Hanselminutes

The Making of How to Be Black with Baratunde Thurston

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:03:53 EDT

Baratunde Thurston has extensive experience in being Black for more than 30 years. Baratunde was the Digital Director at The Onion until recently and is now striking out on his own with a new venture called Cultivated Wit. He keynoted SXSW this year and is currently on tour promoting his book "How To Be Black." He talks to Scott about how he used technology to turn his memoir into a New York Times bestseller.

Making real stuff with Pete Brown

Thu, 10 May 2012 12:57:50 EDT

Scott sits down with noted tinkerer Pete Brown to talk about making stuff. What kinds of cool things are being funded by Kickstarter? What can you make with a 3D printer? When will we start manufacturing at home?

It IS Rocket Science: Holly Griffith, former Space Shuttle and current Space Station worker bee

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:05:31 EDT

Scott talks to Holly Griffith, former Space Shuttle Flight Controller and now International Space Station worker bee. Holly is an engineer who has worked in and around space and aerospace for her entire career. Holly and Scott talk space, engineering, fuel cells and Scott tries to keep up.

Source Control and The Cloud: How did CodePlex start supporting Git?

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:14:54 EDT

Scott sits down with infrastructure engineer Matt Hawley to find out how the CodePlex team implemented the Git distributed source control system. CodePlex now supports TFS, Mercurial and Git as choices for source.

Hanselminutiae-eleven with Richard Campbell

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:05:09 EDT

Richard joins Scott for another thrilling episode of whatever is on Richard's mind! We talk privacy policies, location apps, Facebook, and much more!

More Relationship Hacks with Scott's Wife

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Almost two years after our most popular show, Scott's Wife Mo is back! How does one manage a mixed (geek/normal) marriage? Can Scott and Mo agree on the fundamental laws of physics? Check out part one also: http://hanselminutes.com/216

Deep Inside Image Resizing and scaling with ASP.NET and IIS with ImageResizing.net author Nathanael

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Scott sits down with ImageResizing.net author and ASP.NET scalability expert Nathanael Jones. Nathanael educates Scott on the good and bad about manipulating images in .NET. They talk about when to stay out of the managed pipeline and when not to. When do you use ASP.NET and when do you use IIS?

ASP.NET MVC and Open Source with Phil Haack

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Scott talks to former Microsoftie and new GitHubber Phil Haack about his opinions on the ASP.NET MVC open source announcement. We have lots of fun and eventually the conversation devolves into phone hacking.

Why F#? with Richard Minerich and Phillip Trelford

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Richard Minerich and Phillip Trelford run popular F# users groups and work with F# every day. They take this opportunity to educate Scott on powers of F# and it's place in the .NET ecosystem. Are you missing out by not using F# in your .NET projects today?

Startup Series: Buying an Existing Small Company or Online Application

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:58:11 EDT

Scott talks to Rob Walling about how he purchases small niche products and companies online and revitalizes them. He recently purchased an existing product that consisted of a 300 gig database and tens of thousands of lines of Classic ASP. How did he know it was valuable? What's next?

Startup Series: Creating Alan Mendelevich's AdDuplex

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Alan Mendelevich has created a successful Windows Phone advertising network with just one employee. He's done it from home in Lithuania, a country that doesn't even sell the Windows Phone. How does the introduction of the cloud change how startups operate? Does it even the playing field?

Software Craftsmanship and Code Retreats with Corey Haines

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:08:09 EDT

Scott talks to Software Craftsman Corey Haines about his adventures pairing with developers all over the world. What has he learned and what can we learn from him? He also has created Code Retreats where you can develop your skills and passion for better code.

AisleFinder.com - Creating a Location-based Mobile Startup with Curtiss Pope

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Scott chats with Curtiss Pope, the CEO of AisleFinder. AisleFinder is Google Maps for your Supermarket. Want to know what aisle something is in? What's the quickest way for you to get your weekly groceries? AisleFinder even has an Open Source API for you to call. Curtiss tells his startup story.

Creating Science Fiction with "Zoo City" author Lauren Beukes

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:38:43 EDT

Scott is in New Zealand this week speaking at Webstock and spoke to the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke award winning author of "Zoo City," Lauren Beukes. What's her process? How does she keep it all straight and how do you know when to stop? Lauren shares how she works, how she thinks and discusses her upcoming projects as well as writing for comics.

MonoTouch and Mono for Android with trainer John Sonmez

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:22:33 EDT

Scott chats with John Sonmez who creates courseware and screencasts to teach both Monotouch and Mono for Android. Is C# on every mobile device a dream come true? What kind of abstractions are included and what benefits do they offer you?

