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Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselmanwww.hanselminutes.com
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.

Episodes

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, 201433 minEp. 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, 201431 minEp. 420

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, 201431 minEp. 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, 201427 minEp. 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, 201429 minEp. 416

Bitcoin Explained with Steve Beauregard, CEO of GoCoin

Bitcoin is happening and Scott's missing out. He talks to Steve Beauregard, CEO of GoCoin, who sets him straight. How does Bitcoin work, and what problem does it solve? Is Bitcoin the "people's money?"

Mar 21, 201430 minEp. 415

Creating the Plex Software Ecosystem with Elan Feingold

Plex is a powerful media ecosystem with a server component available on almost every platform and NAS, and clients for every tablet, laptop, phone and device you can imagine. How does it all fit together and get you your media your way, today?

Mar 14, 201431 minEp. 414

Creating a Mac emulator using JavaScript with James Friend

Scott talks to James Friend, author of PCE.js which is a port of PCE the Portable Computer Emulator. You can run Mac System 7 in your browser? How is this sorcery possible? We talk emscripten, portable C, and lots more.

Feb 21, 201435 minEp. 411

Xbox One Developer with Dave Voyles, formerly of Comcast

Scott talks with Dave Voyles who worked on the Comcast Xfinity application for Xbox. What's it take to write an application for an Xbox One? Will your HTML and JavaScript skills translate? All this, plus discussion of SmartGlass.

Feb 14, 201433 minEp. 410

sass.js - An Emscripten Experiment with Rodney Rehm

We have more interesting tools available to us than we realize. When asked if there was a JavaScript version of the Sass CSS library, Rodney Rehm and his friend Sebastian decided to see if they could use Emscripten to compile the existing C/C++ one into JavaScript. Because, why not?

Jan 31, 201431 minEp. 408

Learning Code The Hard Way with Zed Shaw

Is the best way to learn to code The Hard Way? Scott talks to Zed Shaw, author of the Mongrel web server for Ruby Web Applications, and now the creator of the Learn Code The Hard Way movement.

Jan 24, 201435 minEp. 407

Coneryminutes #3 - Bartending vs Software

Rob Conery takes over Hanselminutes again! He talks to Scott about the motivation for a young person to stay in school (and software) when bartending can easily pay the bills. Rob also tries to get Scott to lose his train of thought.

Jan 10, 201435 minEp. 405

iOS Developer and Professional Model Lyndsey Scott

Scott talks to iOS Developer and professional model Lyndsey Scott. Lyndsey balances a full-time job as a model, working for clients such as Gucci and Victoria's Secret, but codes more than 20 hours a week on iPhone and iPad apps.

Jan 03, 201434 minEp. 404

An Internet of Inclusion with Chanelle Henry

Chanelle Henry is the Director of User Experience at Bluewolf and Co-Founder of Pavo (a fashion discovery app). She has an educational background in Psychology, Computer Science, and Design, and when creating things for the internet she's always thinking about inclusion. How do we make everyone successful on today's internet?

Dec 13, 201336 minEp. 401

Node.js Tools for Visual Studio

Scott talks to Microsoft Developer Dino Viehland about the new open source Node.js Tools for Visual Studio. It integrates Node into VS with full debugging, profiling, deployment and lots more. How did they do it and why?

Dec 06, 201333 minEp. 400

Chris Dancy, the world's most quantified man, explains the Quantified Self

Are you wearing a FitBit and tracking how many steps you take? Perhaps you chart your weight? You're just starting to quantify yourself. Chris Dancy tracks much much more and is arguably the world's most quantified man. From humidity to ambient noise, from heart rate to blood sugar, it adds up to terabytes of text information to mine and chart.

Nov 29, 201334 minEp. 399

Virtual Reality, the Oculus Rift and Unity 3D with Rift Chopper author James Andrew

James Andrew is so excited about the Oculus Rift virtual reality he can hardly contain himself. He shares his excitement with Scott as he explains how an Oculus Rift headset works, the ideas behind "getting it right" and his new helicopter simulator "Rift Chopper." He also explains the power behind the Unity 3D engine and why it's THE best way to make a compelling game in minutes.

Nov 22, 201334 minEp. 398

Bugs Considered Harmful with Douglas Crockford

Scott is at the AngleBrackets conference in Las Vegas and sits down with Douglas Crockford. Douglas is the author of "JavaScript: The Good Parts" as well as the discoverer of JSON. What do we need to do to be better developers? Is it better tools? Better attitudes? More discipline?

Nov 08, 201337 minEp. 396

Web Service Tools for Distributed Applications with Runscope's John Sheehan

Scott sits down with John Sheehan from Web Service tool provider RunScope to talk about REST, JSON, and Web Services and how we debug them. Devs face a number of challenges like service reliability, performance monitoring, and testing. We've all become distributed systems programmers, but have our tools and knowledge kept pace?

Nov 01, 201335 minEp. 395

Demystifying Scala with Netflix's Dianne Marsh

Scott talks to Netflix's Dianne Marsh about the rise of Scala. Is Scala just for scientists? Is this a complex functional language that's beyond the grasp of the average developer, or is this an expressive new way of programming against the JVM?

Oct 25, 201331 minEp. 394

The Mobile Phone Struggle with Travis Pope

Scott talks to tech writer Travis Pope about his recent switch from Windows Phone to iPhone. Scott moves between an iPhone and a Lumia 1020 and is currently evaluating a Galaxy S4. How important is the ecosystem and apps vs. built in functionality? When will the search for the perfect phone end?

Oct 18, 201336 minEp. 393

Groovy on Grails with Netflix's Clay McCoy

Clay works at Netflix on a Groovy on Grails app. What's Groovy and why does it sound like Ruby on Rails? Scott learns about how the Groovy language sits on top of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and where Grails fits into the world of Web Development in the Cloud.

Oct 11, 201332 minEp. 392