Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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Solver Foundation and Optimization with Nathan Brixius Dec 09, 2009

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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, declarative way.

The State of Powershell with Lee Holmes and Jason Shirk Dec 04, 2009

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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 what features could I exploit more effectively?

2009 Holiday Geek Gift Guide with Richard Campbell Nov 28, 2009

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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 life.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta with Phil Haack Nov 18, 2009

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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 The Gu.

Software Tester James Bach and The Voyage of a Buccaneer-Scholar Nov 11, 2009

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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 he dropped out of school at age 14. His new book "Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar" explores the issue of nontraditional learning as it relates to success later in life. James is an interesting dude. I hope you enjoy the show.

.NET Debugging 101 with Tess Ferrandez Nov 05, 2009

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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 use WinDBG and what are the best ways to debug memory issues, perf problems and hangs.

Spolsky, Atwood, Blyth, Hanselman = Crazy-Delicious || Content-Free? Oct 23, 2009

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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 longer than usual and the sound quality isn't up to our usual standards. This is Scott's fault, not Lawrence's, our fantastic editor. :)

Preview of ASP.NET 4 with Scott Hunter Oct 15, 2009

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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 Oct 10, 2009

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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 ultimate fail to save the video. This is the only artifact. This is fortunate because Scott does an audio podcast.

The History and Future of Web Standards with Molly Holzschlag from molly.com Oct 01, 2009

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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 currently works for Opera as an evangelist. She explains the history of HTML, SGML and XML and we chat about where we think the web is headed.