Podcasts by Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Open Source Options from 2022-03-07T00:30:34.872126

In this episode Scott explores the issues around using OS software and contributing to OS projects.

Reflection from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.396639

Scott discusses the dos and don'ts of reflection in .NET 1.1 and 2.0. Critical listening for all .NET developers.

Open Source Options from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.395767

In this episode Scott explores the issues around using OS software and contributing to OS projects.

HDTV from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.389210

Scott and Carl discuss the current state of Hi-Def Television.

Identity from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.385530

Scott and Carl talk about digital identity and related technologies.

Architecture (TechEd Barcelona) from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.382773

This week Scott and Carl discuss Software Architecture from the Tech Ed developer conference in Barcelona.

Life Hacks with Gina Trapani from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.380132

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".

Language Extensibility - Iron Python from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.378154

Scott and Carl bring us up to date on the developments in dynamic and static language extensibility.

Bruce Payette - Powershell from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.374505

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 o...

OpenID from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.373628

Scott and Carl talk about the Microsoft/OpenID collaboration.

Squeezing the most out of Continuous Integration - with Jay Flowers from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.361736

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 C...

Sychronizing Internet Calendars from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.358039

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

Chris Sells and Scott Look Forward (Part 2 of 2) from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.354011

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 w...

Setting up a Home Network from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.350096

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

Hanselminutae-four from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.349225

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

Windows Home Server from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.345221

Scott talks to Charlie Kindel about the upcoming Windows Home Server, formerly Project Q and how you can backup your life.

John Lam on Iron Ruby from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.341450

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.

Vista 64 - Is Now the Time? from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.288564

Carl and Scott are both running 64-bit Vista while others wait. Was it the right decision?

Planning, Placing and Building a House Google Earth and Sketchup from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.281013

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...

Writing FaceBook Applications with .NET - Interview with Mel Sampat, author of Outsync from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.279977

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. Th...

Eclipse with Bjorn Freeman-Benson from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.276844

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 Infrastructur...

2007 The Year in Review from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.272380

Scott and Carl chat about 2007. How was the year for Developers? For the Web?

What's it like for Mac Developers - Interview with Steven Frank of Panic from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.239216

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 c...

Quetzal Bradley on Testing after Unit Tests from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.187272

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?

Distributed Source Control with Git from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.182402

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.
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ASP.NET Model View Controller, MVCContrib and MonoRail from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.179731

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 Mic...

The Past, Present and Future of .NET Unit Testing Frameworks from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.178648

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 O...

Distributed Caching with Microsoft's "Velocity" from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.175233

Scott sits down on the TechEd floor with Anil and "MK" from the Velocity team to talk about Microsoft's new .NET Distributed Cache.

The Odd Couple - A Developer and a Designer talk about working with XAML from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.171102

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 ...

LineRider - Porting a Flash Game to Silverlight 2 from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.154934

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....

Tim Bray on Microblogging and Widefinder from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.152100

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 W...

Object Oriented AJAX with Scott Cate from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.148189

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?

Subsonic with Rob Conery from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.144673

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. Listen

Windows Live Agents and the Machine Translation Bot from MS Research from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.143790

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.

Rob Conery limps and learns about Domain Driven Design from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.097508

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.

Coding4Fun with Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek - Wiimotes and YouTube from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.096689

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 Y...

SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob - Robert C. Martin from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.092929

Scott sits down with Robert C. Martin as Uncle Bob helps Scott understand the SOLID Principles of Object Oriented Design.

Code Generation and T4 with Kathleen Dollard from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.086362

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?

Dealing with Diversity in Agile Teams with Aslam Khan from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.082355

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 ...

Hanselminutae-five with Richard Campbell from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.077989

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 mu...

JavaFX and the Web's Four Virtual Machines from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.074592

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 appr...

BBSs and Wildcat! from Mustang Software from 2022-02-22T11:48:36.003759

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, Fid...

Successful Cross Platform .NET Development - Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.997393

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 ...

The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.996547

In this show recorded in Norway, Roy Osherove educates Scott on best practices in Unit Testing techniques and the Art of Unit Testing.

Kanban Boards for Agile Project Management with Zen Author Nate Kohari from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.995719

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?

Hanselminutiae-six with Richard Campbell from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.991883

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.

Inside a Visual Studio Plugin - CodeRush with Mark Miller from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.988157

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 bui...

The History and Future of Web Standards with Molly Holzschlag from molly.com from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.979508

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 exp...

.NET Debugging 101 with Tess Ferrandez from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.975607

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 us...

The State of Powershell with Lee Holmes and Jason Shirk from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.970628

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 wha...

Solver Foundation and Optimization with Nathan Brixius from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.969665

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, ...

Axum - A domain-specific concurrent programming language with Niklas Gustafsson from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.968013

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 con...

Hello World: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.966881

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 Man...

Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.963486

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 o...

How Craigslist Works - with Jeremy Zawodny from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.962424

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 ...

What does a Social Media Consultant Do? - with Liz Burr from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.957563

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? Ar...

Social Media and the Business of Social - The Wynn Resorts from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.953712

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 a...

ASP.NET MVC Contrib with Jeffrey Palermo from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.952869

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'...

Type 1 Diabetes and Running Marathons with Gary Schmidt from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.901547

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...

Geek Relationship Tips with Scott's Wife from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.899942

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 confl...

Creating the Ultimate Developer Machine 2.0 - How can we get a 7.9 WEI Score for under $3k? from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.896280

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 ...

Hanselminutiae-eight with Dan Fernandez from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.895459

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.

Building your own Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 with Pete Brown from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.890909

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.

Eric Sink on Distributed Version Control Systems from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.886346

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 ...

.NET Micro Framework with Colin Miller from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.880562

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 ...

Making a hobby a job - Talking with Eric Herbrandson about his Silverlight-based MicroISV from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.877833

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 ha...

Misunderstanding REST with Mike Amundsen from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.876955

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? Recog...

Creative Outlets with Rob Conery from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.874344

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 ...

Knockout Javascript with Steve Sanderson from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.870711

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 enjoyabl...

Executable Specifications with Gojko Adzic, Jonas Bandi and Aslak Hellesoy from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.866252

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 sta...

ReactiveUI extensions to the Reactive Framework (Rx) with Paul Betts from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.862719

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 - c...

JavaScript and jQuery: Moving beyond Alert() from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.859395

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 "...

Network Attached Storage and Windows Home Server with Travis Illig from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.790858

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 Hom...

Community vs. Evangelism vs. Marketing vs. Authenticity with Brandon Watson from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.787536

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 ...

Nancy, Sinatra and the Explosion of .NET Micro Web Frameworks with Andreas Håkansson from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.786343

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? W...

JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Semantic Markup is Dead! Clean vs. Machine-coded HTML from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.778444

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?
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Microsoft Web Platform and Azure direction with Scott Hunter from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.775209

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 t...

Startup Series: Inside the DuckDuckGo Search Engine with Gabriel Weinberg from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.771672

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. L...

Startup Series: Building Octopus Deploy with Paul Stovell from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.770326

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? ...

Startup Series: Alex Papadimoulis on creating Inedo and The Daily WTF from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.700645

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 mist...

Damian Edwards explains The Realtime Web for ASP.NET with SignalR from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.696726

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,...

Framework Series: The Chuck Norris Framework with Rob Reynolds from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.692229

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 d...

Framework Series: Steve Smith from NimblePros on Anti-Patterns from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.666071

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, the...

Framework Series: Service Stack with Demis Bellot from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.662183

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 ...

Learning to Speak another Language with Zach Owens from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.661225

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 bec...

Making your first PhoneGap Application with Peter Mourfield from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.658182

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 bu...

Software Craftsmanship and Code Retreats with Corey Haines from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.655320

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...

Startup Series: Creating Alan Mendelevich's AdDuplex from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.654114

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...

ASP.NET MVC and Open Source with Phil Haack from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.651334

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 phon...

Randomness and Windows 8 with Jeff Atwood from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.642288

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.

Everything .NET programmers know about Asynchronous Programming is wrong from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.590346

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 ...

Starting Programming with Iris Classon from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.585239

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 ...

Coneryminutes #1 from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.584316

Rob Conery turns the table (he insisted) and creates Coneryminutes, interviewing Scott for this episode.

Scott Hunter talks to the Entity Framework Team from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.568870

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.

Bill Steele on 3-D Printing with the Ultra-bot 3D Printer from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.567955

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 ...

Continuous Delivery with Jez Humble and Martin Fowler from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.564740

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? Dail...

What is TypeScript and why with Anders Hejlsberg from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.563832

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 w...

Moment of Inspiration - Inside the MOI3D modelling tool with Michael Gibson from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.559782

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 lov...

Making Open Source work at Microsoft with SignalR and Damian Edwards from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.550944

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 t...

Dr. Kyla McMullen on Diversity in Computer Science and Spatial Audio from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.546047

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 i...

Git support within Visual Studio from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.544486

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 ...

