Smack Overflow" "Pay Attention This Time: Bob Martin on SOLID" (No, Bob's not pissed. We're just having a laug ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deconstructing "blu" - a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23 Scott talks to Doug Cook, Hal Saville, and Lee Brenner about their dramatic new Twitter client, called "blu" (formerly "chirp") with a jelly aesthetic you have to see to believe. How do they find developing in WPF? What's their workflow? What's coming for the next release of blu? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MEF - Managed Extensibility Framework with Glenn Block There's been lots of talk about MEF lately, but what the heck is it? Is it an Open Source Project or is it part of the .NET Framework? Is it both? Is it an IOC Container or something new? Glenn Block sets Scott straight in this interview recorded on the Microsoft Campus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The new WPF-based Text Editor in Visual Studio 2010 - Interview with a Dev Scott is on campus this week and bumps into Noah Richards, a "lowly" (his word) dev on the new editor in Visual Studio 2010. They sit down and Scott gets an education on how it's put together, built, componentized and shared. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Test Driven Development is Design - The Last Word on TDD Scott Hanselman talks to Scott Bellware about TDD. ScottB says that Test Driven Development is less about Testing and more about Design. Is TDD poorly named? Did Test Smell beget Design Smell beget Code Smell? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob - Robert C. Martin Scott sits down with Robert C. Martin as Uncle Bob helps Scott understand the SOLID Principles of Object Oriented Design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Week Three in South Africa - Ntombenhle Scott's on holiday in South Africa with his family this month. Rather than doing repeats or "best of" shows, Scott's doing man-on-the-street interviews and uploading them over cell phone. In this episode, Scott talks to his Wife, Ntombenhle, an MBA and Homemaker from Zimbabwe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Week Two in South Africa - Victor Scott's on holiday in South Africa with his family this month. Rather than doing repeats or "best of" shows, Scott's doing man-on-the-street interviews and uploading them over cell phone. In this episode, Scott talks to Victor, a lawyer and lecturer at the University of Lesotho. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Week One in South Africa - Vusi Scott's on holiday in South Africa with his family this month. Rather than doing repeats or "best of" shows, Scott's doing man-on-the-street interviews and uploading them over cell phone. In this episode, Scott talks to Vusi, an IT sales manager from Johannesburg. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coding4Fun with Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek - Wiimotes and YouTube Scott talks with Dan and Brian as they turn the successful Coding4Fun blog into a book. Brian shares how to interface with the Nintendo Wii's Wiimote, and Dan tells us how to download and convert YouTube videos in one click. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Conery limps and learns about Domain Driven Design What's the deal with DDD? Is it a fad? A religion? Some kind of software design cult? Rob Conery has decided to learn for himself, and Scott joins him for the trip in this episode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moonlight (Silverlight on Linux with Mono) with Miguel de Icaza and Joseph Hill Scott chats with with Miguel de Icaza and Joseph Hill, the folks behind Moonlight. It's Silverlight on Linux with Mono and it's Open Source! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paint.NET with Rick Brewster Scott talks with Paint.NET author Rick Brewster about some of the internals of his popular freeware application. They focus on deployment and setup, how Rick does it and what we can learn from him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Behind the Scenes - StackOverflow and Jeff Atwood - Part 2 Here's some raw audio from the last show. We left the recorder on after the show was over, and the discussion continued for another 30 minutes! It's a different conversation in a raw style, but we hope you enjoy it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StackOverflow uses ASP.NET MVC - Jeff Atwood and his technical team Scott chats with Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror.com and most recently, StackOverflow.com. Jeff and Joel Spolsky and their technical team have created a new class of application using ASP.NET MVC. What works, what doesn't, and how did it all go down? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Windows Live Agents and the Machine Translation Bot from MS Research Scott visits Microsoft Research and talks to Helvecio Ribeiro, the Test Lead for Machine Translation about T-Bot, his translation bot for Windows Live Messenger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Subsonic with Rob Conery What is Subsonic and should you use it? Scott and Rob Conery chat about his baby and comparisons to other Open Source frameworks. Also, Scott tries to get free consulting for his new pet project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Webb - The guy who lowercased Basic Today we reminisce with Jeff Webb about the very early years of Basic and Visual Basic at Microsoft. What was it like to work just a few offices down from BillG? When did Basic stop being ALL CAPS? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JavaScript gets Faster: Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla Corporation and Creator of JavaScript Scott talks to Brendan Eich from Mozilla about TraceMonkey, the new super-fast JavaScript engine. Where does Brendan think JavaScript is headed? What does the rise of JavaScript mean to Flash, Silverlight and RIAs in general? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thoughts on Javascript with Bertrand Le Roy Scott chats with Bertrand Le Roy, Program Manager for MS-Ajax at Microsoft. Where does Bertrand see Ajax and Javascript going in the future? We also chat about MS-Ajax 4.0s possible future and how to use templates and Javascript on the clientside. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Object Oriented AJAX with Scott Cate Scott's in Australia this week, but he catches up with Scott Care from CloudDB.com and talks about the differences between MS-AJAX and jQuery. How does object-orientation work in Javascript? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website .NET 3.5 SP1 is out...what's inside Carl and Scott chat about what's new in .NET 3.5 SP1. There's a lot of new additions and improvements...should you care? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website jQuery with John Resig Scott chats with John Resig about how he developed jQuery, how it performs, and where he thinks it's headed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accessibility in Web and Rich Applications In this episode Scott talks to Saqib Shaikh, a developer for Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK, who is also blind. They chat about accessibility in Windows, on the Web and in the next generation of Web Applications written with AJAX and Silverlight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Bray on Microblogging and Widefinder In an interview organized on Twitter, Scott chats with Tim Bray, Distinguished Engineer at Sun and about Twitter and Microblogging and how the community squeezes performance of his WideFinder and WideFinder 2 challenges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dare Obasanjo on Social Networking Scott sits down with Dare Obasanjo and they chat about the interesting problems that Social Networking sites face. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BabySmash! Scott introduces Carl to BabySmash for the first time, and they chat about some of the services available to MicroISVs, as well as the joys of coding in WPF. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LineRider - Porting a Flash Game to Silverlight 2 In this episode, Scott talks to Rick Barraza, an Experience Architect from Cynergy with a background in Flash, and Bryan Perfetto, a Developer from Inxile writing his first Silverlight application. They chat about how and why they ported the popular Flash Game LineRider.com to Silverlight 2. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Odd Couple - A Developer and a Designer talk about working with XAML Richard is a dev that spends most of his time in the presentation layer and Felix is a designer. Richard is focused on the Xaml and code, unlike Felix who is a tragically hip and talented designer who is focused on design and user experience. Can Xaml bring this odd couple together? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is Done? - A Conversation with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber Scott chats with Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, agile advocate and a founder of the Agile Alliance. Scott asks 'What is the definition of Done?' and gets a more complicated (and more interesting!) answer than he bargained for. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lean Software Development with Tom and Mary Poppendieck Scott sits down in Oslo, Norway with Tom and Mary Poppendieck to talk about Lean Software Development, the importance of The Business, and the real definition of success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft PDC and Windows 7 Reaction Show with Richard Campbell Scott catches up with Richard Campbell at DevConnections in Las Vegas and they chat about the announcements at the 2008 Microsoft PDC and how/if the new stuff will affect our lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MSR@PDC - Microsoft Research at the Professional Developers Conference One of the hidden gems this year at the PDC conference was the Microsoft Research section. It was buried in the back of the convention center, unfortunately, so a lot of people didn't know it was there. Scott talks to each team at length and gets the scoop on what project are coming to an IDE near you sometime soon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft PDC and Windows 7 Reaction Show with Richard Campbell Scott catches up with Richard Campbell at DevConnections in Las Vegas and they chat about the announcements at the 2008 Microsoft PDC and how/if the new stuff will affect our lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MSR@PDC - Microsoft Research at the Professional Developers Conference One of the hidden gems this year at the PDC conference was the Microsoft Research section. It was buried in the back of the convention center, unfortunately, so a lot of people didn't know it was there. Scott talks to each team at length and gets the scoop on what project are coming to an IDE near you sometime soon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Behind the Scenes - StackOverflow and Jeff Atwood - Part 2 Here's some raw audio from the last show. We left the recorder on after the show was over, and the discussion continued for another 30 minutes! It's a different conversation in a raw style, but we hope you enjoy it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website StackOverflow uses ASP.NET MVC - Jeff Atwood and his technical team Scott chats with Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror.com and most recently, StackOverflow.com. Jeff and Joel Spolsky and their technical team have created a new class of application using ASP.NET MVC. What works, what doesn't, and how did it all go down? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Windows Live Agents and the Machine Translation Bot from MS Research Scott visits Microsoft Research and talks to Helvecio Ribeiro, the Test Lead for Machine Translation about T-Bot, his translation bot for Windows Live Messenger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lean Software Development with Tom and Mary Poppendieck Scott sits down in Oslo, Norway with Tom and Mary Poppendieck to talk about Lean Software Development, the importance of The Business, and the real definition of success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Subsonic with Rob Conery What is Subsonic and should you use it? Scott and Rob Conery chat about his baby and comparisons to other Open Source frameworks. Also, Scott tries to get free consulting for his new pet project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Webb - The guy who lowercased Basic Today we reminisce with Jeff Webb about the very early years of Basic and Visual Basic at Microsoft. What was it like to work just a few offices down from BillG? When did Basic stop being ALL CAPS? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JavaScript gets Faster: Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla Corporation and Creator of JavaScript Scott talks to Brendan Eich from Mozilla about TraceMonkey, the new super-fast JavaScript engine. Where does Brendan think JavaScript is headed? What does the rise of JavaScript mean to Flash, Silverlight and RIAs in general? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thoughts on Javascript with Bertrand Le Roy Scott chats with Bertrand Le Roy, Program Manager for MS-Ajax at Microsoft. Where does Bertrand see Ajax and Javascript going in the future? We also chat about MS-Ajax 4.0s possible future and how to use templates and Javascript on the clientside. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Object Oriented AJAX with Scott Cate Scott's in Australia this week, but he catches up with Scott Care from CloudDB.com and talks about the differences between MS-AJAX and jQuery. How does object-orientation work in Javascript? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website .NET 3.5 SP1 is out...what's inside Carl and Scott chat about what's new in .NET 3.5 SP1. There's a lot of new additions and improvements...should you care? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website jQuery with John Resig Scott chats with John Resig about how he developed jQuery, how it performs, and where he thinks it's headed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accessibility in Web and Rich Applications In this episode Scott talks to Saqib Shaikh, a developer for Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK, who is also blind. They chat about accessibility in Windows, on the Web and in the next generation of Web Applications written with AJAX and Silverlight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Bray on Microblogging and Widefinder In an interview organized on Twitter, Scott chats with Tim Bray, Distinguished Engineer at Sun and about Twitter and Microblogging and how the community squeezes performance of his WideFinder and WideFinder 2 challenges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dare Obasanjo on Social Networking Scott sits down with Dare Obasanjo and they chat about the interesting problems that Social Networking sites face. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BabySmash! Scott introduces Carl to BabySmash for the first time, and they chat about some of the services available to MicroISVs, as well as the joys of coding in WPF. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LineRider - Porting a Flash Game to Silverlight 2 In this episode, Scott talks to Rick Barraza, an Experience Architect from Cynergy with a background in Flash, and Bryan Perfetto, a Developer from Inxile writing his first Silverlight application. They chat about how and why they ported the popular Flash Game LineRider.com to Silverlight 2. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Odd Couple - A Developer and a Designer talk about working with XAML Richard is a dev that spends most of his time in the presentation layer and Felix is a designer. Richard is focused on the Xaml and code, unlike Felix who is a tragically hip and talented designer who is focused on design and user experience. Can Xaml bring this odd couple together? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is Done? - A Conversation with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber Scott chats with Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, agile advocate and a founder of the Agile Alliance. Scott asks 'What is the definition of Done?' and gets a more complicated (and more interesting!) answer than he bargained for. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sorting out Internationalization with Michael Kaplan Michael Kaplan is a Developer in the Windows International group and the author of the popular "Sorting It Out" blog that is dedicated it all things "-ization." That means Globalization, Internationalization, and Localization. This show is is brought to you by the CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Distributed Caching with Microsoft's "Velocity" Scott sits down on the TechEd floor with Anil and "MK" from the Velocity team to talk about Microsoft's new .NET Distributed Cache. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Passion for Software *or* The Return of the "Franklinator" Scott talks with Carl, who is back from a long hiatus, about the joys of programming and getting back to basics. Is it hard to stay passionate about this job? Is there a need for the community to revisit Computer Science 101? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Website Scaling War Stories with Richard Campbell Scott and Richard chat (and chat and chat!) about scaling website and scalability in general while at the DevTeach Conference in Toronto. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Continuous Integration: Continuous Monitoring with Owen Rogers Scott sits down with Owen Rogers, one of the original authors of CruiseControl.NET, and hears about his ideas around a hardware and software platform that extends Continuous Integration with Continuous Monitoring. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ASP.NET Model View Controller, MVCContrib and MonoRail Scott sits down with Phil Haack, ASP.NET Microsoft PM, Dru Sellers, Contributor to the Castle Project, and Jeffrey Palermo, of the MVCContrib project and talks about the ASP.NET MVC Project and Microsoft's changing attitudes towards Open Source. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Past, Present and Future of .NET Unit Testing Frameworks Scott gets a rare chance to sit down in person with developers from three .NET Unit Testing Frameworks. Charlie Poole from NUnit, Jeff Brown from MbUnit, Brad Wilson from xUnit.NET as well as Roy Osherove, the author of the upcoming "Art of Unit Testing." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft Research: Spec# Scott sits down with Mike Barnett and Rustan Leino of Microsoft Research and talks about the Spec# programming language. The compiler enables Design By Contract and extends C#. The team needs your help to get these features in the next version of C#! