Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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Regine Gilbert on the Essence of Accessibility Jan 03, 2019

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Regine Gilbert is a user experience designer, educator, and international public speaker with over 10 years of experience working in the technology arena. She has a strong belief in making the world a more accessible place—one that starts and ends with the user. 

Regine is an Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, teaching User Experience Design to students in the Integrated Digital Media Program. In addition, she teaches the part time User Experience Design course at General Assembly. Regine is passionate about making websites and apps that work for everyone!

https://twitter.com/reg_inee
http://reginegilbert.com/
https://equalentry.com/
https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/incredibles-2-strobe-light-warning-1202848920/
https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/regine-gilbert/6945
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-bills-jets-game-is-complete-torture-for-color-blind-people/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a11y-why-you-should-pay-attention-regine-gilbert/
https://webaim.org/
https://www.gilbertconsultinggroup.co/

Better Allies and Better Hiring with Karen Catlin Dec 28, 2018

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Karen Catlin was a vice president of engineering at two public software companies, and served as the CEO of an early-stage startup. Today she's a leadership coach and author who is helping folks cultivate ally skills. Most recently she wrote "Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces."

http://betterallies.com

test && commit || revert with Kent Beck Dec 21, 2018

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Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, an original signer of the Agile Manifesto, and the author of the Extreme Programming book series, and a proponent of Test-Driven Development. Today he's chatting with Scott about how "test && commit || revert" might offer us a new programming workflow to explore!

https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd756864

Test Automation University with Applitools' Angie Jones Dec 13, 2018

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Angie speaks all over the world on Test Automation strategies, and she got Scott excited about Selenium again! She keynoted Selenium Conf 2018 and currently works at Applitools making automated visual testing tools. She's most recently launched on a new "Test Automation University" that's free and community driven.

http://testautomationu.com
http://angiejones.tech

Real Software Engineering with Glenn Vanderburg Dec 07, 2018

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Glenn Vanderburg works as the VP of Engineering at First and has spoken all over on the notion of software development as engineering. What should an engineering discipline of software development look like? What's "REAL" Software Engineering? Does the analogy of software engineering as home construction hold water? What should software engineering look like?

https://vanderburg.org
https://vanderburg.org/speaking/#rse
Video of Glenn speaking at "Software Art Thou?"

ASP.NET Core in Action with Andrew Lock Nov 30, 2018

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Scott talks to author Andrew Lock about his new book ASP.NET Core in Action! What made Andrew write a book on this new technology and how did he find the process? What about ASP.NET Core was so compelling and how does Andrew use it? More importantly, should you?

Use coupon code "podhanselman18" for 40% this book or any Manning product!

https://www.manning.com/books/asp-net-core-in-action

PlayFab's complete backend platform for live games with Dr. Hanna Oh Descher Nov 22, 2018

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Hanna Oh Descher is a data scientist at PlayFab with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience. She is passionate about understanding player behavior to help developers make games more fun. Scott and Hanna talk about what PlayFab allows game developers to do - focus on fun games!

https://playfab.com/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/gaming/

Moving companies to Open Source with the Head of Comcast's Open Source Office Nithya Ruff Nov 16, 2018

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Nithya Ruff serves as an at-large director on the Linux Foundation's board of directors. In her day job she is the Head of Comcast's Open Source Office. Nithya has been guiding companies' open source strategies for many years and in this episode she and Scott talk about how to introduce Open Source to more "traditional" companies.

http://innovationfund.comcast.com/
http://comcast.github.io
https://todogroup.org

Upgrading GitHub and improving Rails with Eileen Uchitelle Nov 08, 2018

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Eileen Uchitelle is a Senior Systems Engineer at GitHub and a member of the Rails Core Team. They recently upgraded GitHub two major versions to the latest Rails. How do you manage such a large upgrade and the technical debt underneath - with no downtime? How do you also move improvements in GitHub's own branch upstream into Rails so everyone can benefit! Eileen explains it all to Scott in this episode.

Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2

Designing for a Global Audience with Digital Nomad Jenny Shen Nov 01, 2018

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Digital Nomad Jenny Shen aims to design software for a Global Audience. Are you creating software that includes everyone? Does it consider not just internationalization but also culture and how people think? We'll discuss design across culture in this week's episode.

http://jennyshen.com/mentorship.html
https://diverseui.com/
https://blog.prototypr.io/ux-design-across-different-cultures-part-1-1caa12a504c0
https://uxplanet.org/ux-design-across-different-cultures-part-2-761c911e875