Halo 4 - Services in Azure with Caitie McCaffrey from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.498127

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. H...

Approval Tests with Llewellyn Falco from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.497265

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 t...

Language Hunters with Willem Larsen from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.496358

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 suppo...

PhoneGap/Cordova - Is HTML a reasonable app solution? With Steve Sanderson from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.484875

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 servic...

WordPress and Internet Security with Kellep Charles from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.480255

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?

Big Data, Low Power - Analyzing Hard Drive Energy Consumption with Dr. Anthony Hylick from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.475383

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...

Hanselminutiae 12 with Richard Campbell - The post-BUILD show from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.471438

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 to...

The Future and Past of Computing with Dan Bricklin from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.470231

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...

Creating the AGENT Smart Watch with Chris Walker of Secret Labs from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.467134

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...

Enough with the JavaScript Already! with Nicholas Zakas from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.465794

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 ...

Demystifying UX with Natasha Irizarry from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.455631

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 do...

Controlling Robots with node.js and Johnny-Five with Raquel Vélez from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.451549

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 ne...

Web Service Tools for Distributed Applications with Runscope's John Sheehan from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.446642

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...

Bugs Considered Harmful with Douglas Crockford from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.403565

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 ...

Node.js Tools for Visual Studio from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.399519

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 ...

iOS Developer and Professional Model Lyndsey Scott from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.395546

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...

Model View Culture - A new media platform covering Technology, Culture, and Diversity from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.386356

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 ...

I'm a Blind Software Technician - Ask Me Anything! with Katherine Moss from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.378620

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 ...

I am teaching my daughter to code with Hopscotch - Fitzgerald Steele from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.374690

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 child...

Managing Errors across platforms with RayGun.io from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.370516

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...

Agile Families: Techniques for Living with Change with David Starr from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.369605

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 i...

Reconciling ASP.NET vNext with Damian Edwards from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.365573

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 technolo...

Applied Azure with Vishwas Lele from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.361564

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...

Applying Improv to Agile and Lean Startup models with Jessie Shternshus from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.357441

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 t...

BrightstarDB, an open source NoSQL .NET database with Kal Ahmed from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.356443

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 ...

Space and the next IT decade with Tom Soderstrom from JPL from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.351813

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...

A Sass Primer with Claudina Sarahe from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.293200

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...

The New Digital Journalism with Elon James White from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.288452

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 sh...

JSIL with Katelyn Gadd from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.284290

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 Ja...

Computer Vision Explained with PyImageSearch's Adrian Rosebrock from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.280376

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...

Starting with Continuous Integration in the Cloud with Steven Edouard from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.279462

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 out...

Creating Ruby with Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) recorded LIVE in Japan from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.275619

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 ...

March Is For Makers: 3D Printing with Printrbot's Brook Drumm from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.270953

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." Thi...

Bitcoin Explained with Rhian Lewis from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.267294

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 Block...

Developing StaffPad, a new class of music notation application with Dr. Matthew Tesch from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.263686

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 pe...

Saving Bletchley Park with Dr. Sue Black from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.262655

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 the...

Hanselminutiae LIVE 16 with Richard Campbell from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.259310

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

Relationships, Geek Culture, and Raising Nerds with Anjuan Simmons from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.255896

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 ...

Identity Server and ASP.NET with Dominick Baier from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.240775

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 Id...

Developing Designers with Catt Small from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.205531

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 prot...

Creativity, Code, Community, and Connected Objects with Dawn C. Hayes from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.093374

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 "bu...

An overview of non-web-based assisted technologies with Sylvia Richardson from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.092533

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 develo...

You don't know JS with Getify (Kyle Simpson) from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.088873

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, b...

Hanselminutiae LIVE 17 with Richard Campbell from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.085265

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'...

Is QA a lost art? Node.js quality expert Stacy Kirk from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.081546

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 ...

Inside Age of Ascent with Ben Adams from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.080702

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 writ...

Scaling The Walking Dead: No Man's Land with Next Games' Kalle Hiitola from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.077064

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 h...

March Is For Makers: Taking Stuff Apart with Captain Brent Chapman from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.056684

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 De...

March Is For Makers: Arduinos, JavaScript, and Johnny-Five with Lyza Danger Gardner from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.052817

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 ot...

Failure - "What if you fake it and don't make it?" from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.051896

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...

Punishment Driven Development with Louise Elliott from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.048018

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 a...

Native apps using NativeScript with Jen Looper from 2022-02-22T11:48:35.001491

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'...

Creating cross-platform Electron apps with Jessica Lord from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.997796

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 plat...

Machine Learning for all with TensorFlow with Andy Kitchen from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.996940

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 le...

Learning to love Legacy Code with Andrea Goulet from CorgiBytes from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.993217

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...

Becoming a more social developer with Daphne Chong from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.984274

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 o...

Archiving Digital Experiences using Emulation with Jason Scott from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.983457

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 t...

Cake Build - A C# Make cross platform build automation system with Patrik Svensson from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.979728

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"...

Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn with Sandi Metz from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.976152

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...

Being a Polyglot Programmer with Amir Rajan from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.972381

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 f...

Rethinking Front End Design and Development with Una Kravets from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.971535

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 Respons...

Checking in with Joel Spolsky who says I suck at Excel from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.967611

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 launch...

Discovering WebVR with Ada Rose Edwards from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.963840

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 b...

A new kind of commerce - M-Pesa, Mookh, and Africa from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.960149

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 ...

The Road to Lead Developer with Linda Kamau of Ushahidi from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.900318

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 ...

Ruby and Rails in the Real World with Scott Bellware from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.896774

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 lea...

Apps without Code with Tara Reed from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.893125

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 ...

Being hired as a Functional Programmer with Eric Normand from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.892259

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 p...

Brandon Bouier on the Defense Digital Service and deploying code in a war zone from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.888554

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 re...

Tracking your life and health with the Gyroscope app and Mahdi Yusuf from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.884828

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...

Games across decades with Diablo programmer and Graybeard Games' David Brevik from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.881087

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 an...

Making browsers faster with Mozilla from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.880086

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 wit...

Which JavaScript Stack should I learn? with Tracy Lee from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.876566

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. ...

Mike Brocchi on Angular CLI from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.872844

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 ...

Continuous Delivery in AAA Games - Sea of Thieves with Rare Games' Jafar Soltani from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.869259

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...

Progressive Web Apps with Tara Manicsic from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.868371

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 i...

Functional Programming, F#, and Cloud Containers with Lena Hall from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.864677

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? ...

Empathy in Technology Product Design with Venture Capitalist Sarah Kunst from Proday from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.861001

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...

Quantum Computing detangled with Dr. Krysta Svore from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.860173

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 app...

Developing Online Identity with Sarah Squire from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.857419

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 i...

Type to the world in your language with Keyman and Marc Durdin from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.856597

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...

Christine Spang's Open Source Journey from Teen OSS Contributor to CTO of Nylas from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.852478

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 ...

Building Web Applications for the next Billion Users with Ire Aderinokun from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.848856

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 ...

A new life for old software - DasBlog Core with Mark Downie from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.845326

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 fut...

Azure Sphere and Microsoft's new Linux with Caitie McCaffrey from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.844519

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...

Visible Designers with Revision Path's Maurice Cherry from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.840448

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 import...

Learning how to be a Wizard Programmer with Julia Evans from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.802481

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 ...

Teaching Programming to kids (and everyone else) with Ben Wheeler from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.801621

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 d...

Accelerate: The State of DevOps with Dr. Nicole Forsgren from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.703962

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 ...

Analog Computing and the Computer of the Tides with Charles Petzold from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.700309

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 a...

Designing for a Global Audience with Digital Nomad Jenny Shen from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.696723

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 peo...

Upgrading GitHub and improving Rails with Eileen Uchitelle from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.695921

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 upg...

Real Software Engineering with Glenn Vanderburg from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.689462

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 ...

Regine Gilbert on the Essence of Accessibility from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.684744

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 worl...

Exploring Algorithms of Oppression with Dr. Safiya Noble from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.681496

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 Oppress...

Coding for the ZX Spectrum and Netflix/Black Mirror's Bandersnach with Matt Westcott from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.680721

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 interact...

Cloth Simulation for Computer Graphics with Tuur Stuyck from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.678174

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 ...

How galaxies evolve with Dr. Molly Peeples from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.677301

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 both an MS and PhD in Ast...

Blockchain explained with TruStory's Preethi Kasireddy from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.673936

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 int...

The Problem with Software by Adam Barr from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.670727

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," A...

Copyright, Trademarks, Patents, and Branding yourself online with Yasmine Salem Hamdan from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.669884

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 bu...

How to build an inclusive conference with Saron Yitbarek from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.666629

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 t...

Burning Rocket Fuel and exploring careers in STEM with Dr. Corey Frazier from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.663479

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 an...

New ways to think STEM with Zyrobotic's Dr. Ayanna Howard from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.659960

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 continue...

The Pragmatic Programmer celebrates 20 years with Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.659181

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...