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ASP.NET Dynamic Data with Scott Hunter Following up on the announcement from last week on ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Scott sits down with yet-another-Scott, in this case Scott Hunter, a Program Manager on the ASP.NET team and tries to get his mind wrapped around Dynamic Data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Distributed Source Control with Git Scott sits down with Robby, Gary and Andy from Planet Argon, a local Rails shop in Portland, OR, and talks about their experience as they move from Subversion to Git for their source control. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Outsourcing In this episode Scott sits down with Venkat and Vinod from India, two Microsoft Regional Directors and gets their inside perspective on outsourcing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocky Lhotka on Data Access Mania, LINQ and CSLA.NET Scott talks with developer and author Rockford Lhotka about the attack of the DALs (Data Access Layers). How can we put LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities and classic multi-tiered design all into a larger context? What's the right strategy for your data access needs? Scott's got questions and Rocky's got opinions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Laribee on Alt.net This week Scott talks with Dave Laribee of Xclaim Software about the movement he named ALT.NET. Are these alternative principles or just business as usual? What can Microsoft learn from the Agile Community? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kazel Bradley on Testing after Unit Tests In this episode Scott talks with Kazel Bradley, a Microsoft developer on the Connected Systems Architecture Team, about testing after unit tests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Principal Architect Mike Pizzo on the ADO.NET Entity Framework Scott discusses the ins and outs of the ADO.NET Entity framework and LINQ to Entities with Microsoft Principal Architect Mike Pizzo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michio Kaku on making the "impossible" possible Scott talks with theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku about making what was once considered impossible technology into reality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Community with Norm Judah - CTO of Microsoft Services Scott chats with Norm Judah, the CTO of Microsoft Services. They talk about running a multi-cultural organization of 16,000 consultants, building online community, and writing green software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's it like for Mac Developers - Interview with Steven Frank of Panic Scott chats with Steven Frank, co-founder of Panic, an Apple Design Award winning Mac Development Shop. Scott and Steven went to college together and their technology paths forked. What's it like coding for Mac and how is it different from Windows? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Interviews His Dad In this special episode, Scott sits down with his Dad and talks about growing up as a geek, raising geeks, and the sacrifices families make to help their geek children succeed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ADO.NET "Astoria" Data Services with Shawn Wildermuth Scott chats with Shawn Wildermuth, "the ADO Guy," about ADO.NET Data Services, aka "Project Astoria." It's REST for SQL Server. Should you care? What's REST? How does this relate to WCF or ASP.NET? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Starting Small with F# with Dustin Campbell Scott is at CodeMash in Ohio this week chatting with CodeRush/Refactor developer Dustin Campbell about his recent obsession with F#. Is it a functional language and object-oriented language or an imperative language? Why should you care? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2007 The Year in Review Scott and Carl chat about 2007. How was the year for Developers? For the Web? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Worst Show Ever with Chris Sells and Rory Blyth Chris Sells and Rory Blyth come over to Scott's house and proceed to record a horrible episode of Hanselminutes. Consider this a Holiday episode that is devoid of content. Run away, quickly, and we'll be back with great new shows, new topics and new guests in the new year. As for this episode, if you listen, you'll never get the time back. ;) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pex with Jonathan 'Peli' de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann "Pex" is an intelligent assistant to the programmer that automatically generates unit tests, allowing you to find bugs early. In addition, it suggests to the programmer how to fix the bugs. Scott chats with Peli and Nikolai about this exciting Microsoft Research project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Visual Basic Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Paul Vick Scott chats with Paul Vick, Principal VB Architect, and Paul Yuknewicz, a Senior Program Manager on the VB Team about the past, present and future of Visual Basic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eclipse with Bjorn Freeman-Benson In this episode Scott discusses Eclipse, Open Source and both the history and future of software with Bjorn Freeman-Benson. Bjorn is the Technical Director for Open Source Process and Infrastructure for the Eclipse Foundation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Software Architecture with Dan Appleman Scott gets the scoop on software architecture with developer and author Dan Appleman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Over Two Decades at Microsoft - Larry Osterman Scott chats with Larry Osterman, the man who makes Windows go "ding", about his two-plus decades working for Microsoft. They chat about sound, Vista, Security and generally geek out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writing FaceBook Applications with .NET - Interview with Mel Sampat, author of Outsync In this episode, Scott talks with Mel Sampat, a Program Manager at Microsoft who's written OutSync, an application that syncs faces between Outlook, Facebook, and indirectly Windows SmartPhones. They chat about what it takes to write your own FaceBook application using ASP.NET or WinForms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Planning, Placing and Building a House Google Earth and Sketchup Scott's all alone this week, talking about planning the house he and his wife built. They used Google Earth to visualize the lot, placing a lot and neighborhood plan in 3D space. Then, working with their agent, they modeled the architectural plans in Google SketchUp and placed the model in Google Earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EarthClassMail.com - Moving from LAMP to .NET 3.5 Scott chats with Matt Davis, architect at EarthClassMail.com, about their move from a LAMP stack (Linux/Apache/mysql/PHP) to .NET 3.5. What's working, what's not, and what kinds of issues are they running into as their architect their solution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Parallel Programming with .NET Scott chats with Stephen Toub a Microsoft Developer working on new ways to make concurrency programming easier with .NET. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Shawn Burke on Microsoft's .NET Source Code Release Scott and Carl talk with Shawn Burke on the culmination of his many-year-old plan to get parts of the source of the .NET Framework released. With Visual Studio 2008, a simple process will allow developers to STEP INTO the .NET Framework Source from the IDE. This'll be a great debugging and learning tool. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10 Foot Development for Media Center Every copy of Windows Vista Home Premium and above has Media Center on it. Have you run your copy? Turns out that you can develop your own '10 foot apps' (that can be run with a remote from your couch) with Visual Studio Express or even Notepad. Scott talks to Charlie Owen to find out how. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vista 64 - Developing on 64-bit Vista Ultimate Scott adds some much needed detail to last weeks show. Is developing on 64-bit in .NET tricky? What gotchas do you need? Who should move to 64-bit? Recorded from his hotel room the night before Scott goes to work at Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vista 64 - Is Now the Time? Carl and Scott are both running 64-bit Vista while others wait. Was it the right decision? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LINQ to XML Scott's been poking around with LINQ to XML and reports his findings to Carl about life with XDocuments and XElements. They also talk about the bridge classes that link (no pun intended) System.Xml and System.Xml.Linq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2007 Ultimate Tool List Scott and Carl talk about Scott's 2007 Ultimate devoloper and power users tool list. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moving your Email into the Cloud - Google for Apps and Live Custom Domains Scott and Carl talk about Scott's Family's recent move to Google Apps and Carl considers moving to Live Custom Domains. What are the benefits of moving your life into the cloud? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website F# with Robert Pickering Scott chats with Robert Pickering, author of Foundations of F#. We ask the question 'Why F#?' and talk about functional languages and some of the features of F# that make it a great introduction to FP for .NET programmers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Lam on Iron Ruby Scott sits down with John Lam at OSCON the day that Iron Ruby Pre-Alpha 1 was released, and talks about the announcement to host on RubyForge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Atwood overclocks the Ultimate PC Scott and Carl talk to Jeff Atwood about the importance of Hardware and Scott addresses some of the questions around Building a Developer PC from Show 69. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking to the Interns Scott's got two high-school interns working for him this summer. In this episode Scott talks to High School Seniors Eric and Shady about their experience working at Corillian and their thoughts about learning languages and the future of engineering. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Be a Better Developer in Six Months Justice Gray asked folks 'What are you doing for the next 6 months to be a better developer?' In this episode, Scott and Carl kick the question around. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Windows Home Server Scott talks to Charlie Kindel about the upcoming Windows Home Server, formerly Project Q and how you can backup your life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Timothy Ferriss of The Four Hour Workweek Scott sits down with New York Times Best Selling Author Timothy Ferriss of the 4-Hour Workweek. Tim has an interesting take on how to focus on what's important in your life and offers techniques to be more effective. Scott comes at it from the programmer's perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building a Developer PC Scott and Carl chat about building your own PC with a focus on the developer, rather than the gamer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Orcas Overview What's the big deal about Orcas, er, Visual Studio 2008? Scott sits down with his partner in crime, Patrick Cauldwell, and chat about .NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, oh my! They also talk a bit about dynamic languages, VB 10, and LINQ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutae-four Scott and Carl Discuss recent technology changes and upgrades in this the fourth installment of Hanselminutiae. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Setting up a Home Network Scott and Carl talk about home networking: dos and don'ts, gotchas and such. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott talks to Martin Fowler and David Heinemeier Hansson Scott sits down with Martin Fowler of Thoughtworks and David Heinemeier Hansson of 37 signals and talks about beauty, making developers happen, the death (or life) of HTML, the future of Microsoft, and asks if we should care about Rich Internet Applications. DHH is the creator of the Ruby on Rails framework, and Martin Fowler is the Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, well-known systems architect and Extreme Programming expert. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander on Silverlight Scott sits down with Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander at Mix 07 to talk about Silverlight, his incredible keynote demos, dynamic language support, and all of the rest of the mind-blowing news from Mix! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Sells and Scott Look Forward (Part 2 of 2) In Part 2 of this Two Part podcast, I visit the home of Chris Sells and we make up a topic for the show! I suggested we talk about what programming will look like in 15 years, and Chris countered with the suggestion that we chat about the LAST 15 years first, then the next 15. In this half we speculate on the next fifteen years and what it will bring to personal computing and programming. Be sure to check out Part One! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Sells and Scott Look Back (Part 1 of 2) In Part 1 of this Two Part podcast, I visit the home of Chris Sells and we make up a topic for the show! I suggested we talk about what programming will look like in 15 years, and Chris countered with the suggestion that we chat about the LAST 15 years first, then the next 15. We have a blast when we chat, so this show went long, almost 50 minutes, so we cut it in half so as not to waste the listeners time. Be sure to check out Part Two! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Sells and Scott Look Back (Part 1 of 2) In this, the first of a two-part series, Scott talks with Chris Sells about the last 15 years of Windows development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rich Internet Applications - WPF/E becomes Silverlight We discuss "Web 2.5" as Silverlight (ne WPF/E) is announced. Seems that Rich Cross-Platform Runtimes quickly approach from both Microsoft and Adobe. What does this mean to the average developer? We also try to make up for some misinformation we spread in Show 46 on WPF/E, and while we do it, we probably speculate wildly and spread more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutiae #3 Carl and Scott discuss the weeks events in their technology lives, in this 3rd Hanselminutiae. Who are the Spyware People? Is the AppleTV any good? What's your backup strategy? And Scott's Dad gets a Mac. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rich Internet Applications - WPF/E becomes Silverlight Scott discussions Web 2.5 as Silverlight is announced. Seems that Rich Cross-Platform runtimes quickly approach from both Microsoft and Adobe. What does this mean to the average developer? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutiae #3 Carl and Scott discuss the weeks events in their technology lives, in this 3rd Hanselminutiae. Who are the Spyware People? Is the AppleTV any good? What's your backup strategy? And Scott's Dad gets a Mac. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building 42/Polita Paulus Scott teams up with Rory Blyth to find and talk to developers at Microsoft building 42. In a feat of investigative skill and daring they find themselves interviewing a dev with major cred: Polita Paulus. Find the Channel9 video at www.shrinkster.com/nik Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Old New Thing - Interview with Raymond Chen Scott sits down with the original raconteur of Windows, Raymond Chen to talk about all things Win32 and where Microsoft Bob is currently. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monorail - Alternative ASP.NET Scott interviews two developers who are betting on Monorail on ASP.NET, an MVC Web Framework inspired by Action Pack. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sychronizing Internet Calendars Scott and Carl chat about the pain of the DST change and how they manage their calendars over the internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sychronizing Internet Calendars Scott and Carl chat about the pain of the DST change and how they manage their calendars over the internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building 42/Polita Paulus Scott teams up with Rory Blyth to find and talk to developers at Microsoft building 42. In a feat of investigative skill and daring they find themselves interviewing a dev with major cred: Polita Paulus. Find the Channel9 video at www.shrinkster.com/nik Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Old New Thing - Interview with Raymond Chen Scott sits down with the original raconteur of Windows, Raymond Chen to talk about all things Win32 and where Microsoft Bob is currently. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monorail - Alternative ASP.NET Scott interviews two developers who are betting on Monorail on ASP.NET, an MVC Web Framework inspired by Action Pack. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Squeezing the most out of Continuous Integration - with Jay Flowers In this long-awaited Part II on Continuous Integration, Scott talks to Jay Flowers, maker of CI Factory about how to squeeze the most out of your Continuous Integration build. If you're not doing CI, this is a great opportunity to start! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Squeezing the most out of Continuous Integration - with Jay Flowers In this long-awaited Part II on Continuous Integration, Scott talks to Jay Flowers, maker of CI Factory about how to squeeze the most out of your Continuous Integration build. If you're not doing CI, this is a great opportunity to start! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hiring and Interviewing Engineers Scott and Carl talk about the "FizzBuzz" test and try to come up with practical techniques for hiring engineers and technical folks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website End to End Tracing Scott and Carl talk about the End to End (E2E) tracing format, how it relates to WCF and how you can use it to introduce system-wide tracing your large multi-machine or multi-service applications and literally trace a "transaction" from Web to backend and back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website End to End Tracing Scott and Carl talk about the End to End (E2E) tracing format, how it relates to WCF and how you can use it to introduce system-wide tracing your large multi-machine or multi-service applications and literally trace a "transaction" from Web to backend and back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Static Code Analysis with NDepend Scott and Carl discuss afferent and efferent coupling, and many other code metric techniques, and wonder why more .NET