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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 | 24 Feb 2015 04:49

Running the Ruby Middleman Static Site Generator on Microsoft AzureSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....Middleman is "a static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development." With any static site generator you can run it all locally and then push/FTP/whatever the resulting HTML to any host. However, static site..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 20 Feb 2015 01:38

Proper benchmarking to diagnose and solve a .NET serialization bottleneckSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....Here's a few comments and disclaimers to start with. First, benchmarks are challenging. They are challenging to measure, but the real issue is that often we forget WHY we are benchmarking something. We'll take a complex multi-machine financial..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 17 Feb 2015 08:32

NuGet Package of the Week: A different take on ASP.NET MVC Forms with ChameleonFormsSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....One of the nice things about any modular system (like ASP.NET) is the ability to swap out the parts you don't like. As the authors of ChameleonForms state, HTML forms is a pain. It's repetitive, it's repetitive, and it's boring. While ASP.NET MVC's..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 13 Feb 2015 21:00

JavaScript Has Won: Run Flash with Mozilla Shumway and Develop Silverlight in JS with FaydeSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....Well this is some amazing news that has been a long time coming. You can take your Flash apps and run them without Flash, and take your Silverlight apps and (almost) run them without Silverlight. If you still don't think JavaScript has won the..."
Read more »  JavaScript Has Won: Run Flash with Mozilla Shumway and Develop Silverlight in JS with Fayde

Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 09 Feb 2015 09:23

Announcing: Running Ruby on Rails on IIS8 (or anything else, really) with the new HttpPlatformHandlerSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....For years there's been numerous hacks and ways to get Ruby on Rails to run on IIS. There's also ways to get Java via Tomcat or Jetty, Go, and other languages and environments to run as well. There's ways to get Node.JS running on IIS using iisnode..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 06 Feb 2015 00:33

3D Printer Shootout - $600 Printrbot vs. $20,000 uPrint SE PlusSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....First, let's level set with a disclaimer. I am a smart enough person but a total beginner at 3D printing. I've been 3D printing for about two weeks using a Printrbot Simple Metal from Amazon that I got for US$599. Other than Amazon affiliate links..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 04 Feb 2015 08:44

The .NET CoreCLR is now open source, so I ran the GitHub repo through Microsoft Power BISubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....The hits keep on coming, Dear Reader. Just as we announced a few months back, .NET Core is open source. We said it would run on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but then the work of doing it has to actually happen. ;) Go check out the .NET Framework Blog...."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 02 Feb 2015 09:01

The new Raspberry Pi 2 will run Windows 10 and run Universal AppsSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....I'm a huge Raspberry Pi fan. I've got three around the house, I use one for a Media Center, one for 3D Printing, and one for messing about. Now I'm gonna get a BUNCH more as the Raspberry Pi 2 has been announced and for a $35 computer that fits in..."
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