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Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

English, Computing/Technology, 1 season, 926 episodes, 16 hours, 27 minutes
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Hanselminutes is Fresh Air for Developers. A weekly commute-time podcast that promotes fresh technology and fresh voices.
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The Power of Open Telemetry with Dr. Sally Wahba

Open Telemetry plays a pivotal role in monitoring, tracing, and understanding complex distributed systems. From practical applications to real-world examples, Scott and Dr. Sally break down the how and why of Open Telemetry, offering a perspective to harnessing its power for perf and troubleshooting. 
2/1/202426 minutes, 55 seconds
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AI Superpowers with Spring Science's Ben Kamens

Ben Kamens is the CEO of Spring Science creating AI tools built just for scientists - starting with the world's best high-content image analysis suite. Ben worked at Fog Creek then was engineer number one at Khan Acadamy and now he's turned his considerable focus towards solving the computationally intense (and at one point, impossible) problems of cellular biology!https://www.springscience.com
1/25/202435 minutes, 14 seconds
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ASP.NET Basics for Experts with Layla Porter

What if you could take your web applications to the next level just by getting the fundamentals right? Scott sits down with ASP.NET expert Layla Porter to talk about her unique teaching style as we go over ASP.NET Basics for Experts!https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/dotnetconf-2022/aspnet-basics-for-experts
1/18/202429 minutes, 8 seconds
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Designing with Code with Dr. Janne Jul Jensen

Let's explore the intersection of user experience design and software development. In this episode, Scott talks to Dr. Janne Jul Jensen, an interaction designer and usability specialist and now the co-founder of Henosia, a design canvas that codes. They discuss how to apply user interface techniques, methods, and tools in an agile process, how to collaborate effectively with developers and graphic designers, and how to create user interfaces that are intuitive, engaging, and aligned with real-world objects. https://www.henosia.com/
1/11/202432 minutes, 14 seconds
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Teaching Data Science with Alfredo Deza

In this episode, Scott interviews Alfredo Deza, a data science engineering and instructor. Alfredo shares his passion for teaching data science, his experience as a former Olympic athlete, and his tips and tricks for learning and applying data science concepts. They also discuss the challenges and opportunities of data science education, the importance of hands-on projects and feedback, and how he focuses on achieving his goals and deals with both success and failure.
1/4/202428 minutes, 37 seconds
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Rebuilding DevOps with System Initiative’s Brit Myers

12/28/202333 minutes
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Code Visualization with CodeSee's Shanea Leven

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12/21/202329 minutes, 51 seconds
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Building a better internet with Cloudflare's Rita Kozlov

Today Scott chats with Rita Kozlov, Sr. Director of Product for Cloudflare Workers & AI, about how Cloudflare is building a better internet with its serverless platform on the edge. Rita gives tips and advice for developers who want to learn more about Cloudflare Workers and how to use them effectively!https://ai.cloudflare.com/Sponsor: Partnerhero! To waive set up fees, go to http://partnerhero.com/hanselminutes and mention “Hanselminutes” during onboarding!
12/14/202333 minutes, 17 seconds
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Education should be Free with FreeCodeCamp's Quincy Larson

12/7/202330 minutes, 25 seconds
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Where is AI taking us, John Maeda?

11/30/202333 minutes, 57 seconds
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Modern Cloud Engineering with Adora Nwodo

11/23/202331 minutes, 59 seconds
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Balancing science, policy, education, and AI with Dr. Noriko Arai

Dr. Noriko Arai is a Japanese researcher in mathematical logic and artificial intelligence and a professor in the information and society research division of the National Institute of Informatics.  Her project pitting an AI against the University of Tokyo entrance examination got her thinking about how well young students are able to read. She started researching a new test to assess reading ability and draw attention to those junior high and high school students who cannot read well enough to understand their textbooks. Scott chats Dr Arai about AI, the future, and her experiences as a woman researcher in Japan.This episode of Hanselminutes is done in warm collaboration with our friends at the ACM ByteCast and is coproduced and published with the ACM. 
11/15/202330 minutes, 22 seconds
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Reducing barriers to AI with Guillermo Rauch

11/9/202329 minutes, 41 seconds
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Sustainable open source with Oqtane's Shaun Walker

Shaun Walker was at the forefront of open source in the .NET space as early as 2003 with the release of DotNetNuke. Scott sits down with Shaun to reflect on two decades of .NET open-source, what works, what doesn't, and what's sustainable and Shaun shares his new OSS venture, Oqtane!https://www.oqtane.org/
11/2/202328 minutes, 50 seconds
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Indigenous cultural robots with Danielle Boyer

10/26/202329 minutes, 36 seconds
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Technology Passion with Peter Ayedun

10/19/202330 minutes, 40 seconds
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Prompt Engineering for Everyone with David Scott Bernstein

10/12/202330 minutes, 39 seconds
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Redefining Developer Workflow with Pieces.App's Tsavo Knott

10/5/202332 minutes, 29 seconds
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Better Technical Writing for Everyone with Pam Hurley, PhD

Are you struggling with writing clear, concise, and effective technical documents? Do you want to learn how to improve your writing skills and communicate better with your audience? Scott interviews Pam Hurley, PhD, the founder and president of Hurley Write, Inc., a small business that specializes in teaching customized technical, business, and scientific writing courses. Pam has over 30 years of experience in helping professionals from various fields and industries to write better documents in less time.https://www.hurleywrite.com/
9/28/202329 minutes, 52 seconds
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Documentation as a path to Open Source with Sarah Rainsberger

Sarah Rainsberger owns technical documentation at Astro. What was her path into open source and technology? It might surprise you. Sarah started as an avid user of the Astro project and turned it into a career. She chats with scott about how important technical writing and documentation is to the end user experience.
9/21/202329 minutes, 27 seconds
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Exploring the Afghan girls robotics team with Saghar Salehi

Saghar Salehi is a former member of the Afghan girls’ robotics team. The team became a symbol for the progress of Afghan women. They participated in the global robotics competition held in the US in 2017 and won an award for “courageous achievement” given to teams who persevere through trying circumstances. The team was able to escape Afghanistan a few months ago, as the Taliban resurged. Scott talks with Saghar about the importance of STEM education and her plans for the future.
9/14/202328 minutes, 39 seconds
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Unlocking Peak Performance with Dr. Julie Gurner

Dr. Julie Gurner is a doctor of psychology and executive performance coach with nearly a decade of experience working with some of the nation’s top tech and finance executives and teams. She is the founder of the Ultra Successful, a newsletter that provides insights into the psychology behind what ultra-successful people do differently to achieve their goals. She is also an executive performance coach who has been compared to Wendy Rhoades of ‘Billions’ by The Wall Street Journal. Scott chats with Dr. Gurner about the science of performance.https://drgurner.substack.com/ 
9/7/202331 minutes, 15 seconds
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Level up your career with Ankita Kulkarni

Ankita Kulkarni has taken the learnings from her career as an engineering leader and turned it into a course, community, and ebook. Scott talks to Ankita about the The Engineering Leader's Playbook. As a leader working in tech for over a decade, she's got lots to share in this episode! Visit Ankita's website, with a custom page for Hanselminutes Podcast listeners!Check out Ankita's book "The Engineering Leader's Playbook" with a 25% of coupon for listeners
8/31/202332 minutes, 26 seconds
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Culturally Competent Computer Scientists with Dr. Nicki Washington

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Nicki Washington, a Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Duke University. She shares her insights on how identity and cultural competence affect the computing disciplines, from education to industry, and why they are essential for developing inclusive and ethical technologies. We also discuss her courseware which explores the diversity challenges in computer science and the effects that this lack of inclusion has on technology and technologists. Tune in to learn more about Dr. Washington’s journey in tech and her vision for a more culturally competent computer science field.
8/24/202330 minutes, 24 seconds
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The History of Data with Ted Neward

Scott sits down with Ted Neward to talk about the history and shape of data. From mainframes to ER diagrams to SQL Server to Object Databases and Document Databases, why has the way we access and store data changed over the years and what we can learn from this history? 
8/17/202336 minutes, 26 seconds
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Introducing TypeChat with Anders Hejlsberg

Scott talks to Anders Hejlsberg about a new open-source project called TypeChat that uses TypeScript types to generate structured AI responses from natural language requests. The library is designed to integrate large language models into existing app interfaces and make them safer and more reliable.
8/10/202328 minutes, 53 seconds
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The Ingredients to a Life in Tech with Corey Weathers

Scott chats with engineer, community leader, and Developer Relations Lead at Okta Corey Weathers on this episode. Shares his story about how he became interested in technology, we get a glimpse into his daily work and how he manages his teams and nurtures the next generation of developer advocate.
8/3/202331 minutes, 43 seconds
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AI and the 2023 Hollywood Strike with Franchesca Ramsey

Franchesca Ramsey is an comedian, writer, actor, producer, activist, and content creator. She's also a proud Union Member of both the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA). She sits down with Scott to talk about the importance of unions, what it means to be a "working actor" and what we can do as consumers of media to support the strike. What does it mean to be a scab? Will AI help or hinder a creative's ability to make living?https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/
7/27/202330 minutes, 13 seconds
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A diverse career with Veni Kunche

Veni Kunche is a coder, a maker, and a founder. After working as a Software Engineer since 2003, she quit her job in tech to start her own company, https://www.diversifytech.com!
7/20/202327 minutes, 4 seconds
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All the Performance with RavenDB's Oren Eini

In this episode, we talk to Oren Eini from RavenDB. RavenDB is a NoSQL document database that offers high performance, scalability, and security. Oren shares his insights on why performance is not just a feature, but a service that developers and customers expect and demand. He also explains how RavenDB achieves fast and reliable data access, how it handles complex queries and distributed transactions, and how it leverages the cloud to optimize resource utilization and cost efficiency!Sponsor: Head over to elevateai.com/hanselminutes to sign up today and get started!
7/13/202334 minutes, 23 seconds
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From Ethernet to Geothermal Energy with Bob Metcalfe

This episode of Hanselminutes is in partnership with the ACM Bytecast podcast!  In this episode, we have a special guest: Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, co-founder of 3Com, and recipient of the 2022 Turing Award. Bob joins us to share his insights on the history and future of computer networking, and his current work in geothermal power!https://learning.acm.org/bytecast 
7/6/202338 minutes, 31 seconds
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Fundamentals for Self-Taught Programmers with Jasmine Greenaway

In this episode, we talk to Jasmine Greenaway, a software engineer at Microsoft and the author of Fundamentals for Self-Taught Programmers, a book that helps aspiring developers learn the essential skills and concepts of programming. She gives us some tips and advice on how to learn effectively, how to build a portfolio, and how to network and find mentors in the tech industry. Sponsor: Head over to elevateai.com/hanselminutes to sign up today and get started!
6/29/202329 minutes, 8 seconds
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Who's Coding? with Dr Kate Miltner

Dr. Kate Miltner is a researcher and lecturer in data ai and society at the information school at the University of Sheffield. Her work explores issues of power and inequality in digital systems and cultures. She's currently slowing "who's coding?" and how did they start coding, as she examines coding boot camps across the US and UK.https://www.whoscoding.comhttps://katemiltner.comSponsor: Head over to https://elevateai.com/hanselminutes to sign up today and get started!
6/22/202345 minutes, 14 seconds
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Towards a better Data Platform with Danica Fine

Danica Fine is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent. She is a big fan of the power of data and has deep expertise in Apache Kafka. She chats with Scott about the importance of a strongly architected data platform and gives tips on when you need to move from the basics of SQL to a true data rich environment that includes data streaming products.Head over to https://elevateai.com/hanselminutes to sign up today and get started!
6/15/202331 minutes, 28 seconds
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Avanade's Florin Rotar and Chris Lloyd-Jones

In this episode, I'm joined by Florin Rotar, the Chief Technology Officer at Avanade, and Chris Lloyd-Jones, the Head of Open Technologies at Avanade. We'll be talking about how AI is evolving from being a tool to being a partner as well as the announcements we heard at Microsoft BUILD in Seattle!
6/8/202332 minutes, 6 seconds
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The Road to Entrepreneurship with Nanxi Liu

Nanxi Liu is a serial entrepreneur and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. She is the co-founder and co-CEO of Blaze, a platform that enables teams to build software with no code. In this episode, Nanxi reveals how she launched and scaled multiple successful businesses across different industries. She also shares her insights on how to raise capital, hire talent, and create impact in the world. Nanxi also discusses how she balances her creative pursuits with her entrepreneurial endeavors.
6/1/202331 minutes, 21 seconds
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Creating the Mastodon app "Elk" as a Progressive Web App with Daniel Roe

With the rise of Mastodon as a Twitter alternative, Daniel Roe, part of the Nuxt core team, joins Scott to talk about building Elk, a Mastodon client that was built using Nuxt. The app is a PWA (Progressive Web App) and behaves as natively as a web app can! How did they do it?https://roe.devhttps://twitter.com/danielcroehttps://github.com/danielroehttp://regexp.dev 
5/25/202329 minutes, 17 seconds
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Blazor Web Assembly by Example with Toi B. Wright

Toi B. Wright is an independent consultant who has been working as a software developer for over 25 years. She has a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon. She is the author of two editions of  'Blazor WebAssembly by Example: A project-based guide to building web apps with .NET, Blazor WebAssembly, and C#'. https://www.amazon.com/Blazor-WebAssembly-Example-practical-projects/dp/1803241853
5/18/202328 minutes, 11 seconds
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Computing History with Atari and Commodore's Leonard Tramiel

Leonard Tramiel shares his memories of growing up in the computer industry, working on various projects such as the Commodore PET, the Atari ST, and the Jaguar. He also discusses his current involvement in the Computer History Museum and his passion for education and science outreach. Listen to this fascinating conversation and learn more about the history and legacy of some of the most iconic computers and games of all time. Leonard has a PhD in Physics from Columbia University and these days is most interested in improving the image and understanding of science and critical thinking.
5/11/202343 minutes, 31 seconds
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Creating Walkable Cities with Nathan Allebach

In this episode of Hanselminutes, Scott Hanselman talks to Nathan Allebach, a writer and advocate for creating walkable cities. Nathan shares his passion for urban design and how it can improve the quality of life, health, and environment of people living in cities. He also discusses some of the challenges and opportunities for making cities more walkable, such as zoning, infrastructure, culture, and policy. Nathan gives examples of successful walkable cities around the world and offers practical tips for anyone who wants to get involved in this movement. Whether you are a city dweller, a planner, or a curious listener, you will find this episode inspiring and informative.
5/4/202334 minutes, 52 seconds
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The Courage to Tinker with WeThinkCode's Nyari Samushonga

This episode features Nyari Samushonga, CEO of WeThinkCode. In this episode, Nyari shares her journey of becoming a CEO and how she is using her position to help young Africans become full-stack software developers. She also talks about the importance of courage in the tech industry and how it can help people overcome their fears and take risks.
4/27/202334 minutes, 23 seconds
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Bing's move to .NET 7 with Principal Engineer Ben Watson

Bing runs one of the world’s largest, most complex, highly performant, and reliable .NET applications. This podcast episode discusses the journey and the work required to upgrade to .NET 7, including the significant performance gains they achieved.
4/20/202331 minutes, 21 seconds
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Protecting Machines from Us with Lelapa AI's Pelonomi Moiloa

Pelonomi Moiloa is a South African entrepreneur and founder of Lelapa AI which is an AI startup that aims to help Africa lure back its AI talent. In this episode, Scott and Pelonomi discuss how AI can be used for both good and bad purposes and how we can protect it from being used for evil. Lelapa aims to do this by working on problems African AI researchers care about, and by allowing them to work closer to the people and places important to them.
4/13/202329 minutes, 1 second
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Building your own PC with Damian Edwards

Scott Hanselman chats with Damian Edwards about the benefits of building your own PC. Damian designed an upgraded PC from parts for Scott and they built it online live and streamed to YouTube. They explore how building your own PC can be a fun and rewarding experience, help you better understand how computers work, and even how it can save you money in the long run. Scott's PC parts at PC Part Picker
4/6/202339 minutes, 37 seconds
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The Story of Visual Studio Code with Erich Gamma and Kai Maetzel

Today Scott talks to Erich Gamma and Kai Maetzel about the origin story of VS Code. We'll talk about how it was originally conceived and how it evolved over time. They also discuss some of the challenges they faced while developing VS Code and how they overcame them. An overnight success in 10 years, VS Code was designed to be lightweight and fast, with a focus on extensibility and community. We'll hear about culture and technical architecture as well as what’s next for VS Code and what users can expect in future releases.  
3/30/202335 minutes, 41 seconds
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Leading engineers as a non-engineer with Daily's Sarah Milstein

Sarah Milstein talks to Scott Hanselman about leading engineers as a non-engineer. They discuss how to build trust with engineers and how to communicate effectively with them. They also talk about how to manage technical projects when you’re not a technical person yourself. Sarah Milstein is the VP of Engineering at Daily, a WebRTC Video PaaS. She's also the co-founder of Lean Startup Productions and the author of The Twitter Book. http://daily.co Remote workLeading engineers as a non-engineerhttps://www.sarahmilstein.com/
3/23/202332 minutes, 8 seconds
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Being a Teenager in 2023 with Zenzo Hanselman

This week it's Scott and Zenzo Hanselman: a father-son tech talk. He chats with his son Zenzo, a curious and creative teenager, about the latest trends and topics in technology. From AI to VR, from gaming to social media, from coding to culture, Scott and Zenzo will explore the world of tech from their different perspectives and experiences. 
3/16/202332 minutes, 35 seconds
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Chasing supernovae with Dr. Sanjana Curtis

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Sanjana Curtis, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago and a science communicator. She studies how cosmic collisions produce the elements that make us who we are. We discuss her work on what happens when a black hole rips a neutron star apart and how she became interested in astrophysics!https://www.sanjana-curtis.com/
3/9/202333 minutes, 36 seconds
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Dead Simple Python with Jason C McDonald

In this episode, I chat with Jason C McDonald, the author of Dead Simple Python, a book that teaches idiomatic Python for programmers who want to learn fast and effectively. We explore why Python is such a powerful and flexible language, how to write clear and concise code, and what are some of the common challenges and myths that beginners and experienced programmers alike encounter when working with Python. Whether you are new to Python or want to enhance your skills, this episode will help you learn how to use Python in a dead simple way.https://nostarch.com/dead-simple-python
3/2/202334 minutes, 4 seconds
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Daring to be Different with Raji Rajagopalan

Raji Rajagopalan is a Director of Engineering at Microsoft and the author of the book “Daring to be Different: Stories and Tips from a Woman Leader in Tech.” In her book, she shares her personal stories of overcoming biases and challenges in her career, as well as her practical advice on how to build your skills, confidence and impact in the tech industry. She is passionate about coding, writing, building businesses and helping people be the best versions of themselves!Buy Raji's Book and visit her site
2/23/202332 minutes, 30 seconds
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Will ChatGPT help them write? with John Warner

John Warner is the author of "Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay" and six other books on writing. He's the editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and the Biblioracle. John is also a professor of creative writing but most recently he's becoming concerned that Artificial intelligence can crank out passable student essays in seconds. What are we going to do? Is ChatGPT the end of writing assignments?In order to help instructors deal with the existence of ChatGPT without making its existence omnipresent in the classroom, or capitulating to a surveillance and detection approach, John has developed a new, self-paced digital course: Teaching Writing in an Artificial Intelligence World.Read John's thoughts at The Biblioracle  
2/16/202335 minutes, 24 seconds
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Why We do Tech Outreach with Coding By Sophy

Sophy is a Software Engineer who is early in career and excited to get others into tech. She was the only afro-latina to graduate from the University of California Irvine in 2019 with a degree in computer science and engineering. She is tireless in her social media outreach on TikTok and elsewhere encouraging everyone to get involved in tech. However, she wants folks to realize it's a grind and it's hard. How do we find that balance? Can anyone get into tech?https://codebysophy.dev/
2/9/202332 minutes, 26 seconds
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The Web's Next Transition with Kent C. Dodds

Kent C. Dodds will show you how the web's next transformation will impact your user experience, your development productivity, and your business goals. The future of the web is distributed. It's faster. It's cheaper. It's exciting. Kent will show you what you can do to stay in front of it (and no, it's not web3).https://kentcdodds.com/courseshttps://github.com/kentcdodds/the-webs-next-transitionInterested in investing in Zencastr? go to http://wefunder.com/zencastr to claim your slice of the Future of Podcasting!
2/2/202333 minutes, 1 second
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The Quantified Worker with Dr. Ifeoma Ajunwa

In this episode, Dr. Ifeoma Ajunwa, author of "The Quantified Worker," joins us to discuss the implications of technology on the modern workplace. She explores the ways in which employers are using data and surveillance to monitor and manage their employees, and the impact this has on worker privacy and autonomy. Dr. Ajunwa also delves into the legal and ethical considerations surrounding the quantified worker, and offers insights on how to balance the benefits of technology with the protection of worker rights. This is a must-listen for anyone interested in the intersection of technology and work in the 21st century.https://ifeomaajunwa.com/
1/26/202334 minutes, 24 seconds
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Game Emulation with former MAME programmer Aaron Giles

Scott talks to pro­gram­mer, mu­si­cian, web de­vel­o­per, and gra­phic de­sign­er Aaron Giles about the state of game emulation. Aaron has worked for Microsoft, Connectix, LucasArts, contributed to the MAME project for over 17 years, and even ran the project for 6  years! We chat about his current project, DREAMM, which is a Windows-based emulator for classic LucasArts SCUMM adventure games, from Maniac Mansion through The Curse of Monkey Island and everything in-between!https://aarongiles.com/
1/19/202336 minutes, 50 seconds
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Ben West is not waiting for Diabetes Tech to catch up

Ben West has been at the forefront of the DIY diabetes management movement. Ben and the community's work on Nightscout, an open-source platform for continuous glucose monitoring, has revolutionized the way people with diabetes manage their condition. Ben, along with a dedicated community of developers, has been working tirelessly to empower individuals to take control of their diabetes, giving them the tools they need to live healthier, more independent lives. http://www.t1pal.com is hosted nightscout as a service
1/12/202333 minutes, 56 seconds
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Dr. Gregory Kapfhammer wants to stop flaky tests

Dr. Kapfhammer and his team focus on research related to flaky software tests, which are tests that produce inconsistent or unpredictable results. Why are tests flaky? How can we identify them and stop them in their tracks. He talks to Scott about the results of his research and practical tips for improving tests is to ensure that they are robust and reliable. Web: https://www.gregorykapfhammer.com/GitHub: https://github.com/gkapfhamLinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/GregKapfhammerMastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@gkapfhamTwitter: https://twitter.com/GregKapfhammer"A Survey of Flaky Tests", Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 31:1, 2022, https://www.gregorykapfhammer.com/research/papers/Parry2022/"Evaluating Features for Machine Learning Detection of Order- and Non-order-dependent Flaky Tests", Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, 2022, https://www.gregorykapfhammer.com/research/papers/Parry2022a/"Surveying the Developer Experience of Flaky Tests", Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering – Software Engineering in Practice Track, 2022, https://www.gregorykapfhammer.com/research/papers/Parry2022b/
1/5/202334 minutes, 39 seconds
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Dr. Brandeis Marshall's Data Conscience

In Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on our Humanity, computer science and data inclusivity thought leader Dr. Brandeis Hill Marshall delivers a call to action for rebel tech leaders, who acknowledge and are prepared to address the current limitations of software development. In the book, Dr. Brandeis Hill Marshall discusses how the philosophy of “move fast and break things” is, itself, broken, and requires change. Today she talks to Scott about what's next for data and what we as engineers can do.Read Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on our Humanity
12/29/202230 minutes, 55 seconds
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Hachyderm's Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server

Scott talks with Kris Nova who has been building and scaling Hachyderm, a Mastodon instance that began in her basement and is now moving into the cloud. Nova shares her extensive knowledge on the technical challenges and solutions involved in creating and maintaining Hachyderm, as well as her insights on the importance of building and maintaining a welcoming and inclusive online community.Watch the YouTube Video version of this episode here!
12/22/202244 minutes, 17 seconds
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Growing as an Enginering Manager with Taylor Poindexter

Taylor Poindexter, a software engineer and engineering manager, joins Scott Hanselman in this episode of the podcast to discuss her journey as a manager and her advice for emerging managers. Taylor shares her experiences of growing and learning in her role and discusses the challenges and rewards of managing a team. She offers advice on how to develop leadership skills, manage conflict, and support the growth and development of individual team members. Taylor also shares her thoughts on the importance of inclusion in engineering teams, and how managers can foster a culture of belonging,
12/15/202231 minutes, 46 seconds
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Real-time personal health data with Dot Health's Huda Idrees

Huda is the Founder and CEO of Dot Health, a real-time personal health data platform. She joins Scott to discuss real-time personal health data and its implications for consumers and the health industry worldwide. Huda explains how real-time data can help individuals track and manage their health more effectively, and how healthcare professionals can also use it to provide more personalized and effective care. She also discusses the potential challenges and risks of health data, such as data privacy and security concerns, and how Dot Health is addressing these issues.  
12/8/202233 minutes, 45 seconds
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Do I stay or do I go? - Tech career advice with Mekka Williams

Mekka Williams is a long-time software engineer who sits down with Scott Hanselman to discuss how long you should stay at a company. Mekka shares her own experiences and offers some advice for people who are trying to decide how long to stay at their current job. She discusses the importance of finding a company that aligns with your values and career goals, and how to know when it's time to move on to a new opportunity. Tune in to hear Mekka and Scott's insights on this important topic.This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/hanselminutes and get on your way to being your best self
12/1/202233 minutes, 53 seconds
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Creating games on Nintendo Switch with FUZE4 and Jon Silvera

In this episode of the podcast, Scott Hanselman sits down with Jon Silvera, the creator of FUZE4, a game-making tool for the Nintendo Switch. Jon shares his passion for game development and explains how FUZE4 makes it possible for anyone to create their own games for the Switch. He discusses the features and capabilities of the tool, and offers some tips and advice for aspiring game creators. Jon also shares his own experiences of creating games with FUZE4, and discusses the potential for the tool to revolutionize the indie game market on the Switch. This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/HANSELMINUTES and get on your way to being your best self
11/24/202232 minutes, 53 seconds
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Social Impact using offline forms with ODK's Yaw Anokwa

In this episode of ACM ByteCast in association with Hanselminues, Scott Hanselman welcomes research scientist, software engineer, and entrepreneur Yaw Anokwa. Yaw is the founder and CEO of ODK, the offline data collection platform that helps fight disease, poverty, and inequity. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington and likes to keep his bio short and sweet.Yaw describes how he felt the urge to pivot his career into a direction of positive social impact as a graduate student at the University of Washington. A volunteer experience with Partners in Health in Rwanda and a software engineering internship at Google showed him the potential for technology to empower people and change lives—specifically through ODK—which became his chief project and passion. Yaw and Scott discuss ODK’s main differentiator, “powerful offline forms,” as well as user interface affordances made to customize ODK for its users, such as rural farmers in Uganda. He also shares the joy of working on a product that focuses on public good and some principles that have helped him to succeed.
11/17/202232 minutes, 53 seconds
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Testing mobile devices with robots with Mobot's Eden Full Goh

Eden Full Goh is the CEO and Founder of Mobot, a venture-backed company that automates testing of mobile apps using robotics technology. Previously, Eden built products that spanned the energy, healthcare and government sectors at Palantir Technologies and Butterfly Network. Eden studied Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton University.
11/10/202231 minutes, 43 seconds
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What If? 2 with Randall Munroe

In association with Outside In, we are thrilled to share this conversation with Randall Munroe and Scott Hanselman. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask!Buy What If 2Watch the video of Randall and Scott on YouTube
11/3/202253 minutes, 11 seconds
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The Work Ahead with Blind Engineer Sameer Doshi

When engineer and author Sameer Doshi interviewed remotely for his current job at Microsoft, he was nervous about only one thing: Telling his future employer that he’s blind. He was offered the position, and even after starting he didn’t mention that he’s blind until he needed to put in a request for the special software that helps him do his job. Four years later, he has moved up the ranks to a management position and is thriving. He talks to Scott about tech accommodation, and his new sci-fi book The Work Ahead!
10/27/202232 minutes
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Celebrating the Second Edition of Code with Charles Petzold

The classic guide to how computers work has been updated with new chapters and interactive graphics! Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd Edition by Charles Petzold is now available. Charles explains why he added chapters, reordered content, incorporated new examples, and updated descriptions in his best-selling book. https://www.codehiddenlanguage.com/
10/20/202230 minutes, 13 seconds
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Engineering Leadership and Refactoring Monoliths with Kirsten Westeinde

Kirsten Westeinde is a technology enthusiast and a lifelong learner. She is a development manager at Shopify, where she solves challenging web development problems every day. She talks with Scott about her career at Shopify moving from Software Developer to Senior Software Development Manager. They also chat about the Shopify's Journey from Monolith...to something different!
10/13/202233 minutes
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Sonic Pi Live Coding Music Synth with Sam Aaron

Sonic Pi is a new kind of musical instrument which enables exciting new learning pathways in the classroom! Not only can you create music quickly and "live code" your music to change when performing, but you can also use Sonic Pi as a way to learn coding in a more creative way rather than focusing on abstract concepts or working with data.https://sonic-pi.net/
10/6/202235 minutes, 41 seconds
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C64 OS - A new operating system for the Commodore 64 with Gregory Naçu

C64 OS has one goal. Make a Commodore 64 feel fast and useful in today’s modern world. It's a very high bar. The C64 was introduced in 1982 and has an 8-bit, 1MHz, 6510 CPU with just 64 kilobytes of directly addressable memory. It has a screen resolution of 320x200 pixels, and a fixed palette of 16 colors. But, it is an incredibly versatile machine. And it enjoys an active userbase and a great variety of modern hardware expansions. How did Gregory Naçu do it in 2022?Buy https://c64os.com now!
9/29/202237 minutes, 25 seconds
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Why the C64 Demoscene matters with Clay Token's Bilgem Çakır

The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations. When was the last time you coded something that fit in 4k? How about just 1024 bytes? Bilgem Çakır is one of many folks still making the Commodore 64 sing and do things you'd never expect, 40 years after the computer was released. Why is this kind of coding important or interesting in 2022? Bilgem offers his perspective as game studio CTO, long time demoscener, and C64 demo record holder.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at http://betterhelp.com/hanselminutes and get on your way to being your best self.
9/22/202239 minutes, 6 seconds
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Learning to code 6502 assembly in Pikuma's Gustavo Pezzi

Gustavo Pezzi wants to teach YOU (and everyone) how to code...in 6502 assembly on 40 year old machines! There's something amazing about coding on the absolute metal and owning the entire machine/stack. https://pikuma.com teaches the learn the fundamentals of computer science and mathematics in creative and dynamic ways using older game consoles and teaches things like graphics and physics without large frameworks.
9/15/202233 minutes, 50 seconds
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Creating Tech Courseware with Lemonerdy's teen CEO Eden Wilson

9/8/202231 minutes, 31 seconds
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Building and Scaling Geo-Distributed Cloud Apps with Denis Magda

Denis started at Sun Microsystems and Oracle where he worked on JVM/JDK and led one of the Java development groups. After learning Java from the inside, he joined the world of distributed systems and databases, where he's remained ever since. He talks to Scott about how to build large horizontal cloud apps that are geo-distributed and truly global.  Cloud availability zones and regions are not immune to outages. The zones go down regularly, and regions become unavailable during natural disasters or human-caused incidents. If an availability zone or a larger area goes down, so does your application…unless the application functions across multiple geographic locations. We'll discuss availability and reliability patterns used by architects whose apps managed to withstand major cloud outages. 
9/1/202237 minutes, 17 seconds
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Growing your career via technical content creation with Mohammed Osman

Mohammed Osman strongly believes that blogging greatly improved his my career and encourages everyone to give it a try. Things like content research, learning SEO, hosting your own sites and blogs and lead to job opportunities, speaking opportunities and more! He talks to Scott about how he's used this blog to teach (and learn) Azure and help get folks all over the world Azure Cloud certified!The quiz: https://www.smartercode.io/scott/The Free Azure certifications guide: https://www.smartercode.io/become-azure-certified-shm 
8/25/202230 minutes, 34 seconds
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Learning via Personal Challenges with Lisi Hocke

Lisi Hocke commits to a personal challenge every year, publicly! This is a great way to encourage accountability and learn and improve public. She commits to one challenge per year and a continuing learning journey. Scott talks to Lisi about getting out of our personal, professional, and technical comfort zones and getting better through accountability and learning partners!
8/18/202231 minutes, 56 seconds
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Redpoint's Erica Brescia supports Tech Founders

Erica Brescia co-founded Bitnami, and later joined GitHub as COO. She's also on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation. This week she talks to Scott about how VC works, where the money comes from, how one moves from idea to funded, and how companies like Redpoint help support founders.
8/11/202235 minutes, 34 seconds
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Mark Thompson wants you to win

Mark Thompson wants you to win. He talks to Scott about the scarcity mindset and why it's the wrong way to think about a career in technology. Your winning doesn't mean Mark or Scott loses.
8/4/202238 minutes, 5 seconds
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Failing Safely with Ramón Huidobro

Ramón Huidobro is a Developer Relations Strategist, Developer Educator and Public Speaker with over a decade of experience in Software Engineering. He talks to Scott about how to learn - and fail - safely and comfortably in public.
7/28/202234 minutes, 9 seconds
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Rust for Beginners with Nell Shamrell-Harrington

Nell Shamrell-Harrington is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft and as a Board Director at the Rust Foundation. Rust is a low-level statically-typed multi-paradigm programming language that’s focused on safety and performance. In a world of C and C++, why should you use Rust? Why does Rust shine and what problems does it solve?
7/21/202228 minutes, 11 seconds
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The future of supply chain with Ox's CEO Charu Thomas

Ox optimizes fulfillment operations by automating manual tasks and increasing workforce efficiency. Ox's CEO Charu Thomas started thinking about this space in college and then ended up founded a company in Northwest Arkansas!As a second-year undergraduate, Charu took her concept to Thad Starner, a professor in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, who also was the technical lead/manager for Google Glass. The resulting research won the Best Paper Award at the 2018 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Symposium on Wearable Computers.This episode was produced in partnership with the ByteCast!
7/14/202233 minutes, 51 seconds
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Journey Foods makes Tech with Biologist and Entrepreneur Riana Lynn

Journey Foods is a SaaS company that supports product management and intelligence services for food businesses. They are changing food science inefficiencies and problematic supply chains. Scott talks to biologist turned multi-hyphenate entrepreneur Riana Lynn about our food supply, how we understand it, how it's analyzed and thought about, and how it can be improved with software.https://rianalynn.io/https://journeyfoods.io/
7/7/202232 minutes, 1 second
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Engineering Stack Overflow with Roberta Arcoverde

6/30/202232 minutes, 58 seconds
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Enabled Play for everyone with Alex Dunn

Enabled Play helps people turn anything into a new input for their computers, game consoles, and more. Powered by offline, private, and personalized Artificial Intelligence and distributed services – all packed into affordable devices and apps. Imagine playing Elden Ring with just your facial expressions! Or enabling keyboards, mice, and game pads with whatever devices will best set you up for success. Enabled Play enable folks with disabilities, different levels of abilities, basically everyone to be their best selves on any device. Scott talks to Alex Dunn about the ideas and goals behind his company, how he built it, and how Enabled Play is about Work, Life, and Play for everyone.http://www.enabledplay.com
6/23/202234 minutes, 23 seconds
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3d Printers work everywhere with OctoEverywhere and Quinn Damerell

Quinn saw a problem and connected a community. Folks like Gina at OctoPrint (Episode 470!) have made our 3D Printers wireless, but OctoEverywhere means you can connect to OctoPrint safely and securely from anywhere! How did Quinn make this service, scale it, and what's it like to have a side hustle that helps tens of thousands?http://octoeverywhere.comhttps://www.hanselminutes.com/470 
6/16/202237 minutes, 45 seconds
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3D Movie Maker Forever with Foone Turing

Foone Turing is a self-proclaimed "software necromancer" not only bringing classics back to life, but also breathing new life and community into older software and hardware. Foone and Scott recently worked with Microsoft to get Microsoft 3D Movie Maker released as Open Source. We'll hear about Foone's plans for 3D Movie Maker going forward, as well as why the community has such strong feelings for this funny 27 year old piece of software!https://github.com/foone/3DMMForever
6/9/202236 minutes, 2 seconds
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Writing Ballad and Dagger with Daniel José Older

In 2014 Daniel José Older was an EMT in New York City, today he's the author of 19 books, the most recent being Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1). He sits down with Scott to talk about being a creator in public, how social media has changed how the public interacts with authors, what his creative process is like, and how Young Adults are his favorite audience because they will absolutely tell you the truth about your work.Ballad & Dagger - Outlaw Saints, #1
6/2/202237 minutes, 20 seconds
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Power Platform School with Tricia Sinclair

Tricia has over 10 years of experience in implementing CRM solutions in various roles from Consultant to Architect. The Power Platform School works with adults from the BAME community, providing training on the Microsoft Power Platform as well as mentorship from industry professionals, during an 8-week program. Tricia is super passionate about the Power Platform and in this episode, she teaches Scott about its power and flexibility.https://powerplatformschool.com/
5/26/202232 minutes, 42 seconds
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Towards Trustworthy AI with Beena Ammanath

Trustworthy AI is an essential resource on artificial intelligence ethics for business, government, and society at-large.  In her book, Beena Ammanath draws from her extensive experience across several industries and sectors in data, analytics and AI, the latest research and case studies, and the pressing questions and concerns business leaders and society have about the ethics of AI. Scott talks to Beena about what AI - and organizations - need to do to gain our trust.Book: Trustworthy AI by Beena Ammanath
5/19/202230 minutes, 21 seconds
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A Software Tester's Career Path with Nicola Lindgren

