Selecting the Ultimate Developer Laptop with Damian Edwards
Scott and Damian need better laptops. They need the Ultimate Developer Laptop. i7, 8 to 16 gigs, 256G+ SSD, and under 2 pounds. Does it exist?
Oct 24, 2014•35 min•Ep. 446
Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
Hanselminutes is Fresh Air for Developers. A weekly commute-time podcast that promotes fresh technology and fresh voices. Talk and Tech for Developers, Life-long Learners, and Technologists.
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All about CSS Animations with Val Head
Scott's at Blendconf and sits down with Val Head to talk about CSS Animations. Val is the author of "The CSS Animations Pocket Guide" and explains the essence of CSS Animations to Scott in this episode.
Oct 17, 2014•33 min•Ep. 445
"A Dark Room" - What's it like to have a #1 App? With Amir Rajan
"A Dark Room" was the #1 App in the Apple App Store for weeks and weeks. Surely that's made its creator, Amir Rajan a millionaire, right? Amir explains exactly how the finances work, shares tips on how to make a #1 app, and sets YOU up for success.
Oct 10, 2014•38 min•Ep. 444
A Sass Primer with Claudina Sarahe
Claudina Sarahe is a Front End Developer, educator, conference organizer, and an expert on the Sass CSS preprocessor. She shares her love of Sass with Scott while at @blendconf. Why was Sass needed? What makes Sass powerful...and should you start using it right now?
Oct 03, 2014•31 min•Ep. 443
Being a CodeNewbie with Saron Yitbarek
After starting along a medical path, Saron Yitbarek switched directions, did a bootcamp at the Flatiron School and is now well on her way in a new career as a programmer. Saron also started CodeNewbie, a welcoming community of beginner and developing programmers.
Sep 26, 2014•32 min•Ep. 442
Choosing a JavaScript Framework with Craig McKeachie
Scott talks to Craig McKeachie about his new book the Javascript Framework Guide. There's lots of talk about frameworks, but not a lot about HOW to choose a framework and WHY? What kinds of things do I value, and does my framework of choice value those things as well?
Sep 19, 2014•34 min•Ep. 441
Hanselminutiae 14 with Richard Campbell - Apple iPhone 6 and Apple Watch Announcements (+VIDEO)
Scott sits down with Richard Campbell to talk about the Apple iPhone 6 and Apple Watch Announcements. Will wearables finally happen? Is this the fitness wearable we've been waiting for, paired with the ultimate watch? NOTE: There is VIDEO of this show on YouTube, the link is below on this site.
Sep 12, 2014•39 min•Ep. 440
Space and the next IT decade with Tom Soderstrom from JPL
Scott talks to Tom Soderstrom, the IT CTO at JPL, a NASA Center. What's going to happen in the next IT decade (which is shorter than you'd think!)? What kinds of systems do they use at JPL and NASA, and where does Tom think the next big innovation is coming from?
Sep 05, 2014•38 min•Ep. 439
Exploring Trans*H4CK with Dr. Kortney Ziegler
Transgender people face discrimination, unemployment, homelessness, and a myriad of social problems. Dr. Kortney Ziegler is an activist, academic, artist, and filmmaker who created Trans*H4CK as a response to help tackle these problems through education, empowerment, open source, and advocacy.
Aug 29, 2014•36 min•Ep. 438
Inside RavenDB with Michael Yarichuk
Scott chats with Michael Yarichuk about RavenDB. Michael works with Ayende and the RavenDB team on their document database. Scott is trying to learn about document databases and Michael helps him along the path, exploring those computer science concepts that make document databases unique.
Aug 22, 2014•33 min•Ep. 437
BrightstarDB, an open source NoSQL .NET database with Kal Ahmed
Kal Ahmed and his open source team have created a great .NET-based NoSQL solution called BrightstarDB. Brightstar is an RDF triple store. What does that mean? It does not require the definition of a database schema, and with the RDF data model you can easily add and integrate data of all shapes. Kal talks to Scott about RDF, NoSQL, and the whens and whys of using a database like BrightStarDB.
Aug 08, 2014•33 min•Ep. 435
Applying Improv to Agile and Lean Startup models with Jessie Shternshus
Jessie Shternshus takes comedy and improve to the next level and applies it to Lean Startup and Agile Software methodologies. Can't believe it? Jessie sits down with Scott and they chat about how thinking quickly on your feet is a muscle and a skill that must be exercised.
Aug 01, 2014•33 min•Ep. 434
Designing for Performance with Lara Swanson
Lara Swanson is the Engineering Manager of Performance at Etsy. She sits down with Scott to explain how to design for page load time, including optimizations to images, fonts, markup, and more. How important is having a culture of performance and executive buy-in? Is a two-second page load time reasonable? How important is A/B testing?
Jul 25, 2014•33 min•Ep. 433
Learning WebGL and making 3D HTML Games with David Catuhe and Babylon.js
David Catuhe is the primary author of Babylon.js and an expert in WebGL. Are 3D games really happening on the web? There are more possibilities than you may realize! WebGL really lights up with libraries like three.js and babylon.js.