Making your first PhoneGap Application with Peter Mourfield

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:06:37 EDT

Peter Mourfield is an HTML and JavaScript programmer who wanted to create a mobile application for Scouts to use on their phones but he didn't want to learn Java or Objective-C. Let's see how he built an app with HTML5, JavaScript and PhoneGap.

Improving Diversity in Technology with Kimberly Bryant from BlackGirlsCode.com

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EDT

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?

Being a Phony with Jon Skeet

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:58:59 EDT

"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.

Learning to Speak another Language with Zach Owens

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:50:24 EDT

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?

Framework Series: Service Stack with Demis Bellot

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:44:49 EDT

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?

Hanselminutiae-ten with Richard Campbell

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:45:39 EDT

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.

Framework Series: Kendo UI HTML5 framework with Todd Anglin

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Framework Series: The eXpand Framework with Apostolis Bekiaris

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:15:15 EDT

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.

Framework Series: Steve Smith from NimblePros on Anti-Patterns

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:32:44 EDT

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.

Framework Series: The Chuck Norris Framework with Rob Reynolds

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:36:00 EDT

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?

Understanding BDD and NSpec with Matt Florence and Amir Rajan

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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 change how you design software? The NSpec guys set Scott on the right path.

Developing a mobile app for iPhone, Windows Phone 7 and Android with Toran Billups

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:36:39 EDT

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?

History of HTTP and the World Wide Web with Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:58:56 EDT

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.

Damian Edwards explains The Realtime Web for ASP.NET with SignalR

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:10:45 EDT

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.

Designing a better experience with Sara Summers

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Inside Visual Studio Performance and PerfWatson with Phil Price

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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!

Google's Steve Souders, Creator of YSlow on Web Site Optimization

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Startup Series: Alex Papadimoulis on creating Inedo and The Daily WTF

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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?

Startup Series: PostSharp from Open Source to Commercial Business with Gael Fraiteur

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:35:32 EDT

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.

Startup Series: Gibraltar Software with Kendall Miller

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:31:41 EDT

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?

Startup Series: Growing ZocDoc with Nick Ganju

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:53:00 EDT

Scott chats with Nick Ganju CTO of ZocDoc on how he's building his business with BizSpark and ASP.NET. Does he use 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?

Startup Series: Building Octopus Deploy with Paul Stovell

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:28:01 EDT

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?

Startup Series: Inside the DuckDuckGo Search Engine with Gabriel Weinberg

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:51:05 EDT

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.

Inside the Design Process - Redesigning Scott's blog with Jeremy Kratz

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:59:28 EDT

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?

Microsoft Research: Trinity is a Graph Database and a Distributed Parallel Platform for Graph Data

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:54:52 EDT

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?

Within Windows with Rafael Rivera

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:00:11 EDT

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.

Microsoft Web Platform and Azure direction with Scott Hunter

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:30:18 EDT

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.

Polyglot Programming and .NET - Lessons Learned with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:18:55 EDT

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?

Script# compiles to JavaScript: A Real World Implementation at Earth Class Mail

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:58:32 EDT

Scott talks to Matt Clay and Matt Davis at Earth Class Mail about how they used Nikhil Kothari'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?

Digging into the Kinect SDK with Dan Fernandez

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:55:19 EDT

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?

JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Semantic Markup is Dead! Clean vs. Machine-coded HTML

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:32:48 EDT

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?

Glimpse - A client-side Glimpse into your server

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:05:12 EDT

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?

Basics of Web Security with Barry Dorrans

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:57:02 EDT

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?

Inside IronJS - A complete JavaScript/ECMAScript open source implementation on the .NET DLR

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:54:30 EDT

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?

Nancy, Sinatra and the Explosion of .NET Micro Web Frameworks with Andreas Håkansson

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:55:08 EDT

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 relate to ASP.NET?

Community vs. Evangelism vs. Marketing vs. Authenticity with Brandon Watson

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:05:25 EDT

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.

Personal Systems of Organization - Rey Bango interviews Scott Hanselman

Thu, 26 May 2011 13:28:02 EDT

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.

Before The Show: Off the Cuff Conversation with Jeff Atwood (EXPLICIT)

Mon, 23 May 2011 18:16:37 EDT

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.

Open Source vs. Making Money vs. Freaking Lasers - Are we all Evil? With Chris Sells

Thu, 12 May 2011 19:15:28 EDT

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?

Network Attached Storage and Windows Home Server with Travis Illig

Thu, 05 May 2011 13:54:03 EDT

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?