My blog:https://nicolalindgren.comTwitter: @NicolaLindgrenHow Can I Test This?https://leanpub.com/howcanitestthisStarting Your Software Testing Career:https://leanpub.com/startinginsoftwaretesting (paperback can be bought on Amazon)Testing With Charles Proxy Blog series :https://nicolalindgren.com/2022/01/17/testing-with-charles-proxy-part-1/
5/12/202231 minutes, 41 seconds
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You're not gonna need it with Appsmith's Arpit Mohan

Appsmith is the first open-source low code tool that helps developers build dashboards and admin panels very quickly. Scott talks to Arpit Mohan about how some things in software engineering are overengineering and YAGNI - you aren't gonna need it! Maybe the solution is far simpler than you'd think it is.http://www.appsmith.com
5/5/202232 minutes, 20 seconds
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Cross-platform UIs with C# and Avalonia with Dan Walmsley

Considered an open-source cross platform spiritual successor to WPF, Avalonia provides a familiar developer experience allowing you to leverage years of pre-existing knowledge and investments! Scott talks to Dan Walmsley about the project and their goals.https://www.avaloniaui.net - website + docshttps://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia - githubhttps://t.me/Avalonia - telegram community chathttps://twitter.com/avaloniaui - twitterhttps://www.plasticscm.com - plasticscmhttps://en.gritgene.com - gritgene (film industry special effects editor)https://github.blog/2022-04-07-git-credential-manager-authentication-for-everyone/ - github blog post (git credential manager using avalonia)https://github.com/VitalElement/Xune - open source desktop Zune clone.https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Wordle-onia - wordle avalonia clone (desktop, mobile, web)https://youtu.be/GnRR7AxXyFY - complete walk-through video
4/28/202231 minutes, 25 seconds
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Patterns.dev with Lydia Hallie and Addy Osmani

Patterns.dev is free book on design patterns and component patterns for building powerful web apps with vanilla JavaScript and React. Lydia Hallie is a full-time software engineering consultant and educator that primarily works with JavaScript, React, Node, GraphQL, and serverless technologies and Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. Together they teamed up with some web friends from around the world to bring us a new way to think about Patterns in JavaScript on the modern open web.https://www.patterns.dev
4/21/202231 minutes, 45 seconds
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Site Reliability Engineering with PagerDuty's Stevenson Jean-Pierre

Scott talks to PagerDuty's Stevenson Jean-Pierre about the art and science of Site Reliability Engineering. What's the role of the SRE in today's modern DevOps lifecycle? How do they interaction and share ownership (and uptime!) of your apps and sites? Who carries the pager in 2022?
4/14/202231 minutes, 40 seconds
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How kids learn how to Code with MakeCode's Kiki Prottsman

Kiki Prottsman is a multihyphenate! Computer Science Educator, Artist, Author of several books, and above all, engineer, Kiki has been helping young developers level up with computers for as long as she can remember. Scott talks to Kiki about how kids learn, the importance of Systems Thinking, the fact that coding with Blocks is not given enough respect, and that jumping into code is far easier and more accessible than most folks realize!http://makecode.comhttp://arcade.makecode.com 
4/7/202235 minutes, 18 seconds
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Pyjion, a JIT compiler for Python using .NET Core with Anthony Shaw

In this episode Scott talks to developer Anthony Shaw about Pyjion (pronounced "Pidgeon" like the bird) a JIT compiler for Python that uses .NET Core technology for speed! We discuss the concept of JIT'ers in general, look at the Python JIT ecosystem, and explore the work that Anthony is doing to make Python as fast as possible by any means necessary! www.trypyjion.com https://live.trypyjion.com/  in-browser compiler!https://github.com/tonybaloney/Pyjion  source repo!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4nkgJdVZFA PyCon talk “Why is Python slow?”
3/31/202236 minutes, 5 seconds
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From Broadway to Engineering to Product with Liana Leahy

Scott talks to engineering manager Liana Leahy about her journey from Broadway to Technology...and why it was the absolute right and most obvious move! How does Liana's stage and screen experience make her a better more empathetic technologist?
3/24/202233 minutes, 11 seconds
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Standup Comedy is a Real Job with Alex Falcone

Alex Falcone is making it happen! A Portland comedian who now lives in LA because that's the next step for comedians just released his album "Vanilla" that you can enjoy on streaming services everywhere! How is this a real job? Scott talks to Alex about the creative process, running out of jokes, and the power of friendship.https://alexfalcone.ninja/
3/17/202244 minutes, 40 seconds
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What does it take to go fast? with Fastly's Inés Sombra

Inés Sombra is the VP of Engineering of Core Systems at Fastly, and she knows how to go fast. She talks to Scott about the needs of the product, the business, and the engineering team and explains the processes needed for YOUR organization to go fast.
3/10/202235 minutes, 52 seconds
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Flutter for Windows with Google's Chris Sells

Flutter for Windows lets you deliver cross-platform, beautiful, tailored apps that are compiled to machine code and run natively on your devices! Scott talks to Google's Chris Sells about Flutter for Windows, how it works, how it's architected, and how it can help you!- https://medium.com/flutter/announcing-flutter-for-windows-6979d0d01fed
3/3/202231 minutes, 9 seconds
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Voice for Everyone with Hillary Juma from Mozilla Common Voice

Common Voice is a crowdsourcing project started by Mozilla to create a free database for speech recognition software. The project is supported by volunteers who record sample sentences with a microphone and review recordings of other users. Community Manager Hillary Juma talks to Scott about how the system works and why it's so important to enable all languages and voices with the power of Open Source!
2/24/202232 minutes, 20 seconds
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Modern Code Generation with Jordan Adler

Jordan Adler is Head of Developer Engineering at OneSignal and has a deep interest in code generation. He has helped migrate large systems from Python 2 or Python 3 using code generation and code transformation. Using tools like Yellicode, Python Future, and others, Jordan's team has been able to accelerate software development. We'll also talk about OpenAPI-generator, a tool that takes OpenAPI/Swagger and generates idiomatic SDKs in any language.
2/17/202234 minutes, 49 seconds
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Landing Your First UX Design Job with Sharon Onyinye

Sharon Onyinye is a Product Designer, UX Specialist, and Educator. She's released an e-book "Landing Your First UX Design Job" and chats with Scott about how to think about design, how to get started, as well as the differences between UX, UI, PhotoShop, Figma, and other tools in the space. How do designers most successfully, ahem, "interface" with front end developers?Learn from Sharon, here's here list of resources/booksLanding Your First UX Design Job
2/10/202232 minutes, 18 seconds
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Rachel Lim on Fine Tuning OpenAI

OpenAI has the ability to create custom versions of GPT-3 tailored for a developer’s application. Developers can use these fine-tuned iterations of GPT-3 subsets to efficiently produce results specific to their workloads with a single command. Scott talks to Rachel Lim from OpenAI about how these large language models work, what they are useful for, and why tuning them is so important!https://openai.com/api/
2/3/202226 minutes, 27 seconds
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Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History with Evan Amos

Evan Amos is a video gaming photographer of high-quality stock photography of video game consoles, which he releases into the public domain. Known for contributing these images to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Amos has recently release The Game Console 2.0, a book with extremely high-quality photos of classic (and modern) consoles. Why is it so important to share and preserve history in this way?The Game Console 2.0Find Evan Amos onlineThe Vanamo Online Game Museum
1/27/202240 minutes, 58 seconds
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Exploring COVID Vaccine response with Shawn Carbonell, MD, PhD

Dr. Carbonell has been a Scientist for decades. He is an evangelist for STEM careers, science communication, and scientist-CEOs. “Learn On TikTok” Creator. He is Oxford-educated with both an MD and PhD as well as Post-doctoral work. He dropped out of Brain Surgery to focus on curing brain cancer and a drug he invented is being tested now!Check out his lab tests on his own body where he explores his response to the COVID booster weekly on TikTokFind Shawn at:Brazen Bio: https://brazen.bioBrazen Capital: https://brazen.capitalCure Glioblastoma: https://www.cureglioblastoma.orgTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brainsurgerydropoutHis socials: https://beacons.ai/brainsurgerydropout
1/20/202233 minutes, 50 seconds
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Redefining Imposter Syndrome with Maya Bello

Maya is a software engineer who has worked at companies like Intuit and Slack. She's also taught game design as well as Java and OOP techniques as a Tutor at UCSD. She runs a successful YouTube channel and often mentors newbies. However, she's struggled with Imposter Syndrome. In this chat with Scott, Maya asks "why not me?" and considers how to redefine Imposter Syndrome and make it a superpower rather than a problem.Subscribe to Maya on YouTube!
1/13/202231 minutes, 25 seconds
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Building Oh My Posh with Jan De Dobbeleer

I love a great command prompt and so does Jan De Dobbeleer. Building on the "Oh My" naming style, Jan started On My Posh on PowerShell and later brought it to all shells. Scott talks to Jan about open source, Go, and the fun in bootstrapping a community.OhMyPosh.devScott and Jan create a new Segment for OhMyPosh that interfaces Nightscout for Diabetics
1/6/202239 minutes, 9 seconds
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Quitting your Job to Build a Game Studio with Bria Sullivan

Bria Sullivan is the CTO and Founder of Honey B Games. She took the leap and quit her job at Google to chase her dream full-time! Since then she's created a number of successful mobile games including Milk Tea Mania and Boba Barista Idle. She talks to Scott about taking that leap, how she did it, and how she plans to grow in 2022.https://www.bubbleteagame.com/
12/30/202135 minutes, 4 seconds
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Multi-Platform Apps with Uno Platform's Jérôme Laban

Uno Platform is an open source cross-platform graphical user interface that allows WinUI and Universal Windows Platform (UWP)-based code to run on iOS, macOS, Linux, Android, and WebAssembly. Scott talks to Jérôme Laban about the importance - and the flexibility - of this Uno Platform and what it can do for you.https://platform.uno/
12/23/202135 minutes, 32 seconds
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Race & Gender in Silicon Valley with Stanford's Cynthia Lee

Join us as we go behind the scenes of a year of big headlines about trouble in Silicon Valley. We'll start with the basic questions of who decides who gets to see themselves as "a computer person," and how do early childhood and educational experiences shape our perceptions of our relationship to technology? Scott talks with Stanford CS Professor Dr. Cynthia Lee about this and more.-https://bit.ly/racegenderinsiliconvalley
12/16/202137 minutes, 46 seconds
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David Copperfield's History of Magic - in partnership with Microsoft Outside In

Microsoft has an internal lecture series called Outside in where interesting people come to talk about cool things they are working on. I got to speak to Magician David Copperfield inside his secret magic museum in Las Vegas. He's written a new book called History of Magic that's a wonderful exploration of the last 500+ years of magic. We talk about his career and the fascinating parallels between technology and magic.  I want to personally thank David for his generosity and for letting us amplify his message on this YouTube and on the Hanselminutes Podcast.Watch this interview on YouTube!
12/9/202144 minutes, 8 seconds
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Becoming a Digital Unicorn with Trice Johnson

The continuous wave of digital disruptions is demanding something new from each of us, whether you work for a large corporation or a small business, own a startup, or are a recent graduate looking to break into the industry. Trice explains to Scott that your ability to think beyond what's possible and solve problems with a different lens is the secret sauce that will set you apart - and increase your uniqueness in the market.https://www.becomingadigitalunicorn.com/
12/2/202134 minutes, 43 seconds
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Web Assembly's hidden talent with WasmCloud's Kevin Hoffman

WebAssembly-based wasmCloud is a Sandbox Project for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Cosmonic COO Kevin Hoffman is convinced it's the next big thing in computing. He talks to Scott about why WebAssembly is so significant and considers it through a historical lens of decades of building distributed systems. Should you build your functions and services in the language you want and run them securely everywhere with WebAssembly?https://wasmcloud.dev/https://cosmonic.com/
11/25/202131 minutes, 12 seconds
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Understanding Windows 11 new security requirements with David Weston

David Weston is Director of Enterprise and OS Security for Windows at Microsoft. Today he sits down with Scott to get some real answers about the hardware requirements of Windows 11. What's the role of the TPM, and what are the other significant requirements that were needed in silicon to make Windows 11 secure?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg9QUrnVFho
11/18/202136 minutes, 21 seconds
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Looking at Azure Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow with Jason Zander

Jason Zander, EVP of the Azure Team joins Scott Hanselman to celebrate the 8th anniversary of Azure Friday. In this special crossover episode with Hanselminutes, they reflect on Azure history and Jason's career at Microsoft during that timeframe.http://www.azurefriday.com 
11/11/202133 minutes, 25 seconds
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Climbing high while staying grounded with Annyce Davis

Scott talks with Annyce Davis, Senior Engineering Director at Meetup, about how to advance in your engineering career while maintaining a hold on the technology, community, and processes that you got there. We'll learn why she feel like sharing what you know is one of the best ways to stay connected to the community!https://adavis.info/Course: Programming Foundations and Fundamentals
11/4/202132 minutes, 52 seconds
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Dr. Jelani Nelson - in partnership with ACM Bytecast

In this special episode of Hanselminutes, co-produced in partnership with ACM ByteCast we welcome Jelani Nelson, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Theory Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Research Scientist at Google. Among his honors, he won the 2014 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is the creator of AddisCoder, a computer science summer program for Ethiopian high school students in Addis Ababa.Jelani and Scott discuss his journey from learning HTML when he was 12 to becoming a theoretical computer scientist. They talk about the spectrum between software engineering and theory and how even theoretical CS research can have an impact on industry practice; teaching his Introduction to Algorithms course of more than 700 students; running a highly successful algorithmic boot camp for students in Ethiopia to learn coding; the times he feels most accomplished in his work; and the importance of creating access and awareness of computing opportunities for students.
10/28/202136 minutes, 2 seconds
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The next generation of AI Dungeon with Latitude's Nick Walton

AI Dungeon took the tech world by storm in 2019 when it was released as a free-to-play single-player and multiplayer text adventure game that uses artificial intelligence to generate content. Now Nick Walton and the team at Latitude are looking at how AI can make games even more open world than we could have imagined!
10/21/202132 minutes, 28 seconds
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Building 0 A.D. a free, open-source game of ancient warfare

0 A.D. is a free and open-source real-time strategy video game under development by Wildfire Games. It is a historical war and economy game made an international group of volunteer game developers and it is AMAZING. The game is cross-platform, playable on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, even Raspberry Pi! Stanislas Dolcini has been working on 0 A.D. for years and shares with Scott how it started and how it's going!https://play0ad.com for free!
10/14/202132 minutes, 59 seconds
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Back to the Technology Future Again with Eric Newcomer

Is everything old new again? Scott chats with Eric Newcomer about the recurring patterns he's seen as the CTO of WSO2 and across his career as a technologist building large systems. We'll talk about complexity vs. simplicity, abstraction vs. control, and one of Eric's favorite topics - transactions and eventual consistency. Eric will also explain the value of the new Ballerina open-source programming language for the cloud that makes it easier to use, combine, and create network services, and how it is used in Choreo - a new integration Platform as a Service for API developers.ChoreoWSO2
10/7/202132 minutes, 59 seconds
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Teach Little Hackers to Code Without a Computer with Brandon Tory

Little Hackers is a new book from Google engineer and multi-hyphenate Brandon Tory that launched on Kickstarter this week! It's designed to teach kids to program computers without requiring touching a computer! Scott talks to Brandon about how he learned and how he thinks the next generation of kids can learn to code and think about systems.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/littlehackers/little-hackers-learning-to-code-for-early-readersWatch the video version here https://youtu.be/B5JDczjJvwg 
9/30/202133 minutes, 2 seconds
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Finding Your Path to Technology with Krystal Maughan

PhD candidate and researcher Krystal Maughan didn't plan her career, but instead focused on being present and in the moment as events and opportunities presented themselves. Luck is opportunity plus preparation and Krystal makes her own luck by being deeply prepared and by consistently showing up! What can we learn from Krystal's (circuitous) journey into technology and science?
9/23/202138 minutes, 35 seconds
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Scaling the Metaverse with Roblox CTO Daniel Sturman

"Roblox’s vision for the metaverse is to create a platform for immersive co-experiences, where people can come together within millions of 3D experiences to learn, work, play, create, and socialize." Scott talks to Roblox CTO Daniel Sturman about the challenges and triumphs of building and scaling the multiverse with Roblox! Also, check out the Roblox Tech Talks Podcast as well! https://corp.roblox.com/technology/ https://blog.roblox.com/2021/09/future-communication-metaverse/
9/16/202132 minutes, 44 seconds
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Exploring the brain with music and science with Dr. Simón(e) Sun

Simón(e) Sun, PhD is a scientist, musician, and artist in the J. Tollkuhn Lab at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. She received her PhD in the R.W. Tsien Lab at the NYU Neuroscience Institute studying neuroplasticity. Their current project SÉN, uses their own experimental data they've acquired from exploring the brain!https://www.simonesun.com
9/9/202137 minutes, 5 seconds
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Powering Cloud gaming with Rainway's Andrew Sampson

Recently Seattle-based startup Rainway came out with big news - the tech behind its web-based gaming platform powers the PC and iOS versions of Microsoft’s Project xCloud. Scott talks to Andrew Sampson about his journey and how Rainway uses web tech and make the impossible possible.
9/2/202130 minutes, 20 seconds
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Climbing the Engineering Ladder with Amal Hussein

Amal Hussein is an engineer, community organizer, podcaster and budding entrepreneur. She is currently a Principal Software Engineer at Indigo, where she is focused on building global agricultural transportation software to annually save the planet millions of gallons of fuel. When she isn’t working on saving the universe from itself, you find her podcasting on JS Party or The Web Platform Podcast.
8/26/202135 minutes, 11 seconds
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Tech Startup Life in a Pandemic with QuirkChat's Bee Law

Bee Law has been starting up her startup for years...and it's happening! She talks to Scott about Tech Startup Life, the realities of raising money, growing a team, and taking opportunities as life gives them to you while creating https://www.quirkchat.com/
8/19/202134 minutes, 5 seconds
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DevSecOps or SecDevOps with Wabbi's Brittany Greenfield

DevSecOps vs. SecDevOps vs. DevOpsSec: Is there really a difference in these secure DevOps terms? We all agree we need to not only secure DevOps but we want secure software to pop out the other side of our ops pipelines. Folks often have 'security teams' that are separate...how important is it to get not just a segment in the DevOps pipeline but really integrated end to end? Scott chats with Wabbi's Brittany Greenfield about the future of DevOps+Security.
8/12/202131 minutes, 31 seconds
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Maximizing machine learning performance with OctoML and Luis Ceze

8/5/202131 minutes, 51 seconds
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Learn F# to write Succinct, Performant, and Correct Code with Don Syme

F# empowers everyone to write succinct, robust and performant code. Today Scott talks to Don Syme, the designer and architect of the F# programming language, described by a reporter as "the most original new face in computer languages since Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ in the early 1980s." How can F# help join both the .NET and JavaScript ecosystems? .NET Conf Focus DayAnnouncing F# 5.0F# 6.0 Tasks RFCResumable codeHigh Perf Immutable DataF# for Apache SparkF# for Azure FunctionsDon and Guido's Dojo MaterialTasks F# 6.0 Design Discussion.NET Conf - Focus on F#Don's recommended "Learn F#" course ($)  F# Community home pageF# Microsoft home page
7/28/202130 minutes, 47 seconds
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The next generation of Data Visualization with Observable's Anjana Vakil

We've come a long way from simple pie charts created on the server side. Today's browsers support complex interactive visualizations and it's technologies like SVG, d3.js, and JavaScript that make it possible. Scott talks with Observable's Anjana Vakil about the history of data visualization on the web, Mike Bostock's work on d3 at the New York Times, and how Observable is attempting to bring data, visualizations and code all together in one collaborative place.
7/22/202133 minutes, 51 seconds
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New Ways to Teach Computer Science with Maria Naggaga

Maria Naggaga and her team have been reconsidering how we teach computer science and coding? Is a console app with "Hello World" the best way? What about a notebooks 'electric paper' style instead? Where should the barrier to entry be when learning to code?http://dotnet.microsoft.com/learntocode
7/15/202133 minutes, 21 seconds
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Engineering Servant Leadership with Carbon Health's Claire Hough

Claire Hough started her career at Netscape and has been leading engineering teams to success ever since. Today she serves as the CTO of Carbon Health as a servant leader. Servant-leaders focus on the growth and well being of the people they lead rather than the accumulation of power.
7/8/202131 minutes, 56 seconds
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Electronics for Everyone with AdaFruit's Limor Fried

Limor Fried is an electrical engineer and owner of the electronics company Adafruit Industries. She started Adafruit in her MIT dorm room and has never stopped since then!YouTube Scott Hanselman visits AdaFruitVIDEO: The video of this episode of Hanselminutes with Lady Ada is on YouTube!
7/1/202142 minutes, 36 seconds
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The Five Forces with Captain Hoff - Steve Hoffman

In The Five Forces That Change Everything, Steve Hoffman, venture capitalist and CEO of Founders Space, takes you on a journey to see what the most brilliant minds of our age are dreaming up. Hoffman reveals how new scientific breakthroughs and business ventures are poised to reshape our lives and turn science fiction into fact.The Five Forces That Change Everything
6/24/202132 minutes, 42 seconds
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Get Busy Living with Abel Wang

Abel Wang is having quite a year. A few years back he was diagnosed with cancer, and this year it's back and he has been given a number - 14%. Now he decides what do to with that number.You can also watch the VIDEO version at https://youtu.be/yPfMW0CZpms
6/17/202137 minutes, 12 seconds
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Learning to Teach with Shaundai Person

Shaundai Person is an engineer and career switcher who is using the skills from her previous career to be successful in her new one! She's also a mom and is applying all of this to learn how to teach! She's a blogger and trainer and has been deliberate in her journey to teaching and sharing her experiences. She shares her techniques and styles with Scott in this episode!Shaundai's BlogHow Potty Training Shaped My Tech Teaching Style
6/10/202133 minutes, 42 seconds
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Design Systems with Jina Anne

Jina Anne is a Designer and Advocate with a passion for Design Systems and Design Tokens. What are Design Systems? Are they limiting or are they freeing? What happens when giant companies make a design system - does the whole industry move? What do things "look old" and need to be "refreshed?" https://jina.design/
6/3/202132 minutes, 31 seconds
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Leslie Lamport - in partnership with ACM Bytecast

In this collaboration with ACM ByteCast and Hanselminutes, Scott welcomes 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Leslie Lamport of Microsoft Research, best known for his seminal work in distributed and concurrent systems, and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX and the author of its first manual. Among his many honors and recognitions, Lamport is a Fellow of ACM and has received the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, the Dijkstra Prize, and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal.Leslie shares his journey into computing, which started out as something he only did in his spare time as a mathematician. Scott and Leslie discuss the differences and similarities between computer science and software engineering, the math involved in Leslie’s high-level temporal logic of actions (TLA), which can help solve the famous Byzantine Generals Problem, and the algorithms Leslie himself has created. He also reflects on how the building of distributed systems has changes since the 60s and 70s.Subscribe to the ACM ByteCast at https://learning.acm.org/bytecastTime-Clocks Paper http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdfBakery Algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport%27s\_bakery\_algorithmMutual Exclusion Algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport%27s\_distributed\_mutual\_exclusion\_algorithm
5/27/202139 minutes, 53 seconds
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Developers and Security with Rey Bango

There's Developers, and there's Infosec, right? Folks that sling code, and the security people that complain about the coders. Rey Bango talks to Scott about the mindset that developers should consider today - where security is baked into the process from day 0.
5/20/202136 minutes, 52 seconds
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Automating all the Things with Home Assistant's Paulus Schoutsen

Home Assistant allows you to control all your devices without storing any of your data in the cloud. The project was started as a Python application by Paulus Schoutsen in September 2013 and has turned into a massively popular series of projects that span hundreds of devices! Plus, they like to keep your privacy private!https://www.home-assistant.io/
5/13/202133 minutes, 36 seconds
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Social Robots with De'Aira Bryant

De’Aira Bryant is a doctoral student in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research areas span the fields of human-robot interaction and artificial intelligence. Recently she programmed a report for the HBO movie "Superintelligence." She talks to Scott about how robots and can cater to specific audiences, especially children.
5/7/202136 minutes, 50 seconds
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Customer Empathy with Alex Allwood

Customer Empathy is a powerful human resource for positively impacting customer experience excellence. Alex Allwood outlines her customer-centric framework, methods and tools to switch on and scale customer empathy that can be used to solve the common customer experience management problems of low organizational commitment, poor alignment of cross-functional teams, and competing agendas and priorities.https://customerempathy.com 
4/29/202133 minutes, 7 seconds
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Intersection of Medicine and Technology with Dr. Divya Dhar Cohen

Dr. Divya Dhar Cohen has reinvented herself at least 3 times! She started as a social activist, then a doctor, then a product manager at Google! She's founded and built products, been a physician in New Zealand and even got an MBA along the way. She talks to Scott about the intersection of all these things that interest her and more!
4/22/202133 minutes, 18 seconds
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Doing Open Source with Brian Douglas

Brian Douglas is a Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub. He talks to Scott about his journey (and YOUR journey) into Open Source and community! Anyone can do it!
4/15/202132 minutes, 1 second
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API Observability with Akita Software's Jean Yang

Jean Yang has a better way to catch breaking changes. She's been considering software verification, programming language design, type-systems, and type-safety for many years. She understands how to automatically enforce information flow policies and has now turned her eye towards founding Akita Software. They promise to make your APIs and Services easier to understand, map, manage, and maintain.https://www.akitasoftware.com/
4/8/202132 minutes, 19 seconds
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Attracting and Retaining Diverse Tech Talent with April Christina Curley

April Christina Curley is a Diversity Specialist and Educator who recently left Google where she focused on increasing hires from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). We talk about the problems of hiring in tech, the challenges faced by underrepresented groups, what companies need to focus on to retain top talent, and her thoughts talent that remains untapped by tech.
4/1/202135 minutes, 40 seconds
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Outside In: The Innovation Stack with Jim McKelvey

In this special episode of Hanselminutes, Scott shares a discussion with Jim McKelvey, a glassblower and also the co-founder of Square! This conversation was previously published as a episode of Microsoft's internal interview series "Outside In." Jim's team and our friends at Microsoft have encouraged us to share the episode where we discuss innovation and entrepreneurship.Read Jim McKelvey's book The Innovation Stack
3/25/202139 minutes, 46 seconds
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From Astronomy Graduate Student to Senior Software Engineer with Nicholas Hunt-Walker

Nicholas Hunt-Walker loves the stars. So much so that he got a Master's degree in Astronomy...and now works as a Software Engineer! How did that happen? Nicholas shares his passionate path to software, both front-end and back-end programming and how solving problems with software was a family affair.
3/18/202137 minutes, 50 seconds
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It's time for a new kind of calculator with NumWorks' Romain Goyet

It's 2021 and Scott's sons were asked to buy TI-83 calculators for their classes. Are there truly no better choices? Romain Goyet asked the same question...and did something about it. Numworks is the graphing calculator that makes everyone a math person. Open Source through and through, powerful, color, AND is allowed on major tests like the SAT, AP, PSAT and other College Board tests. It also runs a Python shell! How can such a wonderful thing exist? Scott finds out this week.https://www.numworks.com/
3/11/202132 minutes, 27 seconds
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George Li is launching MiTEE Cube Satellites and making TikToks

George Li is a photographer, TikToker, and is currently working on the MiTEE 2 satellite platform at the University of Michigan with NASA and JPL. As an R&D member of the Communications subteam, we is currently developing a microwave communications power splitter system for the MiTEE 2 Satellite platform. Today he talks to Scott about all things CubeSat!MiTEE CubeSat Home PageGeorge Li on TikTokAll About CubeSats at NASAConcept Art of a Cube SatCubeSat to test using Earth's magnetic field for propulsionThe MiTEE inside a test chamber
3/4/202132 minutes, 42 seconds
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Observability beyond buzzwords with New Relic's Tori Wieldt

Let's move beyond buzzwords and talk about observability and DevOps in large systems. Observability is the ability to measure the internal state of a system only by its outputs, but often those outputs are hundreds of log files spread across dozens of systems. The cloud has only made these large systems harder to understand and manage. Scott talks to New Relic's Tori Wieldt about the benefits of formalizing how you think about distributed systems and the tools available to make things easier.
2/25/202132 minutes, 22 seconds
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Lisette Sutherland shows us a Handbook for Working Remotely

Lisette is a remote-working German-born American living in the Netherlands who is totally jazzed by the fact that it’s possible to work from anywhere. In fact, it’s not just possible; it’s completely, productively workable—if you do it right. She talks to Scott about remote work before, during, and after the pandemic!Work Together Anywhere - A Handbook on Working Remotely Remote Workshops on how to work better…remotely!
2/18/202135 minutes, 49 seconds
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Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothmann

Johanna Rothman has been in software and management for many years and she's taken what she knows about managing teams and put it into a great three-volume set "Modern Management Made Easy." She covers not just managing organizations, managing teams, but also managing yourself. Scott talks to Johanna about the trials and tribulations of management and how Johanna's insights can help.https://www.jrothman.com/Buy the 3 pack of Modern Management Made Easy
2/11/202132 minutes, 25 seconds
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Can networking be simple? with Tailscale's Avery Pennarun

Double NAT? Triple NAT? Opening Ports, punching holes in firewalls, it's all so complex, right? Does it have to be? Scott talks to Tailscale's Avery Pennarun and asks "can networking be simple?" Avery and his team believes it can with a new take on networking. Personal mesh-style VPNs with tech like WireGuard over a faster, leaner, cleaner, and simpler way to share your network with your team.
2/4/202133 minutes, 53 seconds
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The myth of turning your hobby into a job with writer Aley Arion

One day multi-hyphenate creative Aley Arion tweeted "one day I’m going to talk about the myth of turning your hobby into a job & how it can actually create a disconnect between you & that thing you once did for fun because it became work." Today is that day! Aley talks to Scott about how the challenges of attaching your creative outlets to your rent. Is it possible and is it healthy?Aley's blogAley's original tweetHire or work with Aley
1/28/202132 minutes, 31 seconds
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Cryptography 101 with Oso's Dr. Sam Scott

One of the best parts of having a podcast is having smart people explain stuff to you! Scott talks to Dr. Sam Scott, the CTO of https://www.osohq.com/ about what the average developer should know about Cryptography. SSL, TLS, public/private key, certs, PKIs, hashing, encryption, salts, algorithms, sessions, bearers, oh my!
1/21/202134 minutes, 40 seconds
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Exploring Event Modeling with Adam Dymitruk

Event Modeling was coined by Adam Dymitruk by building on long-running process specifications that Greg Young used in CQRS/ES systems. Scott sits down with Adam to understand this process and how it make make your systems - and your life making those systems - easier to write, understand, and maintain.https://eventmodeling.org/about/
1/14/202135 minutes, 59 seconds
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Living through 2020 as a Remote Developer with Amanda Silver

2020 has been hard on everyone. Not to mention we're all suddenly remote developers. Scott talks to Developer Division VP and long-time developer Amanda Silver on the effects of moving a whole division of programmers OFFSITE. What tools and processes have helped? Is this the new normal? Will we move back into the office? How HAS software development changed in the last year and how will it change in the next 1,5, and 10?
1/7/202134 minutes, 2 seconds
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2020 sucked - A year-end wrap-up with Scott's Wife, Mo

Mo is back! It's the 2020 wrap-up with Scott's wife. Be sure to check out her previous shows. Mo and Scott  celebrated 20 years of marriage in the middle of a pandemic. Mo will be vaccinated this week in her job as a nurse and Mo and Scott discuss their 2021 plans.
12/31/202032 minutes, 51 seconds
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Beyond The Queen's Gambit with Chess.com's Danny Rensch

The Queen's Gambit on Netflix has reinvigorated the world's interested in chess. Or has it? Chess.com has been slowly but surely developing online chess into a vibrant and exciting community. Their innovative Chess.com/tv has folks playing and analyzing chess games like EPSN. Scott talks to international master Danny Rensch about chess beyond The Queen's Gambit.Try a Chess.com free trial!
12/24/202036 minutes, 41 seconds
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Building eBay's Web API ecosystem with Tanya Vlahovic

12/17/202029 minutes, 36 seconds
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Shipping the Sandman Doppler with Palo Alto Innovation's Alex Tramiel

Shipping product is hard. Kickstarting hardware products is hard. Scott talks to Palo Alto Innovation's Alex Tramiel whose team is shipping the Sandman Doppler Alarm Clock. How does a new product go from concept to your nightstand? What's inside a smart alarm clock like the Sandman Doppler? How does one make a decision like USB-C or not, when a product has a multi-year development cycle? All this and more, this week on Hanselminutes!https://www.sandmanclocks.com/pages/doppler
12/10/202038 minutes, 27 seconds
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Succeeding from Anywhere: The Remote Work Revolution with Tsedal Neeley

Tsedal Neely is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School and founder of the consulting firm Global Matters. Her book The Language of Global Success can give you the tools you need to understand how language shapes multinational and multicultural organizations. She talks to Scott about her upcoming book "Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere.: How will virtual work and global work change how YOU work?Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere
12/3/202033 minutes, 5 seconds
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A self-driving AI and Raspberry Pi powered Trash Bin with Ahad Cove

Why NOT make a self-driving AI and Raspberry Pi powered Trash Bin? Programmer Ahad Cove saw a problem and he took it upon himself to solve it. Ahad and Scott talk through the design and conception process, how it was coded, limitations, and future plans! Now, why don't YOU solve a problem in your home with coding and IoT?YOUTUBE - Self-Driving Garbage Can That Takes Itself Out
11/26/202034 minutes, 15 seconds
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TL;DR - Extreme Summarization as a service with Isabel Cachola

Isabel currently a PhD student studying Computer Science at Johns Hopkins. Previously she was a Pre-Doctoral Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI. She and Scott talk about her PhD thesis where she's taught a model to look at scientific texts and pull out a "TL;DR" summary that is both accurate AND useful!https://isabelcachola.com/
11/19/202028 minutes, 20 seconds
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Growing the next generation of technologists with CodeCrew's Meka Egwuekwe

Meka Egwuekwe is Executive Director of CodeCrew, an innovative, mentorship-based youth coding initiative guiding young people in Memphis to be tech producers.  Scott talks to Meka about CodeCrew's multifaceted plan to fill the pipeline through summer camps, after school programs, and Code School for adults learning to code!https://www.code-crew.org/
11/12/202034 minutes, 37 seconds
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Programmatic Problem Solving with Nicole Archambault

Nicole Archambault believes we can scale back on learning to code and we should ramp up on learning problem solving. She believes this so much she's launched a whole online course - Newbie Coder Problem Solving School - that teaches tons of problem solving skills...with not a single line of code! Is this possible? A good idea? We find out this week!https://www.lavieencode.net/launchpad
11/5/202035 minutes, 29 seconds
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Creating with Constraints with Python Africa's Marlene Mhangami

Marlene Mhangami is a Python Software Foundation Director and the co-founder of ZimboPy, a Zimbabwean non-profit that empowers women to pursue careers in tech. Marlene is also the current chair of Pycon Africa, the first pan-African gathering of the Python community. Today she talks with Scott about working and creating with constraints, as well as her views on the incredible technology talent promise of the African Continent.
10/29/202033 minutes, 54 seconds
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Greatly Accelerating Machine Learning with Intel's Huma Abidi

Scott talks to Huma Abidi, the Senior Director of AI Software Products at Intel. Huma leads a team of software engineers and today she sits down and gets deep with Scott on AI, machine learning, deep learning, optimization...and painting! What is the role of silicon and hardware instructions when doing AI and ML? How does Intel interact with the open source community?https://www.unite.ai/huma-abidi-senior-director-of-ai-software-products-at-intel-interview-series/https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019/02/01/intel-ai-women-intc.htmlhttps://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21120470/enabling-ai-with-intels-deep-learning-boost
10/22/202032 minutes, 23 seconds
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Virtual Desktop is what VR needs - with Guy Godin

Why can't I control a Virtual Desktop of my PC from my VR headset? Guy Godin asked this question...and made the answer. Is VR Desktop VR's killer app? Scott talks to Guy about how he did it, and how VR Desktop made a $400 VR headset into Scott's primary rig...wirelessly! And it's written entirely in C#? With latency in the low milliseconds!? Impossible.https://www.vrdesktop.net/
10/15/202035 minutes, 3 seconds
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Normalizing Failure with Susana Benavidez

Susana Benavidez has had an interesting path into technology and she wants to normalize that path. Sometimes it's not straight and narrow, sometimes it's windy and filled with bumps. What would tech look like if we normalized failure and gave folks a space place to fail fast, fail often and come out on the other side better than ever?Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!
10/8/202030 minutes, 36 seconds
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Enjoyable Code Reviews with Dr. Michaela Greiler

Do you dread code reviews? Dr. Michaela Greiler believes they are essential and if done right, can be enjoyable and powerful. She talks about the general practice of code reviews, what goes wrong, and how we can get better at them! What are the responsibilities of the reviewer and the reviewed? Here are the links we discussed in the episode:awesomecodereviews.com workshops!codereviewbook.io pre-release sign-up for the code review book! https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/ Dr. Greiler's Podcast https://www.michaelagreiler.com/ all her blog posts about code reviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNXk_WJzyMI YouTube video on how to give respectful code review feedback https://www.michaelagreiler.com/code-reviews-at-microsoft-how-to-code-review-at-a-large-software-company/ Blog post about code reviews at Microsoft https://twitter.com/mgreiler
10/1/202032 minutes, 8 seconds
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Start Freelancing Today with The Taproom's Kelly Vaughn

Have you thought about being a freelancer? Starting your own thing? What's keeping you? Where do you start? Scott talks to Kelly Vaughn about her freelancing journey and her new book "Start Freelancing Today."https://startfreelancing.today
9/24/202031 minutes, 40 seconds
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A new way to learn about technology with Disco's Saron Yitbarek

