Why Postgres? and why now? with Claire Giordano

With Scott Hanselman out this week Scott Hunter and Damian Edwards talk to a new developer on the ASP.NET team Taylor Mullen about how he interviewed and joined Microsoft.

25 Elo 201224min

Scott has been using Windows 8 for a week and Brad Wilson has been using it since last October. Neither of them work on Windows 8 so in this episode we talk about using Windows 8 as a power user. What works and what doesn't?

16 Elo 201236min

Rob Conery turns the table (he insisted) and creates Coneryminutes, interviewing Scott for this episode.

9 Elo 201233min

Scott sits down with new programmer Iris Classon. Iris has been coding for just one year and is now working full time as a .NET Developer. How did she get started and why so late? How should we as a community get more women and children involved in computers? What can we do to support new developers?

2 Elo 201230min

Mark Russinovich is a Technical Fellow on the Azure Product Team at Microsoft, but is also the author of the cyber-thriller Zero Day, and its upcoming sequel Trojan Horse. How realistic are the scenarios from Mark's books? How concerned should we be and what's being done about it?

26 Heinä 201233min

Scott's confused about what 'WinRT' is. Is it a new .NET? A new runtime? Is .NET dead? He's totally confused so he talks to Immo Landwerth who sets him straight with complete context from Win32 to COM to .NET and beyond.

19 Heinä 201234min

Scott sits down with Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon at OSCON 2012 in Portland, Oregon to talk about community. Does it need to be managed? Is community a garden to tend or something that handles itself?

18 Heinä 201231min

Scott gets schooled by Damian and Levi on the differences between parallelism, background processing, and asynchronous programming. How does await and async change the game and what do you need to know to get started today.

5 Heinä 201232min