Hanselminutes

Paint.NET with Rick Brewster

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:44:33 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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.