Approval Tests with Llewellyn Falco
Scott is at the Agile Open Northwest open spaces conference with Llewellyn Falco this week. He talks to Llewellyn about his "Approval Tests" open source project. It's a polyglot framework to make test verification much easier when Assert() isn't enough.
1 Mars 201328min
Git support within Visual Studio
Scott talks to Philip Kelley and Martin Woodward, developers on the project that's brought Git support to Visual Studio. They talk about committing to a GPL'd OSS project, plugging it into VS, and how TFS and Git work together.
8 Feb 201336min
Halo 4 - Services in Azure with Caitie McCaffrey
Scott talks to 343 Studios engineer Caitie McCaffrey about how they use the cloud to run services for Halo 4. All the backend services sit on Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Service Bus more. How do they scale? How do they deploy? How does this change how they write software?
8 Feb 201333min
Dr. Kyla McMullen on Diversity in Computer Science and Spatial Audio
Dr. Kyla McMullen has become the first African American woman at the University of Michigan to graduate with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Scott chats with Dr. Kyla about how to increase diversity in engineering disciplines. We also chat about her thesis "Interface Design Implications for Recalling the Spatial Configuration of Virtual Auditory Environments."
1 Feb 201332min
Geeks Without Bounds with Willow Brugh
Scott talks to Willow Brugh from Geeks Without Bounds. Geeks Without Bounds is an accelerator for humanitarian projects. How can you get involved?
25 Jan 201332min
Accessibility, Deafness, and Computing with Jenny Lay-Flurrie
Jenny Lay-Flurrie is a Senior Director at Microsoft and an accessibility advocate who happens to also be quite deaf. She talks to Scott about how she works and what she works on. How does deafness slow her down, what works, what doesn't, and how does it make her an even better customer advocate?
18 Jan 201333min
Today's Web Malware with AVG's Brad Rittenhouse
Scott talks to AVG LinkScanner team lead Brad Rittenhouse about malware on the web today. What motivates the bad guys? What techniques are they using and where are they getting them from? Should we browse with JavaScript turned off?
17 Jan 201333min
Coneryminutes #2 - The Mid-Life Crisis
It's the get off my lawn episode. Scott and Rob have birthdays coming up and they talk about what it means. Have we founded enough startups? What does success mean? Why don't we listen to folks 20 years older? Why doesn't anyone younger listen to us? ;)
11 Jan 201329min