CodeNewbie founder Saron Yitbarek is now producing beautifully designed,  easy-to-digest audio courses! Is it an audiobook? They're not webinars or labs. Is Disco the future of technology learning?
9/17/202034 minutes, 45 seconds
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Leaning into Learning in Public with Monica Powell

Monica Powell is a software engineer who is passionate about making contributing to open-source more approachable. She works with The New York Public Library's eBook software and founded React Ladies. Today she talks to Scott about creative expression on the web and learning into learning in public.
9/10/202033 minutes, 5 seconds
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Document Databases and Mongo with Engineer Joe Karlsson

Scott talks with Joe Karlsson about Document Databases like MongoDB and how they differ from classic Table-based (ER) databases. Can this next generation of WebAPI and JSON-powered cloud DB allow more beginners to get into programming? Is this the death of select * from table?NOTE: Scott met Joe while speaking at Codeland. While Mongo is a sponsor of Hanselminutes, this interview isn't related to that sponsorship in any way. Hanselminutes doesn't do "sponsored guests," only awesome guests.
9/3/202032 minutes, 47 seconds
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Building a More Ethical Immersive Web with VR Engineer Diane Hosfelt

Diane is a research engineer and the security and privacy lead for Mozilla's Mixed Reality (VR/MR) project. She and Scott talk about the considerations that need to be taken to enable Mixed and Virtual Reality to be a trustworthy and private experience for users. How does Mozilla plan to take all the different pieces - technology, legal and social concerns, user education, incentivization - and create a cohesive solution.
8/27/202034 minutes, 37 seconds
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A Programmer's Guide to Computer Science with Dr. William Springer

Have you failed a job interview because you don't know computer science? William Springer has a PhD in computer science and his books takes you through what you would have learned while earning a four-year computer science degree! Both Scott and William believe in breaking down boundaries, and it starts with this show!A Programmer's Guide to Computer Science
8/20/202032 minutes, 9 seconds
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Working in Public: Open Source Software with Nadia Eghbal

Nadia Eghbal is the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. She is a writer and researcher who likes to understand how people work. She is currently interested in parasocial communities and reputation-based economies.https://nadiaeghbal.com/
8/13/202035 minutes, 16 seconds
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A Brief History of The Deficit Myth with Dr. Stephanie Kelton

Dr. Stephanie Kelton is the most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory - the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades. With its important new ways of understanding money, taxes, and the critical role of deficit spending, MMT redefines how to responsibly use our resources so that we can maximize our potential.The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
8/6/202040 minutes, 6 seconds
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Cybersecurity for Executives in the Age of Cloud with Teri Radichel

With the rising cost of data breaches, executives need to understand the basics of cybersecurity so they can make strategic decisions that keep companies out of headlines and legal battles. Teri Radichel is the CEO of 2nd Sight Lab and the author of the new book "Cybersecurity for Executives in the Age of Cloud." She teaches Scott about what folks need to think about as they move their business into the new age!Cybersecurity for Executives in the Age of Cloud
7/30/202032 minutes, 15 seconds
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Managing remotely with Asana Engineering Manager Kate Reading

Scott talks to Engineering Manager Kate Reading from Asana about her experiences as a new remote worker during the pandemic. How do you manage standups, checkins, 1:1s, and onboarding? All this plus "Team User Manuals" on this episode of Hanselminutes
7/23/202031 minutes, 53 seconds
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How the OBS Project changed video forever with lead Hugh Bailey

Hugh Bailey just wanted to make a nice open source app to stream Starcraft. It's been just 8 years since the OBS project started and it's taken video by storm. Add in the influx of users using OBS to enhance their Skype/Teams/Zoom calls and it's clear that OBS is now an essential part of the any content creators workflow. Scott talks to Hugh about the what why and how of the OBS Project.https://www.patreon.com/obsproject
7/16/202034 minutes, 9 seconds
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Diabetes and Data Science with Dr. Alex Constantin

Dr. Alex Constantin is a Data Scientist and Diabetic on a mission to take the mental burden and frustration out of living with diabetes. She and Scott have nearly a half century of diabetes experience between them, but only Alex is a PhD, so in this episode she teaches Scott how data science can improve the lives of diabetics everywhere!
7/9/202032 minutes, 10 seconds
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How Design Makes The World with Scott Berkun

Scott Berkun is the bestselling author of eight books on design, creativity, public speaking and more. He sits down with Scott Hanselman to talk about his latest book, "How Design Makes The World." Everything you use, from your home to your smartphone, from highways to supermarkets, was designed by someone. What did they get right? Where did they go wrong? And what can we learn from how these experts think that can help us improve our own lives?How Design Makes The World
7/2/202034 minutes, 37 seconds
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Dismantling barriers to participation in programming communities with Dr. Denae Ford

Dr. Denae Ford is a Research Scientist investigating identity-based signals to support retention in Socio-Technical Ecosystems. What does that mean? It's using science to make programming communities more inclusive and welcoming!https://blog.denaeford.me/2019/07/01/how-programmers-really-look-at-pull-requestshttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/denae/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/saint-group/http://denaeford.me/
6/25/202032 minutes, 45 seconds
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Will your next laptop use an ARM processor? with Jeremy Sinclair

The Surface Pro X is thin, light, and is absolutely silent because it has no fans! It uses a power-sipping ARM processor rather than an Intel processor. Jeremy Sinclair schools Scott on why it's significant that Windows can run on ARM now. We'll also learn what this means for developers and tools like Visual Studio Code. Can this ARM machine also emulate x86 processors? Will your next laptop run ARM?
6/18/202035 minutes, 32 seconds
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Red Teaming with Leron Gray

"A red team is a group that helps organizations to improve themselves by providing opposition to the point of view of the organization that they are helping." What's that mean in layperson's terms? They are the internal pen testing team that attacks company resources to make them better and more secure! How does one get a cool job like this? How can you get a start in infosec?
6/11/202031 minutes, 8 seconds
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Social Friendships and Internet Creativity with Cassidy Williams

Scott and Principal Developer Experience Engineer Cassidy Williams talk about social friendships, internet life, making code, videos, and videos about code.
6/4/202031 minutes, 51 seconds
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Language Understanding (LUIS) with Dr. Riham Mansour

Dr. Riham Mansour is the Principal Engineering Manager running the Language Understanding Service (LUIS), which is the product offering from the Machine Teaching Innovation Group. LUIS has been the entry point of Microsoft in the Machine Teaching market. Riham founded LUIS in collaboration with the Machine Teaching Group in Microsoft Research in 2015.https://www.luis.ai/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/luis/what-is-luis
5/28/202034 minutes, 58 seconds
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A path to technical leadership with Keavy McMinn

Keavy is an engineering leader who believes that the management path isn't the only way to be a technical leader! In fact, she doesn't want to be a manager! How do you "become senior" and move into a technical leadership path without becoming a people manager?https://keavy.com/work/thriving-on-the-technical-leadership-path/
5/21/202029 minutes, 46 seconds
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Making Docker lovely for Developers with Simon Ferquel

Scott's been using Docker Desktop for years now, and in this episode he talks to Simon Ferquel about Docker on Windows. How will WSL2 make Docker even better? How does Docker help developers specifically be more productive (and happier?) How much easier can Docker get and how does Docker Desktop enable that?
5/14/202033 minutes, 54 seconds
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Http Cats, Sketchnoting and Loving the Web with Tomomi Imura

Tomomi Imura loves two things: The web, and cats. It's only reasonable that she combine them in everything that she does. She talks to Scott about Code and Creativity, Making things, Raspbrry Pis, Javascript, and Cats as a Service.
5/7/202032 minutes, 50 seconds
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The world blog with Wordpress Lead Dev Helen Hou Sandí

WordPress makes the world go around! Some folks estimate a billion sites? A third of the internet? It's a hugely influential open source project. Scott talks to one of the dev leads, Helen Hou Sandí, about how she got started in open source, her feelings about PHP, why she loves WordPress so much, and her work at 10up as the Director of Open Source Inititives.https://10up.com/
4/30/202035 minutes, 25 seconds
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DevOps and GitHub Actions with Edward Thomson

Today Scott talks with GitHub's Edward Thomson about GitHub Actions and how to really automate your entire software workflow. Are you doing anything twice...manually? What you can automate and can GitHub Actions make that happen? How complete is your CI/CD? Are you testing, releasing? What about bots to make your issue triage easier?
4/23/202034 minutes, 20 seconds
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The Holloway Guide to Remote Work with Courtney Nash

"Everyone has written a guide on remote work—but no one has done so as diligently and comprehensively as Holloway." Researched, written, and edited by experts, the Guide to Remote work includes over 300 pages of research, guidance, and commentary from experts in an easily digestible format. In this episode, Scott talks with editor Courtney Nash about remote work today and tomorrow.https://www.holloway.com/g/remote-work/about
4/16/202032 minutes, 37 seconds
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Bringing Medical products to market safely with Emily Gorcenski

Emily Gorcenski is an American data scientist who has run trials for medical device software. We are living in an interesting time and facing a medical device shortage. Emily talks to Scott about how medical device regulation works as well the barriers and challenges. What kinds of medical devices exist and how are they categorized? How can we as technologists help in the current crisis?THERAC-25 reportFDA Medical Device databasesFDA Guidance on 3D printed medical devicesElon Musk on VentilatorsDyson on VentilatorsFDA Guidance document for N95 respirators designed for general public useChinese masks recalledFDA guidance on biohackingUSDS call for volunteers
4/9/202029 minutes, 22 seconds
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LEGO Education SPIKE Prime with firmware engineer Ralph Hempel

Ralph Hempel leads the firmware development team here at LEGO, working together with the electronics, mechanics, and front end teams to build products such as Boost, StarWARS Boost, the CITY Train, App Controlled Batmobile, and of course all the new App Controlled Technic products. He's been writing embedded firmware for 35 years, and have written new firmware for every LEGO MINDSTORMS brick since the RCX. He talks to Scott about the new LEGO Education SPIKE Prime Set! Spike is the go-to STEAM learning tool for grade 6-8 students!https://education.lego.com/
4/4/202031 minutes, 4 seconds
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Embodying a disembodied AI with Chris Conner, Altered Carbon's Poe

Chris Conner is a stage and screen actor who can currently be seen as Poe in Netflix's SciFi series Altered Carbon. Poe is a artificial intelligence the likes of which hasn't been seen on screen before. He is kind, curious, powerful, but gentle. He is a fixer who is broken. Why did Chris Conner  explore the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe to better understand how to play a near-immortal AI? Scott and Chris sit down and explore Chris's process.https://twitter.com/ImCConner
3/26/202032 minutes, 38 seconds
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Destigmatizing Mental Health in the Tech Industry with Jen Akullian, PhD

Are we hearing about depression and anxiety more because we have social media, or is social media exacerbating more mental health issues. Scott talks to psychologist Jennifer Akullian, PhD from the Growth Coaching Institute about how she coaches tech professionals through these challenges in our hyper-connected world. Jen's work focuses on de-stigmatizing mental health, addressing the disabling impact of industry stress and burnout, and helping to improve individual and organizational wellness and performance.https://www.growthcoachinginstitute.org
3/19/202033 minutes, 1 second
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On empowerment with social entrepreneur Aisha Addo

Today we talk with social entrepreneur Aisha Addo on what empowerment means to her. Aisha runs a Foundation from Canada that aims to empower girls in both Canada and her native Ghana. She also has a ride-share platform for women called DriveHERhttp://aishaaddo.comhttp://driveher.cahttp://powertogirls.com
3/12/202032 minutes, 16 seconds
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The Joy of making with LEGO Master and Cosplaying Engineer Amie DD

Amie is a maker of things. Her background is in Game Programming and Simulation and she started her career at Marvel Studios, working on Captain America and X-Men Destiny. She later transitioned to Research and Development for development work on the Xbox and Playstation. She also plays with LEGO and was recently on FOX's LEGO Masters show. She is also an acive 3D printer and cosplayer. She talks to Scott about all she pulls all this cross disciplinary knowledge into a life fueled with enthusiasm and making things!https://www.amiedd.com
3/5/202032 minutes, 58 seconds
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Pathways to Data Science with Sri Megha Vujjini

Originally interested in telecommunications engineering, Megha moved toward data science after working with robotics. Now, she's a data scientist during the day, and she volunteers to help youth in Chicago get started on similar paths. She and Scott discuss how others can get involved in this emerging field and why it's important to make tech careers more accessible to everyone!Saggezza
2/27/202028 minutes, 20 seconds
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Agile Project Management for Families with Yvonne Marcus

Agile and Scrum and Kanban, oh my! What if we take the techniques we've learned from years of project management and apply that to our homes and families? Scott talks with Agile Parent and Home Systems Strategist Yvonne Marcus about how she brought Agile home.https://www.yvonnemarcus.com/
2/20/202031 minutes, 16 seconds
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Surviving as a remote tech employee with Jayson J. Phillips

Jayson has been working remotely managing both teams and projects for a number of years. Scott's been remote for over 13 years. They sit down and talk about their favorite best practices as remote employees. What are some "life hacks" that we can use to be effective as remotes?Jayson's Remote Worker Twitter Thread
2/13/202032 minutes, 18 seconds
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Saving Blade Runner with ScummVM's Eugene Sandulenko

For years ScummVM has allowed us all to play classic point-and-click adventure games by providing a runtime for the original data files. Most recently the classic "Blade Runner" was rescued after a herculean effort by the ScummVM team and is now available for purchase on GOG.com. Scott talks to Eugene Sandulenko about why ScummVM is NOT an emulator, how it works, and why it's so important.Download Blade Runner (1997) from GOGhttps://www.scummvm.org/
2/6/202034 minutes, 14 seconds
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Building a CPU from Scratch with Ben Eater

Ben Eater is currently creating educational videos for my YouTube channel and exploring ways to maximize human potential through education online. He's recently become well known for creating an 8-bit CPU from scratch as well as a series on building a 6502 computer on a breadboard. https://eater.net/
1/30/202034 minutes, 48 seconds
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Visualizing Math with Freya Holmér

Freya Holmér makes educational math visualizations, does live game development on Twitch, as well as creates videos and Unity tools! She's been in the games industry for 10 years, working on things like Shader Forge, a node-based shader editor for Unity, and Budget Cuts, a VR stealth game made at Neat Corp. She talks to Scott about her love of math and making math accessible using a number of custom visualization tools.Math for Game Dev - An Improvised Live CourseVisual Guide to RadiansLow persistence in VR!Motion blur - useful even at 60 fpsthe area of a circle is τr²/2cross product - visualizedA collection of my mathematical art and visualizationshttp://www.acegikmo.com/https://www.patreon.com/acegikmohttps://www.twitch.tv/acegikmo
1/23/202035 minutes, 16 seconds
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Myself: It's not weird at all

This episode wasn't supposed to be an episode! I was invited by Jeff Fritz of Twitch fame to talk to his community team of Live Coders on Discord. They recorded it, and mentioned several times that it was useful content! So, why not try something new and make this an episode! Let me know on Twitter if you find my views on community, productivity, and life useful to you!http://Livecoders.devhttp://Github.com/livecoders
1/16/202053 minutes, 6 seconds
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Dapr Distributed Application Runtime with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich

Dapr is a an event-driven, portable runtime for building microservices on cloud and edge. In this episode Scott talks to Azure CTO Mark Russinovich about what this means and why you should care? What are the responsibilities of a microservice, and what should YOU worry about and what a responsibilities better delegated to an open source project like Dapr?https://dapr.io/
1/9/202033 minutes, 7 seconds
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Brain Science and Programmers with Dr. Mireille Reece

Dr Mireille Reece is the co-host of the ChangeLog podcast Brain Science and in this episode she sits down with Scott to talk about creativity, staying in your flow, mental health, the power of perspective, and how relationships drive the WE in our workplace!https://changelog.com/brainscience
1/2/202032 minutes, 53 seconds
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Being a Complete Engineer and Bryan Liles' Rules to Life

Bryan Liles talks about his Rules to Life and how attitude, structure and personal guidelines have enabled Bryan to level up and manage his anxiety. Bryan's also working on a new open source project called Octant that allows you to move effectively manage your Kubernetes infrastructure. All this, plus Goodie Mob!
12/26/201930 minutes, 36 seconds
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Modern Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi's Joe Duffy

Pulumi promises two things "Declare cloud infrastructure using real languages, and enable developers and operators to work better together." Scott talks to Joe Duffy about the goals behind Pulumi and how it relates to other attempts over the years. Do we hide the cloud or bring it front and center? Can YOU deploy your apps and infrastructure easily on any cloud?https://www.pulumi.com
12/19/201933 minutes, 40 seconds
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Building a culture of accessibility from step zero with Ayesha Mazumdar

Ayesha Mazumdar is a Senior UX Engineer at Optimizely and works to enable everyone to access the web no matter their ability. How does one build a culture at their company that values accessibility from the beginning? Where does a11y factor in when creating design systems, and later component libraries. How much ARIA is enough...or too much?Fable and Access Works both let you test your applications with people with disabilitiesCordelia Dillon's Accessibility Bake Off talkAn example of W3's Keyboard Interaction guidelines (link is specifically for Listbox)Ayesha's ReactBoston Scaling Accessibility video and slides
12/12/201933 minutes, 56 seconds
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Rust: A language for the next 40 years with Carol Nichols

Learn what makes the programming language Rust a unique technology, such as the memory safety guarantees that enable more people to write performant systems-level code. Scott talks to Rust core contributor Carol Nichols about what she's so excited about Rust and the future.
12/5/201932 minutes, 1 second
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Career Karma's Ruben Harris on engineering bootcamp success

Success in engineering often means you need to engineer success. Career Karma's Ruben Harris and his partners believe they have the formula and they've bottled it into the Career Karma app and community. You can find your squad, get the motivation you need, and make your bootcamp experience successful. He talks to Scott about common misconceptions about bootcamps and how Career Karma smooths the way.https://careerkarma.com/blog/income-share-agreements/https://breakingintostartups.com/about/
11/28/201936 minutes, 31 seconds
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Are you using all the resources OWASP has to offer? with Nancy Gariché

Nancy Gariché is a Senior IT Security Analyst for the Government of Canada and in this episode she schools Scott on the power of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). It's SO much more than the occasional security checklist! They also talk about the value of certifications.https://www.bmc.com/blogs/what-is-shift-left-shift-left-testing-explained/https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Local_Chapters
11/21/201932 minutes, 24 seconds
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Sharon Steed on Operationalizing Empathy and the Power of a Stutter

Sharon Steed is a corporate empathy and communications consultant as well as an international keynote speaker. Sharon has spoken at companies on improving team communication and collaboration; at tech conferences on vulnerability as an asset; and has given a TEDx talk on empowering insecurities. She talks to Scott about operationalizing empathy!https://www.communilogue.co/https://www.communilogue.co/tedx
11/14/201935 minutes, 27 seconds
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Roblox's Kelly Mayes on Community Building and Digital Civility

Roblox is powered by a global community of over two million developers who produce their own immersive multiplayer experiences each month using Roblox Studio, a desktop design tool for anyone. Scott talks to Roblox's Kelly Mayes on how they consider community, safety and creativity when dealing with a platform that has user content front and center!https://roblox.com https://developer.roblox.com 
11/7/201932 minutes, 27 seconds
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Clyde W. Ford on THINK BLACK: a memoir about the first Black software engineer

Engineer and author Clyde W. Ford talks THINK BLACK: a memoir about his father, the first Black software engineer in America. Clyde is the award-winning author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction, whose most recent book, THINK BLACK: A Memoir explores his relationship with his father, and his father's relationship with America and technology during 30+ years with IBM.Buy the book Think Black: A MemoirThink Black from Harper Collins
10/31/201934 minutes, 9 seconds
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First Time Coders with Michelle Sun

Michelle Sun is the founder of First Code Academy, a coding and STEM education institute for children aged 4 to 18. She and Scott talk about her new book "First Time Coders" and how coding offers children a creative avenue to express themselves through technology and opens the door to unlimited opportunities in the digital era.First Time Coders: A Definitive Guide to Coding for Children
10/24/201929 minutes, 50 seconds
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Is this the dynamic web we were promised? with Parametric Press's Matthew Conlen

Matthew Conlen is a Ph.D. student interested in how computers can help people communicate complex information more effectively. He collaborates with journalists, scientists, and engineers to tell stories and unlock insights with data. He's also the founder of The Parametric Press - a born-digital magazine dedicated to showcasing the expository power that’s possible when the audio, visual, and interactive capabilities of dynamic media are effectively combined.https://idyll-lang.org/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/nodosaur-3d-interactive-dinosaur-fossil/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2017/09/cassini-saturn-nasa-3d-grand-tour/Nicky Case ("Make everything bouncy"): https://ncase.me/
10/17/201931 minutes, 37 seconds
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Is it the Data or the Algorithm? Common pitfalls in Data Science and Deep Learning with Sara Beck

Sara Beck is the Machine Learning Solution Principal at Slalom Build. She thinks about Data Science and Deep Learning and how diagnosing and anticipating common data science pitfalls can help prevent issues before they happen. She and Scott talk about the importance of identifying whether it’s the algorithm or the data and contextualize the importance of having a good sense of the problem you’re trying to solve.Slalom Build puts interdisciplinary teams to work in close proximity with clients, to build modern technology and software products for enterprises – faster, cleaner and more nimbly than ever before. Learn more at http://slalombuild.com.Favorite Text Book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9003187-doing-bayesian-data-analysisFavorite Data Science Forecasting Blog (hyndsight is such a perfect name for someone who went in to this area of data science) https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/Kaggle is a great resource for practice problems and general data science knowledge sharing. https://www.kaggle.com/Deep learning resource: https://adventuresinmachinelearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/An-introduction-to-neural-networks-for-beginners.pdfDan Jurafsky does a nice intro to NLP Youtube series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWsMIW-5xUc
10/11/201930 minutes, 1 second
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Making Indie games with PIGSquad's Dylan Bennett

In this Part 2 on tiny Game Development, we talked to Dylan Bennett from the Portland Indie Game Squad (PIG Squad). He's made a great 72-page zine about doing game development with PICO-8. The zine assumes you have never done game development before. However, there are sections specifically for people who have done game development before, but would like to do so in PICO-8.https://mboffin.itch.io/gamedev-with-pico-8-issue1
10/3/201932 minutes, 49 seconds
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Tiny games with the PICO-8 Fantasy Console and Joseph White

PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. It feels like a regular console, but runs on Windows / Mac / Linux. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a commandline, a suite of cartridge creation tools, and an online cartridge browser. Scott talks to creator Joseph White about the joy of creating tiny games.https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
9/26/201936 minutes, 10 seconds
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On Being Productive with Cantilever's Ty Fujimura

Ty Fujimura is the founder of Cantilever, website design and development consultancy. He's always thinking about balance. Trying to find that balance between productive and healthy. Ty and Scott compare notes on productivity and what it means to "Get things done."https://cantilever.co https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmansCompleteListOfProductivityTips.aspx
9/19/201934 minutes, 22 seconds
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Learning CircuitPython with Scott Shawcroft

CircuitPython is a programming language designed to simplify experimenting and learning to code on low-cost microcontroller boards. The history of CircuitPython begins with MicroPython, a Python interpreter written from scratch for embedded systems by Damien George starting in 2013. Three years later, Adafruit hired Shawcroft to port MicroPython to the SAMD21 chip they use on many of their boards. The Scott talks about how to lower the barrier to entry and how to enable beginners to be productive with CircuitPython.https://circuitpython.orghttps://www.adafruit.com/?q=circuitpythonhttps://twitter.com/tannewthttps://github.com/chickadee-tech/pygbhttps://circuitpython.org/board/gb_m4
9/12/201934 minutes, 26 seconds
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Relationship Hacks 2019 with Scott's Wife Mo

Welcome to the 700th episode of Hanselminutes! Doing this many episodes wouldn't be possible without the support of my Wife Mo, so she's my guest on this special episode! We're in a mixed marriage - she's not a computer person - so we'll talk about how we get along and how we've done it for 20 years!https://www.hanselminutes.com/567/the-return-of-mo-lessons-from-scotthttps://www.hanselminutes.com/403/geek-relationships-2013-with-scotts-wife-mohttps://www.hanselminutes.com/314/more-relationship-hacks-with-scotts-wifehttps://www.hanselminutes.com/216/geek-relationship-tips-with-scotts-wife
9/5/201935 minutes, 4 seconds
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Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success with Cheryl Contee

Cheryl Contee is the award-winning CEO of the digital agency Do Big Things. She's the cofounder of Attentive.ly, the first tech startup with a black female founder to be acquired by a NASDAQ company, and she's the national board chair for Netroots Nation. She talks to Scott about her new book, Mechnical Bull: How you can achieve Startup Success. BOOK: Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success Learn more at www.dobigthings.today
8/29/201931 minutes, 40 seconds
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Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction with Dr. Saleema Amershi

Dr. Saleema Amershi and researchers at Microsoft have published 18 guidelines for Human-AI Interaction that prescribe how an AI system should behave upon initial interaction, as the user interacts with the system, when the system is wrong, and over time. Scott talks with Dr. Amershi about the how and why of these rules and why they are so important. Guidelines for Human AI Interaction Design Guidelines for Human AI Interaction Design - PDF
8/22/201929 minutes, 2 seconds
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Managing the Burnout Burndown with Dr. Aneika Simmons

Dr. Aneika L. Simmons teaches courses about leadership, organization behavior, and human resources at Sam Houston State University. She completed her doctorate degree in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at Texas A&M University. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Dr. Simmons worked for Accenture and Cap Gemini Ernst and Young as an information technology consultant. She also has a Masters degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Houston. She talks to Scott about burnout and the science behind managing it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2dgOfedI3A
8/15/201932 minutes, 45 seconds
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The Pragmatic Programmer celebrates 20 years with Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt

Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process—what do you do, as an individual and as a team, if you want to create software that’s easy to work with and good for your users. Now updated after 20 years, Scott talks to Andy and Dave about this classic book! This classic title is regularly featured on software development “Top Ten” lists, and is issued by many corporations to new hires. https://pragprog.com
8/8/201938 minutes, 53 seconds
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New ways to think STEM with Zyrobotic's Dr. Ayanna Howard

Dr. Howard has over 20 years of R&D experience covering a number of projects that have been supported by various agencies including: NASA, ExxonMobil, Intel, and the Grammy Foundation. She continues to produce research focused on assistive robots in the home to therapy gaming apps to remote robotic exploration of extreme environments. Scott talks to Dr. Howard about her thoughts on new ways to teach STEM and challenges our idea of what a "robot" should look like. Zyrobotics Apps on the iOS App Store http://zumolearning.com/
8/2/201931 minutes, 40 seconds
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Learning about nanotechnology and molecular biology with Upulie Divisekera

Upulie Divisekera is an Australian molecular biologist and science communicator. She's the co-founder of Real Scientists, an outreach program that uses performance and writing to communicate science. She schools Scott on all things tiny - the science of nanotechnology and its applications! RealScientists How molecular motors work Upulie on Twitter
7/25/201932 minutes, 24 seconds
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Creating video games with C# and Monogame with Tom Spilman

Tom Spilman is a programmer, founder, and co-owner at Sickhead Games, a Dallas-based indie game development studio, and a project lead on the MonoGame open source game framework. Scott talks to Tom about MonoGame, a free C# framework used by game developers to make games for nearly any platform! Good First Issues on MonoGame Laura Laban's MonoGame-based Infinite Flight Tom on Twitter
7/18/201935 minutes, 12 seconds
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Understanding ethical debt in AI product development with Lauren Maffeo

Machine bias in artificial intelligence is a known and unavoidable problem—but it is not unmanageable. Scott talks to Lauren Maffeo about practical techniques teams can use to manage priorities in AI. You can monitor your datasets throughout the product lifecycle, focus on the subject, not the context, and more. 6 steps to stop ethical debt in AI product development Lauren on Twitter
7/11/201930 minutes, 25 seconds
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Burning Rocket Fuel and exploring careers in STEM with Dr. Corey Frazier

Dr. Frazier is an Engineering Manager at Intel's High Performance Computing group, and previously worked at the United Space Alliance working on 13 safe and successful Space Shuttle missions. He and Scott talk about his experience in engineering and science and what motivates him to give back. Dr. Frazier's Thesis Corey on Twitter
7/4/201931 minutes, 16 seconds
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Hanselminutiae 19 with Richard Campbell

Scott and Richard Campbell talk often and when they do they think, "we should have recorded this!" Hanselminutiae are those shows! In this episode they talk about the PyPortal from AdaFruit, rewiring your house for ethernet, how .NET transformed itself, and more!
6/27/201933 minutes, 52 seconds
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Methods to Organize Your Learning Process with Lourdes Montano

As developers we need to learn new technologies fast, and often. Scott talks to Lourdes Montano about her learning process and how she's formalized her learning process to more effectively learn JavaScript and CSS. Methods to Organize Your Learning Process in CSS - CascadiaFest 2016
6/20/201932 minutes, 40 seconds
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Saving the SpaceOrb360 with open source hardware and software with Vic Putz

Vic Putz continues to carry a torch for the SpaceOrb, as do I, except he's actually doing something about it. Vic has been working on a new version called the Orbotron 9001 for the last few years that is an interface for the SpaceOrb to modern systems. Scott talks to Vic about their shared love of this 25 year old controller and why the world is missing out on the magic of 6 degrees of freedom. http://www.thingotron.com https://www.x360ce.com https://playoverload.com https://www.dxx-rebirth.com
6/13/201932 minutes, 31 seconds
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How to build an inclusive conference with Saron Yitbarek

Saron Yibarek started the CodeNewbie community because it was hard to find truly welcoming places for new coders. Now she's made CodeLand and let me tell you, it's an amazing developer conference that sets a new bar for what it means to be welcoming. How did she do it and why? http://codelandconf.com
6/6/201930 minutes, 17 seconds
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The magic of Software Defined Radio with Ben Hilburn

Ben Hilburn is the Director of Engineering at DeepSig Inc., which is commercializing the fundamental research behind deep learning applied to wireless communications and signal processing. He also runs GNU Radio, the most widely used open-source signal processing toolkit in the world, serving as Project Lead and President of The GNU Radio Foundation. Ben talks to Scott about why Software Defined Radio is magical and they talk about how SDR can be used to teach STEM and solve interesting engineering problems. https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/wireless-networks-and-cancer-rates https://bhilburn.org/software-radio-all-the-things/ https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Spectrogram/ https://shinysdr.switchb.org/ Fourier series http://visual-dsp.switchb.org/
5/30/201932 minutes, 35 seconds
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Solving real problems with software and the Human Utility with Tiffani Ashley Bell

Tiffani Ashley Bell saw a problem on the internet. With just a tweet she took action, and unlike so many people today she continued to take action. The Detroit Water Project became The Human Utility and she and the team have helped hundreds of our most vulnerable with their water bills. How did this happen and how can we help? https://twitter.com/HumanUtility https://www.detroitwaterproject.org
5/23/201932 minutes, 21 seconds
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Avalonia is a cross platform XAML Framework for .NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono with Steven Kirk

Avalonia is a cross platform XAML Framework for .NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono. Avalonia uses a XAML dialect that should feel immediately familiar to anyone coming from WPF, UWP and Xamarin Forms. Scott talks to Steven Kirk about how Avalonia started, how it's not just "cross-platform WPF." You can start writing cross-platform desktop apps in C# today! https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://gitter.im/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/google/skia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)
5/16/201932 minutes, 8 seconds
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Copyright, Trademarks, Patents, and Branding yourself online with Yasmine Salem Hamdan

Yasmine focused her studies in law school on entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and dispute resolution and now runs the YSH Law Firm as Managing Attorney & Counselor at Law where she helps busineses with Trademark and Brand Protection. In this episode, Yasmine educates Scott on copyrights, trademarks, patents and more! http://yasminesalemhamdanlaw.com/ http://yasminesalemhamdanlaw.com/newsblog/
5/9/201934 minutes, 3 seconds
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The Problem with Software by Adam Barr

Scott talks to engineer Adam Barr about why there is so much bad software—and why academia doesn't teach programmers what industry wants them to know. In his new book "The Problem with Software," Adam examines the proliferation of bad software, explains what causes it, and offers some suggestions on how to improve the situation. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/problem-software
5/2/201933 minutes, 36 seconds
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Your biggest questions when learning how to code with Ali Spittel

Ali Spittel is a software engineer and developer advocate at DEV.to. Before that, she was a lead instructor at General Assembly teaching their Web Development Immersive course. She also teaches Python. In this episode, Ali and Scott talk about how new programmers learn to code, the questions they have, and what we can do to make their experience more welcoming and successful! https://dev.to/aspittel
4/25/201932 minutes, 31 seconds
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Sean Valentine on Hidden Geniuses and parenting in a digital age

The Hidden Genius Project trains and mentors black male youth in technology creation, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills to transform their lives and communities. Sean Valentine talks to Scott about how to plug young people in without being too plugged in! http://www.hiddengeniusproject.org/
4/18/201934 minutes, 53 seconds
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Performance as a Feature with Jeremy Boyd

Raygun promises to give a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications with diagnostics and error logging and more. What's really interesting however, is how they scaled to billions of events. In moving to .NET Core from Node they increased throughput by 2000 percent. How do you build systems that scale to these heights while still dealing with Moore's Law? How do you load test a system this big? What does it mean to "monitor what matters"? Is .NET Core ready for production? All this plus perf as a feature on this episode. https://raygun.com/blog/dotnet-vs-nodejs/ https://customers.microsoft.com/de-de/story/raygun https://raygun.com Disclaimer - In the past Raygun has sponsored episodes of this podcast. This episode is not sponsored by Raygun and and this guest is unrelated to previous sponsorships.
4/11/201932 minutes, 55 seconds
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Blockchain explained with TruStory's Preethi Kasireddy

There's a ton of hype around "blockchain" and sometimes it's overwhelming. Scott sits down with Preethi Kasireddy for a blockchain primer. This episode is a great clear explanation about what's interesting, what's useful, and what's coming with blockchain technologies. http://fortune.com/2015/03/06/bitcoin-book-boom/ https://blockgeeks.com/guides/what-is-blockchain-technology/ https://www.ethereum.org/ https://www.stateofthedapps.com/ https://www.coindesk.com/layer-2-blockchain-tech-even-bigger-deal-think https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/47229/what-exactly-is-ethereums-layer-2
4/4/201931 minutes, 39 seconds
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The Manager's Path with Camille Fournier

Camille Fournier is the author of The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change and is the Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma. She sits down with Scott to talk about how managing people in the technical industry is a technical discipline! How do YOU go from tech lead to CTO? What does it take to be a good mentor and a good leader? The Manager's Path On Being a Principal Engineer
3/28/201936 minutes, 58 seconds
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Inside a Tribe of Hackers with cryptographer Marcus J Carey

Marcus is renowned in the cybersecurity industry and has spent his more than 20-year career working in penetration testing, incident response, and digital forensics with federal agencies such as NSA, DC3, DIA, and DARPA. He started his career in cryptography in the U.S. Navy and holds a Master’s degree in Network Security from Capitol College. Scott and Marcus talk about his new book "Tribe of Hackers" that he wrote with Jennifer Jin. https://www.threatcare.com/tribe-of-hackers-free-pdf/ https://www.threatcare.com/ Sponsors DataDog Sentry.io
3/21/201934 minutes, 55 seconds
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A love letter to language (and programming) with Eva Ferreira

Eva Ferreira organizes the non-profit CSSConf Argentina and teaches at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in Argentina. She and Scott talk about learning and teaching on the web when the students' native language isn't English. What's the most effective way to teach an inclusive web? http://evaferreira.com.ar/blog/2015/01/clues-to-teach-web-design/ http://www.evaferreira.com.ar/en/education.html https://vimeo.com/312101489
3/14/201931 minutes, 17 seconds
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How galaxies evolve with Dr. Molly Peeples

Dr. Molly Peeples is an Aura Assistant Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.S. in Physics from MIT and went on to complete her MS and PhD in Astronomy at Ohio State University. Molly works at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Today she teaches Scott about the circumgalactic medium and her need for more and more compute power! https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cosmic-cloak-controls-galaxy-future-coming-focus http://enzo-project.org/ https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/systems/stampede https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/pleiades.html http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/bluewaters https://mast.stsci.edu/portal/Mashup/Clients/Mast/Portal.html https://archive.stsci.edu/ Sponsors Sentry.io DataDog
3/7/201931 minutes, 27 seconds
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Cloth Simulation for Computer Graphics with Tuur Stuyck

Physics-based animation is commonplace in animated feature films and even special effects for live-action movies. How does one model something as complex as cloth, how it drapes on the body, moves in the wind, and more? Tuur Stuyck talks about the research happening in this space, including his own, as well as his new book on the topic! Buy the book - Cloth Simulation for Computer Graphics Yarn Cloth Deep Wrinkles Cloth Simulation SPONSORS Sentry.io Stack Overflow
3/1/201930 minutes, 19 seconds
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How to look smart in meetings and how to be successful without hurting men's feelings with Sarah Cooper

Sarah Cooper spent a decade working in tech at companies like Yahoo! and Google when she stopped it all to focus on comedy! Since then she's become a best selling author, comedian, writer, speaker and general trash-talker. Her book "100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings" is fantastic and her new book "How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings" has some amazing 1-star reviews from people who have no humor in their lives. http://sarahcpr.com/books/
2/21/201931 minutes, 42 seconds
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Privacy and Security on today's internet with Melanie Ensign

Melanie Ensign is the Security + Privacy Communications Lead for Uber and has worked with DEF CON, and Facebook. She and Scott talk about security and privacy on today's internet. Where is the happy medium between user experience, expectation, and real security? How do we leap the uncanny valley of privacy?
2/15/201932 minutes, 17 seconds
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Coding for the ZX Spectrum and Netflix/Black Mirror's Bandersnach with Matt Westcott

