Hanselminutes - Fresh Talk And Tech For Developers

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.

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?

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?

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.

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?

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?

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?

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?

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#!

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?

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.

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.

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?

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."

Scott talks to Willow Brugh from Geeks Without Bounds. Geeks Without Bounds is an accelerator for humanitarian projects. How can you get involved?

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?

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?

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? ;)

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?

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.