Hanselminutes - Fresh Talk and Tech for Developers

We discuss "Web 2.5" as Silverlight (ne WPF/E) is announced. Seems that Rich Cross-Platform Runtimes quickly approach from both Microsoft and Adobe. What does this mean to the average developer? We also try to make up for some misinformation we spread in Show 46 on WPF/E, and while we do it, we probably speculate wildly and spread more.

Carl and Scott discuss the weeks events in their technology lives, in this 3rd Hanselminutiae. Who are the Spyware People? Is the AppleTV any good? What's your backup strategy? And Scott's Dad gets a Mac.

Scott and Carl chat about the pain of the DST change and how they manage their calendars over the internet.

Scott teams up with Rory Blyth to find and talk to developers at Microsoft building 42. In a feat of investigative skill and daring they find themselves interviewing a dev with major cred: Polita Paulus. Find the Channel9 video at www.shrinkster.com/nik

Scott sits down with the original raconteur of Windows, Raymond Chen to talk about all things Win32 and where Microsoft Bob is currently.

Scott interviews two developers who are betting on Monorail on ASP.NET, an MVC Web Framework inspired by Action Pack.

In this long-awaited Part II on Continuous Integration, Scott talks to Jay Flowers, maker of CI Factory about how to squeeze the most out of your Continuous Integration build. If you're not doing CI, this is a great opportunity to start!

Scott and Carl talk about the "FizzBuzz" test and try to come up with practical techniques for hiring engineers and technical folks.

Scott and Carl talk about the End to End (E2E) tracing format, how it relates to WCF and how you can use it to introduce system-wide tracing your large multi-machine or multi-service applications and literally trace a "transaction" from Web to backend and back.

Scott and Carl discuss afferent and efferent coupling, and many other code metrics techniques, and wonder why more .NET developers don't use static analysis tools to better understand their designs.

Scott and Carl talk about the Microsoft/OpenID collaboration.

In this episode Scott gets the skinny on Powershell with Bruce Payette, one of the founding members of the Windows PowerShell team, co-designer of the PowerShell language and the principal author of the PowerShell language implementation.

In this episode Scott talks with Chris Brooks and Eli Smith about the evolution and current state of classic board gaming.

In this episode Scott interviews Leon of SecretGeek.net about the partnership that created their TimeSnapper product. Leon shares his 25 steps to starting your own MicroISV. Leon will be publishing detailed info on each step on his blog. If you've ever considered selling software on the net, this is the show for you.

Scott and Carl discuss Microsoft's answer to Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), a lightweight version of the .NET 2.0 (and 3.0) Framework that promises to be multi-browser and multi-platform.