This is not your father's WCF - All about the WebAPI with Glenn Block

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:22:36 EDT

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?

A C++ guy learns JavaScript - Chris Sells moves to the Web

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:44:02 EDT

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?

The Rise of the Micro-ORM with Sam Saffron and Rob Conery

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:02:46 EDT

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.

ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update with Phil Haack

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:25:17 EDT

Mix 11 is today so Scott got the scoop from Phil on the new tools being released.

.NET API design that optimizes for Programmer Joy with Jonathan Carter

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:22:31 EDT

Scott sits down with Jonathan Carter to brainstorm about optimizing APIs for programmer happiness, rather than programmer productivity.

Remote Eclipse/Java Development using TFS at Microsoft with Martin Woodward

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:44:35 EDT

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.

Inside Entity Framework 4.1 CodeFirst with Jeff Derstadt and Tim Laverty

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:58:19 EDT

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?

Selenium for Web Automation Testing with Jim Evans

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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.

JavaScript and jQuery: Moving beyond Alert()

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:53:13 EDT

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?

The Opinionated Cloud - Learning about AppHarbor

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:05:00 EDT

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.

ASP.NET Web Forms - Reports of my Death have been exaggerated, with Damian Edwards

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:54:31 EDT

Scott chats with Damian Edwards about new features coming in ASP.NET WebForms, new techniques, controls, model binding, HTML 5 and more.

Organizing your own Virtual Technical Conference - MVCConf Post-Mortem

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:02:02 EDT

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?

ReactiveUI extensions to the Reactive Framework (Rx) with Paul Betts

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:25:12 EDT

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.

HTML5 Basics with Mads Kristensen

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:21:35 EDT

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?

Professional Technical Speaker Tips from Scott with Drew Robbins

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:50:57 EDT

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.

On WebMatrix with Rob Conery

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:33:22 EDT

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.

Executable Specifications with Gojko Adzic, Jonas Bandi and Aslak Hellesoy

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:36:22 EDT

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?

From Agile Consultant to Agile Team Member with John Wilger

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:30:19 EDT

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?

Hanselminutiae-nine with Richard Campbell

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:58:36 EDT

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.

Transitions - Exploring issues moving from small companies to large corporations

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:59:59 EDT

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?

Kayak, OWIN, Open Source Web Servers and more with Benjamin van der Veen

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:53:29 EDT

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.

Knockout Javascript with Steve Sanderson

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:49:07 EDT

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.

The Plight of the Remote Worker with Pete Brown

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:55:57 EDT

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.

The MVVM Pattern with Laurent Bugnion

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:25:04 EDT

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?

Developing Indie Games for Xbox 360 and XNA with George Clingerman

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:17:44 EDT

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?

Creative Outlets with Rob Conery

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:34:32 EDT

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!

ASP.NET MVC 3 RC and NuGet Package Management with Phil Haack

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:31:44 EDT

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.

Deeper into the Netduino with Chris Walker from Secret Labs

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:57:59 EDT

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?

Misunderstanding REST with Mike Amundsen

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:53:36 EDT

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.

Making a hobby a job - Talking with Eric Herbrandson about his Silverlight-based MicroISV

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:49:23 EDT

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 (now ScratchAudio), what was possible and what wasn't.

Getting Things Done with Lane Newsom

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:44:19 EDT

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?

Inside the Naked Objects Framework with Richard Pawson

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:07:23 EDT

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?

.NET Micro Framework with Colin Miller

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:57:42 EDT

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.

Eric Sink on Distributed Version Control Systems

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:33:26 EDT

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.

Continuous Web Deployment with Jon Tørresdal

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:09:29 EDT

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?

OpenID and OpenAuth with DotNetOpenAuth open source programmer Andrew Arnott

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:21:27 EDT

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.

Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:52:41 EDT

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!

Inside Expression SuperPreview with developer Mike Calvo

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:09:34 EDT

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?

Building your own Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 with Pete Brown

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:37:31 EDT

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.

Learning about NHibernate 3 with Jason Dentler

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:52:09 EDT

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.

ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 with Phil Haack

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:57:39 EDT

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?

Code First Databases with Entity Framework (Magic Unicorn Edition)

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:13:41 EDT

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).

Art is Shipping - Bridging Designers and Developers with Jin Yang

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:16:37 EDT

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?

Hanselminutiae-eight with Dan Fernandez

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:06:54 EDT

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.

Creating the Ultimate Developer Machine 2.0 - How can we get a 7.9 WEI Score for under $3k?

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:30:10 EDT

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?

