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.

Lean Software Development with Tom and Mary Poppendieck

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

"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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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 EST

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