Hanselminutes Podcast 38 - Diabetes Technology
My thirty-eighth Podcast is up. This one is a little off the beaten path, but it's a topic that is near and dear to me as I'm a Type 1 Diabetic on both an Insulin Pump and Continuous Glucose Meter - 24 hours a day. I figure since you're all technologists you'd be interested in some of the discussion around how this problem can be solved, mostly using technology. I hope you enjoy it.
We're listed in the iTunes Podcast Directory, so I encourage you to subscribe with a single click (two in Firefox) with the button below. For those of you on slower connections there are lo-fi and torrent-based versions as well.
Subscribe: 
Links from the show are also always on the show site, although this show had no links to speak of. Do also remember the archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts, a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show.
Our sponsors are Apose, /nsoftware, CodeSmith Tools and the .NET Dev Journal.
There's a $100 off CodeSmith coupon for Hanselminutes listeners - it's coupon code HM100. Spread the word, now's the time to buy. This coupon is good for the CodeSmith Professional With 1 Year Premier Support option.
As I've said before this show comes to you with the audio expertise and stewardship of Carl Franklin. The name comes from Travis Illig, but the goal of the show is simple. Avoid wasting the listener's time. (and make the commute less boring)
- The basic MP3 feed is here, and the iPod friendly one is here. There's a number of other ways you can get it (streaming, straight download, etc) that are all up on the site just below the fold. I use iTunes, myself, to listen to most podcasts, but I also use FeedDemon and it's built in support.
- Some other clients are Doppler (also suppose Windows CE), FireAnt, Nimiq, and PrimeTime Podcast.
- Note that for now, because of bandwidth constraints, the feeds always have just the current show. If you want to get an old show (and because many Podcasting Clients aren't smart enough to not download the file more than once) you can always find them at http://www.hanselminutes.com.
- I have, and will, also include the enclosures to this feed you're reading, so if you're already subscribed to ComputerZen and you're not interested in cluttering your life with another feed, you have the choice to get the 'cast as well.
- If there's a topic you'd like to hear, perhaps one that is better spoken than presented on a blog, or a great tool you can't live without, contact me and I'll get it in the queue!
Enjoy. Who knows what'll happen in the next show?
About Scott
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.
About Newsletter
gloubidou
Great show, thanks for sharing your experience with diabetes.
On Monday I received a pamphlet from Medtronic (http://www.medtronic.com/) promoting their latest pump, MiniMed Paradigm. Billed as an "insulin pump and continuous glucose monitoring system."
Claude.
My father is also suffering from diabetes and he has been taking medicines for decades.
I hope to see you online and well and will for the next 50 years.
I am diabetic type I myself (just turned one year as of this week; I am 26) and it's amazing how little information of diabetic technology is generally available (by the way I live in Finland).
So thank you for that part of your blogging life!
I have an idea, basically spawned by one of your diabetes-related entries. I've made a google search on diabetes daily log/planner and there is almost none free programs and as far as my search goes - no web ones.
So my idea is a free web service, which would be somewhat similar to this web exercise log - http://treenit.net (in Finnish unfortunately). So you could enter you daily blood sugar/insulin intake data, along with your food menu and exercise. You could then access your data online (I have my exercise data from treenit.net as an active desktop), check it out - http://treenit.net/q.php?q=wJIhZo0G9EyNwf6979DcRDP600qevCnAHU+IwX6/ig==
What would be most beneficial I think is that a user should be able to view the daily data graphically, with different parameters, like the glucose, insulin delivery, carbs and exercise. Then he could get a summary as well as compare it with other fellow diabetics.
I am getting excited about this, not only because I wanna help the diabetics community in general, but also because I plan to do this with ASP.NET which would be my first (real) ASP.NET project.
Now why I told you all this is because apparently you have way more information on the subject and you might have some good ideas on how to implement this or about features, like automatically importing external data from different devices, or say if you know such a free service already in existence.
I really would appreciate your response.
Cheers,
I thought this might be interesting.
http://shrinkster.com/jmj
Cheers,
Jonathan.
Comments are closed.