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Google's Steve Souders, Creator of YSlow on Web Site Optimization

October 15, 2011 00:36:55 26.59 MB Downloads: 0

Steve works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His book, Even Faster Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance. Steve is the creator of YSlow, one of the top 25 Firefox add-ons.

Startup Series: Alex Papadimoulis on creating Inedo and The Daily WTF

October 06, 2011 00:33:44 24.3 MB Downloads: 0

Not every startup starts up smoothly. Alex Papadimoulis shares his stories of near-failure moving from a consultancy to a software company while working on a wildly popular blog at night. What mistakes did his company make in sales and marketing, and how long did it take them to change course?

Startup Series: PostSharp from Open Source to Commercial Business with Gael Fraiteur

September 28, 2011 00:35:48 25.79 MB Downloads: 0

Gael Fraiteur had a full time job while working on the side on his open source Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) project "PostSharp." He's since turned his project into a successful commercial entity called SharpCrafters. What did he learn along the way and what can we learn from his successes and troubles? We also learn about Aspect Oriented Programming and how AOP tools like PostSharp can help your projects today.

Startup Series: Gibraltar Software with Kendall Miller

September 22, 2011 00:35:54 25.86 MB Downloads: 0

Kendall Miller is a founder at .NET development tools vendor Gibraltar Software. They are two years into their their startup experiment and are becoming a small, mature company with some great products. How much did they need to fund their startup? How do they market and spread the word? What if there are free or open source versions of their software out there?

Startup Series: Growing ZocDoc with Nick Ganju

September 14, 2011 00:34:35 24.91 MB Downloads: 0

Scott chats with Nick Ganju CTO of ZocDoc on how he's building his business with BizSpark and ASP.NET. Does he use Open Source? When do they write their own libraries and when do they buy? What kinds of issues does a .NET startup run into when hiring?

Startup Series: Building Octopus Deploy with Paul Stovell

September 06, 2011 00:36:46 26.48 MB Downloads: 0

This week Scott skypes with Paul in London. He's recently moved from Australia and has simultaneously launched his own micro-ISV focused on convention-based deployments made easy. What's involved? How did it get started and what does this Octopus Deploy do?

Startup Series: Inside the DuckDuckGo Search Engine with Gabriel Weinberg

September 02, 2011 00:35:11 25.34 MB Downloads: 0

In this first Startup Series episode, Scott talks to Gabriel Weinberg about DuckDuckGo, his new search engine. How dare he go up against Google? He dare with better, more relevant search results. Learn how to be an overnight success in just 15 short years.

Inside the Design Process - Redesigning Scott's blog with Jeremy Kratz

August 25, 2011 00:36:08 26.03 MB Downloads: 0

Scott talks to designer Jeremy Kratz about the design process from yellow legal pad to complete design. What kinds of things should a designer take into consideration? Where does design stop and CSS begin, or is there a distinction? Should YOU hire a designer?

Microsoft Research: Trinity is a Graph Database and a Distributed Parallel Platform for Graph Data

August 18, 2011 00:31:58 23.03 MB Downloads: 0

Scott talks via Skype to Haixun Wang at Microsoft Research Asia about Trinity: a distributed graph database and computing platform. What is a GraphDB? How is it different from a traditional Relational DB, a Document DB or even just a naive in-memory distributed data structure? Will your next database be a graph database?

Within Windows with Rafael Rivera

August 12, 2011 00:35:10 25.33 MB Downloads: 0

Scott sits down with Rafael Rivera to talk about the black box that is Windows. Or is it? Rafael doesn't take no for an answer and shares stories of breaking apps to fix them. No more secrets, this week on Hanselminutes.

Microsoft Web Platform and Azure direction with Scott Hunter

August 04, 2011 00:32:35 23.47 MB Downloads: 0

Scott Hanselman and Scott Hunter (also known as Scotts the Lesser) talk about recently Azure/Web reorg, the direction that ASP.NET and Azure are talking, and how they see open source fitting into the future at Microsoft.

Polyglot Programming and .NET - Lessons Learned with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape

July 28, 2011 00:38:31 27.74 MB Downloads: 0

Scott sits down with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape. They recently released Web Workbench to the community for free with support for LESS, SASS, and CoffeeScript. Interestingly, they used C#, F#, JavaScript and Ruby to create this app. Why was polyglot programming right for what them? Is it right for you?

Script# compiles to JavaScript: A Real World Implementation at Earth Class Mail

July 22, 2011 00:35:06 25.29 MB Downloads: 0

Scott talks to Matt Clay and Matt Davis at Earth Class Mail about how they used Nikhil Kothari's Script# compiler to write JavaScript from C# source. Why did they do it? What were the benefits? The problems? Would they do it again?

Digging into the Kinect SDK with Dan Fernandez

July 14, 2011 00:36:18 26.15 MB Downloads: 0

Scott gets schooled on the Microsoft Research Kinect SDK by Dan Fernandez. What happens when I plug a Kinect into my PC? What's included with the SDK and what's not? What work happens in the hardware and what happens in software...and more importantly, what can I build?

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July 07, 2011 00:35:31 25.58 MB Downloads: 0

Scott talks to Erik Meijer about the idea that JavaScript is an assembly language. What assumptions can we make and how could this idea fundamentally change how we develop software on the web?