Hanselminutes - Fresh Talk and Tech for Developers

Audrey Sniezek supports her climbing habit with a job at Microsoft working on the Azure Compute Cloud. Is it possible to hold a full time job and have a world-class hobby? Where does the hobby end and work begin? Audrey educates Scott on how she climbs, trains, eats and analyzes life.

Michael Gibson has a one-man software company that creates MoI. "Moment of Inspiration" is a unique 3D modeling application for designers and artists with an extremely accessible workflow. It's lovely and it's cross-platform. Scott talks to Michael about how he made MoI, what it's written in, how it runs on a Mac and more. All this plus Scott gets to act like he knows what a Bézier Curve is.

Scott talks with Phil Williams, creator of Draw a Stickman, and Jon Peppers, Lead Developer for Apps at HitCents. They are releasing Draw a StickMan Epic in three AppStores! They've also achieved 95% code reuse by writing the game in C# with MonoGame. Let's find out more.

Paul Lutus designed electronics for the NASA Space Shuttle, retired at 35 then moved to the country. There he purchased an Apple ][ and proceeded to write the best selling Apple Writer. Paul also sailed around the world over 3 years and wrote about the experience.

Scott talks to Clarity Consulting Creative Director Erik Klimczak about porting the iOS touch-based game "Contre Jour" to HTML5 and JavaScript with the support of the IE team. What worked, what didn't? What libraries did they use and how often did they think they were totally stuck? Is HTML5 and JavaScript a valid platform for gaming or is it too soon?

A new language has been released that turns into JavaScript. It's TypeScript and we've got Anders Hejlsberg himself to explain it to us. Why TypeScript and why now? What problem does it solve and what does it mean to large scale development efforts. What about .NET?

Scott sits down with Jez Humble and Martin Fowler at the GOTO Conference in Aarhus, Denmark to talk about Continuous Delivery. How do your software systems have to change if you deploy weekly? Daily? How about 10 times a day?

Scott talks to Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar from the open source Glimpse Project. You may remember them from show 273. A lot has happened since then and now Red Gate is supporting the Glimpse Guys full time. Is this a good thing or the end of Glimpse? What's changed at Red Gate since the Reflector acquisition and what does it mean for Glimpse going forward. All this and more.

Scott talks to Mark Powell, Senior Software Engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratories. Mark has worked on three Mars lander missions, most recently supporting Curiosity. Mark lives on Mars Time. What's it like to write software that helps us talk to robots on that are on FREAKING MARS?

3D printing is coming into its own. Scott sits down with Bill Steele to talk about his 3D printing Kickstarter - the Ultra-bot. A refinement of the original Makerbot Cupcake 3D printer, Bill's new design can make MUCH larger objects. Will the revolution be printed in 3D?

ScottHa is on vacation for one last week so Scott Hunter and friends talk to Rowan Miller from the Entity Framework team about the recent EFv5 release.

With Scott Hanselman out this week Scott Hunter and Damian Edwards talk to a new developer on the ASP.NET team Taylor Mullen about how he interviewed and joined Microsoft.

Scott has been using Windows 8 for a week and Brad Wilson has been using it since last October. Neither of them work on Windows 8 so in this episode we talk about using Windows 8 as a power user. What works and what doesn't?

Rob Conery turns the table (he insisted) and creates Coneryminutes, interviewing Scott for this episode.

Scott sits down with new programmer Iris Classon. Iris has been coding for just one year and is now working full time as a .NET Developer. How did she get started and why so late? How should we as a community get more women and children involved in computers? What can we do to support new developers?