Relationship Hacks 2019 with Scott's Wife Mo from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.596279

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 ...

Making Indie games with PIGSquad's Dylan Bennett from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.592822

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...

Roblox's Kelly Mayes on Community Building and Digital Civility from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.584547

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. Scot...

Rust: A language for the next 40 years with Carol Nichols from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.581093

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 con...

Brain Science and Programmers with Dr. Mireille Reece from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.577688

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 pers...

Dapr Distributed Application Runtime with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.576859

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? Wh...

Saving Blade Runner with ScummVM's Eugene Sandulenko from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.572292

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...

The Joy of making with LEGO Master and Cosplaying Engineer Amie DD from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.567897

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...

LEGO Education SPIKE Prime with firmware engineer Ralph Hempel from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.564087

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,...

Bringing Medical products to market safely with Emily Gorcenski from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.563306

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 h...

Http Cats, Sketchnoting and Loving the Web with Tomomi Imura from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.559859

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, ...

Social Friendships and Internet Creativity with Cassidy Williams from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.556596

Scott and Principal Developer Experience Engineer Cassidy Williams talk about social friendships, internet life, making code, videos, and videos about code.

How Design Makes The World with Scott Berkun from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.550602

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."...

Diabetes and Data Science with Dr. Alex Constantin from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.549473

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 experie...

A Brief History of The Deficit Myth with Dr. Stephanie Kelton from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.486572

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 mo...

Document Databases and Mongo with Engineer Joe Karlsson from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.481649

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 m...

Enjoyable Code Reviews with Dr. Michaela Greiler from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.477064

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, ...

Normalizing Failure with Susana Benavidez from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.475918

Susana Benavidez has had an interesting path into technology and she wants to normalize it. Sometimes it's not straight and narrow, sometimes it's windy and filled with bumps. What would tech look ...

Programmatic Problem Solving with Nicole Archambault from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.472118

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 Pr...

Succeeding from Anywhere: The Remote Work Revolution with Tsedal Neeley from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.468002

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 too...

Living through 2020 as a Remote Developer with Amanda Silver from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.453435

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 divi...

Can networking be simple? with Tailscale's Avery Pennarun from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.449392

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?" Av...

George Li is launching MiTEE Cube Satellites and making TikToks from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.445304

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...

Attracting and Retaining Diverse Tech Talent with April Christina Curley from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.441243

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 ...

API Observability with Akita Software's Jean Yang from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.440253

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...

Social Robots with De'Aira Bryant from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.399764

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 inte...

Design Systems with Jina Anne from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.395491

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 de...

Electronics for Everyone with AdaFruit's Limor Fried from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.390430

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!

Engineering Servant Leadership with Carbon Health's Claire Hough from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.384173

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 ...

Maximizing machine learning performance with OctoML and Luis Ceze from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.379966

Powering Cloud gaming with Rainway's Andrew Sampson from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.375815

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 Sam...

Exploring the brain with music and science with Dr. Simón(e) Sun from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.374563

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 h...

Back to the Technology Future Again with Eric Newcomer from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.370262

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 abou...

Climbing high while staying grounded with Annyce Davis from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.355841

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 g...

Becoming a Digital Unicorn with Trice Johnson from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.351627

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 ...

David Copperfield's History of Magic - in partnership with Microsoft Outside In from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.350406

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 secre...

Building Oh My Posh with Jan De Dobbeleer from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.346206

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 o...

Rachel Lim on Fine Tuning OpenAI from 2022-02-22T11:48:34.342151

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 spec...

Modern Code Generation with Jordan Adler from 2022-02-17T21:00

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 t...

Landing Your First UX Design Job with Sharon Onyinye from 2022-02-10T21:00

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 start...

The Line of Scrummage from 2022-02-02T14:20:38.539542

In this show Scott talks about Scrum, the agile project management method.

Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History with Evan Amos from 2022-01-27T21:00

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 encycl...

Exploring COVID Vaccine response with Shawn Carbonell, MD, PhD from 2022-01-20T21:00

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...

Redefining Imposter Syndrome with Maya Bello from 2022-01-13T21:00

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 cha...

Quitting your Job to Build a Game Studio with Bria Sullivan from 2021-12-30T21:00

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 includ...

Multi-Platform Apps with Uno Platform's Jérôme Laban from 2021-12-23T21:00

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...

Office 2007 Preview from 2021-12-18T11:19:21.572990

Scott talks about what you can expect from the up and coming Office 2007.

Race & Gender in Silicon Valley with Stanford's Cynthia Lee from 2021-12-16T21:00

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,"...

Hanselminutiae #1 from 2021-12-16T00:19:04.342376

Scott shows off a handful of unrelated tools, websites, and utilities.

Web Assembly's hidden talent with WasmCloud's Kevin Hoffman from 2021-11-25T21:00

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...

Understanding Windows 11 new security requirements with David Weston from 2021-11-18T21:00

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 rol...

Top Ten Utilities you Didn't Know you Had from 2021-11-14T00:29:04.506312

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.

Looking at Azure Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow with Jason Zander from 2021-11-11T21:00

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 J...

Dr. Jelani Nelson - in partnership with ACM Bytecast from 2021-10-28T21:00

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 ...

Debugging ASP.NET from 2021-10-27T04:07:17.243375

Debugging by coincidence, Debugging Tools, Ruby CLR, SysInternals Tools, Fusion, YATT, and more and more and more.

The next generation of AI Dungeon with Latitude's Nick Walton from 2021-10-21T21:00

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 N...

Building 0 A.D. a free, open-source game of ancient warfare from 2021-10-14T21:00

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 ...

Free Resources for .NET Developers from 2021-10-07T01:18:25.286337

Scott talks about a series of free tools, utilities, and websites that help .NET developers do their best.

Teach Little Hackers to Code Without a Computer with Brandon Tory from 2021-09-30T21:00

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 touchin...

The State of the Mono Project. from 2021-09-29T01:20:22.078761

Scott goes around the block with Mono, an Open Source implementation of the .NET Framework.

Finding Your Path to Technology with Krystal Maughan from 2021-09-23T21:00

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 plu...

Continuous Integration from 2021-09-22T18:15:57.614719

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.

Scaling the Metaverse with Roblox CTO Daniel Sturman from 2021-09-16T21:00

"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...

Climbing the Engineering Ladder with Amal Hussein from 2021-08-26T21:00

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 ...

Tech Startup Life in a Pandemic with QuirkChat's Bee Law from 2021-08-19T21:00

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...

DevSecOps or SecDevOps with Wabbi's Brittany Greenfield from 2021-08-12T21:00

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 sid...

Learn F# to write Succinct, Performant, and Correct Code with Don Syme from 2021-07-28T21:00

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 or...

The next generation of Data Visualization with Observable's Anjana Vakil from 2021-07-22T21:00

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 ...

New Ways to Teach Computer Science with Maria Naggaga from 2021-07-15T21:00

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?...

The Five Forces with Captain Hoff - Steve Hoffman from 2021-06-24T21:00

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. Hoffm...

Get Busy Living with Abel Wang from 2021-06-17T21:00

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.

Y...

Learning to Teach with Shaundai Person from 2021-06-10T01:29

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 tea...

Leslie Lamport - in partnership with ACM Bytecast from 2021-05-27T21:00

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 an...

Developers and Security with Rey Bango from 2021-05-20T21:00

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 cons...

Automating all the Things with Home Assistant's Paulus Schoutsen from 2021-05-13T21:00

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 tu...

Customer Empathy with Alex Allwood from 2021-04-29T21:00

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...

Intersection of Medicine and Technology with Dr. Divya Dhar Cohen from 2021-04-22T21:00

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 i...

Doing Open Source with Brian Douglas from 2021-04-15T18:00

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!

Outside In: The Innovation Stack with Jim McKelvey from 2021-03-25T21:00

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 Mi...

From Astronomy Graduate Student to Senior Software Engineer with Nicholas Hunt-Walker from 2021-03-18T21:00

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 softw...

It's time for a new kind of calculator with NumWorks' Romain Goyet from 2021-03-11T21:00

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 t...

Observability beyond buzzwords with New Relic's Tori Wieldt from 2021-02-25T21:00

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 out...

Lisette Sutherland shows us a Handbook for Working Remotely from 2021-02-18T21:00

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 complete...

Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothmann from 2021-02-11T21:00

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 co...

Accessibility in Web and Rich Applications from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 generat...

Pathways to Data Science with Sri Megha Vujjini from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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...

A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 testabil...

The myth of turning your hobby into a job with writer Aley Arion from 2021-01-28T21:00

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...

Cryptography 101 with Oso's Dr. Sam Scott from 2021-01-21T21:00

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 a...

Exploring Event Modeling with Adam Dymitruk from 2021-01-14T21:00

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 i...

2020 sucked - A year-end wrap-up with Scott's Wife, Mo from 2020-12-31T21:00

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 we...

Beyond The Queen's Gambit with Chess.com's Danny Rensch from 2020-12-24T21:00

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...