Demystifying Microsoft's Application Server: Windows Server AppFabric with Karandeep Anand

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:57:15 EDT

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?

Punditry, Politics, Race, iPads, The Onion and the Web with Baratunde Thurston

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:46:39 EDT

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.

MVC Turbine and IoC made easy with Javier Lozano

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:19:04 EDT

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.

Geek Relationship Tips with Scott's Wife

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:49:51 EDT

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?

World Airplane Travel Tips with James Senior

Thu, 27 May 2010 02:06:08 EDT

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.

Type 1 Diabetes and Running Marathons with Gary Schmidt

Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and LinFu with Philip Laureano

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

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!

The Podcast about Podcasts with Joel Spolsky

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Jeff Atwood on the Future of Stack Overflow

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT

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.

John Lam and the Science of Fitness

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:27:00 EDT

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!

ASP.NET MVC Contrib with Jeffrey Palermo

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:53:49 EDT

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?

Social Media and the Business of Social - The Wynn Resorts

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:56:42 EDT

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?

Charles Petzold on Windows Phone 7 Series

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:44:38 EDT

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.

Windows Phone 7 Series - The Developer Experience with Charlie Kindel

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:57:58 EDT

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.

Open Data Protocol (OData) with Pablo Castro

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:12:02 EDT

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.

What does a Social Media Consultant Do? - with Liz Burr

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:59:31 EDT

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.

Women in Technology in the Muslim World

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:23:42 EDT

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?

A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:13:49 EDT

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?

The Making of a Hanselminutes Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:52:25 EDT

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?

Jon Skeet - World's Greatest Living Programmer, or just a nice English guy?

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:09:11 EDT

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.

How Craigslist Works - with Jeremy Zawodny

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:09:40 EDT

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?

Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:43:56 EDT

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.

The Dynamic Language Runtime, IronRuby and IronPython with Jimmy Schementi

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:46:43 EDT

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.

.NET 4 CLR, Framework and Language Chat with Jason Olson

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:44:02 EDT

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.

Open Source, Microsoft and The WiX Project with Rob Mensching

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:51:36 EDT

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?

Hello World: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:14:06 EDT

Scott chats with Warren Sande and his 10 year old son, Carter, about their new book "Hello World: Computer Programming 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.

Axum - A domain-specific concurrent programming language with Niklas Gustafsson

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:36:22 EDT

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.

The Spark View Engine for ASP.NET MVC with Louis DeJardin

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:24:36 EDT

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!

Solver Foundation and Optimization with Nathan Brixius

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:33:24 EDT

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.

The State of Powershell with Lee Holmes and Jason Shirk

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:30:31 EDT

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?

2009 Holiday Geek Gift Guide with Richard Campbell

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:39:22 EDT

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.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta with Phil Haack

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:54:24 EDT

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.

Software Tester James Bach and The Voyage of a Buccaneer-Scholar

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:22:24 EDT

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.

.NET Debugging 101 with Tess Ferrandez

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:45:09 EDT

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.

Spolsky, Atwood, Blyth, Hanselman = Crazy-Delicious || Content-Free?

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:50:42 EDT

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. :)

Preview of ASP.NET 4 with Scott Hunter

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:21:43 EDT

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?

Hanselminutes Live: Gadgets, Hi-Def, WebCams, 4G and More

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:00:48 EDT

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.

The History and Future of Web Standards with Molly Holzschlag from molly.com

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:35:39 EDT

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.

Monomania - Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:45:01 EDT

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?

The Return of 3-Tier Architecture - RIA Services with Brad Abrams

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:40:22 EDT

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?

Hanselminutes Live: Open Source and the Codeplex Foundation

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Inside a Visual Studio Plugin - CodeRush with Mark Miller

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:03:42 EDT

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.

Hanselminutiae-seven with Richard Campbell

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:32:17 EDT

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.

Udi Dahan and NServiceBus

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:54:50 EDT

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.

Optimizing Your Website with Jeff Atwood and Stackoverflow

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:46:05 EDT

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?

Hanselminutiae-six with Richard Campbell

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:10:23 EDT

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.

All About Microsoft with Mary Jo Foley

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:58:31 EDT

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.

Dan Bricklin on Technology

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:44:48 EDT

Dan Bricklin is an innovator and entrepreneur, and created VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet in 1979. He's just written a book called Bricklin on Technology full of observations, stories, case histories and insight into the human aspect of technology.

Return of Uncle Bob

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:53:15 EDT

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.

Kanban Boards for Agile Project Management with Zen Author Nate Kohari

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:58:14 EDT

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?

