Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
Episodes
Code First Databases with Entity Framework (Magic Unicorn Edition)
16 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Scott talks to Jeff Derstadt, Senior Dev Lead in the Database and Modeling Group. They released a CTP (Community Technology Preview) of a simplified C...
Art is Shipping - Bridging Designers and Developers with Jin Yang
15 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Scott sits down with designer Jin Yang to talk about the fundamental differences between developers and designers. Are we a totally different breed? H...
Hanselminutiae-eight with Dan Fernandez
08 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 Pl...
Creating the Ultimate Developer Machine 2.0 - How can we get a 7.9 WEI Score for under $3k?
02 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 enli...
Demystifying Microsoft's Application Server: Windows Server AppFabric with Karandeep Anand
24 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft's Application Server is out and it's called AppFabric. Scott chats with Karandeep Anand from the Distributed Application Server group at Mic...
Punditry, Politics, Race, iPads, The Onion and the Web with Baratunde Thurston
19 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 JackAndJillP...
MVC Turbine and IoC made easy with Javier Lozano
10 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Scott talks to Javier Lozano about his open source MVC Turbine project and how it makes Dependency Injection and inversion of control extremely easy. ...
Geek Relationship Tips with Scott's Wife
03 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 ge...
World Airplane Travel Tips with James Senior
27 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 thro...
Type 1 Diabetes and Running Marathons with Gary Schmidt
06 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 dia...
Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and LinFu with Philip Laureano
29 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Scott talks to AOP expert Philip Laureano about Aspect Oriented Programming. Is it the missing piece of the Object Orient Programming puzzle? It sound...
The Podcast about Podcasts with Joel Spolsky
23 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Jeff Atwood on the Future of Stack Overflow
22 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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...
John Lam and the Science of Fitness
15 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
ASP.NET MVC Contrib with Jeffrey Palermo
09 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Social Media and the Business of Social - The Wynn Resorts
02 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Charles Petzold on Windows Phone 7 Series
22 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Petzold wrote the book on Windows. Specifically, he wrote "Programming Windows, 1st edition" in 1988. This was the book I learned on...
Windows Phone 7 Series - The Developer Experience with Charlie Kindel
17 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 sto...
Open Data Protocol (OData) with Pablo Castro
11 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What does a Social Media Consultant Do? - with Liz Burr
09 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 marketi...
Women in Technology in the Muslim World
27 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP
20 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
The Making of a Hanselminutes Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy
16 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Jon Skeet - World's Greatest Living Programmer, or just a nice English guy?
12 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
How Craigslist Works - with Jeremy Zawodny
04 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 toget...
Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer
03 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 composin...
The Dynamic Language Runtime, IronRuby and IronPython with Jimmy Schementi
27 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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...
.NET 4 CLR, Framework and Language Chat with Jason Olson
21 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 .N...
Open Source, Microsoft and The WiX Project with Rob Mensching
15 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Hello World: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners
08 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Scott chats with Warren Sande and his 10 year old son, Carter, about their new book "Hello World: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginne...
Axum - A domain-specific concurrent programming language with Niklas Gustafsson
07 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Spark View Engine for ASP.NET MVC with Louis DeJardin
11 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Solver Foundation and Optimization with Nathan Brixius
09 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Scott's on campus and talks to Nathan Brixius, a Senior Developer working on the Microsoft Solver Foundation library. Solver Foundation helps break do...
The State of Powershell with Lee Holmes and Jason Shirk
04 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
2009 Holiday Geek Gift Guide with Richard Campbell
28 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 sha...
ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta with Phil Haack
18 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 chan...
Software Tester James Bach and The Voyage of a Buccaneer-Scholar
11 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
.NET Debugging 101 with Tess Ferrandez
05 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Spolsky, Atwood, Blyth, Hanselman = Crazy-Delicious || Content-Free?
23 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 Franci...
Preview of ASP.NET 4 with Scott Hunter
15 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 futur...
Hanselminutes Live: Gadgets, Hi-Def, WebCams, 4G and More
10 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The History and Future of Web Standards with Molly Holzschlag from molly.com
01 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 curr...
Monomania - Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware
25 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Scott chats with Mono Product Manager Joseph Hill and Monospace conference organizer and continous learner Scott Bellware about the state of Mono. Is ...
The Return of 3-Tier Architecture - RIA Services with Brad Abrams
18 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Abrams runs a number of teams at Microsoft, most recently working on "Rich Internet Application Services" (RIA). Scott grills Brad on t...
Hanselminutes Live: Open Source and the Codeplex Foundation
13 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this unusual episode of Hanselminutes, organized late at night over Twitter, and recorded as a community conference call, Scott moderates a discuss...
Inside a Visual Studio Plugin - CodeRush with Mark Miller
03 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Hanselminutiae-seven with Richard Campbell
28 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Udi Dahan and NServiceBus
20 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Optimizing Your Website with Jeff Atwood and Stackoverflow
14 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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?...
Hanselminutiae-six with Richard Campbell
07 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this sixth episode of our micro-series "Hanselminutiae," Scott and Richard Campbell chat about all things technological. It's a bit rando...