Building eBay's Web API ecosystem with Tanya Vlahovic from 2020-12-17T21:00

Shipping the Sandman Doppler with Palo Alto Innovation's Alex Tramiel from 2020-12-10T21:00

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 g...

A self-driving AI and Raspberry Pi powered Trash Bin with Ahad Cove from 2020-11-26T21:00

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 ...

TL;DR - Extreme Summarization as a service with Isabel Cachola from 2020-11-19T21:00

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 thesi...

Growing the next generation of technologists with CodeCrew's Meka Egwuekwe from 2020-11-12T20:09:09

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 ...

Greatly Accelerating Machine Learning with Intel's Huma Abidi from 2020-10-22T21:00

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, de...

Virtual Desktop is what VR needs - with Guy Godin from 2020-10-15T21:00

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 ho...

Start Freelancing Today with The Taproom's Kelly Vaughn from 2020-09-24T21:00:10

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 Freelan...

A new way to learn about technology with Disco's Saron Yitbarek from 2020-09-17T21:00:19

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 learn...

Leaning into Learning in Public with Monica Powell from 2020-09-10T21:00:08

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 Ladi...

Building a More Ethical Immersive Web with VR Engineer Diane Hosfelt from 2020-08-27T21:00:28

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 Vir...

A Programmer's Guide to Computer Science with Dr. William Springer from 2020-08-20T21:00:08

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 f...

Working in Public: Open Source Software with Nadia Eghbal from 2020-08-13T21:00:05

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 interes...

Cybersecurity for Executives in the Age of Cloud with Teri Radichel from 2020-07-30T21:00:07

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 Ra...

Managing remotely with Asana Engineering Manager Kate Reading from 2020-07-23T21:00:27

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 plu...

How the OBS Project changed video forever with lead Hugh Bailey from 2020-07-16T21:00:14

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 ...

Dismantling barriers to participation in programming communities with Dr. Denae Ford from 2020-06-25T17:00:10

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 communiti...

Will your next laptop use an ARM processor? with Jeremy Sinclair from 2020-06-18T20:00:04

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 si...

Red Teaming with Leron Gray from 2020-06-11T20:00:01

"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?...

Language Understanding (LUIS) with Dr. Riham Mansour from 2020-05-28T20:00:26

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...

A path to technical leadership with Keavy McMinn from 2020-05-21T20:00:12

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...

Making Docker lovely for Developers with Simon Ferquel from 2020-05-14T20:00:29

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 specif...

The world blog with Wordpress Lead Dev Helen Hou Sandí from 2020-04-30T20:00:09

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 Sand...

DevOps and GitHub Actions with Edward Thomson from 2020-04-23T19:00:03

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 ...

The Holloway Guide to Remote Work with Courtney Nash from 2020-04-16T20:00:13

"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 ove...

Embodying a disembodied AI with Chris Conner, Altered Carbon's Poe from 2020-03-26T20:00:02

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 be...

Destigmatizing Mental Health in the Tech Industry with Jen Akullian, PhD from 2020-03-19T20:00:23

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...

On empowerment with social entrepreneur Aisha Addo from 2020-03-12T20:00:05

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 ...

Agile Project Management for Families with Yvonne Marcus from 2020-02-20T19:00:16

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 Sys...

Surviving as a remote tech employee with Jayson J. Phillips from 2020-02-13T19:00:01

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 ...

Building a CPU from Scratch with Ben Eater from 2020-01-30T19:00:21

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-...

Visualizing Math with Freya Holmér from 2020-01-23T19:15:03

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...

Myself: It's not weird at all from 2020-01-16T19:20:05

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...

Being a Complete Engineer and Bryan Liles' Rules to Life from 2019-12-26T19:15:03

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 projec...

Modern Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi's Joe Duffy from 2019-12-19T19:05:05

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 a...

Building a culture of accessibility from step zero with Ayesha Mazumdar from 2019-12-12T19:10:13

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...

Career Karma's Ruben Harris on engineering bootcamp success from 2019-11-28T19:05:02

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 comm...

Are you using all the resources OWASP has to offer? with Nancy Gariché from 2019-11-21T19:20:21

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...

Sharon Steed on Operationalizing Empathy and the Power of a Stutter from 2019-11-14T19:50:03

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 t...

Clyde W. Ford on THINK BLACK: a memoir about the first Black software engineer from 2019-10-31T19:00:18

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-fi...

First Time Coders with Michelle Sun from 2019-10-24T19:20:18

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 c...

Is this the dynamic web we were promised? with Parametric Press's Matthew Conlen from 2019-10-17T19:20:22

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 s...

Is it the Data or the Algorithm? Common pitfalls in Data Science and Deep Learning with Sara Beck from 2019-10-11T17:41:10

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 preve...

Tiny games with the PICO-8 Fantasy Console and Joseph White from 2019-09-26T19:10:05

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 mach...

On Being Productive with Cantilever's Ty Fujimura from 2019-09-19T19:00:15

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 co...

Learning CircuitPython with Scott Shawcroft from 2019-09-12T19:00:06

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 in...

Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success with Cheryl Contee from 2019-08-29T19:20:04

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 compan...

Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction with Dr. Saleema Amershi from 2019-08-22T19:20:01

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 ...

Managing the Burnout Burndown with Dr. Aneika Simmons from 2019-08-15T22:35:07

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...

Learning about nanotechnology and molecular biology with Upulie Divisekera from 2019-07-25T19:20:09

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 scien...

Creating video games with C# and Monogame with Tom Spilman from 2019-07-18T19:25:05

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...

Understanding ethical debt in AI product development with Lauren Maffeo from 2019-07-11T23:00

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 ...

Hanselminutiae 19 with Richard Campbell from 2019-06-27T23:00

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, rewiri...

Methods to Organize Your Learning Process with Lourdes Montano from 2019-06-20T23:29

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 Ja...

Saving the SpaceOrb360 with open source hardware and software with Vic Putz from 2019-06-13T23:27

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 t...

The magic of Software Defined Radio with Ben Hilburn from 2019-05-30T23:24

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 ...

Solving real problems with software and the Human Utility with Tiffani Ashley Bell from 2019-05-23T23:27

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 Utilit...

Avalonia is a cross platform XAML Framework for .NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono with Steven Kirk from 2019-05-16T22:04

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 For...

Your biggest questions when learning how to code with Ali Spittel from 2019-04-25T23:03

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 Pyt...

Sean Valentine on Hidden Geniuses and parenting in a digital age from 2019-04-18T22:03

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 Scot...

Performance as a Feature with Jeremy Boyd from 2019-04-11T22:59

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...

The Manager's Path with Camille Fournier from 2019-03-28T22:15

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 ab...

Inside a Tribe of Hackers with cryptographer Marcus J Carey from 2019-03-21T23:00

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 NS...

A love letter to language (and programming) with Eva Ferreira from 2019-03-14T17:24

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' na...

How to look smart in meetings and how to be successful without hurting men's feelings with Sarah Cooper from 2019-02-21T21:46

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 ...

Privacy and Security on today's internet with Melanie Ensign from 2019-02-15T00:41

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 happ...

Getting started with Machine Learning and Sabrina Smai from 2019-01-25T00:39

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 Intell...

A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics with Jeremy Kun from 2019-01-18T00:17

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 mathema...

Episode 666 - Game Engine Black Book: Doom with Fabien Sanglard from 2019-01-11T00:15

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 phen...

Better Allies and Better Hiring with Karen Catlin from 2018-12-28T01:07

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 cu...

test && commit || revert with Kent Beck from 2018-12-21T01:05

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 ...

Test Automation University with Applitools' Angie Jones from 2018-12-13T23:04

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 vis...

ASP.NET Core in Action with Andrew Lock from 2018-11-30T01:02

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 com...

PlayFab's complete backend platform for live games with Dr. Hanna Oh Descher from 2018-11-22T23:14

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 ...

Moving companies to Open Source with the Head of Comcast's Open Source Office Nithya Ruff from 2018-11-16T02:02

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 sour...

Gaming for all with the Xbox Accessibility Controller and John Alexander from 2018-10-25T20:31

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 everyon...

Finding Engineering teams that share your Key Values with Lynne Tye from 2018-10-18T20:33

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...

Animating Donald Glover's "This is America" with MacPaint on original hardware with Wahyu "Pinot" Ichwandardi from 2018-10-11T21:42

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 Macro...

Scaling tech apprenticeship with Techtonics's Heather Terenzio from 2018-09-27T21:50

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...

.NET Core Global Tools for Developers with Mark Rendle from 2018-09-20T22:55

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 d...

Forge Your Future with Open Source and VM Brasseur from 2018-09-13T23:00

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 w...

How GDPR is affecting the American Legal System with Gary Nissenbaum from 2018-08-30T16:32

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. ...

Inside Linux on Windows with WSL and Tara Raj from 2018-08-23T21:23

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 ...

Container Catharsis with Laura Frank Tacho from 2018-08-16T21:00

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 de...

