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Globalization, Internationalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC 3,...
There are several books worth of information to be said about Internationalization (i18n) out there, so I can't solve it all in a blog post. Even 9 pages of blog posts. I like to call it...
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Hanselminutes Podcast 267 - Before The Show: Off the Cuff Conversation with...
Sometimes the most interesting conversations happen before or after the show. Often they happen with Jeff Atwood. I (Scott) called Jeff to get some audio for our other show...
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Hanselminutes Podcast 268 - Personal Systems of Organization - Rey Bango...
  Tables turned this week and Rey Bango interviews Scott on his personal systems of organization. How has Scott synthesized the systems of Stephen Covey, David Allen, J.D. Meier and the Pomodoro...
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Console2 - A Better Windows Command Prompt
I was working on my Mac today and while I maintain that the OS X finder is as effective as shooting your hands fill of Novocaine, I remain envious of the simplicity of their Terminal. Not much...
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Hanselminutes Podcast 269 - Community vs. Evangelism vs. Marketing vs....
Scott sits down with Brandon Watson, a Director on Windows Phone. He works with the Developer Community, but what does that really mean? What is Community vs. Evangelism vs. Marketing vs. Authenticity?...
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Hanselminutes Podcast 270 - Nancy, Sinatra and the Explosion of .NET Micro...
Scott chats with open source developer Andreas HÃ¥kansson about his .NET micro web framework called Nancy which is inspired by a Ruby framework called Sinatra. Why do we need frameworks like this? What...
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Productivity and Continuous Improvement - Measurement (and RescueTime) makes...
I was chatting with a friend recently about my recent diet and she commented that I seemed to measure everything. I realized that measurement and logging was a theme in my lifestyle, specifically as...
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Announcing the Web Standards Update - HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio...
Folks have been asking "When will VS2010 support HTML5?" I've been saying, jokingly, that the answer is "yesterday" as there's nothing keeping you from creating HTML5 in Visual Studio or ASP.NET today....
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Introducing System.Web.Providers - ASP.NET Universal Providers for Session,...
I always like to remind folks of the equation ASP.NET > (ASP.NET MVC + ASP.NET WebForms). The whole "base of the pyramid" of ASP.NET has lots of things you can use in you applications. Some of these...
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Review and Installation: Filtrete Touchscreen WiFi-Enabled Programmable...
It's amazing what you can automate around the house when you've got a nice, solid Wi-Fi network and a little ingenuity. And $100. That seems to be the gadget freak price point. If it's $100, we can...
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Hanselminutes Podcast 271 - Inside IronJS - A complete JavaScript/ECMAScript...
Scott talks to open source developer Fredrik Holmström about IronJS. It's a very complete implementation of JavaScript written in F# on top of the DLR. It's even faster than IE8 now and getting faster...
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Using Code Signing Certificates to sign downloaded MSIs and build reputation...
First, let me start that if you want a lot of people to download something, make sure that the words "HTML5," "Support" and "Update" appear in the title. I'm sure if the folks that are making Diablo 3...
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Hanselminutes Podcast 272 - Basics of Web Security with Barry Dorrans
Scott sits down with Microsoft Security Engineer Barry Dorrans to get a general sense of the basics of Web Security in 2011. Who are the groups in the news most often? What threats are nailing...
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Scott's Wonderful Twitter Favorites - Link Roundup 1
I realize that many (most) of you are not on Twitter. I am, however, on Twitter and I find it to be a joy. I have had a few complaints (just a few) because I tend to be random on Twitter. If you want...
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JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Sematic Markup is Dead! Clean...
UPDATE: Yes there's a misspelling in a title. Oops. I was talking to Erik Meijer yesterday and he said: JavaScript is an assembly language. The JavaScript + HTML generate is like a .NET assembly. The...
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Why the #AskObama Tweet was Garbled on Screen: Know your UTF-8, Unicode,...
Ohio Senator John Boehner tweeted this a few days ago. Note that this is not a political blog post. After embarking on a record spending binge that’s left us deeper in debt, where are the jobs?...
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JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Part 2 - Madness or just Insanity?
UPDATE: Check out the Podcast I did with Erik Meijer on Hanselminutes this week on this very topic: JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Semantic Markup is Dead! Clean vs. Machine-coded HTML....
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The Guide to Creating Quality Technical Screencasts
I've had lots of people ask me to write up a guide to creating great technical screencasts. Here it is. Initial Setup and Tools You can use any number of tools for screen capture. They are largely the...
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Fanciful names and acronyms often create LIFE
I was speaking with some folks at an unnamed technology company today about product names, and in a follow up email someone referenced a document that said: Spell out the full name and use the acronym...
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Scott's Wonderful Twitter Favorites - Link Roundup 2
I realize that many (most) of you are not on Twitter. I am, however, on Twitter and I find it to be a joy. I have had a few complaints (just a few) because I tend to be random on Twitter. If you want...
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