developers don't use static analysis tools to better understand their designs. My Odeo Channel (odeo/fe2e4f4b14a6ee73) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Static Code Analysis with NDepend Scott and Carl discuss afferent and efferent coupling, and many other code metrics techniques, and wonder why more .NET developers don't use static analysis tools to better understand their designs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OpenID Scott and Carl talk about the Microsoft/OpenID collaboration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OpenID Scott and Carl talk about the Microsoft/OpenID collaboration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Identity Scott and Carl talk about digital identity and related technologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diabetes Technology This week Scott and Carl talk about the latest technology around dealing with Diabetes, as well as a short discussion of the basics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Guthrie Scott catches up with Scott Guthrie in an interview covering Ajax, Asp 2.0, extender controls, CSS adapters and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey Snover, PowerShell Architect Scott turns the tables and interviews Jeffrey Snover, the Architect of PowerShell (previously Monad) and gets the lowdown on the history of this enhanced management shell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HDTV Scott and Carl discuss the current state of Hi-Def Television. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Interviews Chris Sells Scott spends some quality time with Microsoft Program Manager Chris Sells to discuss Vista, the joys of the XBox 360 and to set the world straight on spelunking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All About Vista RC1 Scott and Carl discuss their experiences with Windows Vista Release Candidate 1. New features, pain points, expectations, etc. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mock Objects Scott and Carl discuss the topic of Mock Objects: what they are, when to use them, and of course an analysis of available tools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Test Driven Scott addresses the processes and benefits of test-driven development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Better Outlook Scott discusses some useful add-ons for Outlook. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bruce Payette - Powershell In this episode Scott gets the skinny on Powershell with Bruce Payette, one of the founding members of the Windows PowerShell team, co-designer of the PowerShell language and the principal author of the PowerShell language implementation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Board Gaming for Programmers In this episode Scott talks with Chris Brooks and Eli Smith about the evolution and current state of classic board gaming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to start your own MicroISV In this episode Scott interviews Leon of SecretGeek.net about the partnership that created their TimeSnapper product. Leon shares his 25 steps to starting your own MicroISV. Leon will be publishing detailed info on each step on his blog. If you've ever considered selling software on the net, this is the show for you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WPF/E Scott and Carl discuss Microsoft's answer to Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), a lightweight version of the .NET 2.0 (and 3.0) Framework that promises to be multi-browser and multi-platform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Language Extensibility - Iron Python Scott and Carl bring us up to date on the developments in dynamic and static language extensibility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pro Audio Basics Scott and Carl discuss some of the basics and modern myths of professional audio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life Hacks with Gina Trapani Scott and Carl talk about life hacks with Gina Trapani, web developer and author of the book "Life Hacker - 88 tricks to turbocharge your day". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Next Generation Gaming Systems Scott talks with Carl about the state of gaming hardware, software, and programmability. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WS-* This week Scott and Carl discuss the various WS specifications and how they relate to WCF, with a strong emphasis on security. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Architecture (TechEd Barcelona) This week Scott and Carl discuss Software Architecture from the Tech Ed developer conference in Barcelona. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bruce Payette - Powershell In this episode Scott gets the skinny on Powershell with Bruce Payette, one of the founding members of the Windows PowerShell team, co-designer of the PowerShell language and the principal author of the PowerShell language implementation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Board Gaming for Programmers In this episode Scott talks with Chris Brooks and Eli Smith about the evolution and current state of classic board gaming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to start your own MicroISV In this episode Scott interviews Leon of SecretGeek.net about the partnership that created their TimeSnapper product. Leon shares his 25 steps to starting your own MicroISV. Leon will be publishing detailed info on each step on his blog. If you've ever considered selling software on the net, this is the show for you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WPF/E Scott and Carl discuss Microsoft's answer to Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), a lightweight version of the .NET 2.0 (and 3.0) Framework that promises to be multi-browser and multi-platform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Language Extensibility Scott and Carl bring us up to date on the developments in dynamic and static language extensibility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pro Audio Basics Scott and Carl discuss some of the basics and modern myths of professional audio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life Hacks with Gina Trapani Scott and Carl talk about life hacks with Gina Trapani, web developer and author of the book "Life Hacker - 88 tricks to turbocharge your day". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Next Generation Gaming Systems Scott talks with Carl about the state of gaming hardware, software, and programmability. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WS-* This week Scott and Carl discuss the various WS specifications and how they relate to WCF, with a strong emphasis on security. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Architecture This week Scott and Carl discuss Software Architecture from the Tech Ed developer conference in Barcelona. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Identity Scott and Carl talk about digital identity and related technologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diabetes Technology This week Scott and Carl talk about the latest technology around dealing with Diabetes, as well as a short discussion of the basics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Guthrie Scott catches up with Scott Guthrie in an interview covering Ajax, Asp 2.0, extender controls, CSS adapters and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey Snover, PowerShell Architect Scott turns the tables and interviews Jeffrey Snover, the Architect of PowerShell (previously Monad) and gets the lowdown on the history of this enhanced management shell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Interviews Chris Sells Scott spends some quality time with Microsoft Program Manager Chris Sells to discuss Vista, the joys of the XBox 360 and to set the world straight on spelunking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HDTV Scott and Carl discuss the current state of Hi-Def Television. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All About Vista RC1 Scott and Carl discuss their experiences with Windows Vista Release Candidate 1. New features, pain points, expectations, etc. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mock Objects Scott and Carl discuss the topic of Mock Objects: what they are, when to use them, and of course an analysis of available tools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Test Driven Scott addresses the processes and benefits of test-driven development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Better Outlook Scott discusses some useful add-ons for Outlook. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Code Generation Scott talks about CodeSmith as well as other code generators, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, and offering his usual insight into the issues. Of course, resources abound. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CSI: Your Computer Scott uses his monacle and razor-sharp logic to find a trojan that was infecting his ASP.NET server. You'll learn how he did it, and probably discover some new tools you didn't know about before. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Top Ten Utilities you Didn't Know you Had This week Scott uncovers the coolest utilities on your system that you may not know you have. Windows XP and 2003 users will appreciate these time-saving utilities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft Command Shell (MONAD) Scott digs into MONAD scripts, commands, providers, and more. If you are a .NET developer and have never heard of MONAD, you MUST listen to this show. If you have heard of it, you'll learn something new. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Functional Testing Tools Roundup Scott talks about his experience with functional testing tools including TestComplete by AutomatedQA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Replacing Start|Run Scott talks about alternate ways to launch applications and tools for personal productivity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dynamic vs Compiled Languages Scott talks with Carl about what we can learn from dynamic languages such as Ruby and Ruby on Rails Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open Source Options In this episode Scott explores the issues around using OS software and contributing to OS projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reflection Scott discusses the dos and don'ts of reflection in .NET 1.1 and 2.0. Critical listening for all .NET developers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Globalization/Internationalization with .NET Scott chats about preparing your .NET application for the global marketplace and Carl leads us into a discussion about character encoding. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott's Essential Blogroll (for July 2006 at least) Scott pulls a few dozen favorite blogs of out his blogroll and talks about the folks behind them that provide us all with so much good information on the .NET framework and development in general. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Windows PowerShell (MONAD) Part II Scott brings us up to date on PowerShell, formerly named the Windows Command Shell, code named MONAD. Learn about the new features and some great applications of the technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Line of Scrummage In this show Scott talks about Scrum, the agile project management method. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanseminutiae #2 Scott focuses on portable GPS units in this show, with a few other geeky nuggets tossed on top. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live from TechEd 2006 Scott hits the floor at TechEd in Boston to talk to any gurus he can find there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Office 2007 Preview Scott talks about what you can expect from the up and coming Office 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Torrent! Torrent! Torrent! Scott talks about BitTorrent and its many uses, applications, and websites. As always, great resources abound! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life Hacks Scott discusses Life Hacks, ideas and methods that you can use to organize your life and be more effective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Syndication Scott and Carl have a great discussion about RSS, ATOM, podcasting, and what the world is doing with them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanselminutiae #1 Scott shows off a handful of unrelated tools, websites, and utilities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website