Blazor brings .NET to Web Assembly with Steve Sanderson from 2018-07-26T21:00

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 Assem...

Compassionate Coding with April Wensel from 2018-07-19T21:00

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 e...

Web Accessibility and a focused on A11Y with Nicolas Steenhout from 2018-07-12T21:00

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 accessibi...

C++ and Browser Monoculture with Vivaldi's Patricia Aas from 2018-06-28T21:00

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 ...

Is a Programming Bootcamp right for you? with Kristen Leake from 2018-06-21T22:00

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 Le...

Tips for Teaching Programming with Dr. Neil Brown from 2018-06-14T22:00

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 ...

Do you need to speak English to Code? Noor - An Arabic Programming Language with Ahmed Abdalla from 2018-05-25T00:00

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.

Eric Heutchy on Backward Compatibility, Xbox One X Enhanced Games, and The Heutchy Method from 2018-05-18T00:00

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. Ac...

How do you become a CTO - with Microsoft's CTO Kevin Scott from 2018-05-10T22:00

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 ...

Investing in Underrepresented Tech Founders with Arlan Hamilton's Backstage Capital from 2018-04-27T00:00

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 s...

A history of the Windows 95 Start Button and User Research at Microsoft with Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem from 2018-04-20T00:00

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 a...

Inside the world of Star Trek's Visual and Practical Effects with Dan Curry from 2018-04-13T00:00

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 s...

A new Sega Megadrive/Genesis Game in 2018 with 1995 Tools with Tanglewood's Matt Phillips from 2018-03-30T23:00

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 Tan...

F# and the functional SAFE Stack with Krzysztof Cie?lak from 2018-03-23T18:00

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 programm...

Demystifying Serverless with Cecil Phillip from 2018-03-15T17:00

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?

Jessica Rose and the Worst Advice Ever from 2018-02-23T04:00

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...

Mr. Robot Disassembled with Ryan Kazanciyan from 2018-02-16T04:00

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 ...

From F# to JavaScript and beyond with Fable and Alfonso Garcia-Caro from 2018-01-26T04:00

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 ...

Developing ON (not for) a Nokia Feature Phone with Elvis Chidera from 2018-01-19T04:00

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 And...

Staying Secure and "Getting Pwned" with Troy Hunt from 2018-01-12T04:00

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...

Serverless and OpenFaas with Alex Ellis from 2017-12-29T04:00

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) ...

Machine Learning 101 with Paige Bailey from 2017-12-22T04:00

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 lear...

Revolutionizing remote pair programming with Live Share from 2017-12-15T04:00

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 enti...

Removing Bias from AI and Machine Learning with Camille Eddy from 2017-11-24T04:00

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 an...

Moving Across Technology Stacks with Kamilah Taylor from 2017-11-17T04:00

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 h...

Thomas Happ from Axiom Verge from 2017-11-10T04:00

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, L...

CEO Rian Buckley finds the FitCode between fashion and tech from 2017-10-27T04:00

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 need...

Web Animation at Work with Rachel Nabors from 2017-10-20T04:00

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 unde...

Terms of Service for Developers - ToS explained with lawyer Gary Nissenbaum from 2017-10-13T04:00

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 worl...

Polyglot Persistence for .NET with PostgresSQL and Marten with Jeremy Miller from 2017-09-29T04:00

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 P...

Maybe just use Vanilla Javascript with Chris Ferdinandi from 2017-09-22T04:00

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 ...

Technology in non-profits with the New York Public Library and Courteney Ervin from 2017-09-15T04:00

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 ...

Software Endurance with Ariya Hidayat from 2017-08-25T04:00

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, maki...

Laura Laban explores Infinite Flight simulation on mobile devices from 2017-08-18T04:00

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 i...

Pia Mancini explains liquid democracy and the Open Collective from 2017-08-11T04:00

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 ...

Preparing a city for self-driving cars with Leslie Caceda from 2017-07-28T04:00

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 mea...

Live Coding on Twitch for a year with Suz Hinton from 2017-07-21T04:00

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?

Making your path to development with Anjana Vakil from 2017-07-14T04:00

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...

YOU should write an interpreter with Thorsten Ball from 2017-06-30T04:00

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" Langua...

Data Science with Angela Bassa from 2017-06-23T04:00

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 pat...

Get on the Coding Train with Processing and Daniel Shiffman from 2017-06-16T04:00

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 ...

Inside WebAssembly with Mozilla Fellow David Bryant from 2017-05-26T04:00

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?"

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence with Edaena Salinas Jasso from 2017-05-19T04:00

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 m...

RavenDB, the open source NoSQL Database for .NET with Adi Avivi from 2017-05-12T04:00

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! Sc...

Today's Cloud, Containers, and Architecture with Kelsey Hightower from 2017-04-28T04:00

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 tog...

Deployment made easy with Zeit from 2017-04-21T04:00

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...

Renewing the Kalingo Language with Dr. Keisha Marie Josephs from 2017-04-14T04:00

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 intere...

Hanselminutiae 18 with Richard Campbell - Nintendo Switch from 2017-03-31T04:00

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!

Lean Customer Development with Cindy Alvarez from 2017-03-24T04:00

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 custom...

Feedback Driven Design with Windows 10 from 2017-03-17T04:00

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...

Getting Started with Angular with Jeff Cross from 2017-03-10T04:00

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 b...

Forgotten Empires, amazing games - Age of Empires is back with Bert Beeckman from 2017-02-24T04:00

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 pack...

The Return of Mo - Lessons from Scott from 2017-02-17T04:00

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 ...

A new kind of STEM learning with Laron Walker from 2017-02-10T04:00

Laron Walker is a technologist and entrepreneur infatuated with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education.

Building Pantsuit: The Hillary Clinton UI Pattern Library with Mina Markham from 2017-01-27T04:00

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 b...

Speech to Text in 2017 with Signl.fm from 2017-01-20T04:00

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...

Vets who Code with Jerome Hardaway from 2017-01-13T04:00

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 k...

Is it OK to build websites that require JavaScript? with Nolan Lawson from 2016-12-30T04:00

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 ...

Including Automation in your Definition of Done with Angie Jones from 2016-12-23T04:00

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 t...

Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing and Henry Segerman from 2016-12-16T04:00

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 ...

Alcohol and the Tech Industry with Victor Yocco from 2016-11-25T04:00

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 ...

Interactive Computing Experiences with nteract and Safia Abdalla from 2016-11-18T04:00

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 ...

Mob Programming with Woody Zuill from 2016-11-11T04:00

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 s...

Should Developers Design with Iheanyi Ekechukwu from 2016-10-28T04:00

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 thes...

Infrastructuralism with Truss from 2016-10-21T04:00

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 idea...

Orchestrating and automating deployments with Octopus Deploy and Damian Brady from 2016-10-14T04:00

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 ...

Hello Ruby with Linda Liukas from 2016-09-30T04:00

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 ...

The State of Virtual Reality 2016 with Scott Anderson from 2016-09-23T04:00

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 exp...

An overnight success in 13 years! Luvvie Ajayi is Judging You! from 2016-09-16T04:00

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 a...

Exploring Code Smells in code written by Children with Dr. Felienne from 2016-08-26T04:00

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...

Building with the Microsoft Bot Framework with Dan Driscoll from 2016-08-19T04:00

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 N...

Creating a new GPU Texture Compressor with Binomial with Stephanie Hurlburt from 2016-08-12T04:00

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 compres...

A .NET IDE for the iPad? - Exploring Continuous with Frank Krueger from 2016-07-29T04:00

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?\* Fr...

New Development on Old Systems: Exploring the NES in 2016 with Rachel Simone Weil from 2016-07-22T04:00

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 th...

Exploring the Orleans Distributed Virtual Actor Model with Richard Astbury from 2016-07-15T04:00

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 ...

Building remote-first teams with Karolina Szczur from 2016-06-24T04:00

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 thri...

Data Literacy and the usefulness of Excel with Oz du Soleil from 2016-06-17T04:00

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 quer...

Living Functional Programming with OCaml and Gina Marie Maini from 2016-06-10T04:00

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 an...

Bootstrapping a hardware startup: Creating Tinsel with Aniyia L. Williams from 2016-05-27T04:00

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 sty...

The Aurelia JavaScript Framework with Rob Eisenberg from 2016-05-20T04:00

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 ...

Practical Containers for Developers with Aja Hammerly from 2016-05-13T04:00

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 ...

Funding Open Source with Nadia Eghbal from 2016-04-29T04:00

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 i...

Investing in Underrepresented Tech Founders with Arlan Hamilton from 2016-04-22T04:00

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...

Creating the Belter Language for Syfy from 2016-04-15T04:00

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 language...

March Is For Makers: Modulo and Modular Electronics with Erin Tomson from 2016-03-25T04:00

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 Partic...

March Is For Makers: Arrow.com Electrical Engineer Laura Hughes from 2016-03-18T04:00

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 S...

March Is For Makers: Arduinos and Useless Robots with Simone Giertz from 2016-03-11T04:00

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 Sw...