Jul 18, 2014•33 min•Ep. 432
Exploring the Bionic Pancreas with Dr. Steven Jon Russell, MD, PhD
A collaborative group from Boston University and Massachusetts General Hospital is working together to make automated blood glucose control a reality, and they have announced their results from the Bionic Pancreas study. Scott, who is also a 20 year+ Type 1 Diabetic on an insulin pump, sits down with Dr. Steven Jon Russell, MD, PhD to talk about this project and it's ramifications.
Jul 11, 2014•48 min•Ep. 431
Applied Azure with Vishwas Lele
Scott continues to learn Azure and in this episodes turns to 3rd party expert Vishwas Lele. Vishwas builds Azure systems all day long and recently also released a Pluralsight course called "Applied Azure."
Jul 04, 2014•31 min•Ep. 430
Windows Phone 8.1, Universal Apps, and the Developer Landscape with Lars Klint
Scott talks to Lars Klint, a Windows Phone Developer MVP, about developing for Windows Phone 8.1. What's coming in 8.1 and what changes for developers? What's the plan for Universal Apps and what kind of reuse will we see?
Jun 27, 2014•31 min•Ep. 429
Creating Reactive User Interfaces with Adaptive Consulting's Reactive Trader
Scott talks to Matt Barrett from Adaptive Consulting about creating high-quality reactive user interfaces for the industry. Adaptive has just released a reactive sample application as open source and it's a great place to start learning about Reactive Programming.
Jun 20, 2014•32 min•Ep. 428
What it really means to be Junior Developer with Jonathan Barronville
Jonathan Barronville is a Junior Developer, and he's not apologetic about it. What does it really mean to be Junior Developer, and why is everyone in such a rush to be a Senior? Are we really gaining experience or just experiencing the same years, one after another? What can we do as an industry to be more welcoming to Junior devs, while realizing that we must all be amateurs ourselves?
Jun 13, 2014•31 min•Ep. 427
Reconciling ASP.NET vNext with Damian Edwards
There's been a lot of talk around ASP.NET vNext. How did development start, and what's been the thinking about how to manage a new world while still innovating on the current generation of technology? In what ways does ASP.NET vNext break from the past, and in what ways does it build on our existing power and experience?
Jun 06, 2014•33 min•Ep. 426
Shoulder-to-shoulder remote collaboration with Susie Wee, CTO of Networked Experiences at Cisco
Scott is at the Cisco DevNet conference at Cisco Live! talking to Dr. Susie Wee. Susie is the CTO of Networked Experiences at Cisco. Susie shares some of her projects with Scott like the "Spring Roll" project, an immersive telepresence experiment for 'shoulder to shoulder' collaboration with remote teams.
May 30, 2014•31 min•Ep. 425
Stories of Computer Science Past and Present with Len Bass
Scott is at the Carnegie Mellon SATURN software architecture conference talking to Software Architect Dr. Len Bass. Len is a Senior Principal Researcher at NICTA in Australia and the author of Software Architecture in Practice. Len shares some of his stories over his 40+ year career in software.
May 23, 2014•37 min•Ep. 424
Designing Video Games with student and game designer Lauren Scott
Scott skypes with Computer Science student and game designer Lauren Scott. Lauren recently spoke at GDC (Game Developers Conference) in San Francisco. Are folks breaking out of the mold with indie games these days? How multi-faceted is video game design and what kinds of skills should one develop?
May 16, 2014•31 min•Ep. 423
Agile Families: Techniques for Living with Change with David Starr
What happens when you apply agile practices to managing your family life? Is Scrum a good way to manage kids and their busy schedules? Agile expert David Starr from Scrum.org talks to Scott about implementing agile in his family.
May 09, 2014•34 min•Ep. 422
Managing Errors across platforms with RayGun.io
Scott is in New Zealand talking to John-Daniel Trask from Mindscape. They've got a new cloud-based error tracking system called RayGun.io that Scott is using for two side startups. RayGun is rather unique in its wide "polyglot" language support. How does one build and maintain a service like RayGun?
May 02, 2014•33 min•Ep. 421
Hacking the Creative Mind with Denise Jacobs
Scott is at AngleBrackets in Orlando and talking to Denise Jacobs. Denise wrote "The CSS Detective" but now is a Creativity Evangelist. She teaches workshops to help knowledge workers unlock their creative potential.
Apr 25, 2014•31 min•Ep. 420
Hanselminutiae 13 with Richard Campbell
Scott talks with regular guest Richard Campbell about open source, finding airplanes, and more.
Apr 18, 2014•34 min•Ep. 419
Learn WebRTC with Lisa Larson-Kelley
Scott talks to web video expert Lisa Larson-Kelley about WebRTC. How will this new browser-based peer-to-peer standard change the web? Is this a Skype-killer, or rather just a new tool in our open web tool-belt?
Apr 11, 2014•31 min•Ep. 418
I am teaching my daughter to code with Hopscotch - Fitzgerald Steele
When Jerry Steele posted his daughter's "5 things I learned about programming" he didn't imagine it would take off like it did with nearly 3000 retweets! Scott talks with Jerry about teaching children to program, and how to think. What is it about software that can make our kids more powerful?
Apr 04, 2014•27 min•Ep. 417
An Introduction to the Go Programming language with Andrew Gerrand
Andrew Gerrand is a developer at Google who works on the Go Programming Language (golang). Why Go and why now? What kinds of problems does Go solve that aren't a good match for existing languages? How does Go compare to C++ and improve upon it?
Mar 28, 2014•29 min•Ep. 416
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