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Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselman is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. He was also involved in the MVP and Regional Director programs and is an avid speaker on the topic of computing.

Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 15 Nov 2019 01:28

Computer things they didn't teach you in school #2 - Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOMSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....OK, fine maybe they DID teach you this in class. But, you'd be surprised how many people think they know something but don't know the background or the etymology of a term. I find these things fascinating. In a world of bootcamp graduates, community..."
Read more »  Computer things they didn't teach you in school #2 - Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOM

Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 13 Nov 2019 01:26

Cool WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) tips and tricks you (or I) didn't know were possibleSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....It's no secret I dig WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and now that WSL2 is available in Windows Insiders Slow it's a great time to really explore the options that are available. What I'm finding is so interesting about WSL and how it relates to the..."
Read more »  Cool WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) tips and tricks you (or I) didn't know were possible

Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 08 Nov 2019 01:05

New YouTube Series: Computer things they didn't teach you in schoolSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....OK, fine maybe they DID teach you this in class. But, you'd be surprised how many people think they know something but don't know the background or the etymology of a term. I find these things fascinating. In a world of bootcamp graduates, community..."
Read more »  New YouTube Series: Computer things they didn't teach you in school

Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 06 Nov 2019 02:14

Announcing .NET Jupyter NotebooksSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....Jupyter Notebooks has been the significant player in the interactive development space for many years, and Notebooks have played a vital role in the continued popularity of languages like Python, R, Julia, and Scala. Interactive experiences like..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 01 Nov 2019 00:36

Trying out Visual Studio Online - Using the cloud to manage and compile your code is amazingSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....Visual Studio Online was announced in preview, so I wanted to try it out. I already dig the Visual Studio "Remote" technology (it's almost impossibly amazing) so moving the local container or WSL to the Cloud makes a lot of sense. Check out their..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 29 Oct 2019 23:55

Adafruit's Circuit Playground Express simulated Visual Studio Code's Device Simulator ExpressSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....I'm an unabashed Adafruit fan and I often talking about them because I'm always making cool stuff with their hardware and excellent tutorials. You should check out the YouTube video we made when I visited Adafruit Industries in New York with my..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 24 Oct 2019 23:49

Be a Technology TouristSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....I was talking to Tara and we were marveling that in in 1997 15% of Americans had Passports. However, even now less than half do. Consider where the US is physically located. It's isolated in a hemisphere with just Canada and Mexico as neighbors. In..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 23 Oct 2019 00:12

Create exceptional interactive documentation with Try .NET - The Polly NuGet library did!Subscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....I've blogged at length about the great open source project called "Polly" NuGet Package of the Week: Polly wanna fluently express transient exception handling policies in .NET? Adding Cross-Cutting Memory Caching to an HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET..."
Read more »  Create exceptional interactive documentation with Try .NET - The Polly NuGet library did!

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