Hanselminutes Podcast 63 - Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander on Silverlight
My sixty-third podcast is up and this one was a blast. I recorded this one at Mix just two days ago with Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander. Scott runs the teams that build IIS, ASP.NET, Atlas, CLR, Compact Framework, Windows Forms, Commerce Server, Visual Web Developer 2005 and Visual Studio Tools for WPF. Jason was a dev on the CLR 1.0 and is now the General Manager of the .NET Framework (DevFX) within the Developer Division. Needless to say, these gentleman know their stuff. It was fantastic to get a full 30 minutes of these guys' time. I hope you can tell just by listening how much they enjoy their work and how excited they are about Silverlight.
There's a lot of Silverlight coverage out there right now, so rather than covering the basics, we attempted in this podcast to not waste your time and tried to get into some technical detail quickly. I hope you enjoy it.
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Links from the Show
Silverlight Home Page Scott Guthrie's Weblog Jason Zander's Weblog Jim Hugunin introduces the DLR
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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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Without wishing to sound like a complete kiss-ass, the fact that you can get half an hour with people like Scott and Jason (at a time when their schedules must be beyond hectic) is a measure of the regard the ASP.net developer community has for you. Just when will you be going to work for Bill again?
Now, can you tell me how I can get three day's work done in one day, like you do?
What is the overlap / complementarity between silverlight & AJAX?
That might be a good topic for another show.
Thanks for the great podcast. Very useful and informative.
Can I ask a podcast related question? What equipment are you using to record your podcasts? What's the microphone and hardware mix?
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1) What libraries from the framework are available now, planned for V1, going forwards, definately ruled out (for security / cross platform difficulties etc)
2) When they say "cross platform" does this means that other OS's other than Windows and Mac are planned?
That said, spending 30 minutes listening to the podcast will save you several hours of wading through marketing material on the websites and standard news outlets.