Hanselminutes

The Past, Present and Future of .NET Unit Testing Frameworks

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Scott gets a rare chance to sit down in person with developers from three .NET Unit Testing Frameworks. Charlie Poole from NUnit, Jeff Brown from MbUnit, Brad Wilson from xUnit.NET as well as Roy Osherove, the author of the upcoming "Art of Unit Testing."

ASP.NET Model View Controller, MVCContrib and MonoRail

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Scott sits down with Phil Haack, ASP.NET Microsoft PM, Dru Sellers, Contributor to the Castle Project, and Jeffrey Palermo, of the MVCContrib project and talks about the ASP.NET MVC Project and Microsoft's changing attitudes towards Open Source.

Microsoft Research: Spec#

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:30:18 EDT

Scott sits down with Mike Barnett and Rustan Leino of Microsoft Research and talks about the Spec# programming language. The compiler enables Design By Contract and extends C#. The team needs your help to get these features in the next version of C#!

ASP.NET Dynamic Data with Scott Hunter

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:43:51 EDT

Following up on the announcement from last week on ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Scott sits down with yet-another-Scott, in this case Scott Hunter, a Program Manager on the ASP.NET team and tries to get his mind wrapped around Dynamic Data.

Distributed Source Control with Git

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:44:48 EDT

Scott sits down with Robby, Gary and Andy from Planet Argon, a local Rails shop in Portland, OR, and talks about their experience as they move from Subversion to Git for their source control.

Digital Photography Explained (for Geeks) with Aaron Hockley

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:15:39 EDT

Scott sits down with Amateur Photographer (recently-turned-pro) Aaron Hockley. Together they decode the technical language of photography and online photo sharing.

Inside Outsourcing

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

In this episode Scott sits down with Venkat and Vinod from India, two Microsoft Regional Directors and gets their inside perspective on outsourcing.

Rocky Lhotka on Data Access Mania, LINQ and CSLA.NET

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:39:06 EDT

Scott talks with developer and author Rockford Lhotka about the attack of the DALs (Data Access Layers). How can we put LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities and classic multi-tiered design all into a larger context? What's the right strategy for your data access needs? Scott's got questions and Rocky's got opinions.

Dave Laribee on ALT.NET

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:03:52 EDT

This week Scott talks with Dave Laribee of Xclaim Software about the movement he named ALT.NET. Are these alternative principles or just business as usual? What can Microsoft learn from the Agile Community?

Quetzal Bradley on Testing after Unit Tests

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:28:13 EDT

In this episode Scott talks with Quetzal Bradley, a Microsoft developer on the Connected Systems Architecture Team, about testing after unit tests. Is 100% Code Coverage enough?

Principal Architect Mike Pizzo on the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:40:36 EDT

Scott discusses the ins and outs of the ADO.NET Entity framework and LINQ to Entities with Microsoft Principal Architect Mike Pizzo.

Michio Kaku on making the "impossible" possible

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:56:29 EDT

Scott talks with theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku about making what was once considered impossible technology into reality.

Building Community with Norm Judah - CTO of Microsoft Services

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:45:38 EDT

Scott chats with Norm Judah, the CTO of Microsoft Services. They talk about running a multi-cultural organization of 16,000 consultants, building online community, and writing green software.

What's it like for Mac Developers - Interview with Steven Frank of Panic

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:00:22 EDT

Scott chats with Steven Frank, co-founder of Panic, an Apple Design Award winning Mac Development Shop. Scott and Steven went to college together and their technology paths forked. What's it like coding for Mac and how is it different from Windows?

Scott Interviews His Dad

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EDT

In this special episode, Scott sits down with his Dad and talks about growing up as a geek, raising geeks, and the sacrifices families make to help their geek children succeed.

ADO.NET "Astoria" Data Services with Shawn Wildermuth

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Scott chats with Shawn Wildermuth, "the ADO Guy," about ADO.NET Data Services, aka "Project Astoria." It's REST for SQL Server. Should you care? What's REST? How does this relate to WCF or ASP.NET?

Starting Small with F# with Dustin Campbell

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:18:40 EDT

Scott is at CodeMash in Ohio this week chatting with CodeRush/Refactor developer Dustin Campbell about his recent obsession with F#. Is it a functional language and object-oriented language or an imperative language? Why should you care?

2007 The Year in Review

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:10:47 EDT

Scott and Carl chat about 2007. How was the year for Developers? For the Web?

The Worst Show Ever with Chris Sells and Rory Blyth

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:56:01 EDT

Chris Sells and Rory Blyth come over to Scott's house and proceed to record a horrible episode of Hanselminutes. Consider this a Holiday episode that is devoid of content. Run away, quickly, and we'll be back with great new shows, new topics and new guests in the new year. As for this episode, if you listen, you'll never get the time back. ;)

Pex with Jonathan 'Peli' de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:48:48 EDT

"Pex" is an intelligent assistant to the programmer that automatically generates unit tests, allowing you to find bugs early. In addition, it suggests to the programmer how to fix the bugs. Scott chats with Peli and Nikolai about this exciting Microsoft Research project.