Hanselminutes - Fresh Talk and Tech for Developers

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.

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?

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?

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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?

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?

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

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" 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.

Scott chats with Paul Vick, Principal VB Architect, and Paul Yuknewicz, a Senior Program Manager on the VB Team about the past, present and future of Visual Basic.

In this episode Scott discusses Eclipse, Open Source and both the history and future of software with Bjorn Freeman-Benson. Bjorn is the Technical Director for Open Source Process and Infrastructure for the Eclipse Foundation.