Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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Inside the Design Process - Redesigning Scott's blog with Jeremy Kratz Aug 25, 2011

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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 CSS begin, or is there a distinction? Should YOU hire a designer?

Microsoft Research: Trinity is a Graph Database and a Distributed Parallel Platform for Graph Data Aug 18, 2011

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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 Relational DB, a Document DB or even just a naive in-memory distributed data structure? Will your next database be a graph database?

Within Windows with Rafael Rivera Aug 12, 2011

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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 week on Hanselminutes.

Microsoft Web Platform and Azure direction with Scott Hunter Aug 04, 2011

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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 the future at Microsoft.

Polyglot Programming and .NET - Lessons Learned with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape Jul 28, 2011

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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#, JavaScript and Ruby to create this app. Why was polyglot programming right for what them? Is it right for you?

Script# compiles to JavaScript: A Real World Implementation at Earth Class Mail Jul 22, 2011

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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 problems? Would they do it again?

Digging into the Kinect SDK with Dan Fernandez Jul 14, 2011

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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 hardware and what happens in software...and more importantly, what can I build?

JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Semantic Markup is Dead! Clean vs. Machine-coded HTML Jul 07, 2011

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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?

Glimpse - A client-side Glimpse into your server Jun 30, 2011

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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 community by storm. How did they do it and how can Glimpse make your live better?

Basics of Web Security with Barry Dorrans Jun 23, 2011

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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 websites most often today, and are they different from classic threats? Where do we start to protect our sites?