Ambitious UX and Ambitious Apps with Ember and Lauren Tan from 2016-02-26T04:00

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 a...

Exploring the Creative Process with Comic Creator and Musician Afua Richardson from 2016-02-19T04:00

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. ...

The Open Artificial Pancreas System (OpenAPS) project with Dana M. Lewis from 2016-02-12T04:00

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"...

Getting started making Video Games with Kris Rothe from 2016-01-29T04:00

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...

Inside ASP.NET Core 1.0 with Damian Edwards from 2016-01-22T04:00

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 Fr...

From Enterprise Developer to Tech Startup CEO with Tiffany Mikell from 2016-01-15T04:00

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 agi...

Data Visualization and D3.js with Irene Ros from 2015-12-25T04:00

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 conferen...

Today's Startup Accelerators John Henry from Cofound Harlem from 2015-12-18T04:00

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...

The importance of fixing your own consumer electronics with IFixit's Kyle Wiens from 2015-12-11T04:00

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 ...

Imagining the Future of Minority Report with Greg Borenstein from 2015-11-27T04:00

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 Serie...

OptiKey - Open Source Assistive Tech for Motor Neuron Disease from 2015-11-20T04:00

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 keybo...

Speak Up and Present with Confidence with Poornima Vijayashanker from 2015-11-13T04:00

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 th...

Understanding Web Components and Polymer with Monica Dinculescu from 2015-10-30T04:00

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? Wher...

SID Chips and C64 Music with Ocean Software's Matthew Cannon from 2015-10-23T04:00

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 Nav...

Your Personal Cloud Platform with Sandstorm.io and Kenton Varda from 2015-10-16T04:00

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 i...

Jet.com scales with Azure, F#, and more with Rachel Reese from 2015-09-25T04:00

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...

Killing Off Wasabi - A 20yr old VBScript problem solved with 2015 Roslyn tech from 2015-09-18T04:00

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. T...

Information Architecture with Abby Covert from 2015-09-11T04:00

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 ...

Computer Science in School vs. The Real World with Kaya Thomas from 2015-08-28T04:00

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 t...

Enterprising Node.js with NodeSource's VP of Engineering Kevin Stewart from 2015-08-21T04:00

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 i...

Redesigning Computer Science 101 Education with Omoju Miller from 2015-08-14T04:00

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 ...

Designing Usable Security with Google's Adrienne Porter Felt from 2015-07-31T04:00

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...

The Problem with DateTime - NodaTime with Matt Johnson from 2015-07-24T04:00

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 intu...

Systems Thinking: Less Coding, More Thinking with Kishau Rogers from 2015-07-17T04:00

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. H...

Debugging Windows Problems with Mario Hewardt from 2015-07-10T04:00

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?...

Tessel.io - Making the Internet of things with JavaScript and Kelsey Breseman from 2015-06-25T04:00

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.

Virtual Reality today with Andreia Gaita from 2015-06-19T04:00

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 fi...

Building Community around the XPRIZE with Jono Bacon from 2015-06-12T04:00

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....

Getting Started with SVG with Sara Soueidan from 2015-05-29T04:00

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 Referenc...

Getting started making NodeBots and Wearables with Kassandra Perch from 2015-05-22T04:00

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. Node...

Accessibility (a11y) with OpenDirective's Steve Lee from 2015-05-15T04:00

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 ...

Inside the Akka.NET open source project and the Actor Model with Aaron Stannard from 2015-04-23T04:00

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 ...

Usability and the Human Factor with Dr. Danielle Smith from 2015-04-17T04:00

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 conc...

Building a better 3D printer (with software!) with OctoPrint’s Gina Häußge from 2015-04-10T04:00

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 p...

March Is For Makers: Electronics and Electricity 101 with Andrew J. Dupree from 2015-03-27T04:00

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...

March Is For Makers: Learning Robots with Dr. Ayanna Howard of Zyrobotics from 2015-03-20T04:00

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 Engineer...

March Is For Makers: Enclosures for your DIY hardware projects with Bertrand Le Roy from 2015-03-13T04:00

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...

Living Clojure with Carin Meier from 2015-02-27T04:00

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...

Hanselminutiae 15 with Richard Campbell - Recorded as a Google Hangout, we talk all things tech from 2015-02-20T04:00

Scott talks to Richard Campbell in this episode, recorded LIVE (and available on YouTube!) on February 10th.

Atom-Shell for cross platform desktop apps with Paul Betts from 2015-02-13T04:00

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 use...

Where is Web Design going in 2015 with Carl Smith from 2015-01-30T04:00

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 B...

An Introduction to the Dart Language with Lars Bak and Kasper Lund from 2015-01-23T04:00

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 f...

Performance as a Feature with Matt Warren from 2015-01-16T04:00

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 ...

Get Involved in Citizen Science with Chandra Clarke from 2014-12-26T04:00

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,...

An Internet of Things (IoT) primer with Erica Stanley from 2014-12-19T04:00

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 star...

Web Animation Foundations, Today and Tomorrow with Rachel Nabors from 2014-12-12T04:00

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 an...

Comics, Creativity, Computers and Secret Coders with Gene Luen Yang from 2014-11-28T04:00

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 mu...

The Other Side of Diversity with Erica Joy from 2014-11-21T04:00

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'...

Balancing a Nerdcore Music Career and a PhD with Sammus aka Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo from 2014-11-14T04:00

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 po...

Controllerism and digital music with artist and inventor Moldover from 2014-10-31T04:00

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 package...

Selecting the Ultimate Developer Laptop with Damian Edwards from 2014-10-24T04:00

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?

All about CSS Animations with Val Head from 2014-10-17T04:00

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 epi...

"A Dark Room" - What's it like to have a #1 App? With Amir Rajan from 2014-10-10T04:00

"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...

Being a CodeNewbie with Saron Yitbarek from 2014-09-26T04:00

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 CodeNew...

Choosing a JavaScript Framework with Craig McKeachie from 2014-09-19T04:00

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 ...

Hanselminutiae 14 with Richard Campbell - Apple iPhone 6 and Apple Watch Announcements (+VIDEO) from 2014-09-12T04:00

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...

Exploring Trans*H4CK with Dr. Kortney Ziegler from 2014-08-29T04:00

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...

Inside RavenDB with Michael Yarichuk from 2014-08-22T04:00

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 a...

Building CalendarTree, a new startup, with Dilbert creator Scott Adams from 2014-08-15T04:00

Scott H. sits down with Dilbert creator Scott Adams to talk about his new startup CalendarTree. Has Scott become the pointy-haired boss? Why not just hang out on the beach and draw cartoons? What's...

Designing for Performance with Lara Swanson from 2014-07-25T04:00

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...

Learning WebGL and making 3D HTML Games with David Catuhe and Babylon.js from 2014-07-18T04:00

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 lib...

Exploring the Bionic Pancreas with Dr. Steven Jon Russell, MD, PhD from 2014-07-11T04:00

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...

Windows Phone 8.1, Universal Apps, and the Developer Landscape with Lars Klint from 2014-06-27T04:00

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 k...

Creating Reactive User Interfaces with Adaptive Consulting's Reactive Trader from 2014-06-20T04:00

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 a...

What it really means to be Junior Developer with Jonathan Barronville from 2014-06-13T04:00

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 gaini...

Shoulder-to-shoulder remote collaboration with Susie Wee, CTO of Networked Experiences at Cisco from 2014-05-30T04:00

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 Ro...

Stories of Computer Science Past and Present with Len Bass from 2014-05-23T04:00

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 Soft...

Designing Video Games with student and game designer Lauren Scott from 2014-05-16T04:00

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 ...

Hacking the Creative Mind with Denise Jacobs from 2014-04-25T04:00

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 ...

Hanselminutiae 13 with Richard Campbell from 2014-04-18T04:00

Scott talks with regular guest Richard Campbell about open source, finding airplanes, and more.

Learn WebRTC with Lisa Larson-Kelley from 2014-04-11T04:00

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 ...

An Introduction to the Go Programming language with Andrew Gerrand from 2014-03-28T04:00

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? ...

Bitcoin Explained with Steve Beauregard, CEO of GoCoin from 2014-03-21T04:00

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 mon...

Creating the Plex Software Ecosystem with Elan Feingold from 2014-03-14T04:00

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 to...

Getting Started with JavaScript Unit Testing with Jasmine and Rushaine McBean from 2014-02-28T04:00

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?...

Creating a Mac emulator using JavaScript with James Friend from 2014-02-21T04:00

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, port...

Xbox One Developer with Dave Voyles, formerly of Comcast from 2014-02-14T04:00

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...

sass.js - An Emscripten Experiment with Rodney Rehm from 2014-01-31T04:00

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 cou...

Learning Code The Hard Way with Zed Shaw from 2014-01-24T04:00

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.
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Discourse and The Art of Discussion with Jeff Atwood from 2014-01-17T04:00

Scott catches up with Jeff Atwood about his new startup, Discourse.

