Hanselminutes - Fresh Talk and Tech for Developers

Here's some raw audio from the last show. We left the recorder on after the show was over, and the discussion continued for another 30 minutes! It's a different conversation in a raw style, but we hope you enjoy it.

Scott chats with Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror.com and most recently, StackOverflow.com. Jeff and Joel Spolsky and their technical team have created a new class of application using ASP.NET MVC. What works, what doesn't, and how did it all go down?

Scott visits Microsoft Research and talks to Helvecio Ribeiro, the Test Lead for Machine Translation about T-Bot, his translation bot for Windows Live Messenger.

What is Subsonic and should you use it? Scott and Rob Conery chat about his baby and comparisons to other Open Source frameworks. Also, Scott tries to get free consulting for his new pet project.

Today we reminisce with Jeff Webb about the very early years of Basic and Visual Basic at Microsoft. What was it like to work just a few offices down from BillG? When did Basic stop being ALL CAPS?

Scott talks to Brendan Eich from Mozilla about TraceMonkey, the new super-fast JavaScript engine. Where does Brendan think JavaScript is headed? What does the rise of JavaScript mean to Flash, Silverlight and RIAs in general?

Scott chats with Bertrand Le Roy, Program Manager for MS-Ajax at Microsoft. Where does Bertrand see Ajax and Javascript going in the future? We also chat about MS-Ajax 4.0s possible future and how to use templates and Javascript on the clientside.

Scott's in Australia this week, but he catches up with Scott Care from CloudDB.com and talks about the differences between MS-AJAX and jQuery. How does object-orientation work in Javascript?

Carl and Scott chat about what's new in .NET 3.5 SP1. There's a lot of new additions and improvements...should you care?

Scott chats with John Resig about how he developed jQuery, how it performs, and where he thinks it's headed.

In this episode Scott talks to Saqib Shaikh, a developer for Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK, who is also blind. They chat about accessibility in Windows, on the Web and in the next generation of Web Applications written with AJAX and Silverlight.

In an interview organized on Twitter, Scott chats with Tim Bray, Distinguished Engineer at Sun and about Twitter and Microblogging and how the community squeezes performance of his WideFinder and WideFinder 2 challenges.

Scott sits down with Dare Obasanjo and they chat about the interesting problems that Social Networking sites face.

Scott introduces Carl to BabySmash for the first time, and they chat about some of the services available to MicroISVs, as well as the joys of coding in WPF.

In this episode, Scott talks to Rick Barraza, an Experience Architect from Cynergy with a background in Flash, and Bryan Perfetto, a Developer from Inxile writing his first Silverlight application. They chat about how and why they ported the popular Flash Game LineRider.com to Silverlight 2.