Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
946 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 14 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
Starting Small with F# with Dustin Campbell
January 11, 2008 17:18 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBScott 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
January 07, 2008 19:10 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBScott and Carl chat about 2007. How was the year for Developers? For the Web?
The Worst Show Ever with Chris Sells and Rory Blyth
December 28, 2007 17:56 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBChris 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
December 20, 2007 23:48 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MB"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
December 12, 2007 05:56 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBScott 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
December 07, 2007 00:06 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBIn 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
November 30, 2007 02:55 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBScott gets the scoop on software architecture with developer and author Dan Appleman.
Over Two Decades at Microsoft - Larry Osterman
November 15, 2007 17:55 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBScott 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
November 08, 2007 18:27 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBIn 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
November 03, 2007 00:55 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBScott'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
October 16, 2007 21:58 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBScott 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
October 16, 2007 21:54 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBScott 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
October 11, 2007 22:59 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBScott 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
September 26, 2007 22:08 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBScott 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
September 21, 2007 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBEvery 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
September 10, 2007 05:06 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBScott 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?
September 07, 2007 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBCarl and Scott are both running 64-bit Vista while others wait. Was it the right decision?
LINQ to XML
August 31, 2007 04:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBScott'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
August 25, 2007 03:45 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBScott 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
August 17, 2007 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBScott 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
August 10, 2007 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBScott 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
August 03, 2007 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBScott 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
July 27, 2007 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBScott 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
July 20, 2007 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBScott'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
July 13, 2007 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBJustice 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
July 06, 2007 04:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBScott 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
June 29, 2007 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.3 MBScott 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
June 22, 2007 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBScott and Carl chat about building your own PC with a focus on the developer, rather than the gamer.
Orcas Overview
June 15, 2007 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBWhat'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
June 08, 2007 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBScott and Carl Discuss recent technology changes and upgrades in this the fourth installment of Hanselminutiae.
Setting up a Home Network
June 01, 2007 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBScott and Carl talk about home networking: dos and don'ts, gotchas and such.
Scott talks to Martin Fowler and David Heinemeier Hansson
May 25, 2007 04:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBScott 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
May 18, 2007 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBGoogle 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
May 11, 2007 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBScott 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)
May 04, 2007 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBIn 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)
April 27, 2007 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBIn 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
April 20, 2007 04:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBWe 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
April 13, 2007 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBCarl 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
April 04, 2007 19:58 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBScott and Carl chat about the pain of the DST change and how they manage their calendars over the internet.
Building 42/Polita Paulus
March 30, 2007 15:55 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBScott 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
March 22, 2007 04:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBScott 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
March 13, 2007 08:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBScott 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
March 06, 2007 19:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBIn 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
February 28, 2007 18:57 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBScott 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
February 21, 2007 04:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBScott 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
February 15, 2007 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBScott 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
February 08, 2007 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBScott and Carl talk about the Microsoft/OpenID collaboration.
Bruce Payette - Powershell
February 01, 2007 04:45 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBIn 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
January 23, 2007 07:38 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBIn 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
January 18, 2007 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBIn 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.