DevMavens

ma•ven (mā'vən)

n.  A person who has special knowledge or experience;
an expert.

dev•ma•ven
('dev-mā'vən)

n.  An expert developer with great influence.

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 | 27 Aug 2010 21:43

Two Must-Have Tools for a More Readable WebSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....Here's how most folks use the Web. You get a link in email, Twitter, Facebook, IM, whatever and you open it in a new tab. Then, at some point in your copious free time, and possibly while reading other more pressing things, you'll read these 43..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 27 Aug 2010 09:43

The Programmer's BodySubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....I am broken, my friends. I've blogged before on: The Computer Back - Pain and the Programmer in 2004 The Programmer's Hands also in 2004 Today I'm wearing a neck brace. Yes, I'm one of the "looks like they are suing someone"..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 27 Aug 2010 09:23

Installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS on Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7Subscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....There's lots of info spread around on how to install various older versions of Ubuntu under various older versions of Virtual PC, but I didn't find any referring to the newish Ubuntu 10.4 and VPC on Win 7. I did now find some useful command-line..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 21 Aug 2010 10:53

How to change the default browser in Visual Studio programmatically with PowerShell and possibly poke yourself in the eyeSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....UPDATE: Why my own MacGyver solution was brilliant in its horrible way, the folks over at World of VS have taken up the challenge and created a proper Visual Studio extension that you should use. I'll chat with them and get some details and maybe a..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 20 Aug 2010 20:33

Hanselminutes Podcast 228 - Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7Subscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....Scott talks to Jeff Wilcox, a Developer on the Silverlight Team about developing on Windows Phone 7. What kinds of performance can we expect from the phone? Jeff Wilcox shows Scott some tips and tricks on how to get the smoothest animations from..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 20 Aug 2010 20:15

Hanselminutes Podcast 227 - Inside Expression SuperPreview with developer Mike CalvoSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....Scott talks to Mike Calvo, a Microsoft Lead Developer based out of Minnesota (!) about Expression SuperPreview. SuperPreview helps developers and designers with cross-browser CSS and HTML issues. How'd they build it and with what? What's inside? How..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 20 Aug 2010 19:40

Hanselminutes Podcast 226 - Building your own Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 with Pete BrownSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....My two-hundred-and-twenty-sixth podcast is up. Scott catches up with Pete Brown after they've both built their "Ultimate Developer PCs." Any regrets? What'd they learn and how you can learn from their mistakes and successes? UPDATE: Pete..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 19 Aug 2010 00:00

Awesome Visual Studio Command Prompt and PowerShell icons with OverlaysSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....I'm not usually one of the "icon people." By that I mean, I don't collect icons, or change all the icons on my system to custom fancypants icons. But, I noticed today that I was using the Command Prompt alongside a Visual Studio Command..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 12 Aug 2010 09:07

The Weekly Source Code 56 - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - Code Contracts, Parallel Framework and COM InteropSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....Do you like a big pile of source code? Well, there is an imperial buttload of source in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit. It's actually a 178 meg download, which is insane. Perhaps start your download now and get it in the..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 12 Aug 2010 00:31

Hanselminutes Podcast 225 - Learning about NHibernate 3 with Jason DentlerSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....My two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth podcast is up. Scott chats with Jason Dentler about NHibernate and their new 3.0 release. Jason is the author of the upcoming "NHibernate 3 Cookbook" from Packt Publishing. Is NHibernate hard and scary?..."
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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @mbric @jordanshane LOL! 33 minutes ago from Twitter for iPhone


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @ArielBH what about the talk? about 13 hours ago from MetroTwit


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @ArielBH horribly shaky and really bad audio...and Hebrew. ;) about 13 hours ago from MetroTwit


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @TeriWanderi It took about 2 hours, but it DID finish and it IS faster now, so I'd say yes. about 13 hours ago from MetroTwit


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @ArielBH off the air? about 13 hours ago from MetroTwit


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @statisticsio smokes it in what why? about 13 hours ago from MetroTwit


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) RT @El_Danny_Trejo Death is your first warning. #LessonLearned about 13 hours ago from MetroTwit


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @KaienLoh lol! about 13 hours ago from Twitter for iPhone


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @MrKevHunter 40gigs about 13 hours ago from Twitter for iPhone


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) What are all these "C" programmers writing? http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @TheCubicleChick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJPIZ-C-9c&feature=fvw&t=1m15s about 14 hours ago from web


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @ninjabetic LOL about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @joeparis LOL, I have two macs, just not running iTunes on them. about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) .@ninjabetic Nah, I don't need #ping. Yet another social network. I hear about music organically. I don't need iTunes giving me suggestions. about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @Avodovnik maybe 50 gigs. about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) Ok, so iTunes 10 has been "updating iTunes library" for the last 3 hours... about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @_Pocahotness One of the greatest sciFi movies of the last 10 years. Truly moving, and bloody as hell. about 15 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) This multitrack music editor and song mixer in a browser always impresses me http://www.audioorchard.com/ about 15 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @dreamhampton313 Have a great birthday about 15 hours ago from web


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @christian_pyn true, but all in good fun. about 15 hours ago from TweetDeck