Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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Today's Web Malware with AVG's Brad Rittenhouse Jan 17, 2013

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Scott talks to AVG LinkScanner team lead Brad Rittenhouse about malware on the web today. What motivates the bad guys? What techniques are they using and where are they getting them from? Should we browse with JavaScript turned off?

Coneryminutes #2 - The Mid-Life Crisis Jan 11, 2013

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It's the get off my lawn episode. Scott and Rob have birthdays coming up and they talk about what it means. Have we founded enough startups? What does success mean? Why don't we listen to folks 20 years older? Why doesn't anyone younger listen to us? ;)

Making Open Source work at Microsoft with SignalR and Damian Edwards Jan 03, 2013

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Scott talks to Damian Edwards about how he and David Fowler shipped SignalR at Microsoft, now with a team of a dozen. They use open source, they are open source and they love open source. How are they making it happen and what does it mean for the future of .NET?

Understanding NancyFX with Richard Cirerol Dec 27, 2012

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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 Dec 21, 2012

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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 experience colors your experience learning Git and offers some ideas on how to think about Git.

Hanselminutiae-eleven with Richard Campbell Dec 13, 2012

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Scott chats with Richard about all things automatable. Scott's finally got his backup situation handled, and is now exploiting his NAS appliance with new packages for surveillance, transcoding and more.

Developing the Hulu Windows 8 app Nov 30, 2012

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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 Hulu think about when creating apps for many platforms? How do they get all those clean images? What about designing for 10" AND 30" monitors?

Why C++ with Herb Sutter Nov 23, 2012

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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 Nov 16, 2012

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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 and work begin? Audrey educates Scott on how she climbs, trains, eats and analyzes life.

Moment of Inspiration - Inside the MOI3D modelling tool with Michael Gibson Nov 09, 2012

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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 lovely and it's cross-platform. Scott talks to Michael about how he made MoI, what it's written in, how it runs on a Mac and more. All this plus Scott gets to act like he knows what a Bézier Curve is.