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Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

946 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 14 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 320 ratings

Hanselminutes 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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Starting Small with F# with Dustin Campbell

January 11, 2008 17:18 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MB

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

January 07, 2008 19:10 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MB

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

December 28, 2007 17:56 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MB

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

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 MB

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

December 07, 2007 00:06 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MB

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

November 30, 2007 02:55 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MB

Scott 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 MB

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

November 08, 2007 18:27 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MB

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

November 03, 2007 00:55 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MB

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

October 16, 2007 21:58 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MB

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

October 16, 2007 21:54 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MB

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

October 11, 2007 22:59 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MB

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

September 26, 2007 22:08 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MB

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

September 21, 2007 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MB

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

September 10, 2007 05:06 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MB

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?

September 07, 2007 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MB

Carl 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 MB

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

August 25, 2007 03:45 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MB

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

August 17, 2007 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MB

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

August 10, 2007 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MB

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

August 03, 2007 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MB

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

July 27, 2007 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MB

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

July 20, 2007 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MB

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

July 13, 2007 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MB

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

July 06, 2007 04:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MB

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

June 29, 2007 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.3 MB

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

June 22, 2007 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MB

Scott 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 MB

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

June 08, 2007 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MB

Scott 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 MB

Scott 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 MB

Scott 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 MB

Google 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 MB

Scott 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 MB

In 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 MB

In 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 MB

We 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 MB

Carl 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 MB

Scott 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 MB

Scott 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 MB

Scott 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 MB

Scott 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 MB

In 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 MB

Scott 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 MB

Scott 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 MB

Scott 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 MB

Scott and Carl talk about the Microsoft/OpenID collaboration.

Bruce Payette - Powershell

February 01, 2007 04:45 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MB

In 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 MB

In 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 MB

In 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.

Guests

Richard Campbell
18 Episodes
Damian Edwards
8 Episodes
Phil Haack
6 Episodes
Amir Rajan
3 Episodes
Joel Spolsky
3 Episodes
Charles Petzold
2 Episodes
Dan Bricklin
2 Episodes
Jon Skeet
2 Episodes
Mads Kristensen
2 Episodes
Saron Yitbarek
2 Episodes
Scott Hanselman
2 Episodes
Ali Spittel
1 Episode
Andrea Goulet
1 Episode
Andy Hunt
1 Episode
April Wensel
1 Episode
Brendan Eich
1 Episode
Camille Fournier
1 Episode
Carl Smith
1 Episode
Craig McKeachie
1 Episode
Dave Thomas
1 Episode
Eric Normand
1 Episode
Gabriel Weinberg
1 Episode
Glenn Vanderburg
1 Episode
James Shore
1 Episode
Jen Looper
1 Episode
Jerome Hardaway
1 Episode
Joe Karlsson
1 Episode
John Resig
1 Episode
Julia Evans
1 Episode
Kassandra Perch
1 Episode
Kelsey Hightower
1 Episode
Kent Beck
1 Episode
Lauren Maffeo
1 Episode
Linda Liukas
1 Episode
Martin Fowler
1 Episode
Matt Phillips
1 Episode
Nicholas Zakas
1 Episode
Nolan Lawson
1 Episode
Pia Mancini
1 Episode
Rob Eisenberg
1 Episode
Safia Abdalla
1 Episode
Safiya Noble
1 Episode
Sandi Metz
1 Episode
Scott Adams
1 Episode
Simone Weil
1 Episode
Stephanie Hurlburt
1 Episode
Suz Hinton
1 Episode
Tracy Lee
1 Episode

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