As an enthusiast of retrogaming and retrocomputing, Matt Westcott has been in ZX Spectrum and demo scene for many years. Recently when Netflix's Black Mirror needed an easter egg for their interactive episode Bandersnatch, they reached out to Matt to write a new game for the ZX Spectrum in 2018! Bandersnatch's plot had the main characters writing video games in the 80s and a secret easter egg led to "nohzdyve." How do you write a game for the ZX Spectrum in the 21st century? Use a ZX Spectrum in your browser! Matt's Twitter thread on the experience https://tuckersoft.net/ealing20541/nohzdyve/
2/8/201932 minutes, 6 seconds
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Exploring Algorithms of Oppression with Dr. Safiya Noble

Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School of Communication. She's the author of a best-selling book called Algorithms of Oppression. Today she talks to Scott about how commercial search engines have algorithmic bias that shape how we see the world. How can we identify biases in our search results and still find the information we need? https://safiyaunoble.com/
2/1/201935 minutes, 16 seconds
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Getting started with Machine Learning and Sabrina Smai

Sabrina is a Commercial Software Engineer and serial hacker who has attended over 32 hackathons! She was also a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Today she sits down and gets Scott (and you!) started with the basics of Machine Learning. What are the tools and concepts you should explore to start? https://www.edx.org/course/essential-math-for-machine-learning-python-edition https://academy.microsoft.com/en-us/professional-program/tracks/artificial-intelligence/ http://www.deeplearning.net/software/theano/ https://www.tensorflow.org/ https://keras.io/ https://academy.microsoft.com/en-us/professional-program/tracks/data-science/ https://www.kaggle.com/c/humpback-whale-identification https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning https://www.kaggle.com/competitions https://www.kaggle.com/ https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/iris http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/ http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/
1/25/201935 minutes, 28 seconds
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A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics with Jeremy Kun

Like Programming, Mathematics has language and culture. Jeremy Kun has written A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics as a way to bridge these two worlds and make the power and magic of mathematics available and understandable to programmers everywhere. https://pimbook.org https://github.com/pim-book https://medium.com/@jeremyjkun/on-self-publishing-a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics-1472b7511c99
1/18/201931 minutes, 51 seconds
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Episode 666 - Game Engine Black Book: Doom with Fabien Sanglard

I love that an exploration of Doom is Episode 666. Fabian Sanglard has written The Game Engine Black Book: Doom as a deep exploration of the history, impact, and code that made Doom a cultural phenomenon. The book was released exactly 25 years after DOOM.zip was first published on the University of Wisconsin FTP server in December 1993. http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom
1/11/201932 minutes, 18 seconds
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Regine Gilbert on the Essence of Accessibility

Regine Gilbert is a user experience designer, educator, and international public speaker with over 10 years of experience working in the technology arena. She has a strong belief in making the world a more accessible place—one that starts and ends with the user.  Regine is an Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, teaching User Experience Design to students in the Integrated Digital Media Program. In addition, she teaches the part time User Experience Design course at General Assembly. Regine is passionate about making websites and apps that work for everyone! https://twitter.com/reg_inee http://reginegilbert.com/ https://equalentry.com/ https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/incredibles-2-strobe-light-warning-1202848920/ https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/regine-gilbert/6945 https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-bills-jets-game-is-complete-torture-for-color-blind-people/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a11y-why-you-should-pay-attention-regine-gilbert/ https://webaim.org/ https://www.gilbertconsultinggroup.co/
1/3/201931 minutes, 17 seconds
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Better Allies and Better Hiring with Karen Catlin

Karen Catlin was a vice president of engineering at two public software companies, and served as the CEO of an early-stage startup. Today she's a leadership coach and author who is helping folks cultivate ally skills. Most recently she wrote "Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces." http://betterallies.com
12/28/201829 minutes, 20 seconds
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test && commit || revert with Kent Beck

Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, an original signer of the Agile Manifesto, and the author of the Extreme Programming book series, and a proponent of Test-Driven Development. Today he's chatting with Scott about how "test && commit || revert" might offer us a new programming workflow to explore! https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd756864
12/21/201831 minutes, 15 seconds
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Test Automation University with Applitools' Angie Jones

Angie speaks all over the world on Test Automation strategies, and she got Scott excited about Selenium again! She keynoted Selenium Conf 2018 and currently works at Applitools making automated visual testing tools. She's most recently launched on a new "Test Automation University" that's free and community driven. http://testautomationu.com http://angiejones.tech
12/13/201829 minutes, 43 seconds
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Real Software Engineering with Glenn Vanderburg

Glenn Vanderburg works as the VP of Engineering at First and has spoken all over on the notion of software development as engineering. What should an engineering discipline of software development look like? What's "REAL" Software Engineering? Does the analogy of software engineering as home construction hold water? What should software engineering look like? https://vanderburg.org https://vanderburg.org/speaking/#rse Video of Glenn speaking at "Software Art Thou?"
12/7/201829 minutes, 46 seconds
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ASP.NET Core in Action with Andrew Lock

Scott talks to author Andrew Lock about his new book ASP.NET Core in Action! What made Andrew write a book on this new technology and how did he find the process? What about ASP.NET Core was so compelling and how does Andrew use it? More importantly, should you? Use coupon code "podhanselman18" for 40% this book or any Manning product! https://www.manning.com/books/asp-net-core-in-action
11/30/201830 minutes, 36 seconds
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PlayFab's complete backend platform for live games with Dr. Hanna Oh Descher

Hanna Oh Descher is a data scientist at PlayFab with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience. She is passionate about understanding player behavior to help developers make games more fun. Scott and Hanna talk about what PlayFab allows game developers to do - focus on fun games! https://playfab.com/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/gaming/
11/22/201829 minutes, 24 seconds
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Moving companies to Open Source with the Head of Comcast's Open Source Office Nithya Ruff

Nithya Ruff serves as an at-large director on the Linux Foundation's board of directors. In her day job she is the Head of Comcast's Open Source Office. Nithya has been guiding companies' open source strategies for many years and in this episode she and Scott talk about how to introduce Open Source to more "traditional" companies. http://innovationfund.comcast.com/ http://comcast.github.io https://todogroup.org
11/16/201830 minutes, 42 seconds
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Upgrading GitHub and improving Rails with Eileen Uchitelle

Eileen Uchitelle is a Senior Systems Engineer at GitHub and a member of the Rails Core Team. They recently upgraded GitHub two major versions to the latest Rails. How do you manage such a large upgrade and the technical debt underneath - with no downtime? How do you also move improvements in GitHub's own branch upstream into Rails so everyone can benefit! Eileen explains it all to Scott in this episode. Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2
11/8/201833 minutes, 54 seconds
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Designing for a Global Audience with Digital Nomad Jenny Shen

Digital Nomad Jenny Shen aims to design software for a Global Audience. Are you creating software that includes everyone? Does it consider not just internationalization but also culture and how people think? We'll discuss design across culture in this week's episode. http://jennyshen.com/mentorship.html https://diverseui.com/ https://blog.prototypr.io/ux-design-across-different-cultures-part-1-1caa12a504c0 https://uxplanet.org/ux-design-across-different-cultures-part-2-761c911e875
11/1/201832 minutes, 36 seconds
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Gaming for all with the Xbox Accessibility Controller and John Alexander

What if you couldn't play video games? Most controllers require not just two hands but also fine motor skills and exact motions. The Xbox Accessibility Controller aims to open up gaming for everyone. It's not trying to be the controller for everyone, but rather than controller platform for everyone! Scott talks to John Alexander about how he games with the Xbox Accessibility Controller. https://www.quadstick.com/shop/quadstick-fps-game-controller https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/3drudder-foot-controller/90lh5fwnx6t8/lbxg?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab https://www.ablenetinc.com/technology/switches https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessories#assistive https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/ http://yourcpf.org/ http://www.ablegamers.org/ https://warfighterengaged.org/
10/25/201832 minutes, 5 seconds
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Finding Engineering teams that share your Key Values with Lynne Tye

How do you find the perfect questions to ask in your job interview? How do you know if this is the right company for you? Do they share your values? Interviews are a two way street. This week Scott talks to Lynne Tye about what she created KeyValues.com and how it might help you find your next work home. https://www.keyvalues.com/culture-queries
10/18/201831 minutes, 39 seconds
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Animating Donald Glover's "This is America" with MacPaint on original hardware with Wahyu "Pinot" Ichwandardi

Animator Wahyu Ichwandardi, also known as Pinot, has been documenting his attempt to capture Childish Gambino's "This Is America" choreography since the beginning of June...using MacPaint and MacroMind Video on original Mac 128k hardware! Why did he do this? How did he do this? Macintosh 128K with MacPaint 1.5 & Summagraphics MacTablet. Macintosh SE with MacroMind VideoWorks & Apple 1GB External SCSI hard drive. BMOW Floppy Emu for data transfer via SD card. http://twitter.com/pinot https://www.instagram.com/pinot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pXm2NqfHMs https://mashable.com/article/this-is-america-retro-animation-pinot-mac
10/11/201832 minutes, 16 seconds
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Analog Computing and the Computer of the Tides with Charles Petzold

Charles Petzold taught many of us to code Windows, but now he's turning his attention to a new book he's been working on for over a decade! This week Scott talks to Charles about Analog Computing and the Computer of the Tides. He's exploring an extended history of an early analog computer invented by Scottish scientist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), and its role in the 19th century Darwin Wars. http://www.charlespetzold.com/books/
10/4/201829 minutes, 44 seconds
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Scaling tech apprenticeship with Techtonics's Heather Terenzio

Scott talks to Techtonic's Heather Terenzio about how her company is scaling tech apprenticeship. Techtonic Group is a software services company building web-based and mobile products for start-ups and the Fortune 1000. Four years ago, Heather founded Techtonic Academy to train people with diverse backgrounds how to code using a unique, Department of Labor (DOL) approved Apprenticeship program. Techtonic Group was recently named “2017 Innovative Company of the Year” by the Boulder Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado Legislature. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/culture-killing-diversity-heather-terenzio-mccollester/
9/27/201832 minutes, 20 seconds
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.NET Core Global Tools for Developers with Mark Rendle

Mark Rendle is the author of a number of open source projects and most recently he's been creating global tools with .NET Core. Scott and Mark talk about the importance of global tools to today's development process. What kinds of things can you make and how can we tap into this growing ecosystem? https://github.com/RendleLabs https://twitter.com/markrendle
9/20/201829 minutes, 36 seconds
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Forge Your Future with Open Source and VM Brasseur

VM Brasseur has been a leader in open source for decades and is the Vice President of the Open Source Initiative. Now she's brought her experience together into a booked called "Forge Your Future with Open Source." It's the missing manual of open source contributions and community participation. https://pragprog.com/book/vbopens/forge-your-future-with-open-source https://twitter.com/vmbrasseur
9/13/201832 minutes, 20 seconds
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Accelerate: The State of DevOps with Dr. Nicole Forsgren

Dr. Nicole Fosgren has a PhD in Management Information Systems and a Masters in Accounting. She's just released the Accelerate: State of DevOps 2018: Strategies for a New Economy report as well as the supporting book on the topic. Nicole talks to Scott about the state of DevOps - who are the high performers and how do they perform so well? Using rigorous scientific method we'll learn WHY companies are successful in delivering software reliably with speed and quality. Buy Accelerate! https://amzn.to/2PSyS5g https://cloudplatformonline.com/2018-state-of-devops.html https://twitter.com/nicolefv
9/6/201833 minutes, 48 seconds
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How GDPR is affecting the American Legal System with Gary Nissenbaum

There's a huge number of questions swirling around the European Union's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). In this episode Scott sits down with Gary Nissenbaum to try to make sense of it. Since Gary is a lawyer in the United States, we will be mostly focusing how GDPR affects developers in America. https://www.gdnlaw.com/
8/30/201834 minutes, 6 seconds
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Inside Linux on Windows with WSL and Tara Raj

Windows 10 runs Linux natively! How is that possible? Scott talks to Microsoft's Tara Raj, the Program Manager for the Windows Subsystem for Linux. How does this technology work? Tara explains the internals of WSL to Scott in this episode. https://twitter.com/tara_msft
8/23/201834 minutes, 44 seconds
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Container Catharsis with Laura Frank Tacho

Laura Frank Tacho is the Director of Engineering at CloudBees and has been working with Docker almost since its inception. She shares her experiences in running teams that constantly rely on and deploy containers at scale. How have containers changed effectively everything and where are we heading? https://twitter.com/rhein_wein
8/16/201836 minutes, 11 seconds
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Teaching Programming to kids (and everyone else) with Ben Wheeler

Ben Wheeler teaches tech to kids ages 4 to 104. He talks to Scott about how to effectively teach technology, as well as the importance of social context around tech. Everyone's journey to tech is different. How can we as teachers use those journeys to make everyone successful? Robot Owl Newsletter https://twitter.com/benjiwheeler https://education.lego.com/en-us/elementary/intro/c/computational-thinking https://education.lego.com/en-us/support/wedo https://scratchx.org/ http://microbit.org/ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance https://www.hanselman.com/blog/IsTechnologyKillingCuriosity.aspx https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode-104-barbara-oakley/ https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn https://www.makewonder.com/
8/9/201833 minutes, 4 seconds
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Learning how to be a Wizard Programmer with Julia Evans

Julia Evans has been making comics and zines for years. You've likely learned "How to be a wizard programmer" from one of Julia's comics. She's a software developer at Stripe in her day job and on this episode she talks to Scott about how to effectively teach and learn computer concepts. https://twitter.com/b0rk https://drawings.jvns.ca/wizard-programmer/ https://gumroad.com/l/bite-size-linux
8/2/201832 minutes, 51 seconds
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Blazor brings .NET to Web Assembly with Steve Sanderson

The Blazor project aims to bring .NET to the open Web using Web Assembly. Scott talks to Steve Sanderson about this experiment and it's future plans. How are they compiling C# and .NET to Web Assembly in a way that works everywhere? How does Mono and .NET Standard fit in? https://blazor.net/ https://twitter.com/stevensanderson Blazor 0.5 release!
7/26/201835 minutes, 33 seconds
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Compassionate Coding with April Wensel

April Wensel is the founder of Compassionate Coding, a conscious business that helps technical teams cultivate sustainable, human-­centered software development practices built on a foundation of emotional intelligence. She talks to Scott about how we can apply these concepts to our own software projects. https://twitter.com/aprilwensel https://compassionatecoding.com
7/19/201831 minutes, 35 seconds
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Web Accessibility and a focused on A11Y with Nicolas Steenhout

Nic Steenhout is a long term A11y (accessibility) advocate who works remotely for Knowbility, an Austin, TX based non-profit. In this episode Scott and Nicolas talk about various kinds of accessibility from the web to mobile devices to wheelchair ramps! He's also the host of the A11y Rules podcast. https://twitter.com/vavroom https://a11yrules.com/
7/12/201833 minutes, 8 seconds
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Visible Designers with Revision Path's Maurice Cherry

Maurice Cherry is a veteran designer AND veteran podcastee. His award-winning podcast Revision Path has showcased nearly 250 Black Designers and influencers. Scott and Maurice talk about the importance of good design on today's web (AND good podcasts!) Where does Maurice see design going with the rise of cookie-cutter themes. Is it hard to be unique and fresh with the rise of the Visible Designer? https://twitter.com/mauricecherry https://revisionpath.com/
7/5/201832 minutes, 18 seconds
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C++ and Browser Monoculture with Vivaldi's Patricia Aas

Patricia Aas is a C++ programmer working on the Vivaldi Browser where she has currently taken on platform integration of media. She has previously worked at Opera Software on their Desktop Browser and at Cisco on their Telepresence Hardware Endpoints, primarily on Linux. In this episode she and Scott tackle the hard questions around C++ - Is it getting a bad wrap? Patricia always waxes philosophic on the browser wars! https://twitter.com/pati_gallardo http://patricia.no http://patricia.no/2017/06/15/linux_browser_sandboxes.html http://patricia.no/2017/11/16/linux_browser_sandboxes.html http://patricia.no/2018/04/23/isolating_gpu_access.html http://patricia.no/2017/09/13/cpp_for_java_devs.html http://patricia.no/2017/11/16/cpp_for_java_devs.html
6/28/201836 minutes, 3 seconds
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Is a Programming Bootcamp right for you? with Kristen Leake

Is a Programming Bootcamp right for you? Why choose a bootcamp over self-study? How instrumental was having done a camp on your resume to get your job? Scott talks with bootcamp graduate Kristen Leake about her journey into technology. 3 Secrets to Getting a Job After Coding Bootcamp https://twitter.com/Kristen_Leake
6/21/201832 minutes, 46 seconds
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Tips for Teaching Programming with Dr. Neil Brown

Dr. Neil Brown recently published a scholarly article on how to effectively teach programming. Rather than a series of anecdotes, this is backed up by actual research in educational psychology. He talks to Scott about how we can and should approach teaching the next generation of developers. https://software-carpentry.org/ http://runestoneinteractive.org/LearningAtScale/parsons.html http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006023
6/14/201834 minutes, 29 seconds
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Azure Sphere and Microsoft's new Linux with Caitie McCaffrey

Azure Sphere is a new solution for creating highly-secured, Internet-connected microcontroller (MCU) devices. Caitie McCaffrey is Principal Software Engineering Lead on the project and is an expert in building large scale services and systems for folks like 343 Industries (Halo), HBO, Twitter, and more. How will this new system (and new Linux) keep our IoT devices safe? https://twitter.com/caitie Hiring Principal Software Engineer https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/409416/Principal-Software-Engineer Hiring Software Engineer II https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/411780/Software-Engineer-II Principal Software Engineer https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/409418/Principal-Software-Engineer Software Engineer II https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/412339/Software-Engineer-II Senior Software Engineer https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/412122/Senior-Software-Engineer
6/8/201832 minutes, 34 seconds
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A new life for old software - DasBlog Core with Mark Downie

Scott and Mark Downie have been blogging for nearly 15 years using a blogging system called "DasBlog." It started with .NET 1.1 and now Mark is forking DasBlog and taking it into an open source future with .NET Core. Scott talks to Mark about his first open source project, community response, .NET Standard, and moving a legacy app forward while still maintaining stability. http://twitter.com/poppastring https://github.com/poppastring/dasblog-core
6/1/201835 minutes, 19 seconds
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Do you need to speak English to Code? Noor - An Arabic Programming Language with Ahmed Abdalla

Do you need to speak English to Code? Ahmed Abdalla created Noor , an Arabic Programming Language as a way to teach programming to Arabic-speaking kids. https://twitter.com/SimplyAhmaz1ng https://github.com/SimplyAhmazing/noor https://pegjs.org/ http://createyourproglang.com/ https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DoYouHaveToKnowEnglishToBeAProgrammer.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qalb_(programming_language)
5/25/201832 minutes, 46 seconds
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Eric Heutchy on Backward Compatibility, Xbox One X Enhanced Games, and The Heutchy Method

Xbox One X Enhanced Games with Backward Compatibility are AMAZING. You can play a decade old game - originally meant for 640x480 or 720p resolution - and enjoy it in 4k resolution. Not upscaled. Actually up to 10x clearer within recompiling the game? How? Xbox's Eric Heutchy tells Scott how! https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2017/10/23/play-three-generations-of-games-better-on-xbox-one/
5/18/201832 minutes, 35 seconds
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How do you become a CTO - with Microsoft's CTO Kevin Scott

Kevin Scott is the CTO of Microsoft...but how did he get there? Scott talks to Kevin about his experience from early teens through his successful foray at LinkedIn and beyond. Where does Kevin see technology going and how do we help get more people involved in the future of technology?
5/10/201838 minutes, 9 seconds
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Building Web Applications for the next Billion Users with Ire Aderinokun

Ire Aderinokun is a self-taught UI/UX Designer and Front-End Developer working in Lagos, Nigeria. She is currently the Technical Lead at Big Cabal Media. She says the Next Billion Users are coming online now and they'll be outside Western countries and they'll be mobile first. What do we need to know as Web Developers to create great apps and sites for the Next Billion?
5/4/201831 minutes, 6 seconds
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Investing in Underrepresented Tech Founders with Arlan Hamilton's Backstage Capital

We talked to Arlan Hamilton two years ago (almost to the day) as she was starting her Venture Fund for underrepresented founders. What's changed since then? Arlan Hamilton's Backstage Capital has invested more than $4M+ in over 80 companies led by underrepresented founders. How has she gone from Homeless to VC in just a few years? Arlan also recently started Project Cover to give micro-grants to driven creatives. Scott catches up with Arlan to hear about how she's continued to build her team and her fund and BUILD COOL STUFF. And also - what's the right way to eat string cheese? https://hanselminutes.com/524 http://backstagecapital.com http://projectcover.org
4/27/201833 minutes, 17 seconds
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A history of the Windows 95 Start Button and User Research at Microsoft with Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem

Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem were some of the original hires at the User Research Labs at Microsoft. The worked on the exploratory user research that produced the taskbar and Start menu, as well as the iterative research that helped nail down the details. How did the Start Menu and Start Button come to be? https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/11/10923808/microsoft-windows-start-menu-20-years-visual-history https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/localizability/mirroring-awareness http://becuriouswith.us/ https://measuringu.com/usability-history/
4/20/201831 minutes, 48 seconds
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Inside the world of Star Trek's Visual and Practical Effects with Dan Curry

Dan Curry was a Visual Effects Supervisor, Visual Effects Producer, Second Unit Director, Director and Main Title Designer for Star Trek’s Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise and Next Generation series. He spent 18 years doing Star Trek and pioneering visual and practical effects. On this episode he talks to Scott about his time and inspiration for a number of the props you've seen in the show you love! Even better, some of his collection is being auctioned on April 15th, 2018. Dan Curry on Heritage Auctions Heritage Auctions - April 15th, 2018 The Dan Curry Papers at UCLA Dan Curry teaching stunt people how to use the Bat'leth at DC Stunt Coalition's Escape Velocity 2016
4/13/201831 minutes, 39 seconds
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Christine Spang's Open Source Journey from Teen OSS Contributor to CTO of Nylas

Christine Spang started her tech journey contributing to Debian while still a teenager. She went on to MIT, then worked on Ksplice, helping the Linux kernel stay up-to-date without rebooting. From there working as a Principal Developer at Oracle, Christine when on to co-found Nylas where she's currently the CTO. Scott talks to Christine about her experience, her thoughts on going from Dev to CTO, leading teams, and their product suite at Nylas. https://www.nylas.com/ https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/12/01/new-zine--so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard/
4/5/201831 minutes, 4 seconds
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A new Sega Megadrive/Genesis Game in 2018 with 1995 Tools with Tanglewood's Matt Phillips

Matt Phillips didn't just creating a brand-new Sega Megadrive/Genesis Game in 2018 called Tanglewood. He did it using the original dev kit, computers, and software from 1995. You can experience Tanglewood today and buy it with a proper cartridge, box, and manual! http://tanglewoodgame.com https://bigevilcorporation.itch.io/tanglewood-demo-0104
3/30/201834 minutes, 18 seconds
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F# and the functional SAFE Stack with Krzysztof Cieślak

Scott digs into the SAFE Stack with Krzysztof Cielak. SAFE is an end-to-end, functional-first stack for cloud-ready web development that emphasizes type-safe programming. Is this your next programming paradigm? https://safe-stack.github.io/ https://github.com/SAFE-Stack https://suave.io/ http://fable.io/ https://elmish.github.io/elmish/ https://azure.com/free
3/23/201835 minutes, 54 seconds
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Demystifying Serverless with Cecil Phillip

Scott talks to Cecil Phillip about how cloud architecture is changing everything. But what's IaaS, PaaS, then FaaS, and now serverless? How will being billed for usage affect software architecture? http://www.clearlytech.com/2014/01/04/12-factor-apps-plain-english/ http://cecilphillip.com http://awayfromthekeyboard.com/
3/15/201832 minutes, 44 seconds
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Type to the world in your language with Keyman and Marc Durdin

Marc Durdin has been working on the same open source project more or less since he was 14! Today Keyman is a thriving open source project that supports over 1000 languages and works on Windows, Mac, Phones, and the Web! http://keyman.com http://keymanweb.com https://marc.durdin.net/2018/03/the-case-for-keyman/
3/9/201832 minutes, 41 seconds
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Developing Online Identity with Sarah Squire

Sarah Squire is a Senior Technical Architect at Ping Identity. So much has happened since "Identity 2.0" so Sarah catches Scott up to date. OpenID, OAuth and beyond, what's new and what direction is the web heading?
3/3/201830 minutes, 54 seconds
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Jessica Rose and the Worst Advice Ever

Scott teams up with Pursuit Podcast's Jessica Rose for a collaboration. Jessica asked her audience "What's the worst advice you've ever received?" We took their audio clips and turned it into a two-part discussion! You can check out Part 2 at The Pursuit Podcast https://twitter.com/pursuitpod http://hyperurl.co/zukdmh
2/23/201829 minutes, 23 seconds
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Mr. Robot Disassembled with Ryan Kazanciyan

Ryan Kazanciyan is the Chief Security Architect at Tanium, and in his spare time worked as Technical Consultant for Mr. Robot alongside writer and producer Kor Adana. Why is Mr. Robot so unique in the quality of its on-screen hacks? How does one make a hack both real AND entertaining a technical and non-technical audience? Is there a lot of pressure knowing that Reddit will screenshot every frame and analyze it? All this and, how afraid should we be of our compromised computers?
2/16/201833 minutes, 21 seconds
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Quantum Computing detangled with Dr. Krysta Svore

What is Quantum Computing and will it change everything? Scott talks to Dr. Krysta Svore about why the future is Quantum and why YOU should be thinking about how Quantum Computing can help your applications today.
2/9/201833 minutes, 34 seconds
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Empathy in Technology Product Design with Venture Capitalist Sarah Kunst from Proday

Sarah Kunst is a long-time technologist, angel investor, talent scout, and now CEO and Founder of Proday.co. A member of the Forbes 30 under 30, Sarah's experience is broad and deep. She attributes much of that to empathy and specifically empathy in technical product development. In this episode she talks to Scott about the importance of truly understanding your customer and market and why empathy in design is just the start.
2/2/201831 minutes, 23 seconds
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From F# to JavaScript and beyond with Fable and Alfonso Garcia-Caro

Fable is an F# to JavaScript compiler powered by Babel, designed to produce readable and standard code. Alfonso chats with Scott about how Fable and F# fit into the larger JavaScript ecosystem and how you can experience the best of .NET with the best of node and JavaScript.
1/26/201833 minutes, 52 seconds
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Developing ON (not for) a Nokia Feature Phone with Elvis Chidera

In 2012, Elvis Chidera wrote his first app on a Nokia feature (J2ME) phone. He wrote the Java App ON the phone (literally writing the Java code with T9 text on a numeric keypad.) Today, he's an Android developer at dotlearn.io who has worked on over 50 apps and currently works for an MIT startup. He chats with Scott about the Nigerian mobile market, how feature phones work, and where Android is headed.
1/19/201830 minutes, 43 seconds
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Staying Secure and "Getting Pwned" with Troy Hunt

Troy Hunt runs HaveIBeenPwned.com as a service to us all, but it's also a massive learning playground for him. He schools Scott on all things security and privacy. Is your password known? Let's ask Troy.
1/12/201831 minutes, 57 seconds
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Functional Programming, F#, and Cloud Containers with Lena Hall

Scott checks in with Alena (Lena) Hall about her thoughts around F#, functional programming, microservices, Kubernetes and containers in the cloud. Where are we heading and are we moving too fast? Is F# well-positioned for the cloud-based future?
1/5/201833 minutes, 2 seconds
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Serverless and OpenFaas with Alex Ellis

Scott talks to Docker Captain and Open Source programmer Alex Ellis about the rise of Kubernetes, Serverless, and his project "OpenFaas." Alex also shares details on the obsession (and usefulness) of Raspberry Pi clusters for learning large systems development.
12/29/201731 minutes, 19 seconds
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Machine Learning 101 with Paige Bailey

This week on the show Scott talks to Data Scientist and AI expert Paige Bailey. What's the difference between machine learning and deep learning? Do I need to learn R and Python to use machine learning models? Do models need to deploy regularly or can I use them forever? All these questions and more, this week!
12/22/201733 minutes, 46 seconds
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Revolutionizing remote pair programming with Live Share

We all remember when we first saw Etherpad or Google Docs and could type in an online document while another remote person typed in the same doc. It's magic! Fast forward and soon we can share entire code workspaces and debugging sessions using languages and frameworks that aren't even installed on our machines? Scott talks to compiler nerd Amanda Silver about how Visual Studio's Live Share goes far beyond "text editor sharing" to something deeply technically interesting.
12/15/201728 minutes, 32 seconds
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Progressive Web Apps with Tara Manicsic

Progressive Web Apps are experiences that combine the best of the web and the best of apps! Does your app work offline or in low-bandwidth situations? What are the best practices that you can add in to your existing websites that would progressively turn them into a PWA?
12/8/201732 minutes, 18 seconds
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Continuous Delivery in AAA Games - Sea of Thieves with Rare Games' Jafar Soltani

Sea of Thieves is a massively multiplayer AAA game coming soon for the Xbox One...and it's one of the few video games that is created using Continuous Delivery. The game is always shippable. How is this possible? What kinds of challenges do they run into? What can we learn from their experience?
12/1/201732 minutes, 41 seconds
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Removing Bias from AI and Machine Learning with Camille Eddy

Camille Eddy has worked on Robotics and Hardware nearly her whole life. Now she's turning her gaze to how AI and machine learning. In this episode she gets Scott up to speed about how AI/ML work and how cultural bias can teach computers how to think...wrong. What can we do to prevent bias from creeping into our algorithms?
11/24/201732 minutes, 14 seconds
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Moving Across Technology Stacks with Kamilah Taylor

There's a lot of talk about "full stack" developers, and many of us specialize while watching others successfully navigate multiple stacks. Kamilah Taylor has moved across multiple tech stacks in her career, from Back to Find, Java to Swift, USB Drivers to iOS UI. What can we learn from her experience?
11/17/201732 minutes, 14 seconds
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Thomas Happ from Axiom Verge

Axiom Verge is an indie Metroidvania video game created by Thomas Happ...written on his own in nights and weekends! Written in C# and Monogame, Axiom Verge is now on PlayStation 4, Windows, OS X, Linux, Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch! Scott talks to Thomas about how one starts a herculean effort like this...and succeeds!
11/10/201734 minutes, 26 seconds
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Mike Brocchi on Angular CLI

Mike Brocchi teaches Scott about the usefulness and architecture of the Angular CLI, and about the proliferation of CLIs (Command Line Interfaces) in general. What's the best way for you to create a new web app, and what can you do with the Angular CLI?
11/3/201731 minutes, 51 seconds
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CEO Rian Buckley finds the FitCode between fashion and tech

As a working professional model, Rian Buckley saw a problem, and started a tech company to solve it. A single code that doesn't indicate a piece of clothing's size, but rather its fit. Now she needs to get clothing retailers to adopt it! Scott talks with Rian about the skills she's developed as an NCAA athlete, model, and now tech CEO.
10/27/201731 minutes, 44 seconds
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Web Animation at Work with Rachel Nabors

Rachel Nabors is a cartoonist, artist, and web developer and web animation expert. Her new book "Animation at Work" isn't just a book on HOW to use animation - it's a book on WHY to use it. By understanding the human visual processing system, you can design delightful animation that works to ease cognitive load!
10/20/201733 minutes, 16 seconds
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Terms of Service for Developers - ToS explained with lawyer Gary Nissenbaum

Gary Nissenbaum, Esq. is the managing attorney and founding principal of the Nissenbaum Law Group. They help app developers and internet technologists understand how to navigate both the legal world and the virtual world. Gary explains the surprising importance of the ToS - Terms of Service - that you likely don't read! Every app developer needs to listen to this show. NOTE: This is a talk show. It is NOT advice and is NOT a replacement for you getting legal representation. https://www.gdnlaw.com
10/13/201734 minutes, 43 seconds
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Which JavaScript Stack should I learn? with Tracy Lee

In her short time as a developer, Tracy Lee hasn't stayed true to one JavaScript Framework. Instead, she continues to explore JavaScript with React, Angular, Ember, React Native, and NativeScript. She chats with Scott about the process of learning JavaScript and the need to "pick a framework."
10/6/201730 minutes, 47 seconds
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Polyglot Persistence for .NET with PostgresSQL and Marten with Jeremy Miller

There's so many great open source projects and stacks to choose from in the .NET ecosystem. Scott talks to Jeremy Miller about "Marten" - it offers Polyglot Persistence for .NET Systems using the Postgresql Database as the backend. You get both a Document Database with JSON support as an Event Store! Jeremy talks about all the great options you have for persisting your objects.
9/29/201731 minutes, 55 seconds
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Maybe just use Vanilla Javascript with Chris Ferdinandi

There's a new JavaScript created every few seconds. If you pick up any noun there's probably a JavsScript library named after that noun. What if you just used Vanilla JavaScript? Chris helps Scott answer that question, and more in this episode.
9/22/201731 minutes, 53 seconds
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Technology in non-profits with the New York Public Library and Courteney Ervin

Scott talks with web developer Courteney Ervin about her experiences developing software in the non-profit space. Courteney works for the New York Public Library creating open source software that serves their constituents as well as other public libraries.
9/15/201732 minutes, 46 seconds
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Making browsers faster with Mozilla

Lin Clark is an engineer at Mozilla who also helps make technology accessible by explaining it with Code Cartoons! In this episode she explains to Scott how Mozilla is making the browser faster with projects like Stylo/Quantum CSS. Is this the resurgence of the browser wars? And will we all win?
9/8/201730 minutes, 54 seconds
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Games across decades with Diablo programmer and Graybeard Games' David Brevik

David Brevik is a video game designer, producer and programmer known early on as the Lead Developer on Diablo. Today he's the primary at Greybeard Games. He talks to Scott about game design then and now!
9/1/201733 minutes, 37 seconds
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Software Endurance with Ariya Hidayat

Scott has a wide-reaching conversation with Ariya Hidayat about how he - and software - endures. He started the popular PhantomJS project but also writes code in Free Pascal! Keeping positive, making small forward moves.
8/25/201732 minutes, 23 seconds
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Laura Laban explores Infinite Flight simulation on mobile devices

Laura Laban is the CEO, Co-Founder and Chief Aviatrix working on Infinite Flight. Their app is a mobile flight simulator that gives amazing graphics and physics on mobile devices. Infinite Flight is written entirely in C# and available on iOS and Android. How is such detail and accuracy possible in such a small form factor? Was this the right tech stack for the team to choose?
8/18/201734 minutes, 2 seconds
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Pia Mancini explains liquid democracy and the Open Collective

Pia Mancini is an innovator of liquid democracy and trans-national collaboration. In 2016 she founded Open Collective and is changing how groups collect and spend money transparently. She explains the importance of this transparency in a today's connected world.
8/11/201735 minutes, 1 second
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Tracking your life and health with the Gyroscope app and Mahdi Yusuf

Mahdi Yusuf is the CTO of Gyroscope Innovations. They are using AI and the cloud along with ALL the sensors and health trackers that you're already wearing to create amazing reports, visualizations, and insights into your health and your mind. How many sensors and apps already create valuable information that you can use to improve your lifestyle? Is this the start of the Quantified Self for the mainstream?
8/4/201734 minutes, 59 seconds
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Preparing a city for self-driving cars with Leslie Caceda

Leslie Caceda is a Transportation Technologist at the Atlanta Regional Commission. In this episode she talks to Scott about the design and ethics of self-driving cars. What will this revolution mean to car ownership? To people who were otherwise unable to travel? What about the ethics of how a self-driving car decides to drive...and stop?
7/28/201731 minutes, 43 seconds
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Live Coding on Twitch for a year with Suz Hinton

Suz Hinton has been coding LIVE on Twitch for over a year. How did she start and how did she stick with it? Is it hard to code with someone watching? How about a thousand people watching?
7/21/201733 minutes, 42 seconds
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Making your path to development with Anjana Vakil

Anjana is fascinated by languages, both human and machine, and the connections between the two. She recently completed a MS in computational linguistics at Saarland University in Germany, where she studied speech technology, machine learning, and computer-assisted language learning. Her spontaneous talk "Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript" has been viewed over a half-million times on YouTube. She talks to Scott about her thoughts on languages and her strategies for learning.
7/14/201732 minutes, 52 seconds
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Brandon Bouier on the Defense Digital Service and deploying code in a war zone

Brandon Bouier works at the Pentagon at the Defense Digital Service. He's travelled to Afghanistan to deploy code and migrate data. He talks to Scott about what it means to support US Defense IT resources and how the military is innovating at new speeds with new techniques and fresh thinking.
7/7/201732 minutes, 3 seconds
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YOU should write an interpreter with Thorsten Ball

Thorsten Ball has a thirst for knowledge, so one day he decided to make a new Programming Language. He went from 0 lines of code to a fully working interpreter written in Go for the "Monkey" Language. Check it out at https://interpreterbook.com!
6/30/201732 minutes, 54 seconds
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Data Science with Angela Bassa

Angela Bassa is the Director of Data Science at iRobot. In this episode she sits down with Scott and demystifies the major concepts. Is this a new science and an old one? What's the traditional path for a Data Scientist - and is that the only path?
6/23/201730 minutes, 50 seconds
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Get on the Coding Train with Processing and Daniel Shiffman

Daniel Shiffman is a programmer, a project lead with the Processing Foundation, and an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Dan uses the popular Processing Language to teach people to code on his popular (an wild and wacky) YouTube Channel "The Coding Train."
6/16/201730 minutes, 32 seconds
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Being hired as a Functional Programmer with Eric Normand

Eric Normand wants everyone to know that they, too, can get a job as a functional programmer. While functional programming might feel intimidating, in this show Eric shares with Scott a number of practical techniques and ways to think about functional programming that might just help you with a change of career.
6/9/201728 minutes, 22 seconds
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Apps without Code with Tara Reed