The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:12:23 EDT

In this show recorded in Norway, Roy Osherove educates Scott on best practices in Unit Testing techniques and the Art of Unit Testing.

Successful Cross Platform .NET Development - Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:24:26 EDT

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.

Convention Over Configuration with Jeremy Miller.

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:18:28 EDT

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.

Windows Presentation Foundation explained by Ian Griffiths

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:04:54 EDT

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.

Working Effectively with Legacy Code with Michael Feathers

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:26:22 EDT

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?

Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:11:51 EDT

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.

Software Metrics with Patrick Smacchia

Tue, 26 May 2009 12:22:31 EDT

Scott sits down with Patrick Smacchia, lead developer of NDepend, and talks about Software Metrics. What metrics lie beyond Lines of Code?

Powershell 2.0

Thu, 14 May 2009 03:12:40 EDT

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?

BBSs and Wildcat! from Mustang Software

Fri, 08 May 2009 19:03:18 EDT

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.

JavaFX and the Web's Four Virtual Machines

Fri, 01 May 2009 13:26:09 EDT

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.

IronPython with Michael Foord

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Visiting Fog Creek Software and Joel Spolsky

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:50:08 EDT

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!

Hanselminutae-five with Richard Campbell

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:41:25 EDT

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!

Dealing with Diversity in Agile Teams with Aslam Khan

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:29:57 EDT

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.

A C64 Emulator with Silverlight 3 by Pete Brown

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:09:21 EDT

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.

ASP.NET and the Mobile Web

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Tables Turned - Mo Interviews Scott Hanselman

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

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?

Code Generation and T4 with Kathleen Dollard

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:30:44 EDT

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?

Fit is Dead, Long Live Fitnesse - with Ward Cunningham and James Shore

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Uncle Bob Martin: SOLID, this time with feeling.

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EDT

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 laugh.)

Deconstructing "blu" - a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:03:53 EDT

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?

MEF - Managed Extensibility Framework with Glenn Block

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:31:06 EDT

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.

The new WPF-based Text Editor in Visual Studio 2010 - Interview with a Dev

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Test Driven Development is Design - The Last Word on TDD

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:34:44 EDT

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?

SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob - Robert C. Martin

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:08:16 EDT

Scott sits down with Robert C. Martin as Uncle Bob helps Scott understand the SOLID Principles of Object Oriented Design.

Week Three in South Africa - Ntombenhle

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Week Two in South Africa - Victor

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:17:58 EDT

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.

Week One in South Africa - Vusi

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Coding4Fun with Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek - Wiimotes and YouTube

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:18:10 EDT

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.

Rob Conery limps and learns about Domain Driven Design

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:25:22 EDT

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.

Moonlight (Silverlight on Linux with Mono) with Miguel de Icaza and Joseph Hill

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:35:31 EDT

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!

Paint.NET with Rick Brewster

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:44:33 EDT

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.

Microsoft PDC and Windows 7 Reaction Show with Richard Campbell

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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.

MSR@PDC - Microsoft Research at the Professional Developers Conference

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:03:03 EDT

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.

Behind the Scenes - StackOverflow and Jeff Atwood - Part 2

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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.

StackOverflow uses ASP.NET MVC - Jeff Atwood and his technical team

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:45:32 EDT

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?

Windows Live Agents and the Machine Translation Bot from MS Research

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:44:04 EDT

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.

Subsonic with Rob Conery

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:17:39 EDT

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.

Jeff Webb - The guy who lowercased Basic

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:59:48 EDT

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?

JavaScript gets Faster: Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla Corporation and Creator of JavaScript

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:07:52 EDT

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?

Thoughts on Javascript with Bertrand Le Roy

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:13:50 EDT

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.

Object Oriented AJAX with Scott Cate

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:21:33 EDT

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?

.NET 3.5 SP1 is out...what's inside

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:04:23 EDT

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?

jQuery with John Resig

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:05:06 EDT

Scott chats with John Resig about how he developed jQuery, how it performs, and where he thinks it's headed.

Accessibility in Web and Rich Applications

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:13:24 EDT

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.

Tim Bray on Microblogging and Widefinder

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:46:58 EDT

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.

Dare Obasanjo on Social Networking

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Scott sits down with Dare Obasanjo and they chat about the interesting problems that Social Networking sites face.

BabySmash!

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:34:41 EDT

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.

LineRider - Porting a Flash Game to Silverlight 2

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:10:34 EDT

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.

The Odd Couple - A Developer and a Designer talk about working with XAML

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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?