All About Microsoft with Mary Jo Foley
30 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Dan Bricklin on Technology
23 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Bricklin is an innovator and entrepreneur, and created VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet in 1979. He's just written a book called Brickli...
Return of Uncle Bob
16 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 ch...
Kanban Boards for Agile Project Management with Zen Author Nate Kohari
09 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Today Scott chats with Nate Kohari, author of Ninject, about Nate's new Kanban-inspired project "Zen." Are project boards something your agi...
The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove
02 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this show recorded in Norway, Roy Osherove educates Scott on best practices in Unit Testing techniques and the Art of Unit Testing.
Successful Cross Platform .NET Development - Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover
01 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 O...
Convention Over Configuration with Jeremy Miller.
25 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Scott's Norway interviews continue this week, this time with Jeremy Miller, author of Structure Map. Scott and Jeremy chat about fluent interfaces, Co...
Windows Presentation Foundation explained by Ian Griffiths
22 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Scott chats with Ian Griffiths about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Why is it so hard to master? What techniques should the WinForms developer...
Working Effectively with Legacy Code with Michael Feathers
18 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer
11 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Software Metrics with Patrick Smacchia
26 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Scott sits down with Patrick Smacchia, lead developer of NDepend, and talks about Software Metrics. What metrics lie beyond Lines of Code?
Powershell 2.0
14 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 Powershel...
BBSs and Wildcat! from Mustang Software
08 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
JavaFX and the Web's Four Virtual Machines
01 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 Th...
IronPython with Michael Foord
24 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Visiting Fog Creek Software and Joel Spolsky
15 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 com...
Hanselminutae-five with Richard Campbell
09 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 Million...
Dealing with Diversity in Agile Teams with Aslam Khan
02 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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...
A C64 Emulator with Silverlight 3 by Pete Brown
26 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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...
ASP.NET and the Mobile Web
18 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 sou...
Tables Turned - Mo Interviews Scott Hanselman
12 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Code Generation and T4 with Kathleen Dollard
05 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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?
Fit is Dead, Long Live Fitnesse - with Ward Cunningham and James Shore
27 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
You may have heard the terms "Fit" and "Fitnesse" bandied about by the software engineering literati. What are they? Are they usef...
Uncle Bob Martin: SOLID, this time with feeling.
18 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Uncle Bob Martin responds to the hullabaloo around the SOLID principles from Show 145, his time on the Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky StackOverflow podc...
Deconstructing "blu" - a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23
10 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Scott talks to Doug Cook, Hal Saville, and Lee Brenner about their dramatic new Twitter client, called "blu" (formerly "chirp") wi...
MEF - Managed Extensibility Framework with Glenn Block
28 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The new WPF-based Text Editor in Visual Studio 2010 - Interview with a Dev
23 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Test Driven Development is Design - The Last Word on TDD
12 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
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...
SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob - Robert C. Martin
05 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Scott sits down with Robert C. Martin as Uncle Bob helps Scott understand the SOLID Principles of Object Oriented Design.
Week Three in South Africa - Ntombenhle
29 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Week Two in South Africa - Victor
16 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Week One in South Africa - Vusi
11 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Coding4Fun with Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek - Wiimotes and YouTube
04 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Rob Conery limps and learns about Domain Driven Design
02 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Moonlight (Silverlight on Linux with Mono) with Miguel de Icaza and Joseph Hill
24 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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!
Paint.NET with Rick Brewster
20 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Scott talks with Paint.NET author Rick Brewster about some of the internals of his popular freeware application. They focus on deployment and setup, h...
Microsoft PDC and Windows 7 Reaction Show with Richard Campbell
11 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
MSR@PDC - Microsoft Research at the Professional Developers Conference
30 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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, unfortu...
Behind the Scenes - StackOverflow and Jeff Atwood - Part 2
24 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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...
StackOverflow uses ASP.NET MVC - Jeff Atwood and his technical team
17 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Scott chats with Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror.com and most recently, StackOverflow.com. Jeff and Joel Spolsky and their technical team have created a n...
Windows Live Agents and the Machine Translation Bot from MS Research
07 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Scott visits Microsoft Research and talks to Helvecio Ribeiro, the Test Lead for Machine Translation about T-Bot, his translation bot for Windows Live...
Subsonic with Rob Conery
02 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Jeff Webb - The guy who lowercased Basic
26 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
JavaScript gets Faster: Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla Corporation and Creator of JavaScript
19 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Scott talks to Brendan Eich from Mozilla about TraceMonkey, the new super-fast JavaScript engine. Where does Brendan think JavaScript is headed? What ...
Thoughts on Javascript with Bertrand Le Roy
12 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Object Oriented AJAX with Scott Cate
04 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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 doe...
.NET 3.5 SP1 is out...what's inside
26 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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?
jQuery with John Resig
15 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Scott chats with John Resig about how he developed jQuery, how it performs, and where he thinks it's headed.
Accessibility in Web and Rich Applications
06 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Tim Bray on Microblogging and Widefinder
01 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
In an interview organized on Twitter, Scott chats with Tim Bray, Distinguished Engineer at Sun and about Twitter and Microblogging and how the communi...