Tara Reed non-technical founder building software without writing code. How far can a non-coder get? Pretty far actually! There's a ton of tools and resources available that can allow you and your friends or family to create very polished apps and websites without code.
6/2/201728 minutes, 25 seconds
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Inside WebAssembly with Mozilla Fellow David Bryant

Scott sits down with Mozilla Fellow David Bryant to talk about the last few decades of the web and how it's all about to change with the advent of WebAssembly. Is JavaScript the new "metal?"
5/26/201732 minutes, 33 seconds
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Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence with Edaena Salinas Jasso

Scott talks to Microsoft Research's Edaena Salinas Jasso who explains Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. What are they, what's the difference, and how can I use them to make my users' lives better?
5/19/201731 minutes, 1 second
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RavenDB, the open source NoSQL Database for .NET with Adi Avivi

RavenDB is am open source NoSQL Database for .NET that is fast and efficient. It's so efficient that the RavenDB team wanted to see if they could get it to run on a Raspberry Pi using .NET Core! Scott talks to Adi Avivi from the team about their accomplishment.
5/12/201730 minutes, 13 seconds
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Ruby and Rails in the Real World with Scott Bellware

Scott Bellware works with development teams on monolith rescue and remediation, as well as autonomous services projects. He's been on a five-year mission to incorporate all the good things he's learned in the distributed systems world with all the good things he's learned in the Ruby world. ScottB catches ScottH up on the state of Ruby on Rails as ScottB sees it in the real world!
5/5/201736 minutes, 25 seconds
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Today's Cloud, Containers, and Architecture with Kelsey Hightower

Scott talks to Kelsey Hightower from Google about today's Cloud, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, and how we architect for the web. Kelsey and Scott chair the OSCON open source conference together with Rachel Roumeliotis.
4/28/201731 minutes, 38 seconds
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Deployment made easy with Zeit

Guillermo Rauch created socket.io and got the internet excited about WebSockets. Now he's teamed up and created a new cloud company - Zeit - and they are kicking the internet again with "now." Just create a folder, put some files or an app in it and type "now" and you've deployed a cloud scale app. How is it possible? Guillermo schools Scott on all things now.
4/21/201737 minutes, 57 seconds
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Renewing the Kalingo Language with Dr. Keisha Marie Josephs

Keisha Josephs (soon to be Dr. Keisha Josephs!) is a Linguist and Web Developer. She's also Kalinago - a member of the Indigenous people of the Caribbean - and very passionate about renewing interest in the Kalinago language. She'll be using her graduate work and web/app development skills to make it happen! She talks to Scott about the fundamentals of learning languages (both web and spoken) and how she sees the future of her peoples' language.
4/14/201730 minutes, 47 seconds
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The Road to Lead Developer with Linda Kamau of Ushahidi

Linda Kamau is the Lead Software Developer for Ushahidi based out of Nairobi. She also is a co-founder at AkiraChix, a non-profit that offers technical training and outreach for young women. Linda talks to Scott about her journey and how she plowed forward even when obstacles were in her way.
4/7/201732 minutes, 12 seconds
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Hanselminutiae 18 with Richard Campbell - Nintendo Switch

It's another episode with oft-guest Richard Campbell! Scott has a Nintendo Switch and he inflicts it upon Richard! It's a gaming podcast this week!
3/31/201734 minutes
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Lean Customer Development with Cindy Alvarez

Cindy Alvarez is the author of Lean Customer Development. How do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? She shows Scott how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research—before we waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants.
3/24/201733 minutes, 7 seconds
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Feedback Driven Design with Windows 10

Windows 10's Insiders program has let regular folks like you and I run beta copies of Windows and send bugs and feedback directly to the team like never before. I (Scott) talk to Jennifer Gentleman from the Windows team about how Feedback Driven Design shapes software on their team.
3/17/201733 minutes, 33 seconds
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Getting Started with Angular with Jeff Cross

Jeff Cross is one of the Angular original committers and now he's doing Angular Consulting. Jeff talks to Scott about the basics of Angular, how to get started, and some of the core concepts when beginning a new Angular project.
3/10/201732 minutes, 59 seconds
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A new kind of commerce - M-Pesa, Mookh, and Africa

George 'Porgie' Gachui is a co-founder at Kenyan startup Mookh. Mookh enables you to sell anything off your website or social media site and integrate the checkout system with digital wallets like M-Pesa. Is M-Pesa and wallets like it the future of commerce, not just in Africa but worldwide?
3/3/201731 minutes, 51 seconds
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Forgotten Empires, amazing games - Age of Empires is back with Bert Beeckman

Bert Beeckman and his partners at Forgotten Empires have brought Age of Empires back after 16 years of slumber. One of the greatest games ever now has not one, but three *official* expansion packs. Age of Empires II HD: The Forgotten, Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms, and Age of Empires II HD: Rise of the Rajas all include new stories, new art, new heros, and new adventures. How is this possible? How did it start, and more importantly where can YOU buy new AoE adventures?
2/24/201731 minutes, 36 seconds
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The Return of Mo - Lessons from Scott

It's been a few hundred episodes. It's not episode 214 as Scott said, it's Episode 403 that Mo was last on - go check it out! This episode we get an update on Mo's cancer, her new job, and Scott's trip to Kenya and South Africa.
2/17/201732 minutes, 52 seconds
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A new kind of STEM learning with Laron Walker

Laron Walker is a technologist and entrepreneur infatuated with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education.
2/10/201732 minutes, 29 seconds
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Discovering WebVR with Ada Rose Edwards

Ada Rose is an engineer and developer advocate for Samsung. Her passion for the open web and VR has led her to explore WebVR deeply. She explains to Scott why this open technology may be the next big thing!
2/3/201733 minutes, 23 seconds
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Building Pantsuit: The Hillary Clinton UI Pattern Library with Mina Markham

Mina Markham built "Pantsuit," Hillary for America’s internal design system. The core CSS architecture of Pantsuit is based around a combination of SMACSS and Harry Roberts’ ITCSS, along with his brilliant namespacing patterns. How complex are systems like this? How does a well-documented styleguide and system improve your developer's workflow?
1/27/201729 minutes, 50 seconds
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Speech to Text in 2017 with Signl.fm

Most of us started talking to computers with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and were somewhat disappointed. Now with Siri, Cortana, and Alexa it's getting better...fast. Scott talks with Kimberley Hansen about her startup Signl.fm and how they are aiming to change how podcasts to transcripts in the race to 100% comprehension. Check the transcript at https://transcripts.hanselminutes.com/
1/20/201731 minutes, 43 seconds
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Vets who Code with Jerome Hardaway

Jerome Hardaway left the Air Force and saw an add for Code.org on Facebook. Working his way through CodeAcademy tutorials and online courseware he's turned himself into a polyglot developer. What kinds of strengths can vets bring to the world of code?
1/13/201731 minutes, 32 seconds
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Checking in with Joel Spolsky who says I suck at Excel

I'm in New York this week checking in with Joel Spolsky from StackExchange/StackOverflow. Big things are happening in Joel's world. They've just hired Anil Dash to be the CEO of FogCreek and launched a new product. What's it like to be Joel and what's it like to NOT suck at Excel?
1/6/201731 minutes, 31 seconds
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Is it OK to build websites that require JavaScript? with Nolan Lawson

Nolan Lawson sparked a niche debate with his statement "In 2016, it’s okay to build a website that doesn’t work without JavaScript." In this show Nolan explains what he meant by this, and dissects the concept of Progressive Enhancement in web apps today. Where will the next billion web surfers come from and what do their apps look like?
12/30/201632 minutes, 46 seconds
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Including Automation in your Definition of Done with Angie Jones

Angie Jones is a Consulting Automation Engineer who advises several agile teams on automation strategies and has developed automation frameworks for countless software products. She challenges us to consider including Automation earlier in the product development cycle. Is Automation included in your company's "Definition of Done?"
12/23/201629 minutes, 45 seconds
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Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing and Henry Segerman

Dr. Henry Segerman works at Oklahoma State University in the Department of Mathematics. He's looking at interesting ways to visualize mathmatics using 3D printing! Is this a new idea or a new take on an old one? Is tactile 3D math easier to pick up and understand?
12/16/201633 minutes, 56 seconds
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Rethinking Front End Design and Development with Una Kravets

Una Kravets is front-end developer who works at Digital Ocean, has worked for IBM, spoken all over, and likes to rethink things. She's written about rethinking everything from JavaScript to Responsive Design to Harry Potter! She also wonders if we need JavaScript! She educates Scott in this episode about all things webby.
12/9/201632 minutes, 31 seconds
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Being a Polyglot Programmer with Amir Rajan

You may know Amir from his #1 AppStore Game "A Dark Room." Amir is a programmer who has learned (and continues to learn) multiple programming languages. Is being a polyglot programmer a good idea for all programmers? Which languages should you start with?
12/2/201633 minutes, 32 seconds
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Alcohol and the Tech Industry with Victor Yocco

Does the tech industry have an alcohol problem? Perhaps, or perhaps not. Does the alcohol have a place on the job? At parties? How far does one go? Scott talks to Victor Yocco about a way to think about drinking in the workplace.
11/25/201633 minutes, 11 seconds
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Interactive Computing Experiences with nteract and Safia Abdalla

Scott talks to Data Scientist Safia Abdalla about the rise of python notebooks and new ways to think about interactive computing, both online and off. What is "interactive literate coding" and how does it change computing for both the technical and not-quite-technical user? All this and Safia teaches Scott about the "nteract" project.
11/18/201632 minutes, 17 seconds
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Mob Programming with Woody Zuill

You've pair programmed but have you tried Mob Programming? Woody Zuill and his team "discovered" programming as a group and it changed their whole process. Woody joins Scott and explains how they stumbled on this, how they refined it, and how Mob Programming may make your programming life better.
11/11/201636 minutes, 17 seconds
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Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn with Sandi Metz

Sandi Metz and Scott explore the art and science of teaching. How to people learn? How can we be better teachers? When presenting information, what's the best way to get it from your brain into the students? Why am I phrasing everything like a question? All this and more on this week's episode.
11/4/201633 minutes, 33 seconds
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Should Developers Design with Iheanyi Ekechukwu

Iheanyi Ekechukwu is a Product Engineer with Digital Ocean. He has a background in both design and development. Are such people unicorns? How closely should designers work with developers? Are these truly separate practices...and how separate?
10/28/201632 minutes, 52 seconds
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Infrastructuralism with Truss

What is Infrastructuralism and how can it help you think differently about software and large problems? Scott sits down with Everett Harper, CEO of Truss. They talk about how applying some old ideas in new ways helped them fix healthcare.gov.
10/21/201631 minutes, 21 seconds
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Orchestrating and automating deployments with Octopus Deploy and Damian Brady

We first interviewed Paul Stovell a few years back when he started a micro-ISV he was calling "Octopus Deploy." Now it's a fully formed and successful company whose flagship product Octopus Deploy is used all over. Damian Brady joins Scott and explains why deployment is more subtle then you think.
10/14/201631 minutes, 19 seconds
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Cake Build - A C# Make cross platform build automation system with Patrik Svensson

Patrik Svensson had an idea in 2014 for a build automation system that had C# at its heart. Fast-forward to 2016 and Cake Build has a thriving group of core contributors, a large group of "contrib" plugins, and it's joined the .NET Foundation. How does Cake work, and how does one build an open source project into a success?
10/7/201630 minutes, 49 seconds
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Hello Ruby with Linda Liukas

Linda Liukas is a Finnish computer programmer, children's writer and programming instructor. In 2014, her Hello Ruby coding book for children raised $380,000 on Kickstarter becoming the platform's most highly funded children's book. She talks to Scott about how it all started and where teaching coding to kids is going!
9/30/201631 minutes, 23 seconds
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The State of Virtual Reality 2016 with Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson works at Funomena on Virtual Reality games. He's currently working on Luna, a unique tactile VR puzzle game. Do you need many thousands of dollars and a super-powered computer to experience VR? Scott Anderson gives us a tour from Google Cardboard to Oculus and beyond.
9/23/201634 minutes, 18 seconds
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An overnight success in 13 years! Luvvie Ajayi is Judging You!

Luvvie Ajayi has been writing. She's been writing for YEARS. She has been blogging for 13 years! She's a noted humorist, techie, digital strategist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She's spoken all over (including The White House!) and taught classes worldwide. Today she joins Scott to talk about her brand, her tech, and her hilarious new book "I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual"
9/16/201632 minutes, 15 seconds
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Archiving Digital Experiences using Emulation with Jason Scott

Jason Scott is the internet's historian and archivist. He is the creator and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems. In 2011 he proposed that the MAME arcade emulator be ported to JavaScript and the next half decade changed how we think about old software and hardware on the internet.
9/9/201640 minutes
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Becoming a more social developer with Daphne Chong

Daphne Chong has had a great year. While she's been a professional developer for many years, this year she's organized user groups, spoken at a number of conferences, and generally pushed herself out of her comfort zone. How did she do it?
9/2/201633 minutes, 14 seconds
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Exploring Code Smells in code written by Children with Dr. Felienne

Felienne is always learning. In exploring her PhD dissertation and her public speaking experience it's clear that she has no intent on stopping! Most recently she's been exploring a large corpus of Scratch programs looking for Code Smells. How do children learn how to code, and when they do, does their code "smell?" Is there something we can do when teaching to promote cleaner, more maintainable code?
8/26/201632 minutes, 1 second
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Building with the Microsoft Bot Framework with Dan Driscoll

Scott sits down with Dan Driscoll to talk bots. What happened in 2016 that made bots more intelligent and more relevant than ever before? Why now, and what can YOU do with your own bot written in Node.js, .NET, or using their REST API?
8/19/201632 minutes, 21 seconds
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Creating a new GPU Texture Compressor with Binomial with Stephanie Hurlburt

Stephanie Hurlburt and her co-founder at Binomial see a problem with how graphics and assets make their way from the CPU to the GPU and on to your screen. Now they're creating a new texture compressor and GPU Transcoder that will improve how your games look and play!
8/12/201630 minutes, 43 seconds
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Learning to love Legacy Code with Andrea Goulet from CorgiBytes

Andrea Goulet and her business partner Scott Ford love legacy code. No one is supposed to LIKE legacy code, right? Andrea and the team at CorgiBytes believes people are more than just makers - they are also menders. So how does one approach an old code base?
8/5/201633 minutes, 10 seconds
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A .NET IDE for the iPad? - Exploring Continuous with Frank Krueger

Frank Krueger is well known for his popular iOS applications like iCircuit and Calca. Frank creates his apps with Xamarin and C# or F#. But why not write these apps for the iPad *on the iPad?* Frank just released the incredible new apps Continuous for iOS. You CAN write .NET on an iPad, productively. Today. Scott asks Frank how he did it!
7/29/201635 minutes, 44 seconds
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New Development on Old Systems: Exploring the NES in 2016 with Rachel Simone Weil

Rachel Simone Weil thinks in 6502 Assembly and loves to program on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Yes, that's the NES and yes, it's 2016! She's created a number of amazing NEW apps including the world's first connected Twitter client for NES.
7/22/201637 minutes, 3 seconds
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Exploring the Orleans Distributed Virtual Actor Model with Richard Astbury

The open source Orleans project is behind some massive systems including Halo itself. Is the virtual actor model the revolution it appears to be? How does this relate to the models of the best, as well as things like Akka and Service Fabric? Richard Astbury does his best to set Scott straight in this episode.
7/15/201634 minutes, 19 seconds
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Machine Learning for all with TensorFlow with Andy Kitchen

Andy Kitchen is a consultant and researcher in machine learning specializing in neural networks. He sits down with Scott and explains why Machine Learning matters, and why you and I should start learning it ourselves, right away, with TensorFlow!
7/8/201634 minutes, 14 seconds
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Creating cross-platform Electron apps with Jessica Lord

Jessica Lord works at GitHub on the Electron framework. Is Electron "just Chrome in a frame" or is it so much more? Jessica sets Scott on the right path and explains exactly where the Electron platform fits into your development world.
7/1/201631 minutes, 32 seconds
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Building remote-first teams with Karolina Szczur

Karolina has often been on remote teams. Whether it's working from Europe or Australia, working 10 time zones away or just a few, she's developed a number of tips and tricks for surviving (and thriving!) while working remote. Can we build our tech teams "remote-first?"
6/24/201633 minutes
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Data Literacy and the usefulness of Excel with Oz du Soleil

With all this talk of Big Data, this episode we go smaller. Oz du Soleil has built his career on Excel. He feels that there isn't enough data literacy in our industry. While you're writing SQL queries, do you know where you data comes from? Is it clean and is it valid? Where does Excel and tools like it fit into the data-focused world of 2016?
6/17/201633 minutes, 44 seconds
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Living Functional Programming with OCaml and Gina Marie Maini

Gina Marie Maini is a functional programer. She's the most totally amped functional programmer I've ever met, and she told me that OCaml was wonderful. Today Gina tries to get me to accept OCaml and functional programming as the way and the light.
6/10/201636 minutes, 49 seconds
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Native apps using NativeScript with Jen Looper

NativeScript lets you build truly native iOS, Android and Windows Phone apps with Javascript and CSS. How is it different from Xamarin? What about Cordova? How can we tell what's "native" and what's not, and honestly, when should we care? Scott talks to Jen Looper about the NativeScript OSS project.
6/3/201632 minutes, 20 seconds
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Bootstrapping a hardware startup: Creating Tinsel with Aniyia L. Williams

Aniyia L. Williams saw a gap in the market and a product that needed to be created. Tinsel creates tech jewelry to ensure that fashion-savvy women can enjoy technology without sacrificing their style. How did Aniyia bootstrap her hardware startup? She explains the concept, funding, prototypes, development, and manufacturing on this episode.
5/27/201634 minutes, 13 seconds
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The Aurelia JavaScript Framework with Rob Eisenberg

Rob Eisenberg is the creator of the Aurelia JavaScript framework. This open source framework is a reimagining of how we create rich apps in the browser. Is this the framework that you were looking for? How does it compare to others?
5/20/201635 minutes, 36 seconds
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Practical Containers for Developers with Aja Hammerly

There's so much talk about containers as it's clearly the buzzword today. Rather than doing a deep dive into container tech, Scott talks to Aja Hammerly about what containers really means to us as developers. How do containers change our workflow? Is the promise of cloud portability real?
5/13/201631 minutes, 43 seconds
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Punishment Driven Development with Louise Elliott

Scott sits down with software developer and development manager Louise Elliott about her ideas around "Punishment Driven Development." Why is this such a common way to run a project? Does it work and is it ever appropriate?
5/6/201629 minutes, 10 seconds
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Funding Open Source with Nadia Eghbal

Former VC Nadia Eghbal is exploring the world of open source and how tech gets funded. Her investigative work is currently supported by The Ford Foundation as she explores the way that the public infrastructure of the Internet gets built. She talks with Scott about how Open Source Software gets funded!
4/29/201633 minutes, 30 seconds
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Investing in Underrepresented Tech Founders with Arlan Hamilton

Arlan Hamilton is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a seed investment fund that backs high-potential, underrepresented startup founders. She talks to Scott about how starting a fund works, how much money one needs to invest, and demystifies many of the buzzwords around investing in tech today!
4/22/201634 minutes, 32 seconds
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Creating the Belter Language for Syfy

Nick Farmer is best known for developing the Belter constructed language (conlang) for Syfy’s The Expanse. What's involved in creating a convincing constructed language? How real are these languages?
4/15/201636 minutes, 16 seconds
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Failure - "What if you fake it and don't make it?"

Scott talks to web developer and entrepreneur Kronda Adair about her business and her recent failure. How do projects fail and what do we do with that failure? Can failure be a motivator or does it slow us down? How can we turn lemons into lemonade as technologists?
4/8/201633 minutes, 41 seconds
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March Is For Makers: Arduinos, JavaScript, and Johnny-Five with Lyza Danger Gardner

Scott sits down and talks with Lyza Gardner, CTO of Cloud Four and long-time web expert, about her recent explorations into hardware using the Johnny-Five Framework. You can control Arduinos and other devices and make robots with brains written with Node.js and JavaScript! Is this the framework we've been waiting for?
4/1/201633 minutes, 37 seconds
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March Is For Makers: Modulo and Modular Electronics with Erin Tomson

Erin Tomson left Pixar after 13 years to pursue something totally new! Her hardware startup called "Modulo" brings plug and play flexibility to the world of microcontrollers like Arduino and Particle. How did she get started and make the move from 3D software to modular hardware?
3/25/201634 minutes, 1 second
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March Is For Makers: Arrow.com Electrical Engineer Laura Hughes

This week Scott talks to to electrical engineer Laura Hughes from Arrow.com. Laura specializes in lighting and power supply design and can solve pretty much any problem with an LED. Laura schools Scott on a number of electrical issues and they come up with an epic new project idea!
3/18/201630 minutes, 59 seconds
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March Is For Makers: Arduinos and Useless Robots with Simone Giertz

Simone Giertz is a Maker, a robotics enthusiast and surprisingly (her words!) a non-engineer. She's become somewhat of an expert in sh*tty robots and we love her for it. Also, she happens to be Swedish but sounds totally American just to confuse us. Scott talks about how she gets her inspiration and how she got started!
3/11/201633 minutes, 45 seconds
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March Is For Makers: Taking Stuff Apart with Captain Brent Chapman

Captain Brent Chapman has a BS from the West Point, an MS in Information Security from Carnegie Mellon, and has been tearing electronics apart since he was four. Today, Cpt Chapman works for the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) at Moffett Field and puts those skills to work. In his spare time, he tinkers, creates, and helps others do the same.
3/4/201634 minutes, 28 seconds
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Ambitious UX and Ambitious Apps with Ember and Lauren Tan

Scott talks to Lauren Tan, a Senior Developer at Dockyard, about her excitement with the Ember Framework. Her talk on "Ambitious UX for Ambitious Apps" covers new techniques like Reactive UX that are made easy with the Ember.js framework.
2/26/201633 minutes, 4 seconds
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Exploring the Creative Process with Comic Creator and Musician Afua Richardson

Afua Richardson joins Scott for this creative episode. Afua is a comic artist who has worked for Marvel, Image Comics, Top Cow, and many more. Her work on "Genius" was nominated for a Glyph Award. She's also a singer/songwriter and an accomplished musician. Afua and Scott explore how comics are made, who owns them, and how creators can express themselves in the digital age.
2/19/201642 minutes, 7 seconds
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The Open Artificial Pancreas System (OpenAPS) project with Dana M. Lewis

Scott sits with fellow Type 1 Diabetic Dana M. Lewis about the Open Artificial Pancreas System that she and her husband Scott Leibrand created. As other commercial entities race to "close the loop" for diabetics, how did two regular folks control diabetes with off-the-shelf parts? Dana demystifies the technology behind this software-managed diabetes solution.
2/12/201634 minutes
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Scaling The Walking Dead: No Man's Land with Next Games' Kalle Hiitola

What's it like building and scaling a mobile game to millions of users and billions of transactions? Does the cloud really allow you to "not worry about scaling" and just focus on the game? We'll hear from Kalle Hiitola, the CTO of Next Games, about their experience scaling The Walking Dead, an app that got over a million downloads in its launch weekend!
2/5/201631 minutes, 44 seconds
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Getting started making Video Games with Kris Rothe

Scott talks to Kris Rothe about the best way to get started making your own video games! How technical do you need to be? Should you start with Unity, GameMaker, or something else? We'll hear about all this and more from an experience game creator!
1/29/201634 minutes, 14 seconds
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Inside ASP.NET Core 1.0 with Damian Edwards

Scott talks to Damian Edwards about ASP.NET Core 1.0 (previously ASP.NET 5). How freaked out should developers be? What's changed and what hasn't for this new version of .NET and the ASP.NET Web Framework?
1/22/201633 minutes, 50 seconds
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From Enterprise Developer to Tech Startup CEO with Tiffany Mikell

Scott talks to enterprise developer, now tech CEO, Tiffany Mikell about the challenges and rewards of software development in a startup. What's it like to transition from large teams to smaller agile teams? How do you manage security and ops without dedicated teams? What are architectural discussions like with non-technical cofounders?
1/15/201632 minutes, 27 seconds
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Inside Age of Ascent with Ben Adams

Scott talks to Ben Adams, the CTO of Illyriad Games, about their new massively multiplayer space game "Age of Ascent." Why is it interesting? It's massively bigger than any other game and it's written with web technologies like JavaScript and WebGL. Can they pull this off and scale?
1/8/201637 minutes, 46 seconds
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Is QA a lost art? Node.js quality expert Stacy Kirk

Stacy Kirk is the CEO of QualityWorks, a node.js-focused QA company, a 20 year software development veteran, and the creator of nodeqa.io. Stacy is a graduate of Stanford and also coaches two Lego League Robotics teams! Scott and Stacy talk about the lack of respect that Quality Assurance has been getting over the last several years.
1/1/201632 minutes, 8 seconds
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Data Visualization and D3.js with Irene Ros

Scott talks to Data Visualization expert Irene Ros. When she isn't contributing to the Miso Project, teaching her d3.js class, or working on making OpenVis Conf the best data visualization conference it can be, she's working on projects that focus on creating engaging interactive visual displays of information.
12/25/201534 minutes, 3 seconds
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Today's Startup Accelerators John Henry from Cofound Harlem

John Henry is with Cofound Harlem, a startup accelerator dedicated to building 100 new companies in Harlem by 2020. What does an accelerator look like today? Do companies just need startup cash, or is there a more innovative and effective way to bootstrap tomorrow's companies today?
12/18/201537 minutes, 54 seconds
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The importance of fixing your own consumer electronics with IFixit's Kyle Wiens

Kyle Wiens is the CEO and Co-founder of IFixit. IFixit is kind of the Wikipedia of Repair Guides and Teardowns. Scott and Kyle talk about why it's important to be able to fix your own hardware. Do we have the right of repair? Why are so many consumer electronics designed without repairability in mind?
12/11/201533 minutes, 52 seconds
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Hanselminutiae LIVE 17 with Richard Campbell

Scott talks with Richard Campbell in this episode of Hanselminutiae LIVE. We did this show on Google Hangouts and you can watch the video at Scott's youtube at http://youtube.com/shanselman if you'd like. We talk about technology, gadgets, new directions, and industry trends.
12/4/201533 minutes, 53 seconds
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Imagining the Future of Minority Report with Greg Borenstein

Greg Borenstein is a computer vision expert, game designer, and author. He's currently a researcher in the Playful Systems Group at the MIT Media Lab. He also works as the futurist for the TV Series "Minority Report." The show tries to stay true to the universe of the movie while imagining a realistic (and socially conscious) future in 2065.
11/27/201533 minutes, 22 seconds
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OptiKey - Open Source Assistive Tech for Motor Neuron Disease

Scott talks to Julius Sweetland, developer of OptiKey. OptiKey is an assistive on-screen keyboard which runs on Windows. It is designed to be used with a low cost eye-tracking device to bring keyboard control, mouse control and speech to people with motor and speech limitations, such as people living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) / Motor Neuron Disease (MND).
11/20/201532 minutes, 9 seconds
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Speak Up and Present with Confidence with Poornima Vijayashanker

Poornima Vijayashanker was a founding engineer at Mint.com and now is building an education company called Femgineer. Her new book "Present! The Techie's Guide to Engaging an Audience" speaks to the importance of speaking up. Poornima talks to Scott about why speaking up and improving your communication skills can revitalize your career in tech.
11/13/201531 minutes, 8 seconds
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You don't know JS with Getify (Kyle Simpson)

Kyle Simpson, aka @getify, is the Curriculum Manager for MakerSquare and has created a series of books called You Don't Know JS. You can read the You Don't Know JS book series for free on GitHub, but we know you'll want to buy them after you hear this interview. Kyle sets Scott straight and explains why Scott doesn't know JavaScript. It's true, he really doesn't...at least not as well as he thought!
11/6/201534 minutes
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Understanding Web Components and Polymer with Monica Dinculescu

Monica Dinculescu works on Polymer and Chrome for Google. In this episode she teaches Scott all about Web Components and the Polymer Project. Are Web Components the future of the web, and why? Where does Polymer fit in, and what should YOU use if you are starting a project today?
10/30/201532 minutes, 11 seconds
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SID Chips and C64 Music with Ocean Software's Matthew Cannon

Scott talks to Matthew Cannon about the musical revolution that happened the eighties and early 90s in video game soundtracks. Matthew worked at Ocean Software and composed music for games like Navy Seals, Batman: The Movie, Elf, and many more. Matthew worked on C64, Amiga, SNES, Megadrive, and other systems. How did these systems work and what can they teach us about computing today?
10/23/201532 minutes, 18 seconds
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Your Personal Cloud Platform with Sandstorm.io and Kenton Varda

Scott talks with former Googler Kenton Varda about his startup Sandstorm.io. Sandstorm makes it easy to run and manage your own server by simplifying application deployment and security. How does it work and how does it relate to Docker? How is a "personal cloud" different from "a server under the stairs?"
10/16/201533 minutes, 18 seconds
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An overview of non-web-based assisted technologies with Sylvia Richardson

There's lots of discussion around assistive technology on the web, but what about technologies that aren't all about the browser? There are a number of conditions that have made it easier to develop assistive technology (social media, crowdfunding, rapid prototyping tools,etc.) Scott talks to Sylvia Richardson, an accessibility coordinator for Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina about some of the many innovations in this space.
10/9/201532 minutes, 9 seconds
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Creativity, Code, Community, and Connected Objects with Dawn C. Hayes

Scott talks with coder, tinkerer, and occasional adjunct professor Dawn C Hayes about the intersection of physical computing and creating coding. As we write code more, we have to ask ourselves "but are we improving our world? The community? Our culture?" The advent of wearables, augmented games, and networked objects has the potential to take computing out of the garage and into the collective consciousness. Dawn teaches Scott about how these objects can combine with new thinking around informal learning to engage not only new audiences but the next generation of creator.
10/2/201537 minutes, 13 seconds
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Jet.com scales with Azure, F#, and more with Rachel Reese

Scott talks to Jet.com's Rachel Reese about how Jet uses F#, Azure, and lots more to scale to new heights. What's it like to build a massive system on a functional language? How does using .NET but NOT using C# change how you recruit?
9/25/201533 minutes, 53 seconds
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Killing Off Wasabi - A 20yr old VBScript problem solved with 2015 Roslyn tech

Scott talks to Jacob Krall from Fog Creek Software about how his team used the open source C# Roslyn compiler to bring their ancient VBScript-style language called "Wasabi" into the 21st century. They solved real-world problems in a systematic way with smart decisions and computer science.
9/18/201532 minutes, 18 seconds
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Information Architecture with Abby Covert

Abby Covert is an independent Information Architect and also the President of the Information Architecture Institute. She's the author of "How to Make Sense of Any Mess" and spends her life trying to make the unclear be clear. In this episode, she explains the difference between UX and IA, and sets Scott straight about some common misconceptions about information architecture.
9/11/201534 minutes, 48 seconds
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Developing Designers with Catt Small

Scott talks to Developer and Designer Catt Small from SoundCloud. When you're a designer AND a front-end developer, where does one half of your personality end and the other half begin? Should prototypes be written in JavaScript and HTML or in a visual prototyping application?
9/4/201531 minutes, 41 seconds
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Computer Science in School vs. The Real World with Kaya Thomas

Kaya Thomas is an undergraduate in Computer Science at Dartmouth and is interning this summer at Intuit on the Mint iOS team. She's also a Code2040 fellow and has both a YouTube channel with tech tutorials and a book resource app called We Read Too in the iOS App Store. She and Scott talk about the difference between coding in school vs. the real world.
8/28/201533 minutes, 6 seconds
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Enterprising Node.js with NodeSource's VP of Engineering Kevin Stewart

As open source thinking and open source software goes more mainstream, it heads to the Enterprise. What does that mean for a popular framework like node.js? What features does Node need to thrive in a larger company? Scott talks to NodeSource's Kevin Stewart to explore these questions.
8/21/201536 minutes, 6 seconds
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Redesigning Computer Science 101 Education with Omoju Miller

PhD Candidate Omoju Miller is a Computer Scientist who is working to unlock the joys of Natural Language Processing as applied to rap lyrics. She is finishing her PhD in Computer Science Education and has big ideas about where the field should go. How should we change Computer Science 101 for the next generation of developers?
8/14/201532 minutes, 16 seconds
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Identity Server and ASP.NET with Dominick Baier

Scott talks to Dominick Baier about identity on the web and in ASP.NET. Dominick and Brock Allen have a great series of open source products in the form of Identity Manager, Identity Server, and Identity Model. What does auth on today's web look like? How does Open ID Connect and OAuth work and how can you set it up in your websites today?
8/7/201533 minutes, 48 seconds
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Designing Usable Security with Google's Adrienne Porter Felt

Adrienne Porter Felt, Ph.D. is a security and privacy researcher at Google. Her current focus is on designing and building usable security. Scott talks to her about how modern application platforms think about permissions, how users react to the "lock" icon, what we think about HTTPs, and much more!
7/31/201533 minutes, 37 seconds
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The Problem with DateTime - NodaTime with Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson is a time nerd. He has contributed with the Noda Time project and is helping with making time, dates, and timezones easier to use with .NET and .NET Core. Most of what we think is intuitive about time, isn't!
7/24/201531 minutes, 35 seconds
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Systems Thinking: Less Coding, More Thinking with Kishau Rogers

Kishau Rogers is the Founder and CEO of Websmith Group. She's a twenty-year programming veteran. She talks to Scott about the importance of teaching "Systems Thinking" over just Learning to Code. How do our solutions change when we better understand how they fit into the big picture?
7/17/201534 minutes, 3 seconds
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Debugging Windows Problems with Mario Hewardt

Scott talks to expert Windows debugger Mario Hewardt about what it takes to be a good debugger. How does the .NET managed heap and garbage collector work and when should you just let it do its job?
7/10/201535 minutes, 39 seconds
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Relationships, Geek Culture, and Raising Nerds with Anjuan Simmons

Scott sits down with Technical Project Manager and Conference Speaker Anjuan Simmons to talk about the rise of "Nerdland" and fan culture, the difficulties raised when Geeks marry Normals, and how we pass our fandom on to our kids.
7/3/201534 minutes, 24 seconds
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Tessel.io - Making the Internet of things with JavaScript and Kelsey Breseman

Scott talks to Tessel's Kelsey Breseman about the Tessel 2 and now this little $35 board makes making even more accessible! If you know JavaScript, you already know how to program a Tessel.
6/25/201533 minutes, 16 seconds
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Virtual Reality today with Andreia Gaita

Scott talks to former Unity developer and current Githubber Andreia Gaita about Virtual Reality. Why is it so compelling? Why do we want so badly to live in "Snow Crash?" Andreia talks about her first experience in an Oculus Rift VR system and when she thinks off the shelf VR will be available.
6/19/201538 minutes, 17 seconds
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Building Community around the XPRIZE with Jono Bacon

Jono Bacon wrote the book on Community with "The Art of Community" and worked at Canonical on Ubuntu's community for years. Now he's headed to the XPRIZE organization to help build their community. How do you create a community around robots on the moon and tricoders?
6/12/201536 minutes, 48 seconds
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Hanselminutiae LIVE 16 with Richard Campbell

This episode of Hanselminutiae LIVE 16 with Richard Campbell was recorded on Google Hangouts! You can check it out at Scott's YouTube Channel at http://youtube.com/shanselman
6/5/201537 minutes
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Getting Started with SVG with Sara Soueidan

Scott talks to web developer Sara Soueidan about the state of SVG on the web today. Is SVG mainstream and ready for you to use in your web apps today? Sara is the author of the Codrops CSS Reference, and a co-author of the Smashing Book #5 - a book that covers time-saving, practical techniques for crafting fast, maintainable, and scalable responsive websites.
5/29/201537 minutes, 7 seconds
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Getting started making NodeBots and Wearables with Kassandra Perch

Today we talk to Kassandra Perch from Bocoup about the state of node-based robotics and wearables in 2015. Back in episode 391, we talked to Raquel Vélez about controlling robots with Node.js. Nodebots have blown up and it's easier than ever to jump in and make your own!
5/22/201536 minutes, 22 seconds
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Accessibility (a11y) with OpenDirective's Steve Lee

Scott talks to accessibility advocate Steve Lee about today's accessible web. We've all added alt tags around images (or we should) but what does a modern AND accessible application require? Steve educates Scott on ARIA, WCAG, WAI and other TLAs (three letter acronyms) and gives us practical actionable advice on how we can make the web available to everyone.
5/15/201536 minutes, 56 seconds
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Saving Bletchley Park with Dr. Sue Black

Bletchley Park is where brilliant people worked tirelessly to break the German Enigma code, and others. More importantly, it wasn't just Alan Turing. In fact, thousands of people, 80 percent of them women, worked at Bletchley Park. Scott talks to Dr. Sue Black, who used social media to raise awareness of the current state of Bletchley Park and help return the site to solvency.
5/8/201531 minutes, 55 seconds
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Developing StaffPad, a new class of music notation application with Dr. Matthew Tesch

Scott talks to Dr. Matthew Tesch of Carnegie Mellon University about StaffPad, an new music notation application for Windows that he developed with composer David William Hearn. StaffPadd is for pen-and-touch based Windows 8 tablets like the Surface Pro and written largely in C#.
5/1/201535 minutes, 56 seconds
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Inside the Akka.NET open source project and the Actor Model with Aaron Stannard

Akka.NET is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications on .NET & Mono. This community-driven port brings C# & F# developers the capabilities of the original Akka framework in Java/Scala. Scott talks to co-founder Aaron Stannard about the project, the Actor model, and distributed development in .NET.
4/23/201534 minutes, 3 seconds
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Usability and the Human Factor with Dr. Danielle Smith