Coneryminutes #3 - Bartending vs Software from 2014-01-10T04:00

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...

Geek Relationships 2013 with Scott's Wife Mo from 2013-12-27T04:00

It's 2013 and Christmas Eve Eve, and Scott sits down with his wife Mo to chat about techies and relationships.

Are we as Software Engineers focused on the right social priorities? A discussion with Hadi Hariri from 2013-12-20T04:00

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?

An Internet of Inclusion with Chanelle Henry from 2013-12-13T04:00

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 wh...

Chris Dancy, the world's most quantified man, explains the Quantified Self from 2013-11-29T04:00

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'...

Virtual Reality, the Oculus Rift and Unity 3D with Rift Chopper author James Andrew from 2013-11-22T04:00

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...

PANEL: What do Web Developers need to know in 2014 - Hanselman, Crockford, Papa, Jacobs from 2013-11-15T04:00

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
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Demystifying Scala with Netflix's Dianne Marsh from 2013-10-25T04:00

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 ex...

The Mobile Phone Struggle with Travis Pope from 2013-10-18T04:00

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...

Groovy on Grails with Netflix's Clay McCoy from 2013-10-11T04:00

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...

The State of Object-Relational Mapping with Frans Bouma from 2013-09-27T04:00

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 fac...

The Agile Mindset with Linda Rising from 2013-09-20T04:00

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 pe...

Vision-Based Computing with Dr. Neil Roodyn from 2013-09-13T04:00

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...

Understanding CouchDB and NoSQL with Jan Lehnardt from 2013-08-30T04:00

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 C...

Creating Calca - A symbolic calculator with markdown for iOS and more from 2013-08-23T04:00

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 iPhon...

Python Tools for Visual Studio with Dino Viehland from 2013-08-16T04:00

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...

What's the Deal with Windows 8.1? from 2013-07-26T04:00

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 a...

Web Development Pain and Suffering with Jim Wang from 2013-07-11T05:55:27

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.

Open Sourcing Web Essentials - Mads Kristensen and the Front End Developer from 2013-06-27T06:06:44

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...

A gentle introduction to node.js with Raquel Velez from 2013-06-14T19:42:58

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 ...

On Culture and Remoteness at GitHub with Paul Betts and Justin Spahr-Summers from 2013-06-14T04:00

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 work...

A Desktop Developer moves to the Web - with Mark Rendle from 2013-05-31T04:00

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...

Are you secure? WiFi Honeypots, Pineapples and SSL with Troy Hunt from 2013-05-24T04:00

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 wha...

Integrating Office and the Open Web with Lucidchart's Brian Pugh from 2013-05-17T04:00

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-Microsof...

Bacon is bad for you - On Developer Monoculture with Garann Means from 2013-05-10T04:00

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 an...

MonoGame and Xamarin make shipping Infinite Flight a reality from 2013-04-26T04:00

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 h...

Firefox OS and the open Mobile Web with Christian Heilmann from 2013-04-19T04:00

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.

Practical ReST with Sebastien Lambla from 2013-04-12T04:00

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...

VsVim: Visual Studio and Vim with Jared Parsons from 2013-03-29T04:00

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 developmen...

HTML5, JavaScript, Chrome and the Web Platform with Paul Irish from 2013-03-22T04:00

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...

iOS and Android apps with Xamarin Studio 2.0 and Miguel de Icaza from 2013-03-15T04:00

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#!

Geeks Without Bounds with Willow Brugh from 2013-01-25T04:00

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

Accessibility, Deafness, and Computing with Jenny Lay-Flurrie from 2013-01-18T04:00

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 ...

Today's Web Malware with AVG's Brad Rittenhouse from 2013-01-17T04:00

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...

Coneryminutes #2 - The Mid-Life Crisis from 2013-01-11T04:00

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 ...

Understanding NancyFX with Richard Cirerol from 2012-12-27T04:00

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.<...

Learning how to Learn Git with Michael Sarchet from 2012-12-21T04:00

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 e...

Developing the Hulu Windows 8 app from 2012-11-30T04:00

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 Hu...

Why C++ with Herb Sutter from 2012-11-23T04:00

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++.

World Class Climbing with Audrey Sniezek from 2012-11-16T04:00

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 ...

Draw a Stickman EPIC - An iPhone, Android and Windows 8 Game with MonoGame from 2012-10-19T04:00

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 9...

An Interview with Paul Lutus from 2012-10-12T04:00

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 s...

Porting "Contre Jour" to HTML5 with Erik Klimczak from 2012-10-11T04:00

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 did...

Glimpse gets a benefactor - Can Open Source and Commercial Software live together? from 2012-09-19T20:57:22

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 Glimp...

Robots on Mars with Mark Powell from 2012-09-11T18:39:43

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...

Joining Microsoft with Taylor Mullen, Damian Edwards and Scott Hunter from 2012-08-25T08:01

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.

Using Windows 8 with Brad Wilson and Scott from 2012-08-16T16:54:58

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. W...

Zero Day and Trojan Horse: An interview with Mark Russinovich from 2012-07-26T04:23:05

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 sce...

Understanding WinRT and Windows 8 for .NET Programmers from 2012-07-19T18:46:13

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 ...

The Art of Community with Jono Bacon from 2012-07-18T00:14:23

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 handl...

JavaScript, Web APIs, Performance and more with Dave Ward from 2012-06-28T21:52:54

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 headin...

ASP.NET 4.5 Updates, Core, WebForms and SignalR with Damian Edwards from 2012-06-23T00:55:45

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. Th...

Ben Kamens from the Khan Academy on Internships and Mentorship from 2012-06-14T16:03:50

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 me...

On Empathy with Leon Gersing the Ruby Buddha from 2012-06-14T05:06:14

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...

Developing GitHub for Windows with Phil Haack and Tim Clem from 2012-05-18T06:06:30

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 s...

The Making of How to Be Black with Baratunde Thurston from 2012-05-17T23:03:53

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 ventu...

Making real stuff with Pete Brown from 2012-05-10T16:57:50

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 manufac...

It IS Rocket Science: Holly Griffith, former Space Shuttle and current Space Station worker bee from 2012-04-26T18:05:31

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 e...

Source Control and The Cloud: How did CodePlex start supporting Git? from 2012-04-26T16:14:54

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 cho...

Hanselminutiae-eleven with Richard Campbell from 2012-04-19T17:05:09

Richard joins Scott for another thrilling episode of whatever is on Richard's mind! We talk privacy policies, location apps, Facebook, and much more!

More Relationship Hacks with Scott's Wife from 2012-04-18T04:00

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 ...

Deep Inside Image Resizing and scaling with ASP.NET and IIS with ImageResizing.net author Nathanael from 2012-04-12T04:00

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...

Why F#? with Richard Minerich and Phillip Trelford from 2012-03-23T04:00

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 y...

Startup Series: Buying an Existing Small Company or Online Application from 2012-03-15T18:58:11

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 ...

AisleFinder.com - Creating a Location-based Mobile Startup with Curtiss Pope from 2012-02-24T04:00

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 g...

Creating Science Fiction with "Zoo City" author Lauren Beukes from 2012-02-16T08:38:43

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 straigh...

Improving Diversity in Technology with Kimberly Bryant from BlackGirlsCode.com from 2012-01-26T04:00

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 engi...

Being a Phony with Jon Skeet from 2012-01-18T07:58:59

"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 w...

Hanselminutiae-ten with Richard Campbell from 2011-12-24T04:45:39

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.

Framework Series: Kendo UI HTML5 framework with Todd Anglin from 2011-12-22T04:00

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 behin...

Framework Series: The eXpand Framework with Apostolis Bekiaris from 2011-12-15T18:15:15

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 ...

Understanding BDD and NSpec with Matt Florence and Amir Rajan from 2011-11-25T04:00

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 ...

Developing a mobile app for iPhone, Windows Phone 7 and Android with Toran Billups from 2011-11-17T06:36:39

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,...

History of HTTP and the World Wide Web with Henrik Frystyk Nielsen from 2011-11-10T16:58:56

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 a...

Designing a better experience with Sara Summers from 2011-10-27T04:00

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. Sar...

Inside Visual Studio Performance and PerfWatson with Phil Price from 2011-10-21T04:00

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 th...

Google's Steve Souders, Creator of YSlow on Web Site Optimization from 2011-10-15T04:00

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 ...

Startup Series: PostSharp from Open Source to Commercial Business with Gael Fraiteur from 2011-09-28T05:35:32

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 enti...

Startup Series: Gibraltar Software with Kendall Miller from 2011-09-22T17:31:41

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 prod...

Startup Series: Growing ZocDoc with Nick Ganju from 2011-09-15T02:53

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 kin...

Inside the Design Process - Redesigning Scott's blog with Jeremy Kratz from 2011-08-25T16:59:28

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 CS...

Microsoft Research: Trinity is a Graph Database and a Distributed Parallel Platform for Graph Data from 2011-08-18T04:54:52

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 Relatio...