What is Done? - A Conversation with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:32:25 EDT

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.

Lean Software Development with Tom and Mary Poppendieck

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Sorting out Internationalization with Michael Kaplan

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Distributed Caching with Microsoft's "Velocity"

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Scott sits down on the TechEd floor with Anil and "MK" from the Velocity team to talk about Microsoft's new .NET Distributed Cache.

Finding Passion for Software or The Return of the "Franklinator"

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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?

Website Scaling War Stories with Richard Campbell

Mon, 19 May 2008 20:28:32 EDT

Scott and Richard chat (and chat and chat!) about scaling website and scalability in general while at the DevTeach Conference in Toronto.

Beyond Continuous Integration: Continuous Monitoring with Owen Rogers

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:21:36 EDT

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.

The Past, Present and Future of .NET Unit Testing Frameworks

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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."

ASP.NET Model View Controller, MVCContrib and MonoRail

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Microsoft Research: Spec#

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:30:18 EDT

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#!

ASP.NET Dynamic Data with Scott Hunter

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:43:51 EDT

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.

Distributed Source Control with Git

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:44:48 EDT

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.

Digital Photography Explained (for Geeks) with Aaron Hockley

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:15:39 EDT

Scott sits down with Amateur Photographer (recently-turned-pro) Aaron Hockley. Together they decode the technical language of photography and online photo sharing.

Inside Outsourcing

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

In this episode Scott sits down with Venkat and Vinod from India, two Microsoft Regional Directors and gets their inside perspective on outsourcing.

Rocky Lhotka on Data Access Mania, LINQ and CSLA.NET

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:39:06 EDT

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.

Dave Laribee on ALT.NET

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:03:52 EDT

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?

Quetzal Bradley on Testing after Unit Tests

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:28:13 EDT

In this episode Scott talks with Quetzal Bradley, a Microsoft developer on the Connected Systems Architecture Team, about testing after unit tests. Is 100% Code Coverage enough?

Principal Architect Mike Pizzo on the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:40:36 EDT

Scott discusses the ins and outs of the ADO.NET Entity framework and LINQ to Entities with Microsoft Principal Architect Mike Pizzo.

Michio Kaku on making the "impossible" possible

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:56:29 EDT

Scott talks with theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku about making what was once considered impossible technology into reality.

Building Community with Norm Judah - CTO of Microsoft Services

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:45:38 EDT

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.

What's it like for Mac Developers - Interview with Steven Frank of Panic

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:00:22 EDT

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?

Scott Interviews His Dad

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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.

ADO.NET "Astoria" Data Services with Shawn Wildermuth

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EDT

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?

Starting Small with F# with Dustin Campbell

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:18:40 EDT

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?

2007 The Year in Review

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:10:47 EDT

Scott and Carl chat about 2007. How was the year for Developers? For the Web?

The Worst Show Ever with Chris Sells and Rory Blyth

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:56:01 EDT

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. ;)

Pex with Jonathan 'Peli' de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:48:48 EDT

"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.

Visual Basic Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Paul Vick

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:56:30 EDT

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.

Eclipse with Bjorn Freeman-Benson

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:06:03 EDT

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.

Software Architecture with Dan Appleman

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:55:08 EDT

Scott gets the scoop on software architecture with developer and author Dan Appleman.

Over Two Decades at Microsoft - Larry Osterman

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:55:24 EDT

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.

Writing FaceBook Applications with .NET - Interview with Mel Sampat, author of Outsync

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:27:17 EDT

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.

Planning, Placing and Building a House Google Earth and Sketchup

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:55:53 EDT

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.

Open Source Software Licensing with Jonathan Zuck of ACT Online

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:58:54 EDT

Scott and Carl turn to Jonathan Zuck of the Association for Competitive Technology to demystify Software Licensing and the industry's many Open Source Software Licenses.

EarthClassMail.com - Moving from LAMP to .NET 3.5

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:54:00 EDT

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.

Parallel Programming with .NET

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:59:31 EDT

Scott chats with Stephen Toub a Microsoft Developer working on new ways to make concurrency programming easier with .NET.

Interview with Shawn Burke on Microsoft's .NET Source Code Release

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:08:24 EDT

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.

10 Foot Development for Media Center

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Vista 64 - Developing on 64-bit Vista Ultimate

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:06:42 EDT

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.

Vista 64 - Is Now the Time?

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Carl and Scott are both running 64-bit Vista while others wait. Was it the right decision?

LINQ to XML

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

2007 Ultimate Tool List

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:45:45 EDT

Scott and Carl talk about Scott's 2007 Ultimate devoloper and power users tool list.

