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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 | 01 Jul 2009 23:16

Hanselminutes Podcast 168 - Successful Cross Platform .NET Development - Mono and Banshee with Aaron BockoverSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....My one-hundred-and-sixty-eighth podcast is up. In this one, I chat with Aaron Bockover of Novell about the Banshee Project - a cross-platform Media Player. It's a Mono Application that runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. What are the hard-won..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 01 Jul 2009 20:41

Videos from the Norwegian Developer's ConferenceSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....All of the talks at this year's Norwegian Developer's Conference were recorded, which is always a treat. I did four talks as well as a live .NET Rocks show. It was a crazy week. I also recorded a half-dozen great podcasts. Three are already live on..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 01 Jul 2009 00:21

Hanselminutes Podcast 167 - Convention Over Configuration with Jeremy MillerSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....My one-hundred-and-sixty-seventh podcast is up. Scott's Norway interviews continue this week, this time with Jeremy Miller, author of Structure Map. Scott and Jeremy chat about fluent interfaces, Convention Over Configuration and how to best..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 29 Jun 2009 20:13

Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over YouSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....There's a lot of information, both useless and useful, on Twitter. When you get started on Twitter the shear amount of crap can be totally overwhelming. Twitter's a lot like Tivo (Digital Video Recorders). It'll record everything and everyone..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 25 Jun 2009 22:38

The Weekly Source Code 43 - ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinnerSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....UPDATE: David's put the T4 template with some nice updates on CodePlex - It's the last download here. I really advocate folks reading as much source as they can because you become a better writer by reading as much as writing. That's the whole..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 25 Jun 2009 21:26

The HaaHa Show visits .NET RocksSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....While in Norway last week, Phil Haack and I were lucky enough to do a LIVE taping with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks! Hopefully the energy of the room is appropriately captured in the audio recording, because it was a hoot. The..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 24 Jun 2009 23:03

Hanselminutes Podcast 166 - Windows Presentation Foundation explained by Ian GriffithsSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....My one-hundred-and-sixty-sixth podcast is up. Scott chats with Ian Griffiths about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Why is it so hard to master? What techniques should the WinForms developer learn first? Scott's working on a side project, and..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 24 Jun 2009 00:10

ASP.NET Ajax - Script Combining and moving ScriptResource.axd's to Static ScriptsSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....I've got a little something I'm doing and I wanted to take control over some scripts that were being added by ASP.NET WebForms. Remember that ASP.NET WebForms is designed around a control/component model, so you don't get 100% control over your..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 23 Jun 2009 20:27

These are the little bugs that lead to madnessSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....I received an interesting email today where a fellow was trying to make sure that all browsers could successfully download his company's MSI installer. He had found a blog post that I wrote SIX YEARS AGO on the Content-Disposition header and some..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 23 Jun 2009 20:00

Back to Basics - Trust Nothing as User Input Comes from All OverSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....There was an interesting bug recently that was initially blamed on Bing. Basically someone searched for something, clicked the first result and got a YSOD (Yellow Screen of Death.) They were searching Bing.com for this term: "Eugene..."
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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) "For men, self-improvement ends at toilet training." 42 minutes ago from Tweetie


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) Now where did I leave my giant shopping cart? http://twitpic.com/93d2d about 2 hours ago from Tweetie


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @lachlanhardy No www.? doens't work without it. about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) R @SteveDuitsman Heh, I think the http://www.twhistory.com/ is BRILLIANT. about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) Be careful when you "ping" a boss on IM, or you may end up calling a General Manager a "pig" about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) Doing some WPF Pair Programming with @lostintangent about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) RT @Gen_Alexander: Longstreet says Lee is already fretting over the delay, and we should attack at once. about 5 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) It's like 95 degrees outside and I'm stuffed up. Who gets a cold in the summertime? about 5 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) The .NET Firefox AddOn is now hosted on Mozilla's site: http://bit.ly/agrs0 about 5 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) Freddie Mercury was a genius, people. about 5 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) R @mariohcornejo No reason kids can't be doing sports AND programming, no? about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @plindelauf True, but I was thinking it only in the context of projections between Models and ViewModels. about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @FCastellanos Good question. I'd say probably age 8 to 10. about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @mhinze Have you written anything up on this? Want to use NerdDinner as an example and map a few simple objects? about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @tziegmann Although, you might be too old for those. If you're 14, why not learn to program like an adult? about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) R @tziegmann Sure, Teaching Children and Kids to Program the Old School Way http://bit.ly/cLEMT about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) Anyone using AutoMapper? Looks very useful: http://automapper.codeplex.com/ about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) Got kids interesting in programming? Gorillas in Small Basic http://bit.ly/KNAr2 link via @calcock whose blog you should be reading. about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) Get over it people. Can I get a DesqView emulator please? http://www.sevenclassicstart.com/ about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman) You've got Tweets in my Bing! (twitter results showing up in bing searches http://bit.ly/dRmpa ) about 8 hours ago from TweetDeck