Hanselminutes - Fresh Talk and Tech for Developers

Brook Drumm took a successful Kickstarter and turned it into a fantastic business making Printrbot 3D Printers. Brook is also a co-star on the new Science Channel TV show "All-American Makers." This is our first episode in our month-long podcast series March Is For Makers. We're teaming up with CodeNewbie to give you a month of great hardware and maker content. Check us out at http://marchisformakers.com and subscribe to both podcasts!

Scott talks to Clojure expert Carin Meier about how to get started with this powerful functional language. Carin worked in Java for 15 years and switched to Clojure and loved it so much she wrote a book! 'Living Clojure' comes out April of 2015.

Scott talks to Richard Campbell in this episode, recorded LIVE (and available on YouTube!) on February 10th.

Scott talks to developer Paul Betts, formerly of GitHub, now working on the Windows Desktop application for Slack. They are building their desktop with atom-shell, a cross-platform toolkit that uses V8 and Chromium. Is atom-shell right for you?

Scott was in Japan at the GoAzure event in January and had the pleasure of interviewing Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), the creator of the Ruby language! What motivates Matz and how did that motivation drive the creation and direction of Ruby?

Carl Smith Carl Smith is the founder of nGen Works, a design firm in Florida specializing in User Experience Design, Branding, App and Mobile Development and more. Carl is also the co-host of the BizCraft podcast. Carl talks to Scott about where he thinks web design and development is heading in 2015.

Scott sits down (remotely from Denmark!) with Dart Language founders Lars Bak and Kasper Lund. Dart is an open source web programming language developed by Google and introduced in 2011. It looks familiar, has its own VM, but can also compile to JavaScript.

Scott talks to .NET performance aficionado Matt Warren about how to make performance a feature of your application. Is performance cultural or technical? What tools are available to put perf front and center?

Scott talks to Steven Edouard about making CI (Continuous Integration) and easy deployment possible in the cloud. From small node-based sites to larger Chef and automated VM deployments, Steven outlines our options and gets us started in Azure.

Adrian Rosebrock has PhD focused on Computer Vision and Machine Learning. He's a recognized expert in getting computers to "see" stuff...and all kinds of things at that! Adrian and Scott talk about some of the kinds of problems computer vision can solve, from medical issues to gaming, retail to surveillance. Scott gets educated on how to start and how far he can take Computer Vision as a beginner!

Scott talks to science advocate Chandra Clarke about the rise of Citizen Science. Chandra has a Master's degree in Space Studies and writes about citizen science and space for a number of websites, including her own Citizen Science Center. What does it mean to be a citizen scientist and how can you (and the children in your life) get involved? We talk tech, software, space, the moon, and much much more.

Scott talks to engineer Erica Stanley about the Internet of Things. What's the tech behind this popular buzzword? What are some of the emerging standards for connectivity, and where should you start when exploring IoT development kits!

Scott sits down with award-winning animator and web animations expert Rachel Nabors about the importance of intentional and thoughtful animation on the web. Rachel talks about the death of Flash and what that meant for animation and where she sees the web going with the advent of the new Web Animation API that is starting to show up in daily builds of Chrome.

Katelyn Gadd is a freelance programmer and game designer and the creator of the amazing JSIL project. JSIL is a compiler that transforms .NET applications into standards-compliant, cross-browser JavaScript. Katelyn teaches Scott about how this project works, where its power lies, and how XNA games can come to the browser!

Gene Luen Yang is an writer of graphic novels and comics, including the Eisner Award winning "American Born Chinese." He's also written the comic continuation of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and much more. He also is an engineer and teaches software at a local high school! He and Scott talk computers, creativity, and comics. He's creating a new book, "Secret Coders," about the magic of computers.