Startup Series: Growing ZocDoc with Nick Ganju
Scott chats with Nick Ganju CTO of ZocDoc on how he's building his business with BizSpark and ASP.NET. Does he use Open Source? When do they write their own libraries and when do they buy? What kinds of issues does a .NET startup run into when hiring?
15 Sep 201134min
Startup Series: Building Octopus Deploy with Paul Stovell
This week Scott skypes with Paul in London. He's recently moved from Australia and has simultaneously launched his own micro-ISV focused on convention-based deployments made easy. What's involved? How did it get started and what does this Octopus Deploy do?
6 Sep 201136min
Startup Series: Inside the DuckDuckGo Search Engine with Gabriel Weinberg
In this first Startup Series episode, Scott talks to Gabriel Weinberg about DuckDuckGo, his new search engine. How dare he go up against Google? He dare with better, more relevant search results. Learn how to be an overnight success in just 15 short years.
2 Sep 201135min
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 Juli 201138min
