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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 | 17 May 2012 00:05

Please Learn to Think about Abstractions

Scott Hanselman writes "....Jeff Atwood wrote a post called Please Don't Learn to Code and Zed Shaw wrote a post called Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer. My wife lost her wedding ring down the drain. She freaked out and came running declaring that it..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 09 May 2012 21:42

The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore

Scott Hanselman writes "....The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one. — Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) May 9, 2012 What happens when all the things we based our icons on don't exist anymore? Do they just become, ahem,..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 07 May 2012 23:19

The Nerd Parent's Guide: When and how to introduce your kids to Star Wars

Scott Hanselman writes "....Let me start by saying I'm not a big Star Wars guy. I enjoyed the films when I was growing up (I think I saw the original (Ep. 4 ANH) in 1980 along with Empire Strikes Back in 1980) but I haven't thought much about them since. That said, I..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 02 May 2012 06:39

Introducing Workspace Reloader - A Visual Studio AddIn to save your open files across project reloads

Scott Hanselman writes "....A while back my buddy Sam Saffron (from Stack Overflow and Mini Profiler) complained to me on Skype that he was finding it very irritating that every time he updated his project outside of Visual Studio he would be prompted to "Reload..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 26 Apr 2012 19:59

Back to Basics: Moving beyond for, if and switch

Scott Hanselman writes "....I visit a lot of customers and look at a lot of code. I also worked with a number of large production code bases in my previous jobs and I see a lot of ifs, fors and switches. I see loops inside of loops with ifs inside them, all doing various..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 24 Apr 2012 17:50

A world of pretty cloud drive icons - SkyDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, BitBucket and GitHub

Scott Hanselman writes "....Today Google Drive and Windows SkyDrive came out with clients for Windows and Mac. There's also SkyDrive apps for Windows Phone, iPhone, or iPad and OneNote apps that sync to SkyDrive for Windows Phone, Android,iPhone, or iPad. I'm a paying..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 23 Apr 2012 23:17

Create a great mobile experience for your website today. Please.

Scott Hanselman writes "....People are fascinating with making mobile web sites. It's amazing that we're not impressed with the fact we carry tiny supercomputers in our pockets but we're amazed when a website looks decent on our phones. There's a few directions you can go..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 19 Apr 2012 22:09

Root Cause Analysis for Toddlers and Medical Eyeball Tweezers

Scott Hanselman writes "....#eyeballpic { border: none; padding: 3px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px 10px rgba(255,255,255,1); transform: scale(0.9); filter:alpha(opacity=15); -moz-opacity: 0.15; opacity: 0.15; } #eyeballpic:hover { border: 1px dotted..."
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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @jwcarroll it already exists, it's called Windows server core about 14 hours ago from Tweetlogix

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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @sheatsb @baratunde @cb004 Very cool. You ever do guest speakers? http://t.co/s2WjKki9 about 20 hours ago from web

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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) Just finished a great podcast with @baratunde. Out soon. about 20 hours ago from web

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