Within Windows with Rafael Rivera from 2011-08-12T06:00:11

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...

Polyglot Programming and .NET - Lessons Learned with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape from 2011-07-28T22:18:55

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#, Java...

Script# compiles to JavaScript: A Real World Implementation at Earth Class Mail from 2011-07-22T23:58:32

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...

Digging into the Kinect SDK with Dan Fernandez from 2011-07-14T16:55:19

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 hardwa...

Glimpse - A client-side Glimpse into your server from 2011-06-30T17:05:12

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 c...

Basics of Web Security with Barry Dorrans from 2011-06-23T16:57:02

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 webs...

Inside IronJS - A complete JavaScript/ECMAScript open source implementation on the .NET DLR from 2011-06-16T17:54:30

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 fas...

Personal Systems of Organization - Rey Bango interviews Scott Hanselman from 2011-05-26T17:28:02

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 Tech...

Before The Show: Off the Cuff Conversation with Jeff Atwood (EXPLICIT) from 2011-05-23T22:16:37

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://thisdeveloperslif...

Open Source vs. Making Money vs. Freaking Lasers - Are we all Evil? With Chris Sells from 2011-05-12T23:15:28

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 ...

This is not your father's WCF - All about the WebAPI with Glenn Block from 2011-04-28T16:22:36

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...

A C++ guy learns JavaScript - Chris Sells moves to the Web from 2011-04-21T17:44:02

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? H...

The Rise of the Micro-ORM with Sam Saffron and Rob Conery from 2011-04-14T21:02:46

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 doz...

ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update with Phil Haack from 2011-04-12T16:25:17

Mix 11 is today so Scott got the scoop from Phil on the new tools being released.

.NET API design that optimizes for Programmer Joy with Jonathan Carter from 2011-03-31T17:22:31

Scott sits down with Jonathan Carter to brainstorm about optimizing APIs for programmer happiness, rather than programmer productivity.

Remote Eclipse/Java Development using TFS at Microsoft with Martin Woodward from 2011-03-24T18:44:35

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 Manag...

Inside Entity Framework 4.1 CodeFirst with Jeff Derstadt and Tim Laverty from 2011-03-23T17:58:19

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 o...

Selenium for Web Automation Testing with Jim Evans from 2011-03-20T04:00

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?...

The Opinionated Cloud - Learning about AppHarbor from 2011-02-24T17:05

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 th...

ASP.NET Web Forms - Reports of my Death have been exaggerated, with Damian Edwards from 2011-02-17T17:54:31

Scott chats with Damian Edwards about new features coming in ASP.NET WebForms, new techniques, controls, model binding, HTML 5 and more.

Organizing your own Virtual Technical Conference - MVCConf Post-Mortem from 2011-02-10T17:02:02

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...

HTML5 Basics with Mads Kristensen from 2011-01-27T18:21:35

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? Listen

Professional Technical Speaker Tips from Scott with Drew Robbins from 2011-01-22T16:50:57

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. Ho...

On WebMatrix with Rob Conery from 2011-01-13T19:33:22

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 C...

From Agile Consultant to Agile Team Member with John Wilger from 2010-12-30T17:30:19

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 movin...

Hanselminutiae-nine with Richard Campbell from 2010-12-23T16:58:36

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 comp...

Transitions - Exploring issues moving from small companies to large corporations from 2010-12-17T21:59:59

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 ...

Kayak, OWIN, Open Source Web Servers and more with Benjamin van der Veen from 2010-12-10T05:53:29

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 developm...

The Plight of the Remote Worker with Pete Brown from 2010-11-24T20:55:57

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 tho...

The MVVM Pattern with Laurent Bugnion from 2010-11-18T22:25:04

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 ...

Developing Indie Games for Xbox 360 and XNA with George Clingerman from 2010-11-12T17:17:44

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# ...

ASP.NET MVC 3 RC and NuGet Package Management with Phil Haack from 2010-10-27T23:31:44

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.

Deeper into the Netduino with Chris Walker from Secret Labs from 2010-10-21T16:57:59

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 ...

Getting Things Done with Lane Newsom from 2010-09-28T22:44:19

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?

Inside the Naked Objects Framework with Richard Pawson from 2010-09-16T19:07:23

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 sy...

Continuous Web Deployment with Jon Torresdal from 2010-08-26T17:09:29

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 experi...

OpenID and OpenAuth with DotNetOpenAuth open source programmer Andrew Arnott from 2010-08-19T19:21:27

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? The...

Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 from 2010-08-12T21:52:41

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 tr...

Inside Expression SuperPreview with developer Mike Calvo from 2010-08-11T00:09:34

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. H...

Learning about NHibernate 3 with Jason Dentler from 2010-07-29T17:52:09

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 get...

ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 with Phil Haack from 2010-07-23T16:57:39

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 d...

Code First Databases with Entity Framework (Magic Unicorn Edition) from 2010-07-16T17:13:41

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 ac...

Art is Shipping - Bridging Designers and Developers with Jin Yang from 2010-07-15T17:16:37

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 togethe...

Demystifying Microsoft's Application Server: Windows Server AppFabric with Karandeep Anand from 2010-06-24T16:57:15

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 rel...

Punditry, Politics, Race, iPads, The Onion and the Web with Baratunde Thurston from 2010-06-19T17:46:39

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 ...

MVC Turbine and IoC made easy with Javier Lozano from 2010-06-10T17:19:04

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 u...

World Airplane Travel Tips with James Senior from 2010-05-27T06:06:08

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 ...

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and LinFu with Philip Laureano from 2010-04-29T04:00

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 Rewr...

The Podcast about Podcasts with Joel Spolsky from 2010-04-23T04:00

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? Ho...

Jeff Atwood on the Future of Stack Overflow from 2010-04-22T04:00

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 th...

John Lam and the Science of Fitness from 2010-04-15T17:27

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?...

Charles Petzold on Windows Phone 7 Series from 2010-03-22T22:44:38

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 stopp...

Windows Phone 7 Series - The Developer Experience with Charlie Kindel from 2010-03-17T04:57:58

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 prog...

Open Data Protocol (OData) with Pablo Castro from 2010-03-11T17:12:02

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 fr...

Women in Technology in the Muslim World from 2010-02-27T13:23:42

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 Sen...

The Making of a Hanselminutes Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy from 2010-02-16T22:52:25

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 answe...

Jon Skeet - World's Greatest Living Programmer, or just a nice English guy? from 2010-02-12T17:09:11

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 StackOverf...

The Dynamic Language Runtime, IronRuby and IronPython with Jimmy Schementi from 2010-01-27T05:46:43

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 fi...

.NET 4 CLR, Framework and Language Chat with Jason Olson from 2010-01-21T16:44:02

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...

Open Source, Microsoft and The WiX Project with Rob Mensching from 2010-01-15T18:51:36

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...

The Spark View Engine for ASP.NET MVC with Louis DeJardin from 2009-12-11T20:24:36

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 M...

2009 Holiday Geek Gift Guide with Richard Campbell from 2009-11-28T23:39:22

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...

ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta with Phil Haack from 2009-11-18T14:54:24

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 ...

Software Tester James Bach and The Voyage of a Buccaneer-Scholar from 2009-11-11T17:22:24

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...

Spolsky, Atwood, Blyth, Hanselman = Crazy-Delicious || Content-Free? from 2009-10-23T07:50:42

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...

Preview of ASP.NET 4 with Scott Hunter from 2009-10-15T06:21:43

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?...

Hanselminutes Live: Gadgets, Hi-Def, WebCams, 4G and More from 2009-10-10T10:00:48

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 ul...

Monomania - Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware from 2009-09-25T04:45:01

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 cro...

The Return of 3-Tier Architecture - RIA Services with Brad Abrams from 2009-09-18T03:40:22

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'...

Hanselminutes Live: Open Source and the Codeplex Foundation from 2009-09-13T04:00

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 Foundat...

Hanselminutiae-seven with Richard Campbell from 2009-08-28T06:32:17

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.

Udi Dahan and NServiceBus from 2009-08-20T19:54:50

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.
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Optimizing Your Website with Jeff Atwood and Stackoverflow from 2009-08-14T05:46:05

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 seei...

All About Microsoft with Mary Jo Foley from 2009-07-30T23:58:31

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.

Dan Bricklin on Technology from 2009-07-23T20:44:48

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, ...

Return of Uncle Bob from 2009-07-16T21:53:15

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.

Convention Over Configuration with Jeremy Miller. from 2009-06-25T19:18:28

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 sim...

Windows Presentation Foundation explained by Ian Griffiths from 2009-06-22T22:04:54

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...

Working Effectively with Legacy Code with Michael Feathers from 2009-06-18T23:26:22

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?
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Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer from 2009-06-11T17:11:51

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 o...

Software Metrics with Patrick Smacchia from 2009-05-26T16:22:31

Scott sits down with Patrick Smacchia, lead developer of NDepend, and talks about Software Metrics. What metrics lie beyond Lines of Code?