Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Angie speaks all over the world on Test Automation strategies, and she got Scott excited about Selenium again! She keynoted Selenium Conf 2018 and currently works at Applitools making automated visual testing tools. She's most recently launched on a new "Test Automation University" that's free and community driven. http://testautomationu.com http://angiejones.tech

13 Des 201829min

Glenn Vanderburg works as the VP of Engineering at First and has spoken all over on the notion of software development as engineering. What should an engineering discipline of software development look like? What's "REAL" Software Engineering? Does the analogy of software engineering as home construction hold water? What should software engineering look like? https://vanderburg.org https://vanderburg.org/speaking/#rse Video of Glenn speaking at "Software Art Thou?"

7 Des 201829min

Scott talks to author Andrew Lock about his new book ASP.NET Core in Action! What made Andrew write a book on this new technology and how did he find the process? What about ASP.NET Core was so compelling and how does Andrew use it? More importantly, should you? Use coupon code "podhanselman18" for 40% this book or any Manning product! https://www.manning.com/books/asp-net-core-in-action

30 Nov 201830min

Hanna Oh Descher is a data scientist at PlayFab with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience. She is passionate about understanding player behavior to help developers make games more fun. Scott and Hanna talk about what PlayFab allows game developers to do - focus on fun games! https://playfab.com/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/gaming/

22 Nov 201829min

Nithya Ruff serves as an at-large director on the Linux Foundation's board of directors. In her day job she is the Head of Comcast's Open Source Office. Nithya has been guiding companies' open source strategies for many years and in this episode she and Scott talk about how to introduce Open Source to more "traditional" companies. http://innovationfund.comcast.com/ http://comcast.github.io https://todogroup.org

16 Nov 201830min

Eileen Uchitelle is a Senior Systems Engineer at GitHub and a member of the Rails Core Team. They recently upgraded GitHub two major versions to the latest Rails. How do you manage such a large upgrade and the technical debt underneath - with no downtime? How do you also move improvements in GitHub's own branch upstream into Rails so everyone can benefit! Eileen explains it all to Scott in this episode. Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2

8 Nov 201833min

Digital Nomad Jenny Shen aims to design software for a Global Audience. Are you creating software that includes everyone? Does it consider not just internationalization but also culture and how people think? We'll discuss design across culture in this week's episode. http://jennyshen.com/mentorship.html https://diverseui.com/ https://blog.prototypr.io/ux-design-across-different-cultures-part-1-1caa12a504c0 https://uxplanet.org/ux-design-across-different-cultures-part-2-761c911e875

1 Nov 201832min

What if you couldn't play video games? Most controllers require not just two hands but also fine motor skills and exact motions. The Xbox Accessibility Controller aims to open up gaming for everyone. It's not trying to be the controller for everyone, but rather than controller platform for everyone! Scott talks to John Alexander about how he games with the Xbox Accessibility Controller. https://www.quadstick.com/shop/quadstick-fps-game-controller https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/3drudder-foot-controller/90lh5fwnx6t8/lbxg?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab https://www.ablenetinc.com/technology/switches https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessories#assistive https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/ http://yourcpf.org/ http://www.ablegamers.org/ https://warfighterengaged.org/

25 Okt 201832min