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?
Sep 28, 2010•35 min•Ep. 234
Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
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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?
Sep 16, 2010•34 min•Ep. 233
.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.
Sep 09, 2010•32 min•Ep. 232
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.
Sep 02, 2010•33 min•Ep. 231
Continuous Web Deployment with Jon Torresdal
This week Scott talks to Jon Torresdal 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?
Aug 26, 2010•36 min•Ep. 230
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.
Aug 19, 2010•35 min•Ep. 229
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!
Aug 12, 2010•40 min•Ep. 228
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?
Aug 11, 2010•33 min•Ep. 227
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.
Aug 09, 2010•37 min•Ep. 226
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.
Jul 29, 2010•35 min•Ep. 225
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?
Jul 23, 2010•34 min•Ep. 224
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).
Jul 16, 2010•37 min•Ep. 223
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?
Jul 15, 2010•42 min•Ep. 222
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.
Jul 08, 2010•34 min•Ep. 221
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?
Jul 02, 2010•44 min•Ep. 220
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?
Jun 24, 2010•38 min•Ep. 219
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.
Jun 19, 2010•33 min•Ep. 218
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.
Jun 10, 2010•34 min•Ep. 217
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?
Jun 03, 2010•33 min•Ep. 216
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.
May 27, 2010•37 min•Ep. 215
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.
May 06, 2010•38 min•Ep. 214
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!
Apr 29, 2010•37 min•Ep. 213
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.
Apr 23, 2010•47 min•Ep. 212
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.
Apr 22, 2010•44 min•Ep. 211
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!
Apr 15, 2010•33 min•Ep. 210
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?
Apr 09, 2010•37 min•Ep. 209
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?
Apr 02, 2010•27 min•Ep. 208
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.
Mar 22, 2010•39 min•Ep. 207
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.
Mar 17, 2010•31 min•Ep. 206
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.
Mar 11, 2010•34 min•Ep. 205
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