Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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VsVim: Visual Studio and Vim with Jared Parsons Mar 29, 2013

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An unholy alliance or a wonderful combination? Jared Parsons has created what he thinks may be the best of both worlds. VsVim combines the speed and familiarity of Vim with the power and development power of Visual Studio. How did he do it, and why?

HTML5, JavaScript, Chrome and the Web Platform with Paul Irish Mar 22, 2013

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Scott sits down with Chrome Developer Advocate Paul Irish to talk HTML5, JavaScript, Chrome and the Web. What Chrome Developer Tools features make web dev easier? While Webkit marches on, should we embrace or fear monoculture? Will modules make JavaScript apps easier to write? Where does Windows fit into the world of web development?

iOS and Android apps with Xamarin Studio 2.0 and Miguel de Icaza Mar 15, 2013

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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#!

Language Hunters with Willem Larsen Mar 08, 2013

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Scott sits down at Agile Open Northwest with Willem Larsen of Language Hunters. Language Hunting is an accelerated learning system designed to develop fluent speakers of all ages in a fun and supportive game-like environment. Does it work? Will it work for Scott?

Approval Tests with Llewellyn Falco Mar 01, 2013

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Scott is at the Agile Open Northwest open spaces conference with Llewellyn Falco this week. He talks to Llewellyn about his "Approval Tests" open source project. It's a polyglot framework to make test verification much easier when Assert() isn't enough.

Halo 4 - Services in Azure with Caitie McCaffrey Feb 08, 2013

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Scott talks to 343 Studios engineer Caitie McCaffrey about how they use the cloud to run services for Halo 4. All the backend services sit on Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Service Bus more. How do they scale? How do they deploy? How does this change how they write software?

Git support within Visual Studio Feb 08, 2013

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Scott talks to Philip Kelley and Martin Woodward, developers on the project that's brought Git support to Visual Studio. They talk about committing to a GPL'd OSS project, plugging it into VS, and how TFS and Git work together.

Dr. Kyla McMullen on Diversity in Computer Science and Spatial Audio Feb 01, 2013

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Dr. Kyla McMullen has become the first African American woman at the University of Michigan to graduate with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Scott chats with Dr. Kyla about how to increase diversity in engineering disciplines. We also chat about her thesis "Interface Design Implications for Recalling the Spatial Configuration of Virtual Auditory Environments."

Geeks Without Bounds with Willow Brugh Jan 25, 2013

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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 Jan 18, 2013

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Jenny Lay-Flurrie is a Senior Director at Microsoft and an accessibility advocate who happens to also be quite deaf. She talks to Scott about how she works and what she works on. How does deafness slow her down, what works, what doesn't, and how does it make her an even better customer advocate?