Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
949 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 23 hours 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
Deconstructing "blu" - a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23
February 10, 2009 20:03 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBScott 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
January 28, 2009 18:31 - 30 minutes - 21 MBThere'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
January 23, 2009 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBScott 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
January 12, 2009 20:34 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBScott 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
January 05, 2009 20:08 - 45 minutes - 31 MBScott 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
December 29, 2008 04:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBScott'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
December 16, 2008 09:17 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBScott'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
December 11, 2008 04:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBScott'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 Vusi, an IT sales manager from Johannesburg.
Coding4Fun with Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek - Wiimotes and YouTube
December 04, 2008 21:18 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBScott 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
December 02, 2008 04:25 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBWhat'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
November 24, 2008 22:35 - 36 minutes - 24.7 MBScott 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
November 20, 2008 16:44 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBScott 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
November 11, 2008 04:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBScott 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
October 30, 2008 16:03 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBOne 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
October 24, 2008 04:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBHere'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
October 17, 2008 03:45 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBScott 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
October 07, 2008 21:44 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBScott 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
October 02, 2008 23:17 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBWhat 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
September 26, 2008 21:59 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBToday 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
September 19, 2008 23:07 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBScott 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
September 12, 2008 04:13 - 49 minutes - 34 MBScott 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
September 04, 2008 21:21 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBScott'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
August 26, 2008 05:04 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBCarl 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
August 15, 2008 01:05 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBScott 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
August 06, 2008 03:13 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBIn 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
August 01, 2008 00:46 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBIn 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
July 25, 2008 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBScott sits down with Dare Obasanjo and they chat about the interesting problems that Social Networking sites face.
BabySmash!
July 19, 2008 00:34 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBScott 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
July 08, 2008 23:10 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBIn 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
July 04, 2008 04:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBRichard 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
June 26, 2008 08:32 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBScott 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
June 20, 2008 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.4 MBScott 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
June 13, 2008 04:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBMichael 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"
June 06, 2008 04:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBScott 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"
May 30, 2008 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBScott 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
May 20, 2008 00:28 - 48 minutes - 33 MBScott 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
May 15, 2008 23:21 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBScott 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
May 09, 2008 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBScott 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
May 03, 2008 04:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBScott 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#
April 22, 2008 07:30 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBScott 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
April 18, 2008 02:43 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBFollowing 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
April 09, 2008 07:44 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBScott 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
March 31, 2008 05:15 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBScott sits down with Amateur Photographer (recently-turned-pro) Aaron Hockley. Together they decode the technical language of photography and online photo sharing.
Inside Outsourcing
March 27, 2008 04:00 - 23 minutes - 15.8 MBIn 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
March 21, 2008 01:39 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBScott 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
March 14, 2008 01:03 - 26 minutes - 18 MBThis 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
March 07, 2008 06:28 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBIn 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
February 29, 2008 00:40 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBScott 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
February 22, 2008 00:56 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBScott 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
February 12, 2008 20:45 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBScott 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.