Moving your Email into the Cloud - Google for Apps and Live Custom Domains

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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?

F# with Robert Pickering

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

John Lam on Iron Ruby

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Jeff Atwood overclocks the Ultimate PC

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Talking to the Interns

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Be a Better Developer in Six Months

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Windows Home Server

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Scott talks to Charlie Kindel about the upcoming Windows Home Server, formerly Project Q and how you can backup your life.

Interview with Timothy Ferriss of The Four Hour Workweek

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Building a Developer PC

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Scott and Carl chat about building your own PC with a focus on the developer, rather than the gamer.

Orcas Overview

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Hanselminutae-four

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Scott and Carl Discuss recent technology changes and upgrades in this the fourth installment of Hanselminutiae.

Setting up a Home Network

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Scott and Carl talk about home networking: dos and don'ts, gotchas and such.

Scott talks to Martin Fowler and David Heinemeier Hansson

Fri, 25 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Interview with Lynda from Lynda.com

Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Google for Lynda and you'll find the legendary Lynda.com. Lynda has had a popular online presence for over 12 years. She created the original Web-Safe Color palette (remember when that mattered?) and now she sells nearly 20,000 training videos online via subscription. Silverlight is next. I chat with Lynda after we had lunch with Ray Ozzie and some other bloggers.

Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander on Silverlight

Fri, 11 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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!

Chris Sells and Scott Look Forward (Part 2 of 2)

Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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!

Chris Sells and Scott Look Back (Part 1 of 2)

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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!

Rich Internet Applications - WPF/E becomes Silverlight

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Hanselminutiae #3

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Sychronizing Internet Calendars

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:58:56 EDT

Scott and Carl chat about the pain of the DST change and how they manage their calendars over the internet.

Building 42/Polita Paulus

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:55:36 EDT

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

The Old New Thing - Interview with Raymond Chen

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Scott sits down with the original raconteur of Windows, Raymond Chen to talk about all things Win32 and where Microsoft Bob is currently.

Monorail - Alternative ASP.NET

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:00:09 EDT

Scott interviews two developers who are betting on Monorail on ASP.NET, an MVC Web Framework inspired by Action Pack.

Squeezing the most out of Continuous Integration - with Jay Flowers

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:00:02 EDT

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!

Hiring and Interviewing Engineers

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:57:17 EDT

Scott and Carl talk about the "FizzBuzz" test and try to come up with practical techniques for hiring engineers and technical folks.

End to End Tracing

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Static Code Analysis with NDepend

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

OpenID

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Scott and Carl talk about the Microsoft/OpenID collaboration.

Bruce Payette - Powershell

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:45:28 EDT

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.

Board Gaming for Programmers

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:38:40 EDT

In this episode Scott talks with Chris Brooks and Eli Smith about the evolution and current state of classic board gaming.

How to start your own MicroISV

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EDT

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.

WPF/E

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:55:00 EDT

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.

Language Extensibility - Iron Python

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:34:28 EDT

Scott and Carl bring us up to date on the developments in dynamic and static language extensibility.

Pro Audio Basics

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:27:42 EDT

Scott and Carl discuss some of the basics and modern myths of professional audio.

Life Hacks with Gina Trapani

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:10:19 EDT

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".

Next Generation Gaming Systems

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:37:45 EDT

Scott talks with Carl about the state of gaming hardware, software, and programmability.

WS-*

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:22:30 EDT

This week Scott and Carl discuss the various WS specifications and how they relate to WCF, with a strong emphasis on security.

Architecture (TechEd Barcelona)

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:45:42 EDT

This week Scott and Carl discuss Software Architecture from the Tech Ed developer conference in Barcelona.

Identity

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:48:22 EDT

Scott and Carl talk about digital identity and related technologies.

Diabetes Technology

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:43:05 EDT

This week Scott and Carl talk about the latest technology around dealing with Diabetes, as well as a short discussion of the basics.

Scott Guthrie

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Scott catches up with Scott Guthrie in an interview covering Ajax, Asp 2.0, extender controls, CSS adapters and more.

Jeffrey Snover, PowerShell Architect

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:19:55 EDT

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.

HDTV

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:55:50 EDT

Scott and Carl discuss the current state of Hi-Def Television.

Scott Interviews Chris Sells

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:27:07 EDT

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.

All About Vista RC1

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Scott and Carl discuss their experiences with Windows Vista Release Candidate 1. New features, pain points, expectations, etc.