Dr. Danielle Smith is a Human Factors professional with over 10 years' experience in usability research and user experience design. She has a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with a concentration in Human Factors. She and Scott talk about the state of User Experience research today. What data are we using and what important data are we missing?
4/17/201530 minutes, 39 seconds
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Building a better 3D printer (with software!) with OctoPrint’s Gina Häußge

Scott talks to Gina Häußge, creator of OctoPrint. In very short order OctoPrint has gone from a small side project to Gina's full time open source job! OctoPrint gives your 3D Printer a camera, a print queue, visualizers, temperature control and much more! Gina shares her journey in this Maker episode.
4/10/201541 minutes, 2 seconds
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Bitcoin Explained with Rhian Lewis

Rhian is the co-developer of CountMyCrypto and the co-host of London's Bitcoin Women. She sits down with Scott and catches him up on the state of Bitcoin, Altcoin, and some of the tech behind Blockchain technology.
4/3/201533 minutes, 8 seconds
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March Is For Makers: Electronics and Electricity 101 with Andrew J. Dupree

This week hardware engineer Andrew J. Dupree gives Scott a lesson in Electrical Engineering 101. Andrew has a Master of Science in Computer Hardware Engineering from Stanford and works at Mindtribe on cool hardware and technology strategy. This is the fourth episode in our month-long podcast series March Is For Makers. We're teaming up with CodeNewbie to give you a month of great hardware and maker content. Check us out at http://marchisformakers.com and subscribe to both podcasts!
3/27/201539 minutes, 20 seconds
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March Is For Makers: Learning Robots with Dr. Ayanna Howard of Zyrobotics

Today we talk to Dr. Ayanna Howard about robots. Dr. Howard has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering as well as an MBA from Claremont, and she teaches at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is also the Founder and CTO of Zyrobotics, a technology startup dedicated to inclusive technology inventions. Dr. Howard also worked with NASA JPL on the Mars Rovers. This is the third episode in our month-long podcast series March Is For Makers. We're teaming up with CodeNewbie to give you a month of great hardware and maker content. Check us out at http://marchisformakers.com and subscribe to both podcasts!
3/20/201536 minutes, 52 seconds
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March Is For Makers: Enclosures for your DIY hardware projects with Bertrand Le Roy

Bertrand Le Roy has a PhD in theoretical physics and deep experience in both software and hardware development. His startup Nwazet sold hardware and software for makers. He talks to Scott about the importance of putting your DIY project in an enclosure you can count on. They also discuss 3D printing, CNC Machines, Laser Cutters, Makerspaces, and more! This is our second episode in our month-long podcast series March Is For Makers. We're teaming up with CodeNewbie to give you a month of great hardware and maker content. Check us out at http://marchisformakers.com and subscribe to both podcasts!
3/13/201533 minutes, 22 seconds
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March Is For Makers: 3D Printing with Printrbot's Brook Drumm

Brook Drumm took a successful Kickstarter and turned it into a fantastic business making Printrbot 3D Printers. Brook is also a co-star on the new Science Channel TV show "All-American Makers." This is our first episode in our month-long podcast series March Is For Makers. We're teaming up with CodeNewbie to give you a month of great hardware and maker content. Check us out at http://marchisformakers.com and subscribe to both podcasts!
3/6/201536 minutes, 9 seconds
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Living Clojure with Carin Meier

Scott talks to Clojure expert Carin Meier about how to get started with this powerful functional language. Carin worked in Java for 15 years and switched to Clojure and loved it so much she wrote a book! 'Living Clojure' comes out April of 2015.
2/27/201532 minutes, 16 seconds
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Hanselminutiae 15 with Richard Campbell - Recorded as a Google Hangout, we talk all things tech

Scott talks to Richard Campbell in this episode, recorded LIVE (and available on YouTube!) on February 10th.
2/20/201536 minutes, 46 seconds
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Atom-Shell for cross platform desktop apps with Paul Betts

Scott talks to developer Paul Betts, formerly of GitHub, now working on the Windows Desktop application for Slack. They are building their desktop with atom-shell, a cross-platform toolkit that uses V8 and Chromium. Is atom-shell right for you?
2/13/201532 minutes, 54 seconds
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Creating Ruby with Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) recorded LIVE in Japan

Scott was in Japan at the GoAzure event in January and had the pleasure of interviewing Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), the creator of the Ruby language! What motivates Matz and how did that motivation drive the creation and direction of Ruby?
2/6/201529 minutes, 41 seconds
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Where is Web Design going in 2015 with Carl Smith

Carl Smith Carl Smith is the founder of nGen Works, a design firm in Florida specializing in User Experience Design, Branding, App and Mobile Development and more. Carl is also the co-host of the BizCraft podcast. Carl talks to Scott about where he thinks web design and development is heading in 2015.
1/30/201537 minutes, 33 seconds
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An Introduction to the Dart Language with Lars Bak and Kasper Lund

Scott sits down (remotely from Denmark!) with Dart Language founders Lars Bak and Kasper Lund. Dart is an open source web programming language developed by Google and introduced in 2011. It looks familiar, has its own VM, but can also compile to JavaScript.
1/23/201531 minutes, 13 seconds
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Performance as a Feature with Matt Warren

Scott talks to .NET performance aficionado Matt Warren about how to make performance a feature of your application. Is performance cultural or technical? What tools are available to put perf front and center?
1/16/201532 minutes, 7 seconds
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Starting with Continuous Integration in the Cloud with Steven Edouard

Scott talks to Steven Edouard about making CI (Continuous Integration) and easy deployment possible in the cloud. From small node-based sites to larger Chef and automated VM deployments, Steven outlines our options and gets us started in Azure.
1/9/201533 minutes, 36 seconds
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Computer Vision Explained with PyImageSearch's Adrian Rosebrock

Adrian Rosebrock has PhD focused on Computer Vision and Machine Learning. He's a recognized expert in getting computers to "see" stuff...and all kinds of things at that! Adrian and Scott talk about some of the kinds of problems computer vision can solve, from medical issues to gaming, retail to surveillance. Scott gets educated on how to start and how far he can take Computer Vision as a beginner!
1/2/201531 minutes, 3 seconds
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Get Involved in Citizen Science with Chandra Clarke

Scott talks to science advocate Chandra Clarke about the rise of Citizen Science. Chandra has a Master's degree in Space Studies and writes about citizen science and space for a number of websites, including her own Citizen Science Center. What does it mean to be a citizen scientist and how can you (and the children in your life) get involved? We talk tech, software, space, the moon, and much much more.
12/26/201432 minutes, 39 seconds
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An Internet of Things (IoT) primer with Erica Stanley

Scott talks to engineer Erica Stanley about the Internet of Things. What's the tech behind this popular buzzword? What are some of the emerging standards for connectivity, and where should you start when exploring IoT development kits!
12/19/201434 minutes, 40 seconds
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Web Animation Foundations, Today and Tomorrow with Rachel Nabors

Scott sits down with award-winning animator and web animations expert Rachel Nabors about the importance of intentional and thoughtful animation on the web. Rachel talks about the death of Flash and what that meant for animation and where she sees the web going with the advent of the new Web Animation API that is starting to show up in daily builds of Chrome.
12/12/201433 minutes, 5 seconds
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JSIL with Katelyn Gadd

Katelyn Gadd is a freelance programmer and game designer and the creator of the amazing JSIL project. JSIL is a compiler that transforms .NET applications into standards-compliant, cross-browser JavaScript. Katelyn teaches Scott about how this project works, where its power lies, and how XNA games can come to the browser!
12/5/201431 minutes, 54 seconds
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Comics, Creativity, Computers and Secret Coders with Gene Luen Yang

Gene Luen Yang is an writer of graphic novels and comics, including the Eisner Award winning "American Born Chinese." He's also written the comic continuation of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and much more. He also is an engineer and teaches software at a local high school! He and Scott talk computers, creativity, and comics. He's creating a new book, "Secret Coders," about the magic of computers.
11/28/201432 minutes, 42 seconds
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The Other Side of Diversity with Erica Joy

Erica Joy is an engineer at Google. She talks to Scott about her experience growing up, when she first started to love computers, and the demographics and environments of the various companies she's worked at over the years. They talk about stress, what it really means to have a diverse workplace, and finding your authentic self.
11/21/201431 minutes, 38 seconds
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Balancing a Nerdcore Music Career and a PhD with Sammus aka Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo

Scott talks to nerdcore musician Sammus, aka Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo. She's doing a PhD at Cornell but also pursuing a music career. Her lyrics are complex and multilayered, touching on topics of popular culture, gaming, computers, history, and much more. She tours, raps, produces, and much more. How does she do it all?
11/14/201435 minutes, 55 seconds
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The New Digital Journalism with Elon James White

Scott sits down with podcaster, radio host, and advocate Elon James White. Elon is the founder of TWiB (This Week in Blackness) and an award-winning blogger. He recently went mobile and took his show to Ferguson, Missouri. How does social media and accessible digital tech change how we receive our news?
11/7/201432 minutes, 19 seconds
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Controllerism and digital music with artist and inventor Moldover

Musician, artist, and inventor Moldover creates, tours, and explores new frontiers in electronic music and also coined the term "Controllerism." He's currently creating a new original album packaged in a playable circuit board instrument! Moldover explains Controllerism to Scott, how it differs from Turntablism. How does Moldover make his instruments and mold his sound?
10/31/201430 minutes, 8 seconds
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Selecting the Ultimate Developer Laptop with Damian Edwards

Scott and Damian need better laptops. They need the Ultimate Developer Laptop. i7, 8 to 16 gigs, 256G+ SSD, and under 2 pounds. Does it exist?
10/24/201434 minutes, 43 seconds
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All about CSS Animations with Val Head

Scott's at Blendconf and sits down with Val Head to talk about CSS Animations. Val is the author of "The CSS Animations Pocket Guide" and explains the essence of CSS Animations to Scott in this episode.
10/17/201433 minutes, 14 seconds
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"A Dark Room" - What's it like to have a #1 App? With Amir Rajan

"A Dark Room" was the #1 App in the Apple App Store for weeks and weeks. Surely that's made its creator, Amir Rajan a millionaire, right? Amir explains exactly how the finances work, shares tips on how to make a #1 app, and sets YOU up for success.
10/10/201437 minutes, 34 seconds
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A Sass Primer with Claudina Sarahe

Claudina Sarahe is a Front End Developer, educator, conference organizer, and an expert on the Sass CSS preprocessor. She shares her love of Sass with Scott while at @blendconf. Why was Sass needed? What makes Sass powerful...and should you start using it right now?
10/3/201431 minutes, 1 second
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Being a CodeNewbie with Saron Yitbarek

After starting along a medical path, Saron Yitbarek switched directions, did a bootcamp at the Flatiron School and is now well on her way in a new career as a programmer. Saron also started CodeNewbie, a welcoming community of beginner and developing programmers.
9/26/201432 minutes
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Choosing a JavaScript Framework with Craig McKeachie

Scott talks to Craig McKeachie about his new book the Javascript Framework Guide. There's lots of talk about frameworks, but not a lot about HOW to choose a framework and WHY? What kinds of things do I value, and does my framework of choice value those things as well?
9/19/201433 minutes, 54 seconds
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Hanselminutiae 14 with Richard Campbell - Apple iPhone 6 and Apple Watch Announcements (+VIDEO)

Scott sits down with Richard Campbell to talk about the Apple iPhone 6 and Apple Watch Announcements. Will wearables finally happen? Is this the fitness wearable we've been waiting for, paired with the ultimate watch? NOTE: There is VIDEO of this show on YouTube, the link is below on this site.
9/12/201439 minutes, 29 seconds
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Space and the next IT decade with Tom Soderstrom from JPL

Scott talks to Tom Soderstrom, the IT CTO at JPL, a NASA Center. What's going to happen in the next IT decade (which is shorter than you'd think!)? What kinds of systems do they use at JPL and NASA, and where does Tom think the next big innovation is coming from?
9/5/201437 minutes, 36 seconds
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Exploring Trans*H4CK with Dr. Kortney Ziegler

Transgender people face discrimination, unemployment, homelessness, and a myriad of social problems. Dr. Kortney Ziegler is an activist, academic, artist, and filmmaker who created Trans*H4CK as a response to help tackle these problems through education, empowerment, open source, and advocacy.
8/29/201436 minutes, 19 seconds
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Inside RavenDB with Michael Yarichuk

Scott chats with Michael Yarichuk about RavenDB. Michael works with Ayende and the RavenDB team on their document database. Scott is trying to learn about document databases and Michael helps him along the path, exploring those computer science concepts that make document databases unique.
8/22/201433 minutes, 20 seconds
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BrightstarDB, an open source NoSQL .NET database with Kal Ahmed

Kal Ahmed and his open source team have created a great .NET-based NoSQL solution called BrightstarDB. Brightstar is an RDF triple store. What does that mean? It does not require the definition of a database schema, and with the RDF data model you can easily add and integrate data of all shapes. Kal talks to Scott about RDF, NoSQL, and the whens and whys of using a database like BrightStarDB.
8/8/201432 minutes, 53 seconds
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Applying Improv to Agile and Lean Startup models with Jessie Shternshus

Jessie Shternshus takes comedy and improve to the next level and applies it to Lean Startup and Agile Software methodologies. Can't believe it? Jessie sits down with Scott and they chat about how thinking quickly on your feet is a muscle and a skill that must be exercised.
8/1/201433 minutes, 22 seconds
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Designing for Performance with Lara Swanson

Lara Swanson is the Engineering Manager of Performance at Etsy. She sits down with Scott to explain how to design for page load time, including optimizations to images, fonts, markup, and more. How important is having a culture of performance and executive buy-in? Is a two-second page load time reasonable? How important is A/B testing?
7/25/201432 minutes, 58 seconds
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Learning WebGL and making 3D HTML Games with David Catuhe and Babylon.js

David Catuhe is the primary author of Babylon.js and an expert in WebGL. Are 3D games really happening on the web? There are more possibilities than you may realize! WebGL really lights up with libraries like three.js and babylon.js.
7/18/201433 minutes, 7 seconds
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Exploring the Bionic Pancreas with Dr. Steven Jon Russell, MD, PhD

A collaborative group from Boston University and Massachusetts General Hospital is working together to make automated blood glucose control a reality, and they have announced their results from the Bionic Pancreas study. Scott, who is also a 20 year+ Type 1 Diabetic on an insulin pump, sits down with Dr. Steven Jon Russell, MD, PhD to talk about this project and it's ramifications.
7/11/201447 minutes, 43 seconds
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Applied Azure with Vishwas Lele

Scott continues to learn Azure and in this episodes turns to 3rd party expert Vishwas Lele. Vishwas builds Azure systems all day long and recently also released a Pluralsight course called "Applied Azure."
7/4/201431 minutes, 27 seconds
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Windows Phone 8.1, Universal Apps, and the Developer Landscape with Lars Klint

Scott talks to Lars Klint, a Windows Phone Developer MVP, about developing for Windows Phone 8.1. What's coming in 8.1 and what changes for developers? What's the plan for Universal Apps and what kind of reuse will we see?
6/27/201431 minutes, 2 seconds
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Creating Reactive User Interfaces with Adaptive Consulting's Reactive Trader

Scott talks to Matt Barrett from Adaptive Consulting about creating high-quality reactive user interfaces for the industry. Adaptive has just released a reactive sample application as open source and it's a great place to start learning about Reactive Programming.
6/20/201432 minutes, 1 second
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What it really means to be Junior Developer with Jonathan Barronville

Jonathan Barronville is a Junior Developer, and he's not apologetic about it. What does it really mean to be Junior Developer, and why is everyone in such a rush to be a Senior? Are we really gaining experience or just experiencing the same years, one after another? What can we do as an industry to be more welcoming to Junior devs, while realizing that we must all be amateurs ourselves?
6/13/201431 minutes, 25 seconds
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Reconciling ASP.NET vNext with Damian Edwards

There's been a lot of talk around ASP.NET vNext. How did development start, and what's been the thinking about how to manage a new world while still innovating on the current generation of technology? In what ways does ASP.NET vNext break from the past, and in what ways does it build on our existing power and experience?
6/6/201433 minutes, 24 seconds
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Shoulder-to-shoulder remote collaboration with Susie Wee, CTO of Networked Experiences at Cisco

Scott is at the Cisco DevNet conference at Cisco Live! talking to Dr. Susie Wee. Susie is the CTO of Networked Experiences at Cisco. Susie shares some of her projects with Scott like the "Spring Roll" project, an immersive telepresence experiment for 'shoulder to shoulder' collaboration with remote teams.
5/30/201430 minutes, 57 seconds
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Stories of Computer Science Past and Present with Len Bass

Scott is at the Carnegie Mellon SATURN software architecture conference talking to Software Architect Dr. Len Bass. Len is a Senior Principal Researcher at NICTA in Australia and the author of Software Architecture in Practice. Len shares some of his stories over his 40+ year career in software.
5/23/201437 minutes, 20 seconds
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Designing Video Games with student and game designer Lauren Scott

Scott skypes with Computer Science student and game designer Lauren Scott. Lauren recently spoke at GDC (Game Developers Conference) in San Francisco. Are folks breaking out of the mold with indie games these days? How multi-faceted is video game design and what kinds of skills should one develop?
5/16/201431 minutes, 22 seconds
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Agile Families: Techniques for Living with Change with David Starr

What happens when you apply agile practices to managing your family life? Is Scrum a good way to manage kids and their busy schedules? Agile expert David Starr from Scrum.org talks to Scott about implementing agile in his family.
5/9/201434 minutes, 14 seconds
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Managing Errors across platforms with RayGun.io

Scott is in New Zealand talking to John-Daniel Trask from Mindscape. They've got a new cloud-based error tracking system called RayGun.io that Scott is using for two side startups. RayGun is rather unique in its wide "polyglot" language support. How does one build and maintain a service like RayGun?
5/2/201432 minutes, 44 seconds
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Hacking the Creative Mind with Denise Jacobs

Scott is at AngleBrackets in Orlando and talking to Denise Jacobs. Denise wrote "The CSS Detective" but now is a Creativity Evangelist. She teaches workshops to help knowledge workers unlock their creative potential.
4/25/201430 minutes, 40 seconds
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Hanselminutiae 13 with Richard Campbell

Scott talks with regular guest Richard Campbell about open source, finding airplanes, and more.
4/18/201434 minutes, 20 seconds
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Learn WebRTC with Lisa Larson-Kelley

Scott talks to web video expert Lisa Larson-Kelley about WebRTC. How will this new browser-based peer-to-peer standard change the web? Is this a Skype-killer, or rather just a new tool in our open web tool-belt?
4/11/201430 minutes, 31 seconds
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I am teaching my daughter to code with Hopscotch - Fitzgerald Steele

When Jerry Steele posted his daughter's "5 things I learned about programming" he didn't imagine it would take off like it did with nearly 3000 retweets! Scott talks with Jerry about teaching children to program, and how to think. What is it about software that can make our kids more powerful?
4/4/201427 minutes, 27 seconds
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An Introduction to the Go Programming language with Andrew Gerrand

Andrew Gerrand is a developer at Google who works on the Go Programming Language (golang). Why Go and why now? What kinds of problems does Go solve that aren't a good match for existing languages? How does Go compare to C++ and improve upon it?
3/28/201429 minutes, 27 seconds
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Bitcoin Explained with Steve Beauregard, CEO of GoCoin

Bitcoin is happening and Scott's missing out. He talks to Steve Beauregard, CEO of GoCoin, who sets him straight. How does Bitcoin work, and what problem does it solve? Is Bitcoin the "people's money?"
3/21/201430 minutes
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Creating the Plex Software Ecosystem with Elan Feingold

Plex is a powerful media ecosystem with a server component available on almost every platform and NAS, and clients for every tablet, laptop, phone and device you can imagine. How does it all fit together and get you your media your way, today?
3/14/201430 minutes, 43 seconds
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I'm a Blind Software Technician - Ask Me Anything! with Katherine Moss

Scott talks to Katherine Moss, a blind software tech, about how she uses her computer and her phone. What does she see and what does her screen reader(s) see? What do sighted developers need to do to support those with less sight?
3/7/201438 minutes, 40 seconds
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Getting Started with JavaScript Unit Testing with Jasmine and Rushaine McBean

Scott is at the jQuery conference today and sits down with full stack developer Rushaine McBean to learn about JavaScript Unit Testing with Jasmine. How does Jasmine relate to things like Selenium? Will it change how I write my JavaScript?
2/28/201429 minutes, 52 seconds
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Creating a Mac emulator using JavaScript with James Friend

Scott talks to James Friend, author of PCE.js which is a port of PCE the Portable Computer Emulator. You can run Mac System 7 in your browser? How is this sorcery possible? We talk emscripten, portable C, and lots more.
2/21/201435 minutes, 10 seconds
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Xbox One Developer with Dave Voyles, formerly of Comcast

Scott talks with Dave Voyles who worked on the Comcast Xfinity application for Xbox. What's it take to write an application for an Xbox One? Will your HTML and JavaScript skills translate? All this, plus discussion of SmartGlass.
2/14/201432 minutes, 43 seconds
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Model View Culture - A new media platform covering Technology, Culture, and Diversity

Scott sits down to chat with Amelia Greenhall and Shanley Kane about the launch of their new media company "Model View Culture." We talk about issues faced by marginalized groups in tech and about what Shanley and Amelia have planned for their startup's new media future.
2/7/201436 minutes, 38 seconds
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sass.js - An Emscripten Experiment with Rodney Rehm

We have more interesting tools available to us than we realize. When asked if there was a JavaScript version of the Sass CSS library, Rodney Rehm and his friend Sebastian decided to see if they could use Emscripten to compile the existing C/C++ one into JavaScript. Because, why not?
1/31/201430 minutes, 46 seconds
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Learning Code The Hard Way with Zed Shaw

Is the best way to learn to code The Hard Way? Scott talks to Zed Shaw, author of the Mongrel web server for Ruby Web Applications, and now the creator of the Learn Code The Hard Way movement.
1/24/201434 minutes, 34 seconds
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Discourse and The Art of Discussion with Jeff Atwood

Scott catches up with Jeff Atwood about his new startup, Discourse.
1/17/201439 minutes, 29 seconds
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Coneryminutes #3 - Bartending vs Software

Rob Conery takes over Hanselminutes again! He talks to Scott about the motivation for a young person to stay in school (and software) when bartending can easily pay the bills. Rob also tries to get Scott to lose his train of thought.
1/10/201434 minutes, 36 seconds
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iOS Developer and Professional Model Lyndsey Scott

Scott talks to iOS Developer and professional model Lyndsey Scott. Lyndsey balances a full-time job as a model, working for clients such as Gucci and Victoria's Secret, but codes more than 20 hours a week on iPhone and iPad apps.
1/3/201433 minutes, 40 seconds
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Geek Relationships 2013 with Scott's Wife Mo

It's 2013 and Christmas Eve Eve, and Scott sits down with his wife Mo to chat about techies and relationships.
12/27/201335 minutes, 24 seconds
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Are we as Software Engineers focused on the right social priorities? A discussion with Hadi Hariri

Scott is in Australia this week and takes a moment to sit down with Hadi Hariri. We're buildings with the skills to make and create software, but we are making software for the greater good?
12/20/201330 minutes, 26 seconds
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An Internet of Inclusion with Chanelle Henry

Chanelle Henry is the Director of User Experience at Bluewolf and Co-Founder of Pavo (a fashion discovery app). She has an educational background in Psychology, Computer Science, and Design, and when creating things for the internet she's always thinking about inclusion. How do we make everyone successful on today's internet?
12/13/201336 minutes
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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio

Scott talks to Microsoft Developer Dino Viehland about the new open source Node.js Tools for Visual Studio. It integrates Node into VS with full debugging, profiling, deployment and lots more. How did they do it and why?
12/6/201333 minutes, 29 seconds
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Chris Dancy, the world's most quantified man, explains the Quantified Self

Are you wearing a FitBit and tracking how many steps you take? Perhaps you chart your weight? You're just starting to quantify yourself. Chris Dancy tracks much much more and is arguably the world's most quantified man. From humidity to ambient noise, from heart rate to blood sugar, it adds up to terabytes of text information to mine and chart.
11/29/201333 minutes, 58 seconds
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Virtual Reality, the Oculus Rift and Unity 3D with Rift Chopper author James Andrew

James Andrew is so excited about the Oculus Rift virtual reality he can hardly contain himself. He shares his excitement with Scott as he explains how an Oculus Rift headset works, the ideas behind "getting it right" and his new helicopter simulator "Rift Chopper." He also explains the power behind the Unity 3D engine and why it's THE best way to make a compelling game in minutes.
11/22/201334 minutes, 8 seconds
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PANEL: What do Web Developers need to know in 2014 - Hanselman, Crockford, Papa, Jacobs

Scott leads a LIVE panel at the AngleBrackets conference in Las Vegas. "What do Web Developers need to know in 2014? With Douglas Crockford, John Papa, Denise Jacobs, Michele Leroux, Bustamante
11/15/201353 minutes, 10 seconds
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Bugs Considered Harmful with Douglas Crockford

Scott is at the AngleBrackets conference in Las Vegas and sits down with Douglas Crockford. Douglas is the author of "JavaScript: The Good Parts" as well as the discoverer of JSON. What do we need to do to be better developers? Is it better tools? Better attitudes? More discipline?
11/8/201336 minutes, 42 seconds
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Web Service Tools for Distributed Applications with Runscope's John Sheehan

Scott sits down with John Sheehan from Web Service tool provider RunScope to talk about REST, JSON, and Web Services and how we debug them. Devs face a number of challenges like service reliability, performance monitoring, and testing. We've all become distributed systems programmers, but have our tools and knowledge kept pace?
11/1/201335 minutes, 10 seconds
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Demystifying Scala with Netflix's Dianne Marsh

Scott talks to Netflix's Dianne Marsh about the rise of Scala. Is Scala just for scientists? Is this a complex functional language that's beyond the grasp of the average developer, or is this an expressive new way of programming against the JVM?
10/25/201331 minutes, 24 seconds
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The Mobile Phone Struggle with Travis Pope

Scott talks to tech writer Travis Pope about his recent switch from Windows Phone to iPhone. Scott moves between an iPhone and a Lumia 1020 and is currently evaluating a Galaxy S4. How important is the ecosystem and apps vs. built in functionality? When will the search for the perfect phone end?
10/18/201335 minutes, 40 seconds
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Groovy on Grails with Netflix's Clay McCoy

Clay works at Netflix on a Groovy on Grails app. What's Groovy and why does it sound like Ruby on Rails? Scott learns about how the Groovy language sits on top of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and where Grails fits into the world of Web Development in the Cloud.
10/11/201331 minutes, 40 seconds
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Controlling Robots with node.js and Johnny-Five with Raquel Vélez

Did you know that you can control a robot with JavaScript and node.js? Scott talks to Raquel Vélez from nodebots.io about how to start! Why JavaScript and not C? What libraries and hardware do I need to build a robot that will bring me a soda?
10/4/201333 minutes, 26 seconds
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The State of Object-Relational Mapping with Frans Bouma

Scott talks to LLBLGEN author Frans Bouma about the state of Object Relational Mappers in .NET. Will the relational database die, or are we just lacking the proper tools? Should an ORM hide the fact we have a database and just make everything look like objects?
9/27/201330 minutes, 28 seconds
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The Agile Mindset with Linda Rising

Scott talks to consultant Linda Rising about the Agile Mindset. Are our skills fixed or are they always growing? Does that change if we change our mindset? Can organizational mindsets affect our performance? What does the research say about these tapes we're listening to in our heads every day?
9/20/201336 minutes, 24 seconds
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Vision-Based Computing with Dr. Neil Roodyn

Scott was super-disappointed in his recent experience with a Leap Motion, and hasn't used his Kinect in months. Dr. Neil Roodyn joins us to set expectations. What's the present and future of vision-based computer interactions?
9/13/201336 minutes
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Demystifying UX with Natasha Irizarry

Scott is at the Code On The Beach conference in Jacksonville, Florida and catches up with UX Designer and Front-End Developer Natasha Irizarry just after her talk on "Lean User Experience." What does it all mean?
9/6/201333 minutes, 19 seconds
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Understanding CouchDB and NoSQL with Jan Lehnardt

Scott talks to open source developer Jan Lehnardt about the NoSQL movement and CouchDB. Is HTTP too heavy to use for a database? How does NoSQL data modeling differs from classic ER systems? Does Couch matter in the Enterprise?
8/30/201333 minutes, 48 seconds
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Creating Calca - A symbolic calculator with markdown for iOS and more

Calca is a powerful symbolic calculator that gives you instant answers as you type. It was written by Frank Krueger (creator of iCircuit) using C# and Xamarin tools and is available today for iPhone, iPad, and Mac desktop - plus soon for Windows! How did Frank do it, and why?
8/23/201336 minutes, 43 seconds
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Python Tools for Visual Studio with Dino Viehland

Scott talks to Dino Viehland, a Microsoft developer who has worked on Python inside Microsoft for almost seven years. He and his team make Python Tools for Visual Studio, a complete and FREE Python IDE that supports CPython, IronPython, mixed-mode debugging and a hundred other features you won't believe.
8/16/201334 minutes, 26 seconds
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Enough with the JavaScript Already! with Nicholas Zakas

Nicholas Zakas is a Front-end guy at Box and recently gave a talk called "Enough with the JavaScript Already!" where he advocates that developers use fewer libraries and write smarter JS. Where do we start? What are the four opportunities to load JavaScript? Is Progressive Enhancement still the right solution? Aren't we supposed to be writing MORE JavaScript? Nicholas educates Scott on all the right moves when writing front ends on today's web.
8/9/201336 minutes, 11 seconds
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Creating the AGENT Smart Watch with Chris Walker of Secret Labs

Scott is at the MonkeySpace conference talking to Chris Walker about how SecretLabs created the AGENT Smart Watch. A week of battery life, Bluetooth 4 and much more! It runs .NET and you'll be able to write apps for it yourself on an open ecosystem.
8/2/201331 minutes, 56 seconds
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What's the Deal with Windows 8.1?

Scott talks to Pete Brown about the upcoming Windows 8.1 update. What does it add to Windows 8 and will we care? How does 8.1 change the start screen, the windowing environment, and how apps work and update? What about power users with multiple monitors? Also, we hear about how 3D printing is coming and its drivers are built into Windows 8.1.
7/26/201335 minutes, 55 seconds
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Web Development Pain and Suffering with Jim Wang

Scott talks to web developer Jim Wang about what sucks about today's web development experience, how they work, and what we can do to fix it.
7/11/201332 minutes, 48 seconds
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The Future and Past of Computing with Dan Bricklin

Scott sits down with Computing Pioneer and VisiCalc developer Dan Bricklin. Dan also wrote the popular iPad application Note Taker HD and has recently joined Alpha Corporation as their CTO. Dan and Scott chat about Douglas Engelbart, the invention of the mouse, and the myriad of computing innovations that we've enjoyed since the 60s.
7/4/201336 minutes
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Hanselminutiae 12 with Richard Campbell - The post-BUILD show

BUILD week is over, so Scott and Richard get together to talk it out. What's the deal with these new 8" tablets? Will Apple get Live Tiles? What about smart Agent technology...does my phone know too much about me?
7/1/201335 minutes, 38 seconds
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Open Sourcing Web Essentials - Mads Kristensen and the Front End Developer

Scott sits down with Mads Kristensen and talks about his new open sourced Web Essentials. Web Essentials adds dozens of new features to Visual Studio for the Front End Developer...and now it's open source! We also talk Visual Studio 2013 and the new project Codenamed Artery that's posed to change everything.
6/27/201332 minutes, 34 seconds
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A gentle introduction to node.js with Raquel Velez

Scott's attending the jQuery Conference this week so Raquel Velez takes a moment before her node.js talk and explains the why node, why now, and what .NET developers should think about the rise of JavaScript on the server.
6/14/201332 minutes, 13 seconds
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On Culture and Remoteness at GitHub with Paul Betts and Justin Spahr-Summers

Scott's in the Bay Area today talking to Paul Betts and Justin Spahr-Summers at GitHub. What is it about GitHub's culture that makes it work so well? Is it tools or culture or both? Are remote workers fully accepted at GitHub?
6/14/201334 minutes, 27 seconds
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Big Data, Low Power - Analyzing Hard Drive Energy Consumption with Dr. Anthony Hylick

Our clouds demand more storage capacity and more power, but do we really understand where that power is expended? How is power used by modern hard drives and where can savings be found? Scott talks to IBM Researcher Dr. Anthony Hylick about his work in the space of hard drive energy consumption.
6/7/201334 minutes, 5 seconds
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A Desktop Developer moves to the Web - with Mark Rendle

Mark Rendle has a twenty year career developing software for the desktop. He's long believed that the web just isn't meant for applications of any import. Until now. What changed in web development that caused Mark to take another look at the web and completely change his tune? NOTE: Mark is offering a discount code for HM listeners. It's "HM20" and is good for 20% off the first year of an annual subscription. For UK listeners that'll be £40 instead of £50, US $64 instead of $80. The code can be used at the payments page after the 30 day free trial expires.
5/31/201335 minutes, 18 seconds
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Are you secure? WiFi Honeypots, Pineapples and SSL with Troy Hunt

Scott talks to Security Researcher and Web Developer Troy Hunt about the state of web security. Should I worry when I connect to a wireless network at a coffee shop? How much should I worry and what can I do to protect myself? As a web developer what are the things we most often forget?
5/24/201333 minutes, 54 seconds
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Integrating Office and the Open Web with Lucidchart's Brian Pugh

Lucidchart offers high quality flowcharting and diagramming on the Open Web. It's all JavaScript and it's all in your browser. Now Lucidchart integrates into Office 2013! How does this non-Microsoft tech web app integrate into a desktop app in 2013? Brian Pugh tells us how. Now why isn't your web app in Office?
5/17/201334 minutes, 50 seconds
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Bacon is bad for you - On Developer Monoculture with Garann Means

Scott talks to Garann Means. Garann is a front end developer who recently spoke at a conference called "Devs Love Bacon." Her topic? "Bacon is bad for you." She talks about developer monoculture and how it puts us all at risk.
5/10/201333 minutes, 3 seconds
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WordPress and Internet Security with Kellep Charles

Scott talks to Security Consultant Kellep Charles about WordPress and public website security. What can you do to protect yourself? Where does internet security break down?
5/3/201335 minutes, 2 seconds
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MonoGame and Xamarin make shipping Infinite Flight a reality

Scott's at the Xamarin Evolve conference and talks to Dean Ellis who works on the MonoGame framework and Philippe Rollin from Infinite Flight. Philippe, along with business partner Matthieu Laban have created an amazing flight simulator using C# that's available in AppStores now! How did they do it?
4/26/201333 minutes, 36 seconds
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Firefox OS and the open Mobile Web with Christian Heilmann

Scott's at the first AngleBrackets conference and sits down to talk about the new Firefox OS and the open Mobile Web with Mozilla's Christian Heilmann.
4/19/201337 minutes, 43 seconds
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Practical ReST with Sebastien Lambla

Scott talks to Sebastien Lambla, author of OpenWrap and OpenRasta, to get his thoughts about ReST. Why are people so passionate about their Web Services? Should creators of Web Services be required to understand the Web, or is it OK to abstract things away?
4/12/201331 minutes, 17 seconds
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PhoneGap/Cordova - Is HTML a reasonable app solution? With Steve Sanderson

Steve Sanderson schools Scott on PhoneGap/Cordova. We explore the concepts and ask: is HTML a reasonable app solution? What kinds of apps lend themselves to HTML and JavaScript? What backend services are needed to support these apps?
4/5/201332 minutes, 42 seconds
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VsVim: Visual Studio and Vim with Jared Parsons

An unholy alliance or a wonderful combination? Jared Parsons has created what he thinks may be the best of both worlds. VsVim combines the speed and familiarity of Vim with the power and development power of Visual Studio. How did he do it, and why?
3/29/201334 minutes, 20 seconds
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HTML5, JavaScript, Chrome and the Web Platform with Paul Irish

Scott sits down with Chrome Developer Advocate Paul Irish to talk HTML5, JavaScript, Chrome and the Web. What Chrome Developer Tools features make web dev easier? While Webkit marches on, should we embrace or fear monoculture? Will modules make JavaScript apps easier to write? Where does Windows fit into the world of web development?
3/22/201335 minutes, 23 seconds
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iOS and Android apps with Xamarin Studio 2.0 and Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza talks to Scott about Xamarin Studio 2.0 and how we can start making iOS and Android apps alongside Windows Phone and Windows apps today using C#!
3/15/201335 minutes, 45 seconds
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Language Hunters with Willem Larsen

Scott sits down at Agile Open Northwest with Willem Larsen of Language Hunters. Language Hunting is an accelerated learning system designed to develop fluent speakers of all ages in a fun and supportive game-like environment. Does it work? Will it work for Scott?
3/8/201338 minutes, 52 seconds
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Approval Tests with Llewellyn Falco

Scott is at the Agile Open Northwest open spaces conference with Llewellyn Falco this week. He talks to Llewellyn about his "Approval Tests" open source project. It's a polyglot framework to make test verification much easier when Assert() isn't enough.
3/1/201328 minutes, 40 seconds
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Git support within Visual Studio

Scott talks to Philip Kelley and Martin Woodward, developers on the project that's brought Git support to Visual Studio. They talk about committing to a GPL'd OSS project, plugging it into VS, and how TFS and Git work together.
2/8/201336 minutes, 53 seconds
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Halo 4 - Services in Azure with Caitie McCaffrey

Scott talks to 343 Studios engineer Caitie McCaffrey about how they use the cloud to run services for Halo 4. All the backend services sit on Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Service Bus more. How do they scale? How do they deploy? How does this change how they write software?
2/8/201333 minutes, 7 seconds
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Dr. Kyla McMullen on Diversity in Computer Science and Spatial Audio

