Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
949 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 320 ratingsHanselminutes is Fresh Air for Developers. A weekly commute-time podcast that promotes fresh technology and fresh voices. Talk and Tech for Developers, Life-long Learners, and Technologists.
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Episodes
On WebMatrix with Rob Conery
January 13, 2011 19:33 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBWebMatrix 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
January 06, 2011 18:36 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBThis 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
December 30, 2010 17:30 - 36 minutes - 24.7 MBScott 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
December 23, 2010 16:58 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBHappy 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
December 17, 2010 21:59 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBScott 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
December 10, 2010 05:53 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBScott 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
December 01, 2010 00:49 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBSteve 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
November 24, 2010 20:55 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBScott 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
November 18, 2010 22:25 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBScott 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
November 12, 2010 17:17 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBThis 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
November 04, 2010 21:34 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBRob 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
October 27, 2010 23:31 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBIt'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
October 21, 2010 16:57 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBScott 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
October 07, 2010 22:53 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBWeb 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
October 07, 2010 22:49 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBEric 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
September 28, 2010 22:44 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBScott 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
September 16, 2010 19:07 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBRichard 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
September 09, 2010 17:57 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBScott 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
September 02, 2010 17:33 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBScott 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 Torresdal
August 26, 2010 17:09 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBThis week Scott talks to Jon Torresdal 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
August 19, 2010 19:21 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBScott 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
August 12, 2010 21:52 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBScott 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
August 11, 2010 00:09 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBScott 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
August 09, 2010 21:37 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBScott 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
July 29, 2010 17:52 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBScott 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
July 23, 2010 16:57 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBASP.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)
July 16, 2010 17:13 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBScott 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
July 15, 2010 17:16 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBScott 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
July 08, 2010 17:06 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBThis 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?
July 02, 2010 03:30 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBCreating 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
June 24, 2010 16:57 - 38 minutes - 26.1 MBMicrosoft'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
June 19, 2010 17:46 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBScott'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
June 10, 2010 17:19 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBScott 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
June 03, 2010 19:49 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBScott'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
May 27, 2010 06:06 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBScott 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
May 06, 2010 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBGary 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
April 29, 2010 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBScott 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
April 23, 2010 04:00 - 47 minutes - 32.3 MBThe 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
April 22, 2010 04:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBThere'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
April 15, 2010 17:27 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBSedentary 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
April 09, 2010 22:53 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBScott 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
April 02, 2010 02:56 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBScott 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
March 22, 2010 22:44 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBCharles 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
March 17, 2010 04:57 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBScott'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
March 11, 2010 17:12 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBAstoria, 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
March 09, 2010 17:59 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBThis 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
February 27, 2010 13:23 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBScott'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
February 20, 2010 20:13 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBScott 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
February 16, 2010 22:52 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBTwo 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?
February 12, 2010 17:09 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBI 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.