Hanselminutes - Fresh Talk And Tech For Developers

Scott and Carl Discuss recent technology changes and upgrades in this the fourth installment of Hanselminutiae.

Scott and Carl talk about home networking: dos and don'ts, gotchas and such.

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.

Google for Lynda and you'll find the legendary Lynda.com. Lynda has had a popular online presence for over 12 years. She created the original Web-Safe Color palette (remember when that mattered?) and now she sells nearly 20,000 training videos online via subscription. Silverlight is next. I chat with Lynda after we had lunch with Ray Ozzie and some other bloggers.

Scott 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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

Scott and Carl chat about the pain of the DST change and how they manage their calendars over the internet.

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

Scott sits down with the original raconteur of Windows, Raymond Chen to talk about all things Win32 and where Microsoft Bob is currently.

Scott interviews two developers who are betting on Monorail on ASP.NET, an MVC Web Framework inspired by Action Pack.

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!

Scott and Carl talk about the "FizzBuzz" test and try to come up with practical techniques for hiring engineers and technical folks.

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.

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.

Scott and Carl talk about the Microsoft/OpenID collaboration.

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.

In this episode Scott talks with Chris Brooks and Eli Smith about the evolution and current state of classic board gaming.