Mock Objects

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:39:06 EDT

Scott and Carl discuss the topic of Mock Objects: what they are, when to use them, and of course an analysis of available tools.

Test Driven

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:13:39 EDT

Scott addresses the processes and benefits of test-driven development.

A Better Outlook

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:01:59 EDT

Scott discusses some useful add-ons for Outlook.

Dynamic vs Compiled Languages

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Scott talks with Carl about what we can learn from dynamic languages such as Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Open Source Options

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT

In this episode Scott explores the issues around using OS software and contributing to OS projects.

Reflection

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:48:17 EDT

Scott discusses the dos and don'ts of reflection in .NET 1.1 and 2.0. Critical listening for all .NET developers.

Globalization/Internationalization with .NET

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Scott chats about preparing your .NET application for the global marketplace and Carl leads us into a discussion about character encoding.

Scott's Essential Blogroll (for July 2006 at least)

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Windows PowerShell (MONAD) Part II

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

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.

The Line of Scrummage

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

In this show Scott talks about Scrum, the agile project management method.

Hanselminutiae #2

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Scott focuses on portable GPS units in this show, with a few other geeky nuggets tossed on top.

Live from TechEd 2006

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:36:21 EDT

Scott hits the floor at TechEd in Boston to talk to any gurus he can find there.

Office 2007 Preview

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Scott talks about what you can expect from the up and coming Office 2007.

Torrent! Torrent! Torrent!

Mon, 29 May 2006 18:49:15 EDT

Scott talks about BitTorrent and its many uses, applications, and websites. As always, great resources abound!

Life Hacks

Tue, 23 May 2006 17:24:05 EDT

Scott discusses Life Hacks, ideas and methods that you can use to organize your life and be more effective.

Syndication

Wed, 10 May 2006 02:33:50 EDT

Scott and Carl have a great discussion about RSS, ATOM, podcasting, and what the world is doing with them.

Hanselminutiae #1

Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Scott shows off a handful of unrelated tools, websites, and utilities.

Replacing Start|Run

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Scott talks about alternate ways to launch applications and tools for personal productivity.

Code Generation

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:14:41 EDT

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.

CSI: Your Computer

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Top Ten Utilities you Didn't Know you Had

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT

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.

Microsoft Command Shell (MONAD)

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:44:57 EDT

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.

Functional Testing Tools Roundup

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:31:00 EDT

Scott talks about his experience with functional testing tools including TestComplete by AutomatedQA.

Debugging ASP.NET

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:11:55 EDT

Debugging by coincidence, Debugging Tools, Ruby CLR, SysInternals Tools, Fusion, YATT, and more and more and more.

Free Resources for .NET Developers

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:32:41 EDT

Scott talks about a series of free tools, utilities, and websites that help .NET developers do their best.

XML Tools and Technologies

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:09:02 EDT

Scott talks with Carl about tools for using and manipulating XML from readers and writers to XPath readers, transformers, and more.

The LinkSys WRT54GL Router

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:59:55 EDT

Scott gives you the skinny on hacking into the Linksys WRT54 GL Linux-based router.

The State of the Mono Project.

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:17:57 EDT

Scott goes around the block with Mono, an Open Source implementation of the .NET Framework.

Continuous Integration

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:38:58 EDT

In this episode, scott focuses on Continuous Integration, highlighting nearly 20 tools that you can use today to help automate the test and build process.

Geotagging, Ubuntu, MacTel, XSLT Performance

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:50:35 EDT

In this episode, Scott talks about adding a Windows key to the Thinkpad 42T keyboard; A screen grabber called Winsnap; the Microsoft Research groupshot project; EX-IF, Geo-Caching, and Mashups; Running OSX on Intel and why XP on the Mac will never work; Dual Boot with OSX; a fun Aqua interface in DHTML; The easiest Linux in the world, and how XSLT in .NET 2.0 is your friend.

Emulation, Keyboards, Video Squishing and ASP.NET Oddities

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:13:26 EDT

Geek keyboards, video transcoders, MAME in the browser, a portable PSP-like devices, Videora, Google Earth, Google Transit, tracking packages with Google, Riya, the Amazon Mechanical Turk, Zazzle, beware of dns server names with underscores in them, and thread-switching in ASP.NET

BlogJet, XBox 360, Twonky, and Other Magic

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EDT

In this, our premiere episode of Hanselminutes, Scott identifies some great tools (Feed Demon, Window Clippings, BlogJet, etc.). He also talks about using the XBox 360 with a UPnP server as a media center, introduces some cool products for the home media enthusiast, and finally discusses two ASP.NET issues and how to deal with them. 44 minutes.