Dr. Kyla McMullen has become the first African American woman at the University of Michigan to graduate with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Scott chats with Dr. Kyla about how to increase diversity in engineering disciplines. We also chat about her thesis "Interface Design Implications for Recalling the Spatial Configuration of Virtual Auditory Environments."
2/1/201332 minutes, 53 seconds
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Geeks Without Bounds with Willow Brugh

Scott talks to Willow Brugh from Geeks Without Bounds. Geeks Without Bounds is an accelerator for humanitarian projects. How can you get involved?
1/25/201332 minutes, 42 seconds
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Accessibility, Deafness, and Computing with Jenny Lay-Flurrie

Jenny Lay-Flurrie is a Senior Director at Microsoft and an accessibility advocate who happens to also be quite deaf. She talks to Scott about how she works and what she works on. How does deafness slow her down, what works, what doesn't, and how does it make her an even better customer advocate?
1/18/201333 minutes, 42 seconds
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Today's Web Malware with AVG's Brad Rittenhouse

Scott talks to AVG LinkScanner team lead Brad Rittenhouse about malware on the web today. What motivates the bad guys? What techniques are they using and where are they getting them from? Should we browse with JavaScript turned off?
1/17/201333 minutes, 19 seconds
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Coneryminutes #2 - The Mid-Life Crisis

It's the get off my lawn episode. Scott and Rob have birthdays coming up and they talk about what it means. Have we founded enough startups? What does success mean? Why don't we listen to folks 20 years older? Why doesn't anyone younger listen to us? ;)
1/11/201329 minutes, 16 seconds
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Making Open Source work at Microsoft with SignalR and Damian Edwards

Scott talks to Damian Edwards about how he and David Fowler shipped SignalR at Microsoft, now with a team of a dozen. They use open source, they are open source and they love open source. How are they making it happen and what does it mean for the future of .NET?
1/3/201333 minutes, 37 seconds
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Understanding NancyFX with Richard Cirerol

Scott sits down with Richard Cirerol, author of the PluralSight video series on the Nancy Web Framework. Scott gets an update on Nancy and a primer on what Nancy and web frameworks like it matter.
12/27/201234 minutes, 2 seconds
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Learning how to Learn Git with Michael Sarchet

Scott's been working with Michael Sarchet on updating their SmallestDotNet website. Scott's using the experience to better learn Git. Scott and Michael chat about how your previous source control experience colors your experience learning Git and offers some ideas on how to think about Git.
12/21/201234 minutes, 34 seconds
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Hanselminutiae-eleven with Richard Campbell

Scott chats with Richard about all things automatable. Scott's finally got his backup situation handled, and is now exploiting his NAS appliance with new packages for surveillance, transcoding and more.
12/13/201233 minutes, 54 seconds
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Developing the Hulu Windows 8 app

Scott talks to Zachary Pinter from Hulu about the new Hulu Windows 8 application. What did they write the Hulu app in and how did they find the development environment? What kinds of issues does Hulu think about when creating apps for many platforms? How do they get all those clean images? What about designing for 10" AND 30" monitors?
11/30/201229 minutes, 54 seconds
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Why C++ with Herb Sutter

The world runs on C and C++. Did you know that? Herb Sutter sits down to convince Scott that he's not only standing on the shoulders of giants but that those giants all write C++.
11/23/201237 minutes, 11 seconds
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World Class Climbing with Audrey Sniezek

Audrey Sniezek supports her climbing habit with a job at Microsoft working on the Azure Compute Cloud. Is it possible to hold a full time job and have a world-class hobby? Where does the hobby end and work begin? Audrey educates Scott on how she climbs, trains, eats and analyzes life.
11/16/201230 minutes, 45 seconds
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Moment of Inspiration - Inside the MOI3D modelling tool with Michael Gibson

Michael Gibson has a one-man software company that creates MoI. "Moment of Inspiration" is a unique 3D modeling application for designers and artists with an extremely accessible workflow. It's lovely and it's cross-platform. Scott talks to Michael about how he made MoI, what it's written in, how it runs on a Mac and more. All this plus Scott gets to act like he knows what a Bézier Curve is.
11/9/201236 minutes, 41 seconds
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Draw a Stickman EPIC - An iPhone, Android and Windows 8 Game with MonoGame

Scott talks with Phil Williams, creator of Draw a Stickman, and Jon Peppers, Lead Developer for Apps at HitCents. They are releasing Draw a StickMan Epic in three AppStores! They've also achieved 95% code reuse by writing the game in C# with MonoGame. Let's find out more.
10/19/201235 minutes, 50 seconds
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An Interview with Paul Lutus

Paul Lutus designed electronics for the NASA Space Shuttle, retired at 35 then moved to the country. There he purchased an Apple ][ and proceeded to write the best selling Apple Writer. Paul also sailed around the world over 3 years and wrote about the experience.
10/12/201233 minutes, 31 seconds
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Porting "Contre Jour" to HTML5 with Erik Klimczak

Scott talks to Clarity Consulting Creative Director Erik Klimczak about porting the iOS touch-based game "Contre Jour" to HTML5 and JavaScript with the support of the IE team. What worked, what didn't? What libraries did they use and how often did they think they were totally stuck? Is HTML5 and JavaScript a valid platform for gaming or is it too soon?
10/11/201236 minutes, 28 seconds
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What is TypeScript and why with Anders Hejlsberg

A new language has been released that turns into JavaScript. It's TypeScript and we've got Anders Hejlsberg himself to explain it to us. Why TypeScript and why now? What problem does it solve and what does it mean to large scale development efforts. What about .NET?
10/5/201231 minutes, 31 seconds
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Continuous Delivery with Jez Humble and Martin Fowler

Scott sits down with Jez Humble and Martin Fowler at the GOTO Conference in Aarhus, Denmark to talk about Continuous Delivery. How do your software systems have to change if you deploy weekly? Daily? How about 10 times a day?
10/2/201234 minutes, 12 seconds
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Glimpse gets a benefactor - Can Open Source and Commercial Software live together?

Scott talks to Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar from the open source Glimpse Project. You may remember them from show 273. A lot has happened since then and now Red Gate is supporting the Glimpse Guys full time. Is this a good thing or the end of Glimpse? What's changed at Red Gate since the Reflector acquisition and what does it mean for Glimpse going forward. All this and more.
9/19/201232 minutes, 1 second
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Robots on Mars with Mark Powell

Scott talks to Mark Powell, Senior Software Engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratories. Mark has worked on three Mars lander missions, most recently supporting Curiosity. Mark lives on Mars Time. What's it like to write software that helps us talk to robots on that are on FREAKING MARS?
9/11/201232 minutes, 7 seconds
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Bill Steele on 3-D Printing with the Ultra-bot 3D Printer

3D printing is coming into its own. Scott sits down with Bill Steele to talk about his 3D printing Kickstarter - the Ultra-bot. A refinement of the original Makerbot Cupcake 3D printer, Bill's new design can make MUCH larger objects. Will the revolution be printed in 3D?
9/6/201234 minutes, 38 seconds
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Scott Hunter talks to the Entity Framework Team

ScottHa is on vacation for one last week so Scott Hunter and friends talk to Rowan Miller from the Entity Framework team about the recent EFv5 release.
9/6/201232 minutes, 9 seconds
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Joining Microsoft with Taylor Mullen, Damian Edwards and Scott Hunter

With Scott Hanselman out this week Scott Hunter and Damian Edwards talk to a new developer on the ASP.NET team Taylor Mullen about how he interviewed and joined Microsoft.
8/25/201224 minutes, 25 seconds
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Using Windows 8 with Brad Wilson and Scott

Scott has been using Windows 8 for a week and Brad Wilson has been using it since last October. Neither of them work on Windows 8 so in this episode we talk about using Windows 8 as a power user. What works and what doesn't?
8/16/201236 minutes, 43 seconds
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Coneryminutes #1

Rob Conery turns the table (he insisted) and creates Coneryminutes, interviewing Scott for this episode.
8/9/201233 minutes, 23 seconds
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Starting Programming with Iris Classon

Scott sits down with new programmer Iris Classon. Iris has been coding for just one year and is now working full time as a .NET Developer. How did she get started and why so late? How should we as a community get more women and children involved in computers? What can we do to support new developers?
8/2/201230 minutes, 43 seconds
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Zero Day and Trojan Horse: An interview with Mark Russinovich

Mark Russinovich is a Technical Fellow on the Azure Product Team at Microsoft, but is also the author of the cyber-thriller Zero Day, and its upcoming sequel Trojan Horse. How realistic are the scenarios from Mark's books? How concerned should we be and what's being done about it?
7/26/201233 minutes, 53 seconds
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Understanding WinRT and Windows 8 for .NET Programmers

Scott's confused about what 'WinRT' is. Is it a new .NET? A new runtime? Is .NET dead? He's totally confused so he talks to Immo Landwerth who sets him straight with complete context from Win32 to COM to .NET and beyond.
7/19/201234 minutes, 26 seconds
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The Art of Community with Jono Bacon

Scott sits down with Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon at OSCON 2012 in Portland, Oregon to talk about community. Does it need to be managed? Is community a garden to tend or something that handles itself?
7/18/201231 minutes, 47 seconds
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Everything .NET programmers know about Asynchronous Programming is wrong

Scott gets schooled by Damian and Levi on the differences between parallelism, background processing, and asynchronous programming. How does await and async change the game and what do you need to know to get started today.
7/5/201232 minutes, 29 seconds
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JavaScript, Web APIs, Performance and more with Dave Ward

Scott sits down with developer and JavaScript expert Dave Ward. They talk about Twitter's recent move away from hashbangs, their recent performance improvements, and the direction the web is heading. Is performance achieved on the client or the server or some combination of both?
6/28/201233 minutes, 4 seconds
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ASP.NET 4.5 Updates, Core, WebForms and SignalR with Damian Edwards

Scott talks to Damian Edwards to get the latest information on ASP.NET 4.5. This includes improvements to the Core of ASP.NET, ASP.NET Web Forms and the inclusion of SignalR with Damian Edwards. They also talk about One ASP.NET and what that means to the developer this fall.
6/23/201232 minutes, 22 seconds
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Ben Kamens from the Khan Academy on Internships and Mentorship

Ben Kamens is the lead developer at The Khan Academy and was also a part of the storied Fog Creek Software. He's managing 12 summer interns at the Academy this year. Scott talks to Ben about the mentor relationship, how to manage code reviews, one on ones, preparing for their arrival and more. How can you get the MOST out of your interns?
6/14/201231 minutes, 58 seconds
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On Empathy with Leon Gersing the Ruby Buddha

What causes one community to be empathetic and another not? What really drives us as creators? Is it money, tech or the potential connection we can have to other people? Scott talks to Leon Gersing out of Columbus, Ohio about promiscuous pairing, kindness vs. empathy and the user connection.
6/14/201232 minutes, 21 seconds
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Randomness and Windows 8 with Jeff Atwood

Scott checks in with Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror since his mini-retirement. They talk kids, Star Wars and Windows 8. All this and less on this episode of Hanselminutes.
6/6/201236 minutes, 3 seconds
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Developing GitHub for Windows with Phil Haack and Tim Clem

Announcing GitHub for Windows. The Git client you always wanted is here and it's for Windows. Our own Phil Haack and new friend Tim Clem talk about metro-style, WPF, their design philosophy, open source, and talk about our many other contributors and supporters like Keith Dahlby and the amazing Paul Betts.
5/18/201232 minutes, 54 seconds
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The Making of How to Be Black with Baratunde Thurston

Baratunde Thurston has extensive experience in being Black for more than 30 years. Baratunde was the Digital Director at The Onion until recently and is now striking out on his own with a new venture called Cultivated Wit. He keynoted SXSW this year and is currently on tour promoting his book "How To Be Black." He talks to Scott about how he used technology to turn his memoir into a New York Times bestseller.
5/17/201235 minutes, 11 seconds
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Making real stuff with Pete Brown

Scott sits down with noted tinkerer Pete Brown to talk about making stuff. What kinds of cool things are being funded by Kickstarter? What can you make with a 3D printer? When will we start manufacturing at home?
5/10/201235 minutes, 28 seconds
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It IS Rocket Science: Holly Griffith, former Space Shuttle and current Space Station worker bee

Scott talks to Holly Griffith, former Space Shuttle Flight Controller and now International Space Station worker bee. Holly is an engineer who has worked in and around space and aerospace for her entire career. Holly and Scott talk space, engineering, fuel cells and Scott tries to keep up.
4/26/201235 minutes, 53 seconds
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Source Control and The Cloud: How did CodePlex start supporting Git?

Scott sits down with infrastructure engineer Matt Hawley to find out how the CodePlex team implemented the Git distributed source control system. CodePlex now supports TFS, Mercurial and Git as choices for source.
4/26/201233 minutes, 3 seconds
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Hanselminutiae-eleven with Richard Campbell

Richard joins Scott for another thrilling episode of whatever is on Richard's mind! We talk privacy policies, location apps, Facebook, and much more!
4/19/201236 minutes, 25 seconds
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More Relationship Hacks with Scott's Wife

Almost two years after our most popular show, Scott's Wife Mo is back! How does one manage a mixed (geek/normal) marriage? Can Scott and Mo agree on the fundamental laws of physics? Check out part one also: http://hanselminutes.com/216
4/18/201233 minutes, 33 seconds
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Deep Inside Image Resizing and scaling with ASP.NET and IIS with ImageResizing.net author Nathanael

Scott sits down with ImageResizing.net author and ASP.NET scalability expert Nathanael Jones. Nathanael educates Scott on the good and bad about manipulating images in .NET. They talk about when to stay out of the managed pipeline and when not to. When do you use ASP.NET and when do you use IIS?
4/12/201233 minutes, 49 seconds
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ASP.NET MVC and Open Source with Phil Haack

Scott talks to former Microsoftie and new GitHubber Phil Haack about his opinions on the ASP.NET MVC open source announcement. We have lots of fun and eventually the conversation devolves into phone hacking.
4/6/201232 minutes, 9 seconds
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Why F#? with Richard Minerich and Phillip Trelford

Richard Minerich and Phillip Trelford run popular F# users groups and work with F# every day. They take this opportunity to educate Scott on powers of F# and it's place in the .NET ecosystem. Are you missing out by not using F# in your .NET projects today?
3/23/201232 minutes, 51 seconds
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Startup Series: Buying an Existing Small Company or Online Application

Scott talks to Rob Walling about how he purchases small niche products and companies online and revitalizes them. He recently purchased an existing product that consisted of a 300 gig database and tens of thousands of lines of Classic ASP. How did he know it was valuable? What's next?
3/15/201235 minutes, 3 seconds
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Startup Series: Creating Alan Mendelevich's AdDuplex

Alan Mendelevich has created a successful Windows Phone advertising network with just one employee. He's done it from home in Lithuania, a country that doesn't even sell the Windows Phone. How does the introduction of the cloud change how startups operate? Does it even the playing field?
3/9/201238 minutes, 43 seconds
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Software Craftsmanship and Code Retreats with Corey Haines

Scott talks to Software Craftsman Corey Haines about his adventures pairing with developers all over the world. What has he learned and what can we learn from him? He also has created Code Retreats where you can develop your skills and passion for better code.
3/1/201233 minutes, 3 seconds
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AisleFinder.com - Creating a Location-based Mobile Startup with Curtiss Pope

Scott chats with Curtiss Pope, the CEO of AisleFinder. AisleFinder is Google Maps for your Supermarket. Want to know what aisle something is in? What's the quickest way for you to get your weekly groceries? AisleFinder even has an Open Source API for you to call. Curtiss tells his startup story.
2/24/201238 minutes, 37 seconds
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Creating Science Fiction with "Zoo City" author Lauren Beukes

Scott is in New Zealand this week speaking at Webstock and spoke to the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke award winning author of "Zoo City," Lauren Beukes. What's her process? How does she keep it all straight and how do you know when to stop? Lauren shares how she works, how she thinks and discusses her upcoming projects as well as writing for comics.
2/16/201239 minutes
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Making your first PhoneGap Application with Peter Mourfield

Peter Mourfield is an HTML and JavaScript programmer who wanted to create a mobile application for Scouts to use on their phones but he didn't want to learn Java or Objective-C. Let's see how he built an app with HTML5, JavaScript and PhoneGap.
2/2/201230 minutes, 50 seconds
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Improving Diversity in Technology with Kimberly Bryant from BlackGirlsCode.com

Scott sits down with Kimberly Bryant, a Biotechnology/Engineering professional and also the founder of BlackGirlsCode. Do we need more diversity in technology? Why? Are kids getting exposed to engineering as an option, and if not, why not?
1/26/201233 minutes, 21 seconds
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Being a Phony with Jon Skeet

"It's amazing how much you don't know when you have to explain something to someone else." Scott sits down with Jon Skeet at CodeMash and talks about being a phony, getting through interviews and why we do what we do.
1/18/201240 minutes, 49 seconds
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Learning to Speak another Language with Zach Owens

Zach Owens is a traveler. For the last year he's been living and working in China. While he's there he's taking Chinese classes and immersing himself in the culture. When does language learning become language fluency?
1/4/201233 minutes, 52 seconds
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Framework Series: Service Stack with Demis Bellot

Demis Bellot has put together an open source .NET and Mono REST Web Services framework called Service Stack. It's effectively a WCF replacement for some kinds of webservices. There's no XML and no code-generation. Why do frameworks like this exist and what kinds of things did Demis take into consideration when creating it? How does one balance performance vs. compliance?
1/4/201233 minutes, 58 seconds
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Hanselminutiae-ten with Richard Campbell

It's the last show of the year, why not enjoy it with a chat with Richard Campbell! We talk tablets, economics, Christmas, and less. Always a treat to talk to Richard and ring out the year.
12/24/201142 minutes, 46 seconds
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Framework Series: Kendo UI HTML5 framework with Todd Anglin

Kendo UI is a Web, Mobile and Data Visualization framework that's all HTML5,JS and CSS from Telerik. It's under a open source dual-license. Scott talks to Todd from Telerik about the thinking behind Kendo. Why not jQuery Mobile? How open source is it? Where does Todd see this framework going? Disclosure: Telerik is a sponsor of the show, but this podcast is unrelated.
12/22/201134 minutes, 39 seconds
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Framework Series: The eXpand Framework with Apostolis Bekiaris

Before he worked for DevExpress, Apostolis Bekiaris worked on an open source project with others in the community based on a DevExpress commercial Framework. Now he works for the company! How does he balance open and commercial, how does the team choose features to support and more.
12/15/201127 minutes, 43 seconds
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Framework Series: Steve Smith from NimblePros on Anti-Patterns

Scott chats with Steve Smith from NimblePros about the 2012 Software Craftsmanship Motivational Calendar...specifically Anti-Patterns. Iceberg Class, Design By Committee, Reinventing the Wheel, there's some you know, some you don't. They are all anti-patterns and something to watch out for. Steve explains why.
12/8/201131 minutes, 27 seconds
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Framework Series: The Chuck Norris Framework with Rob Reynolds

Scott talks to Rob Reynolds, one half of the "Chuck Norris Framework." It's a collection of tools for development, build, deployment, and more. Why build your own framework? When do you know it's done? How do you balance work requirements and public requirements with your own ideas?
12/1/201132 minutes, 26 seconds
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Understanding BDD and NSpec with Matt Florence and Amir Rajan

Scott sits down with NSpec authors Matt Florence and Amir Rajan to talk about Behavior Driven Development (BDD). Where does one start with BDD? Is BDD just TDD with a fancier name or can it really change how you design software? The NSpec guys set Scott on the right path.
11/25/201135 minutes, 17 seconds
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Developing a mobile app for iPhone, Windows Phone 7 and Android with Toran Billups

Scott sits down with micro-ISV mobile developer Toran Billups. Toran has written, published and sold his mobile application on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. In the process of writing BlueFlix, his Blockbuster Express movie application, he learned mobile development on three platforms. What was his experience and what does that tell us about the state of mobile development today?
11/17/201136 minutes, 32 seconds
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History of HTTP and the World Wide Web with Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

One day Henrik Frystyk Nielsen met Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became his first graduate student. He joined the W3C and worked on HTTP and some of the first browsers. Henrik is one of the primary authors of the HTTP specification. He sits down with Scott and they chat about the history of the web from HTTP to the mysterious HTTP Status Code 418.
11/10/201136 minutes, 16 seconds
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Damian Edwards explains The Realtime Web for ASP.NET with SignalR

Damian Edwards and David Fowler have created a jQuery client-side library and an ASP.NET back end that promises to make real-time persistent connections available to .NET programmers. Long-polling, Server-sent events and WebSockets. What does it all mean? Damian sets us straight.
11/3/201135 minutes, 46 seconds
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Designing a better experience with Sara Summers

Scott talks to Microsoft UX expert Sara Summers at the Heartland Developer's Conference. Sara has coauthored the recently published book for experienced designers, entitled Dynamic Prototyping. Sara loves to talk about big ideas, changing everything, breaking your toys, throwing away your designs and capturing new ideas.
10/27/201134 minutes, 36 seconds
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Inside Visual Studio Performance and PerfWatson with Phil Price

Scott goes directly to the source and talks to Phil Price from the Visual Studio team. Why is VS sometimes slow? When it is slow, what's really happening? What is PerfWatson and how will it help them make VS faster? All this and some hints in interesting improvements in the next version of Visual Studio!
10/21/201137 minutes, 19 seconds
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Google's Steve Souders, Creator of YSlow on Web Site Optimization

Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His book, Even Faster Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance. Steve is the creator of YSlow, one of the top 25 Firefox add-ons.
10/15/201136 minutes, 55 seconds
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Startup Series: Alex Papadimoulis on creating Inedo and The Daily WTF

Not every startup starts up smoothly. Alex Papadimoulis shares his stories of near-failure moving from a consultancy to a software company while working on a wildly popular blog at night. What mistakes did his company make in sales and marketing, and how long did it take them to change course?
10/6/201133 minutes, 44 seconds
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Startup Series: PostSharp from Open Source to Commercial Business with Gael Fraiteur

Gael Fraiteur had a full time job while working on the side on his open source Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) project "PostSharp." He's since turned his project into a successful commercial entity called SharpCrafters. What did he learn along the way and what can we learn from his successes and troubles? We also learn about Aspect Oriented Programming and how AOP tools like PostSharp can help your projects today.
9/28/201135 minutes, 48 seconds
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Startup Series: Gibraltar Software with Kendall Miller

Kendall Miller is a founder at .NET development tools vendor Gibraltar Software. They are two years into their their startup experiment and are becoming a small, mature company with some great products. How much did they need to fund their startup? How do they market and spread the word? What if there are free or open source versions of their software out there?
9/22/201135 minutes, 54 seconds
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Startup Series: Growing ZocDoc with Nick Ganju

Scott chats with Nick Ganju CTO of ZocDoc on how he's building his business with BizSpark and ASP.NET. Does he use Open Source? When do they write their own libraries and when do they buy? What kinds of issues does a .NET startup run into when hiring?
9/15/201134 minutes, 35 seconds
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Startup Series: Building Octopus Deploy with Paul Stovell

This week Scott skypes with Paul in London. He's recently moved from Australia and has simultaneously launched his own micro-ISV focused on convention-based deployments made easy. What's involved? How did it get started and what does this Octopus Deploy do?
9/6/201136 minutes, 46 seconds
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Startup Series: Inside the DuckDuckGo Search Engine with Gabriel Weinberg

In this first Startup Series episode, Scott talks to Gabriel Weinberg about DuckDuckGo, his new search engine. How dare he go up against Google? He dare with better, more relevant search results. Learn how to be an overnight success in just 15 short years.
9/2/201135 minutes, 11 seconds
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Inside the Design Process - Redesigning Scott's blog with Jeremy Kratz

Scott talks to designer Jeremy Kratz about the design process from yellow legal pad to complete design. What kinds of things should a designer take into consideration? Where does design stop and CSS begin, or is there a distinction? Should YOU hire a designer?
8/25/201136 minutes, 8 seconds
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Microsoft Research: Trinity is a Graph Database and a Distributed Parallel Platform for Graph Data

Scott talks via Skype to Haixun Wang at Microsoft Research Asia about Trinity: a distributed graph database and computing platform. What is a GraphDB? How is it different from a traditional Relational DB, a Document DB or even just a naive in-memory distributed data structure? Will your next database be a graph database?
8/18/201131 minutes, 58 seconds
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Within Windows with Rafael Rivera

Scott sits down with Rafael Rivera to talk about the black box that is Windows. Or is it? Rafael doesn't take no for an answer and shares stories of breaking apps to fix them. No more secrets, this week on Hanselminutes.
8/12/201135 minutes, 10 seconds
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Microsoft Web Platform and Azure direction with Scott Hunter

Scott Hanselman and Scott Hunter (also known as Scotts the Lesser) talk about recently Azure/Web reorg, the direction that ASP.NET and Azure are talking, and how they see open source fitting into the future at Microsoft.
8/4/201132 minutes, 35 seconds
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Polyglot Programming and .NET - Lessons Learned with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape

Scott sits down with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape. They recently released Web Workbench to the community for free with support for LESS, SASS, and CoffeeScript. Interestingly, they used C#, F#, JavaScript and Ruby to create this app. Why was polyglot programming right for what them? Is it right for you?
7/28/201138 minutes, 31 seconds
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Script# compiles to JavaScript: A Real World Implementation at Earth Class Mail

Scott talks to Matt Clay and Matt Davis at Earth Class Mail about how they used Nikhil Kothari's Script# compiler to write JavaScript from C# source. Why did they do it? What were the benefits? The problems? Would they do it again?
7/22/201135 minutes, 6 seconds
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Digging into the Kinect SDK with Dan Fernandez

Scott gets schooled on the Microsoft Research Kinect SDK by Dan Fernandez. What happens when I plug a Kinect into my PC? What's included with the SDK and what's not? What work happens in the hardware and what happens in software...and more importantly, what can I build?
7/14/201136 minutes, 18 seconds
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JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Semantic Markup is Dead! Clean vs. Machine-coded HTML

Scott talks to Erik Meijer about the idea that JavaScript is an assembly language. What assumptions can we make and how could this idea fundamentally change how we develop software on the web?
7/7/201135 minutes, 31 seconds
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Glimpse - A client-side Glimpse into your server

Scott talks with open source developers Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar from the Glimpse Project. Their very innovative (and all JavaScript and HTML!) debugger tool for ASP.NET has taken the community by storm. How did they do it and how can Glimpse make your live better?
6/30/201139 minutes, 58 seconds
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Basics of Web Security with Barry Dorrans

Scott sits down with Microsoft Security Engineer Barry Dorrans to get a general sense of the basics of Web Security in 2011. Who are the groups in the news most often? What threats are nailing websites most often today, and are they different from classic threats? Where do we start to protect our sites?
6/23/201135 minutes, 26 seconds
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Inside IronJS - A complete JavaScript/ECMAScript open source implementation on the .NET DLR

Scott talks to open source developer Fredrik Holmström about IronJS. It's a very complete implementation of JavaScript written in F# on top of the DLR. It's even faster than IE8 now and getting faster every day. How does something like this get built? What can you use it for? What are the Iron* languages used for and how can you get involved?
6/16/201133 minutes, 34 seconds
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Nancy, Sinatra and the Explosion of .NET Micro Web Frameworks with Andreas Håkansson

Scott chats with open source developer Andreas Håkansson about his .NET micro web framework called Nancy which is inspired by a Ruby framework called Sinatra. Why do we need frameworks like this? What kinds of sites and services can they support and how do they relate to ASP.NET?
6/9/201133 minutes, 24 seconds
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Community vs. Evangelism vs. Marketing vs. Authenticity with Brandon Watson

Scott sits down with Brandon Watson, a Director on Windows Phone. He works with the Developer Community, but what does that really mean? Scott pushes on this point to better understand his own job at Microsoft.
6/2/201135 minutes, 37 seconds
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Personal Systems of Organization - Rey Bango interviews Scott Hanselman

Tables turned this week and Rey Bango interviews Scott on his personal systems of organization. How has Scott synthesized the systems of Stephen Covey, David Allen, J.D. Meier and the Pomodoro Technique into a living system that works for him.
5/26/201134 minutes, 2 seconds
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Before The Show: Off the Cuff Conversation with Jeff Atwood (EXPLICIT)

Sometimes the most interesting conversations happen before or after the show. Often they happen with Jeff Atwood. I (Scott) called Jeff to get some audio for our other show http://thisdeveloperslife.com and was recording as soon as Jeff and I started chatting. Here's our unedited random personal phone call that I thought might be fun.
5/23/201142 minutes, 38 seconds
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Open Source vs. Making Money vs. Freaking Lasers - Are we all Evil? With Chris Sells

Scott chats with Chris Sells about the pressure to release software as Open Source versus pressure to make money as a business. How are Google, Microsoft and Apple evolving over the years and what should we as developers do about it?
5/12/201133 minutes, 14 seconds
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Network Attached Storage and Windows Home Server with Travis Illig

Scott chats with fellow home storage enthusiast Travis Illig about NAS options (Network Attached Storage) available today. Both Scott and Travis purchased (and told their friends about) Windows Home Servers. Where are their Home Servers now, and what are they using going forward?
5/5/201137 minutes, 33 seconds
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This is not your father's WCF - All about the WebAPI with Glenn Block

Glenn Block is with Scott in The Netherlands and tries to get Scott up to speed on what's new in WCF. Scott thinks WCF is scary and heavyweight. How does WCF fit into a world of Web 2.0 lightweight APIs? What's the WCF WebAPI and how does compare to services in ASP.NET MVC?
4/28/201134 minutes, 30 seconds
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A C++ guy learns JavaScript - Chris Sells moves to the Web

Scott talks to Chris Sells after Chris has been up since 7am writing JavaScript and HTML. What's the world coming to when one of the world's foremost managed code experts starts writing Web Code? How is he finding JavaScript and what should you do about it?
4/21/201132 minutes, 1 second
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The Rise of the Micro-ORM with Sam Saffron and Rob Conery

Scott's at Mix this week and he sits down with Sam Saffron and Rob Conery to talk about their Micro-ORMs. What have they done in less than 400 lines of code, that the rest of the planet needs a dozen assemblies for? Should you abandon your ORM and start writing inline SQL? All this and more.
4/14/201133 minutes, 37 seconds
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update with Phil Haack

Mix 11 is today so Scott got the scoop from Phil on the new tools being released.
4/12/201135 minutes, 12 seconds
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.NET API design that optimizes for Programmer Joy with Jonathan Carter

Scott sits down with Jonathan Carter to brainstorm about optimizing APIs for programmer happiness, rather than programmer productivity.
3/31/201135 minutes, 32 seconds
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Remote Eclipse/Java Development using TFS at Microsoft with Martin Woodward

Scott talks to Martin Woodward, a Microsoft Program Manager who lives and works in Northern Ireland on the Java-based Eclipse plugin for Team Foundation Server. Martin Woodward is the Program Manager for Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere and part of the Team Foundation Server group at Microsoft. He helps to ensure that Eclipse and cross-platform developers are an active part of the TFS eco-system.
3/24/201132 minutes, 16 seconds
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Inside Entity Framework 4.1 CodeFirst with Jeff Derstadt and Tim Laverty

This week Scott sits down with the lead dev and lead PM for Entity Framework to talk about the improvements from the first version. What's improved and changed? What do they think about NHiberate or just doing SQL on your own?
3/23/201134 minutes, 7 seconds
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Selenium for Web Automation Testing with Jim Evans

Scott chats with Jim Evans from the Selenium team about how to get into Web Automation Testing. What's new in Selenium v2? Can you use Selenium with any browser? How does .NET fit into the process? All this and more in this Web Testing Episode.
3/20/201136 minutes, 34 seconds
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JavaScript and jQuery: Moving beyond Alert()

Scott talks to Elijah Manor and Dave Ward about how one can take their JavaScript knowledge to the next level. What are the major concepts I should study? Which plugins are the must-haves? What's "Modernizr" and how does it, along with the concept of feature detection make my life easier?
3/2/201131 minutes, 40 seconds
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The Opinionated Cloud - Learning about AppHarbor

Scott sits down with Rune from AppHarbor. AppHarbor has some strong opinions about how the cloud should work and how applications should be deployed. Is there room for another cloud offering? Is the cloud about elasticity or something else? What's a Cloud and what's Platform as a Service. All this and more as Scott gets educated.
2/24/201131 minutes, 49 seconds
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ASP.NET Web Forms - Reports of my Death have been exaggerated, with Damian Edwards

Scott chats with Damian Edwards about new features coming in ASP.NET WebForms, new techniques, controls, model binding, HTML 5 and more.
2/17/201135 minutes, 38 seconds
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Organizing your own Virtual Technical Conference - MVCConf Post-Mortem

Scott talks to Javier Lozano and Jon Galloway (and Eric Hexter in spirit) about MVCConf. Thousands of viewers logged in and watched hours of top technical content on ASP.NET MVC this last week. How was it organized? How was it paid for? Can you put together your own free conference?
2/10/201132 minutes, 55 seconds
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ReactiveUI extensions to the Reactive Framework (Rx) with Paul Betts

Scott sits down with Paul Betts and talks about extensing the Reactive Framework. We currently manage our UI events as they are pushed to us. How does programming - and asynchronous programming - change if we change the way UI events are consumed? The ReactiveFramework extends .NET, and Paul's extended that with his Open Source Reactive UI framework. Let's see if Paul can teach Scott a new trick.
2/5/201135 minutes, 34 seconds
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HTML5 Basics with Mads Kristensen

Scott chats with Mads Kristensen about HTML5? What exactly is this thing? Is it evolutionary or revolutionary? Should you start working with HTML5 now, or should you wait for some unknown future?
1/27/201132 minutes, 1 second
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Professional Technical Speaker Tips from Scott with Drew Robbins

Scott and Drew are shattered, having just finished presenting 8 solid hours of technical but upbeat content in The Netherlands. They're doing WebCamps and take a moment to talk about presenting. How do you start? How do you stay focused and recover from errors? How can you move up from smaller venues to the big rooms? All this, plus Scott's lost his voice.
1/22/201138 minutes, 18 seconds
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On WebMatrix with Rob Conery

WebMatrix 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.
1/13/201140 minutes, 6 seconds
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Executable Specifications with Gojko Adzic, Jonas Bandi and Aslak Hellesoy

This 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?
1/6/201138 minutes, 52 seconds
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From Agile Consultant to Agile Team Member with John Wilger

Scott 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?
12/30/201036 minutes
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Hanselminutiae-nine with Richard Campbell

Happy 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.
12/23/201035 minutes, 6 seconds
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Transitions - Exploring issues moving from small companies to large corporations

Scott 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?
12/17/201034 minutes, 41 seconds
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Kayak, OWIN, Open Source Web Servers and more with Benjamin van der Veen

Scott 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.
12/10/201030 minutes, 16 seconds
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Knockout Javascript with Steve Sanderson

Steve 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.
12/1/201041 minutes, 9 seconds
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The Plight of the Remote Worker with Pete Brown

Scott 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.
11/24/201030 minutes, 53 seconds
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The MVVM Pattern with Laurent Bugnion

Scott 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?
11/18/201032 minutes, 32 seconds
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Developing Indie Games for Xbox 360 and XNA with George Clingerman

This 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?
11/12/201037 minutes, 36 seconds
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Creative Outlets with Rob Conery

Rob 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!
11/4/201032 minutes, 58 seconds
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ASP.NET MVC 3 RC and NuGet Package Management with Phil Haack

It'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.
10/27/201030 minutes, 38 seconds
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Deeper into the Netduino with Chris Walker from Secret Labs

Scott 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?
10/21/201032 minutes, 7 seconds
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Misunderstanding REST with Mike Amundsen

Web 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.
10/7/201025 minutes, 38 seconds
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Making a hobby a job - Talking with Eric Herbrandson about his Silverlight-based MicroISV

Eric 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.
10/7/201034 minutes
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Getting Things Done with Lane Newsom

Scott 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?
9/28/201035 minutes, 8 seconds
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Inside the Naked Objects Framework with Richard Pawson

Richard 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?
9/16/201033 minutes, 48 seconds
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.NET Micro Framework with Colin Miller

Scott 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.
9/9/201032 minutes, 6 seconds
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Eric Sink on Distributed Version Control Systems

Scott 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.
9/2/201032 minutes, 41 seconds
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Continuous Web Deployment with Jon Torresdal

This 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?
8/26/201035 minutes, 53 seconds
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OpenID and OpenAuth with DotNetOpenAuth open source programmer Andrew Arnott

Scott 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.
8/19/201035 minutes, 22 seconds
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Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7

Scott 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!
8/12/201040 minutes, 7 seconds
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Inside Expression SuperPreview with developer Mike Calvo

Scott 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?
8/11/201033 minutes, 3 seconds
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Building your own Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 with Pete Brown

Scott 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.
8/9/201036 minutes, 32 seconds
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Learning about NHibernate 3 with Jason Dentler

Scott 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.
7/29/201035 minutes, 13 seconds
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 with Phil Haack

ASP.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?
7/23/201034 minutes, 26 seconds
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Code First Databases with Entity Framework (Magic Unicorn Edition)

Scott 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).
7/16/201036 minutes, 57 seconds
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Art is Shipping - Bridging Designers and Developers with Jin Yang

Scott 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?
7/15/201041 minutes, 32 seconds
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Hanselminutiae-eight with Dan Fernandez

This 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.
7/8/201034 minutes, 10 seconds
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Creating the Ultimate Developer Machine 2.0 - How can we get a 7.9 WEI Score for under $3k?

