Inside the Design Process - Redesigning Scott's blog with Jeremy Kratz
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?
25 Aug 201136min
Microsoft Research: Trinity is a Graph Database and a Distributed Parallel Platform for Graph Data
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?
18 Aug 201131min
Within Windows with Rafael Rivera
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.
12 Aug 201135min
Microsoft Web Platform and Azure direction with Scott Hunter
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.
4 Aug 201132min
Polyglot Programming and .NET - Lessons Learned with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape
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?
28 Jul 201138min
Script# compiles to JavaScript: A Real World Implementation at Earth Class Mail
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?
22 Jul 201135min
Digging into the Kinect SDK with Dan Fernandez
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?
14 Jul 201136min
JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Semantic Markup is Dead! Clean vs. Machine-coded HTML
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?
7 Jul 201135min
