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 Juli 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 Juli 201135min
Glimpse - A client-side Glimpse into your server
Scott talks with open source developers Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar from the Glimpse Project. Their very innovative (and all JavaScript and HTML!) debugger tool for ASP.NET has taken the community by storm. How did they do it and how can Glimpse make your live better?
30 Juni 201139min
Basics of Web Security with Barry Dorrans
Scott sits down with Microsoft Security Engineer Barry Dorrans to get a general sense of the basics of Web Security in 2011. Who are the groups in the news most often? What threats are nailing websites most often today, and are they different from classic threats? Where do we start to protect our sites?
23 Juni 201135min
Inside IronJS - A complete JavaScript/ECMAScript open source implementation on the .NET DLR
Scott talks to open source developer Fredrik Holmström about IronJS. It's a very complete implementation of JavaScript written in F# on top of the DLR. It's even faster than IE8 now and getting faster every day. How does something like this get built? What can you use it for? What are the Iron* languages used for and how can you get involved?
16 Juni 201133min
Nancy, Sinatra and the Explosion of .NET Micro Web Frameworks with Andreas Håkansson
Scott chats with open source developer Andreas Håkansson about his .NET micro web framework called Nancy which is inspired by a Ruby framework called Sinatra. Why do we need frameworks like this? What kinds of sites and services can they support and how do they relate to ASP.NET?
9 Juni 201133min
Community vs. Evangelism vs. Marketing vs. Authenticity with Brandon Watson
Scott sits down with Brandon Watson, a Director on Windows Phone. He works with the Developer Community, but what does that really mean? Scott pushes on this point to better understand his own job at Microsoft.
2 Juni 201135min
Personal Systems of Organization - Rey Bango interviews Scott Hanselman
Tables turned this week and Rey Bango interviews Scott on his personal systems of organization. How has Scott synthesized the systems of Stephen Covey, David Allen, J.D. Meier and the Pomodoro Technique into a living system that works for him.
26 Maj 201134min