Creating 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?
7/2/201043 minutes, 46 seconds
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Demystifying Microsoft's Application Server: Windows Server AppFabric with Karandeep Anand

Microsoft'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?
6/24/201038 minutes
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Punditry, Politics, Race, iPads, The Onion and the Web with Baratunde Thurston

Scott'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.
6/19/201032 minutes, 57 seconds
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MVC Turbine and IoC made easy with Javier Lozano

Scott 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.
6/10/201033 minutes, 41 seconds
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Geek Relationship Tips with Scott's Wife

Scott'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?
6/3/201032 minutes, 52 seconds
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World Airplane Travel Tips with James Senior

Scott 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.
5/27/201036 minutes, 46 seconds
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Type 1 Diabetes and Running Marathons with Gary Schmidt

Gary 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.
5/6/201037 minutes, 42 seconds
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Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and LinFu with Philip Laureano

Scott 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!
4/29/201037 minutes, 11 seconds
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The Podcast about Podcasts with Joel Spolsky

The 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.
4/23/201047 minutes, 3 seconds
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Jeff Atwood on the Future of Stack Overflow

There'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.
4/22/201043 minutes, 48 seconds
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John Lam and the Science of Fitness

Sedentary 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!
4/15/201032 minutes, 45 seconds
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ASP.NET MVC Contrib with Jeffrey Palermo

Scott 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?
4/9/201036 minutes, 33 seconds
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Social Media and the Business of Social - The Wynn Resorts

Scott 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?
4/2/201027 minutes, 11 seconds
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Charles Petzold on Windows Phone 7 Series

Charles 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.
3/22/201038 minutes, 32 seconds
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Windows Phone 7 Series - The Developer Experience with Charlie Kindel

Scott'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.
3/17/201030 minutes, 39 seconds
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Open Data Protocol (OData) with Pablo Castro

Astoria, 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.
3/11/201033 minutes, 42 seconds
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What does a Social Media Consultant Do? - with Liz Burr

This 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.
3/9/201034 minutes, 29 seconds
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Women in Technology in the Muslim World

Scott'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?
2/27/201035 minutes, 29 seconds
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A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP

Scott 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?
2/20/201034 minutes, 27 seconds
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The Making of a Hanselminutes Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy

Two 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?
2/16/201036 minutes, 9 seconds
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Jon Skeet - World's Greatest Living Programmer, or just a nice English guy?

I 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.
2/12/201035 minutes, 13 seconds
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How Craigslist Works - with Jeremy Zawodny

Scott chats with Jeremy Zawodny, a developer at Craigslist on how the system is put together. How many servers do they have? How does it all fit together and what are the major technology problems they have to solve?
2/4/201035 minutes, 40 seconds
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Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer

Scott sits down with Erik Meijer from the Cloud Programmability Team to hear about the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx). Rx is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections. Sound boring? Not even a little. Rx is a prescription for awesome.
2/3/201035 minutes, 32 seconds
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The Dynamic Language Runtime, IronRuby and IronPython with Jimmy Schementi

Scott sits down with Jimmy Schementi to find out what's the scoop with the DLR. Is it baked? What do I need to do to get started? What's the status of IronRuby - is it done? Will IronPython be a first class language or is it already? All these questions and more will be answered.
1/27/201032 minutes
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.NET 4 CLR, Framework and Language Chat with Jason Olson

Jason Olson works (or worked, as you'll hear) for Microsoft in DPE. In this episode he takes Scott a little deeper into some of the new features in .NET 4, including security, CLR changes, C# 4 and VB 10 improvements and the new Task Parallel Library.
1/21/201033 minutes, 53 seconds
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Open Source, Microsoft and The WiX Project with Rob Mensching

The WiX Project was the first big Open Source project out of Microsoft over 10 years ago! Scott talks to project lead Rob Mensching about how the WiX Installer project got started. How much trouble did he have with Microsoft bosses and Legal? What's next for WiX?
1/15/201031 minutes, 14 seconds
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Hello World: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners

Scott chats with Warren Sande and his 10 year old son, Carter, about their new book "Hello World: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners." Listeners can get 40% off Hello World! from Manning.com with the code "hanselm40". The offer is valid until Jan 31, 2010.
1/8/201031 minutes, 54 seconds
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Axum - A domain-specific concurrent programming language with Niklas Gustafsson

Scott talks to Niklas Gustafsson about Axum (formerly Maestro), an incubation project at MSDN DevLabs. Axum is a new language based on the Actor model that targets the CLR. It focuses on making concurrency fundamental with principles of isolation, agents, and message-passing.
1/7/201031 minutes, 50 seconds
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The Spark View Engine for ASP.NET MVC with Louis DeJardin

Scott chats with new Microsoft employee and ASP.NET team member about his open source ASP.NET MVC ViewEngine called "Spark." It's a totally new DSL (Domain Specific Language) that might make your MVC Views more fun to write!
12/11/200935 minutes, 48 seconds
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Solver Foundation and Optimization with Nathan Brixius

Scott's on campus and talks to Nathan Brixius, a Senior Developer working on the Microsoft Solver Foundation library. Solver Foundation helps break down complex multi-variable problems in a clean, declarative way.
12/9/200935 minutes, 56 seconds
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The State of Powershell with Lee Holmes and Jason Shirk

Scott's in Redmond this week and he sits down with Lee Holmes and Jason Shirk from the Powershell team. What's the state of Powershell now that it's built into Windows. What does 2.0 buy me and what features could I exploit more effectively?
12/4/200931 minutes, 52 seconds
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2009 Holiday Geek Gift Guide with Richard Campbell

It's the day after Thanksgiving (in the US) and we're making our way deep into the holiday season. Scott chats with Richard Campbell and they each share their best gadget gifts for the geek in your life.
11/28/200937 minutes, 46 seconds
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ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta with Phil Haack

This week Scott's at PDC but just before he left he chatted with Phil Haack about his exciting release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta. They chat about the changes, and Scott gets a surprise phone call from The Gu.
11/18/200937 minutes, 42 seconds
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Software Tester James Bach and The Voyage of a Buccaneer-Scholar

Scott's in Sweden and he sits down with well-known Software Tester James Bach to talk about what it means to be an unconventional learner. James has had success in the software industry even though he dropped out of school at age 14. His new book "Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar" explores the issue of nontraditional learning as it relates to success later in life. James is an interesting dude. I hope you enjoy the show.
11/11/200934 minutes, 32 seconds
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.NET Debugging 101 with Tess Ferrandez

Scott's in Sweden this week and he sat down with master debugger and ASP.NET Escalation Engineer Tess Ferrandez. She explains .NET Debugging 101. What's a dump file? Do you need PDBs? How do you use WinDBG and what are the best ways to debug memory issues, perf problems and hangs.
11/5/200931 minutes, 29 seconds
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Spolsky, Atwood, Blyth, Hanselman = Crazy-Delicious || Content-Free?

What do you get when you put Spolsky, Atwood, Blyth, and Hanselman in the same room? A crazy Content-Free podcast recorded backstage at the San Francisco DevDays conference. This episode runs a bit longer than usual and the sound quality isn't up to our usual standards. This is Scott's fault, not Lawrence's, our fantastic editor. :)
10/23/20091 hour, 1 minute, 39 seconds
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Preview of ASP.NET 4 with Scott Hunter

Scott's in Seattle this week and catches Microsoft Program Manager (and one of 1000 Scott's) Scott Hunter who shares insights in the history and future of ASP.NET 4. What's coming in VS2010 Beta 2?
10/15/200927 minutes, 8 seconds
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Hanselminutes Live: Gadgets, Hi-Def, WebCams, 4G and More

This wacky episode of Hanselminutes was recorded at 3am on a sad, sad Saturday morning with an intrepid group of UStream and Twitter users who watched Scott chat about gadgets and technology and ultimate fail to save the video. This is the only artifact. This is fortunate because Scott does an audio podcast.
10/10/200947 minutes, 43 seconds
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The History and Future of Web Standards with Molly Holzschlag from molly.com

Scott's in Mexico this week and he's sitting down with Molly Holzschlag. Molly is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author and correctly works for Opera as an evangelist. She explains the history of HTML, SGML and XML and we chat about where we think the web is headed.
10/1/200937 minutes, 20 seconds
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Monomania - Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware

Scott chats with Mono Product Manager Joseph Hill and Monospace conference organizer and continous learner Scott Bellware about the state of Mono. Is Mono competition or diversity? How hard are cross platform apps? Can you really write apps for your iPhone in C#? Where can you learn more about Mono?
9/25/200942 minutes, 40 seconds
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The Return of 3-Tier Architecture - RIA Services with Brad Abrams

Brad Abrams runs a number of teams at Microsoft, most recently working on "Rich Internet Application Services" (RIA). Scott grills Brad on the rebirth of 3-tier architect, XML, REST and JSON. What's this thing about and is it the best way to write data-centric apps with Silverlight?
9/18/200943 minutes, 59 seconds
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Hanselminutes Live: Open Source and the Codeplex Foundation

In this unusual episode of Hanselminutes, organized late at night over Twitter, and recorded as a community conference call, Scott moderates a discussion on open source and the new CodePlex Foundation.
9/13/200949 minutes, 20 seconds
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Inside a Visual Studio Plugin - CodeRush with Mark Miller

Mark Miller thinks and talks fast. Fortunately he codes fast also. He works on CodeRush for DevExpress, a very intense Visual Studio plugin that helps you visualize and refactor code. How is it built? How does it break the rules? Scott digs in.
9/3/200941 minutes, 33 seconds
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Hanselminutiae-seven with Richard Campbell

Too much? Too soon? We like Richard so darn much that we had to keep talking on this show. Scott and Richard talk about personal PBXs, multi-core PDAs, iPads and more.
8/28/200945 minutes, 47 seconds
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Udi Dahan and NServiceBus

Udi Dahan is an Enterprise Development Expert and also the author of NServiceBus. Udi educates Scott on how a service bus works, and how it fits into a world of brokers, workflows and services.
8/20/200938 minutes, 41 seconds
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Optimizing Your Website with Jeff Atwood and Stackoverflow

It's the return of Jeff Atwood. He and the team have been making lots of great speed optimizations to Stackoverflow lately. What tools are they using? What kinds of speed improvements are they seeing, and what can you do to exploit their experience?
8/14/200945 minutes, 54 seconds
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Hanselminutiae-six with Richard Campbell

In this sixth episode of our micro-series "Hanselminutiae," Scott and Richard Campbell chat about all things technological. It's a bit random at times, but at least we enjoy it.
8/7/200944 minutes, 32 seconds
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All About Microsoft with Mary Jo Foley

Mary Jo Foley writes the All About Microsoft blog for ZDNet and has worked as a journalist covering Microsoft for years. Scott and Mary Jo chat about Windows 7 and the future of Microsoft.
7/30/200942 minutes, 27 seconds
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Dan Bricklin on Technology

Dan Bricklin is an innovator and entrepreneur, and created VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet in 1979. He's just written a book called Bricklin on Technology full of observations, stories, case histories and insight into the human aspect of technology.
7/23/200949 minutes, 33 seconds
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Return of Uncle Bob

Scott and Uncle Bob meet again, this time in Norway and in person. Uncle Bob tries to answer the question Are You Professional. Scott and uncle Bob chat about software craftmanship.
7/16/200929 minutes, 4 seconds
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Kanban Boards for Agile Project Management with Zen Author Nate Kohari

Today Scott chats with Nate Kohari, author of Ninject, about Nate's new Kanban-inspired project "Zen." Are project boards something your agile team should be thinking about?
7/9/200931 minutes, 16 seconds
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The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove

In this show recorded in Norway, Roy Osherove educates Scott on best practices in Unit Testing techniques and the Art of Unit Testing.
7/2/200935 minutes, 3 seconds
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Successful Cross Platform .NET Development - Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover

Scott chats with Aaron Bockover of Novell about the Banshee Project - a cross-platform Media Player. It's a Mono Application that runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. What are the hard-won secrets of cross platform .NET dev? Aaron and his team know the answers.
7/1/200942 minutes, 38 seconds
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Convention Over Configuration with Jeremy Miller.

Scott's Norway interviews continue this week, this time with Jeremy Miller, author of Structure Map. Scott and Jeremy chat about fluent interfaces, Convention Over Configuration and how to best simplify your systems.
6/25/200935 minutes, 46 seconds
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Windows Presentation Foundation explained by Ian Griffiths

Scott chats with Ian Griffiths about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Why is it so hard to master? What techniques should the WinForms developer learn first? Scott's working on a side project, and he and Ian brainstorm ways for Scott's application to use WPF more effectively.
6/22/200935 minutes, 59 seconds
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code with Michael Feathers

Scott's in Norway this week and he sits down with Michael Feathers. Michael is the author of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code." What is legacy code? Are you writing legacy code right now?
6/18/200923 minutes, 40 seconds
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Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer

When's Silverlight 10 coming out? These versions are moving pretty fast. Scott chats with Tim Heuer to try and make sense of it. How does offline for Silverlight work? What's the best way to keep on the this new tech.
6/11/200941 minutes, 16 seconds
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Software Metrics with Patrick Smacchia

Scott sits down with Patrick Smacchia, lead developer of NDepend, and talks about Software Metrics. What metrics lie beyond Lines of Code?
5/26/200936 minutes, 32 seconds
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Powershell 2.0

Scott's at TechEd and bumps into Hal Rottenberg and Kirk Munro. Hal's a Powershell IT guy and Kirk's a Powershell-focused Dev. What's new in Powershell 2.0 and what's in it for the .NET developer or Windows power user?
5/14/200935 minutes, 21 seconds
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BBSs and Wildcat! from Mustang Software

Scott chats with founders of Mustang Software (creators of Wildcat! BBS) Jim Harrer and Scott Hunter about the BBS era. We start at 300 baud and work our way up. Remember Hayes modems, v.32bis, Fidonet, Compuserve? This is the show for you.
5/8/200948 minutes, 28 seconds
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JavaFX and the Web's Four Virtual Machines

In this episode Scott talks to Joshua Marinacci from Sun, a Staff Engineer working on JavaFX. JavaFX, along with Flash and Silverlight battle to be The VM for the Web. We chat about how JavaFX approaches things and muse on who will win the web.
5/1/200940 minutes, 24 seconds
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IronPython with Michael Foord

Michael Foord makes his living as a Python programmer. More specifically has an IronPython programmer. He chats with Scott about his company's use of IronPython, the DLR and why they picked Python over C# or VB.
4/24/200946 minutes
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Visiting Fog Creek Software and Joel Spolsky

Scott's in New York this week and he stops by the Fog Creek Software offices on Broadway and chats with Joel Spolsky. Why did they write their own compiler? How long have they used VBScript? What does Joel think about online community? All this and less in this episode!
4/15/200944 minutes, 16 seconds
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Hanselminutae-five with Richard Campbell

Be warned! We may just waste your time with this show. It's Hanselminutae #5 with Richard Campbell. We talk books, Windows, Economics, being a Millionaire, Multiple Monitors, TweetDeck, and much much less!
4/9/200940 minutes, 12 seconds
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Dealing with Diversity in Agile Teams with Aslam Khan

Scott chats about Diversity with Aslam Khan. He is a software architect and coach from South Africa. He shares his experience growing up South African, and how he applies his experience to working with Agile software development teams.
4/2/200954 minutes, 41 seconds
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A C64 Emulator with Silverlight 3 by Pete Brown

Scott digs deep with Pete Brown about the Commodore 64 Emulator he is writing in Silverlight 3. Is Silverlight fast enough? What about offline support? What Silverlight 3 features made the job easier? All this and next steps in this week's show.
3/26/200929 minutes, 13 seconds
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ASP.NET and the Mobile Web

Scott's at Mix09 in Las Vegas this week and he sits down with Chris Woods, a Program Manager on the Mobile Browse Platform Team. They've just open sourced a MASSIVE database of mobile device capabilities, enabling better mobile development for ASP.NET developers.
3/18/200930 minutes, 15 seconds
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Tables Turned - Mo Interviews Scott Hanselman

Scott's wife Mo turns the tables in this interview and talks to Web Developer Scott Hanselman. How does he fit it all into a day? What about work life balance? Is Scott bored with technology? When will the madness stop?
3/12/200948 minutes, 15 seconds
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Code Generation and T4 with Kathleen Dollard

Scott chats with Kathleen Dollard about the past and the future of Code Generation. Scott's infatuated with T4, but does it have a future?
3/5/200937 minutes, 33 seconds
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Fit is Dead, Long Live Fitnesse - with Ward Cunningham and James Shore

You may have heard the terms "Fit" and "Fitnesse" bandied about by the software engineering literati. What are they? Are they useful? Are they used at all? Does your testing strategy need some fitnesse? The creator of Fit and the coordinator of the Fit project chat with Scott and answer the hard questions.
2/27/200930 minutes, 49 seconds
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Uncle Bob Martin: SOLID, this time with feeling.

Uncle Bob Martin responds to the hullabaloo around the SOLID principles from Show 145, his time on the Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky StackOverflow podcast, and offers his reasoned response. Is it time for a Software Apprenticeship Program? Other possible titles for this show: "He's back and he's pissed." "Bob's your Uncle." "Joel Who?" "SOLID State" "I got your tests right here!" "Smack Overflow" "Pay Attention This Time: Bob Martin on SOLID" (No, Bob's not pissed. We're just having a laugh.)
2/18/200934 minutes, 26 seconds
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Deconstructing "blu" - a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23

Scott 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?
2/10/200942 minutes, 26 seconds
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MEF - Managed Extensibility Framework with Glenn Block

There'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.
1/28/200930 minutes, 37 seconds
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The new WPF-based Text Editor in Visual Studio 2010 - Interview with a Dev

Scott 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.
1/23/200931 minutes, 17 seconds
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Test Driven Development is Design - The Last Word on TDD

Scott 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?
1/12/200944 minutes, 5 seconds
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SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob - Robert C. Martin

Scott sits down with Robert C. Martin as Uncle Bob helps Scott understand the SOLID Principles of Object Oriented Design.
1/5/200945 minutes, 11 seconds
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Week Three in South Africa - Ntombenhle

Scott'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.
12/29/200837 minutes, 48 seconds
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Week Two in South Africa - Victor

Scott'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.
12/16/200823 minutes, 34 seconds
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Week One in South Africa - Vusi

Scott'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.
12/11/200822 minutes, 44 seconds
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Coding4Fun with Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek - Wiimotes and YouTube

Scott 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.
12/4/200825 minutes, 42 seconds
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Rob Conery limps and learns about Domain Driven Design

What'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.
12/2/200836 minutes, 28 seconds
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Moonlight (Silverlight on Linux with Mono) with Miguel de Icaza and Joseph Hill

Scott 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!
11/24/200836 minutes
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Paint.NET with Rick Brewster

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.
11/20/200835 minutes, 28 seconds
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Microsoft PDC and Windows 7 Reaction Show with Richard Campbell

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.
11/11/200828 minutes, 12 seconds
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MSR@PDC - Microsoft Research at the Professional Developers Conference

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.
10/30/200847 minutes, 31 seconds
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Behind the Scenes - StackOverflow and Jeff Atwood - Part 2

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.
10/24/200828 minutes, 34 seconds
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StackOverflow uses ASP.NET MVC - Jeff Atwood and his technical team

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?
10/17/200849 minutes, 34 seconds
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Windows Live Agents and the Machine Translation Bot from MS Research

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.
10/7/200829 minutes, 47 seconds
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Subsonic with Rob Conery

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.
10/2/200832 minutes, 39 seconds
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Jeff Webb - The guy who lowercased Basic

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?
9/26/200832 minutes, 12 seconds
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JavaScript gets Faster: Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla Corporation and Creator of JavaScript

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?
9/19/200835 minutes, 23 seconds
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Thoughts on Javascript with Bertrand Le Roy

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.
9/12/200849 minutes, 30 seconds
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Object Oriented AJAX with Scott Cate

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?
9/4/200836 minutes, 3 seconds
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.NET 3.5 SP1 is out...what's inside

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?
8/26/200831 minutes, 8 seconds
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jQuery with John Resig

Scott chats with John Resig about how he developed jQuery, how it performs, and where he thinks it's headed.
8/15/200831 minutes, 14 seconds
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Accessibility in Web and Rich Applications

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.
8/6/200827 minutes, 50 seconds
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Tim Bray on Microblogging and Widefinder

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.
8/1/200831 minutes, 28 seconds
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Dare Obasanjo on Social Networking

Scott sits down with Dare Obasanjo and they chat about the interesting problems that Social Networking sites face.
7/25/200829 minutes, 43 seconds
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BabySmash!

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.
7/19/200825 minutes, 8 seconds
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LineRider - Porting a Flash Game to Silverlight 2

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.
7/8/200834 minutes, 43 seconds
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The Odd Couple - A Developer and a Designer talk about working with XAML

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?
7/4/200830 minutes, 8 seconds
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What is Done? - A Conversation with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber

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.
6/26/200830 minutes, 49 seconds
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Lean Software Development with Tom and Mary Poppendieck

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.
6/20/200837 minutes
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Sorting out Internationalization with Michael Kaplan

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.
6/13/200835 minutes, 39 seconds
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Distributed Caching with Microsoft's "Velocity"

Scott sits down on the TechEd floor with Anil and "MK" from the Velocity team to talk about Microsoft's new .NET Distributed Cache.
6/6/200830 minutes, 16 seconds
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Finding Passion for Software *or* The Return of the "Franklinator"

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?
5/30/200834 minutes, 47 seconds
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Website Scaling War Stories with Richard Campbell

Scott and Richard chat (and chat and chat!) about scaling website and scalability in general while at the DevTeach Conference in Toronto.
5/20/200848 minutes, 2 seconds
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Beyond Continuous Integration: Continuous Monitoring with Owen Rogers

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.
5/15/200839 minutes, 34 seconds
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The Past, Present and Future of .NET Unit Testing Frameworks

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."
5/9/200838 minutes, 19 seconds
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ASP.NET Model View Controller, MVCContrib and MonoRail

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.
5/3/200827 minutes, 14 seconds
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Microsoft Research: Spec#

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#!
4/22/200835 minutes
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ASP.NET Dynamic Data with Scott Hunter

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.
4/18/200830 minutes, 45 seconds
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Distributed Source Control with Git

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.
4/9/200840 minutes, 39 seconds
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Digital Photography Explained (for Geeks) with Aaron Hockley

Scott sits down with Amateur Photographer (recently-turned-pro) Aaron Hockley. Together they decode the technical language of photography and online photo sharing.
3/31/200837 minutes, 4 seconds
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Inside Outsourcing

In this episode Scott sits down with Venkat and Vinod from India, two Microsoft Regional Directors and gets their inside perspective on outsourcing.
3/27/200823 minutes, 1 second
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Rocky Lhotka on Data Access Mania, LINQ and CSLA.NET

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.
3/21/200829 minutes, 18 seconds
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Dave Laribee on ALT.NET

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?
3/14/200826 minutes, 10 seconds
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Quetzal Bradley on Testing after Unit Tests

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?
3/7/200828 minutes, 16 seconds
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Principal Architect Mike Pizzo on the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Scott discusses the ins and outs of the ADO.NET Entity framework and LINQ to Entities with Microsoft Principal Architect Mike Pizzo.
2/29/200839 minutes, 40 seconds
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Michio Kaku on making the "impossible" possible

Scott talks with theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku about making what was once considered impossible technology into reality.
2/22/200823 minutes, 41 seconds
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Building Community with Norm Judah - CTO of Microsoft Services

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.
2/12/200820 minutes, 5 seconds
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What's it like for Mac Developers - Interview with Steven Frank of Panic

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?
2/6/200846 minutes, 31 seconds
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Scott Interviews His Dad

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.
1/24/200837 minutes, 47 seconds
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ADO.NET "Astoria" Data Services with Shawn Wildermuth

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?
1/19/200825 minutes, 27 seconds
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Starting Small with F# with Dustin Campbell

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?
1/11/200826 minutes, 44 seconds
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2007 The Year in Review

Scott and Carl chat about 2007. How was the year for Developers? For the Web?
1/7/200826 minutes, 37 seconds
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The Worst Show Ever with Chris Sells and Rory Blyth

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. ;)
12/28/200729 minutes, 46 seconds
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Pex with Jonathan 'Peli' de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann

"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.
12/20/200725 minutes, 40 seconds
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Visual Basic Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Paul Vick

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.
12/12/200727 minutes, 50 seconds
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Eclipse with Bjorn Freeman-Benson

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.
12/7/200735 minutes, 45 seconds
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Software Architecture with Dan Appleman

Scott gets the scoop on software architecture with developer and author Dan Appleman.
11/30/200728 minutes, 56 seconds
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Over Two Decades at Microsoft - Larry Osterman

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.
11/15/200750 minutes, 30 seconds
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Writing FaceBook Applications with .NET - Interview with Mel Sampat, author of Outsync

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.
11/8/200742 minutes, 36 seconds
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Planning, Placing and Building a House Google Earth and Sketchup

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.
11/3/200722 minutes, 45 seconds
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Open Source Software Licensing with Jonathan Zuck of ACT Online

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.
10/16/200737 minutes, 15 seconds
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EarthClassMail.com - Moving from LAMP to .NET 3.5

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.
10/16/200733 minutes, 12 seconds
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Parallel Programming with .NET

Scott chats with Stephen Toub a Microsoft Developer working on new ways to make concurrency programming easier with .NET.
10/11/200732 minutes, 12 seconds
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Interview with Shawn Burke on Microsoft's .NET Source Code Release

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.
9/26/200721 minutes, 26 seconds
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10 Foot Development for Media Center

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.
9/21/200731 minutes, 30 seconds
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Vista 64 - Developing on 64-bit Vista Ultimate

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.
9/10/200735 minutes, 8 seconds
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Vista 64 - Is Now the Time?

Carl and Scott are both running 64-bit Vista while others wait. Was it the right decision?
9/7/200725 minutes, 46 seconds
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LINQ to XML

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.
8/31/200717 minutes, 54 seconds
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2007 Ultimate Tool List

Scott and Carl talk about Scott's 2007 Ultimate devoloper and power users tool list.
8/25/200731 minutes, 5 seconds
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Moving your Email into the Cloud - Google for Apps and Live Custom Domains

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?
8/17/200725 minutes, 47 seconds
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F# with Robert Pickering

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.
8/10/200736 minutes, 23 seconds
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John Lam on Iron Ruby

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.
8/3/200719 minutes, 8 seconds
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Jeff Atwood overclocks the Ultimate PC

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.
7/27/200732 minutes, 8 seconds
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Talking to the Interns

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.
7/20/200723 minutes, 53 seconds
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Be a Better Developer in Six Months

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.
7/13/200723 minutes, 34 seconds
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Windows Home Server

Scott talks to Charlie Kindel about the upcoming Windows Home Server, formerly Project Q and how you can backup your life.
7/6/200733 minutes, 12 seconds
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Interview with Timothy Ferriss of The Four Hour Workweek

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.
6/29/200731 minutes, 2 seconds
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Building a Developer PC

Scott and Carl chat about building your own PC with a focus on the developer, rather than the gamer.
6/22/200732 minutes, 15 seconds
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Orcas Overview

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.
6/15/200726 minutes, 31 seconds
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Hanselminutae-four

Scott and Carl Discuss recent technology changes and upgrades in this the fourth installment of Hanselminutiae.
6/8/200725 minutes, 27 seconds
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Setting up a Home Network

Scott and Carl talk about home networking: dos and don'ts, gotchas and such.
6/1/200729 minutes, 23 seconds
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Scott talks to Martin Fowler and David Heinemeier Hansson

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.
5/25/200751 minutes, 19 seconds
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Interview with Lynda from Lynda.com

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.
5/18/200725 minutes, 17 seconds
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Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander on Silverlight

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!
5/11/200731 minutes, 10 seconds
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Chris Sells and Scott Look Forward (Part 2 of 2)

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!
5/4/200723 minutes, 49 seconds
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Chris Sells and Scott Look Back (Part 1 of 2)

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!
4/27/200726 minutes, 35 seconds
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Rich Internet Applications - WPF/E becomes Silverlight

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.
4/20/200730 minutes, 39 seconds
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Hanselminutiae #3

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.
4/13/200725 minutes, 24 seconds
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Sychronizing Internet Calendars

Scott and Carl chat about the pain of the DST change and how they manage their calendars over the internet.
4/4/200724 minutes, 6 seconds
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Building 42/Polita Paulus

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
3/30/200715 minutes, 40 seconds
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The Old New Thing - Interview with Raymond Chen

Scott sits down with the original raconteur of Windows, Raymond Chen to talk about all things Win32 and where Microsoft Bob is currently.
3/22/200735 minutes, 4 seconds
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Monorail - Alternative ASP.NET

Scott interviews two developers who are betting on Monorail on ASP.NET, an MVC Web Framework inspired by Action Pack.
3/13/200727 minutes, 3 seconds
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Squeezing the most out of Continuous Integration - with Jay Flowers

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!
3/6/200726 minutes, 7 seconds
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Hiring and Interviewing Engineers

Scott and Carl talk about the "FizzBuzz" test and try to come up with practical techniques for hiring engineers and technical folks.
2/28/200731 minutes, 31 seconds
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End to End Tracing

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.
2/21/200720 minutes, 48 seconds
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Static Code Analysis with NDepend

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.
2/15/200729 minutes, 39 seconds
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OpenID

Scott and Carl talk about the Microsoft/OpenID collaboration.
2/8/200734 minutes, 20 seconds
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Bruce Payette - Powershell

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.
2/1/200734 minutes, 41 seconds
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Board Gaming for Programmers

In this episode Scott talks with Chris Brooks and Eli Smith about the evolution and current state of classic board gaming.
1/23/200718 minutes, 17 seconds
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How to start your own MicroISV

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.
1/18/200739 minutes, 45 seconds
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WPF/E

Scott and Carl discuss Microsoft's answer to Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), a lightweight version of the .NET 2.0 (and 3.0) Framework that promises to be multi-browser and multi-platform.
1/10/200730 minutes, 24 seconds
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Language Extensibility - Iron Python

Scott and Carl bring us up to date on the developments in dynamic and static language extensibility.
1/5/200724 minutes, 49 seconds
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Pro Audio Basics

Scott and Carl discuss some of the basics and modern myths of professional audio.
12/13/200643 minutes, 10 seconds
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Life Hacks with Gina Trapani

Scott and Carl talk about life hacks with Gina Trapani, web developer and author of the book "Life Hacker - 88 tricks to turbocharge your day".
12/6/200633 minutes, 23 seconds
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Next Generation Gaming Systems

Scott talks with Carl about the state of gaming hardware, software, and programmability.
11/21/200638 minutes, 25 seconds
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WS-*

This week Scott and Carl discuss the various WS specifications and how they relate to WCF, with a strong emphasis on security.
11/14/200626 minutes, 26 seconds
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Architecture (TechEd Barcelona)

This week Scott and Carl discuss Software Architecture from the Tech Ed developer conference in Barcelona.
11/9/200617 minutes, 36 seconds
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Identity

Scott and Carl talk about digital identity and related technologies.
11/1/200631 minutes, 31 seconds
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Diabetes Technology

This week Scott and Carl talk about the latest technology around dealing with Diabetes, as well as a short discussion of the basics.
10/24/200629 minutes, 42 seconds
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Scott Guthrie

Scott catches up with Scott Guthrie in an interview covering Ajax, Asp 2.0, extender controls, CSS adapters and more.
10/18/200621 minutes, 30 seconds
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Jeffrey Snover, PowerShell Architect

Scott turns the tables and interviews Jeffrey Snover, the Architect of PowerShell (previously Monad) and gets the lowdown on the history of this enhanced management shell.
10/11/200634 minutes, 9 seconds
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HDTV

Scott and Carl discuss the current state of Hi-Def Television.
10/3/200640 minutes, 38 seconds
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Scott Interviews Chris Sells

Scott spends some quality time with Microsoft Program Manager Chris Sells to discuss Vista, the joys of the XBox 360 and to set the world straight on spelunking.
9/27/20061 hour, 31 seconds
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All About Vista RC1

Scott and Carl discuss their experiences with Windows Vista Release Candidate 1. New features, pain points, expectations, etc.
9/20/200643 minutes, 57 seconds
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Mock Objects

Scott and Carl discuss the topic of Mock Objects: what they are, when to use them, and of course an analysis of available tools.
9/11/200626 minutes, 54 seconds
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Test Driven

Scott addresses the processes and benefits of test-driven development.
8/30/200629 minutes, 24 seconds
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A Better Outlook

Scott discusses some useful add-ons for Outlook.
8/24/200630 minutes, 46 seconds
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Dynamic vs Compiled Languages

Scott talks with Carl about what we can learn from dynamic languages such as Ruby and Ruby on Rails
8/16/200629 minutes, 55 seconds
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Open Source Options

In this episode Scott explores the issues around using OS software and contributing to OS projects.
8/9/200628 minutes, 39 seconds
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Reflection

Scott discusses the dos and don'ts of reflection in .NET 1.1 and 2.0. Critical listening for all .NET developers.
8/2/200627 minutes, 20 seconds
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Globalization/Internationalization with .NET

Scott chats about preparing your .NET application for the global marketplace and Carl leads us into a discussion about character encoding.
7/26/200642 minutes, 17 seconds
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Scott's Essential Blogroll (for July 2006 at least)

Scott pulls a few dozen favorite blogs of out his blogroll and talks about the folks behind them that provide us all with so much good information on the .NET framework and development in general.
7/18/200632 minutes, 36 seconds
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Windows PowerShell (MONAD) Part II

Scott brings us up to date on PowerShell, formerly named the Windows Command Shell, code named MONAD. Learn about the new features and some great applications of the technology.
7/12/200627 minutes, 2 seconds
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The Line of Scrummage

In this show Scott talks about Scrum, the agile project management method.
7/7/200624 minutes, 45 seconds
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Hanselminutiae #2

Scott focuses on portable GPS units in this show, with a few other geeky nuggets tossed on top.
6/28/200629 minutes, 51 seconds
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Live from TechEd 2006

Scott hits the floor at TechEd in Boston to talk to any gurus he can find there.
6/21/200623 minutes, 12 seconds
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Office 2007 Preview

Scott talks about what you can expect from the up and coming Office 2007.
6/5/200634 minutes, 57 seconds
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Torrent! Torrent! Torrent!

Scott talks about BitTorrent and its many uses, applications, and websites. As always, great resources abound!
5/29/200630 minutes, 2 seconds
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Life Hacks

Scott discusses Life Hacks, ideas and methods that you can use to organize your life and be more effective.
5/23/200627 minutes, 25 seconds
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Syndication

Scott and Carl have a great discussion about RSS, ATOM, podcasting, and what the world is doing with them.
5/10/200636 minutes, 7 seconds
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Hanselminutiae #1

Scott shows off a handful of unrelated tools, websites, and utilities.
5/3/200624 minutes, 56 seconds
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Replacing Start|Run

Scott talks about alternate ways to launch applications and tools for personal productivity.
4/25/200627 minutes, 19 seconds
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Code Generation

Scott talks about CodeSmith as well as other code generators, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, and offering his usual insight into the issues. Of course, resources abound.
4/19/200630 minutes, 30 seconds
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CSI: Your Computer

Scott uses his monacle and razor-sharp logic to find a trojan that was infecting his ASP.NET server. You'll learn how he did it, and probably discover some new tools you didn't know about before.
4/12/200631 minutes, 19 seconds
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Top Ten Utilities you Didn't Know you Had

This week Scott uncovers the coolest utilities on your system that you may not know you have. Windows XP and 2003 users will appreciate these time-saving utilities.
4/7/200629 minutes, 39 seconds
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Microsoft Command Shell (MONAD)

Scott digs into MONAD scripts, commands, providers, and more. If you are a .NET developer and have never heard of MONAD, you MUST listen to this show. If you have heard of it, you'll learn something new.
3/22/200630 minutes, 37 seconds
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Functional Testing Tools Roundup

Scott talks about his experience with functional testing tools including TestComplete by AutomatedQA.
3/15/200644 minutes, 36 seconds
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Debugging ASP.NET

Debugging by coincidence, Debugging Tools, Ruby CLR, SysInternals Tools, Fusion, YATT, and more and more and more.
3/8/200643 minutes, 54 seconds
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Free Resources for .NET Developers

Scott talks about a series of free tools, utilities, and websites that help .NET developers do their best.
3/2/200636 minutes, 17 seconds
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XML Tools and Technologies

Scott talks with Carl about tools for using and manipulating XML from readers and writers to XPath readers, transformers, and more.
2/22/200633 minutes, 2 seconds
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The LinkSys WRT54GL Router

Scott gives you the skinny on hacking into the Linksys WRT54 GL Linux-based router.
2/15/200631 minutes, 56 seconds
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The State of the Mono Project.

Scott goes around the block with Mono, an Open Source implementation of the .NET Framework.
2/8/200628 minutes, 21 seconds
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Continuous Integration

In this episode, scott focuses on Continuous Integration, highlighting nearly 20 tools that you can use today to help automate the test and build process.
2/1/200634 minutes, 59 seconds
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Geotagging, Ubuntu, MacTel, XSLT Performance

In this episode, Scott talks about adding a Windows key to the Thinkpad 42T keyboard; A screen grabber called Winsnap; the Microsoft Research groupshot project; EX-IF, Geo-Caching, and Mashups; Running OSX on Intel and why XP on the Mac will never work; Dual Boot with OSX; a fun Aqua interface in DHTML; The easiest Linux in the world, and how XSLT in .NET 2.0 is your friend.
1/25/200640 minutes, 36 seconds
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Emulation, Keyboards, Video Squishing and ASP.NET Oddities

Geek keyboards, video transcoders, MAME in the browser, a portable PSP-like devices, Videora, Google Earth, Google Transit, tracking packages with Google, Riya, the Amazon Mechanical Turk, Zazzle, beware of dns server names with underscores in them, and thread-switching in ASP.NET
1/18/200634 minutes, 41 seconds
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BlogJet, XBox 360, Twonky, and Other Magic

In this, our premiere episode of Hanselminutes, Scott identifies some great tools (Feed Demon, Window Clippings, BlogJet, etc.). He also talks about using the XBox 360 with a UPnP server as a media center, introduces some cool products for the home media enthusiast, and finally discusses two ASP.NET issues and how to deal with them. 44 minutes.
1/11/200645 minutes, 34 seconds