Scott Hanselman
Scott Hanselman is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. He was also involved in the MVP and Regional Director programs and is an avid speaker on the topic of computing.
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 09 Mar 2010 06:23
Scott Hanselman writes "....The #1 complaint I hear about WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is that many fonts end up looking "blurry." It's a darned shame because really great applications like Evernote get criticized because of this one issue*. The blurriness..."
Read more » WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 09 Mar 2010 01:21
Scott Hanselman writes "....I've been presenting for a long time. It's great fun, mostly it's stand-up comedy with code and PowerPoint. I also keep everything, always, so earlier today when I was asked by a friend to find some ten year old code, I found a few 10 year old..."
Read more » A Trip Down Memory Lane - Presentations over 10 years old
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 06 Mar 2010 01:43
Scott Hanselman writes "....This last week over a 7 day period, I went to Munich, Cairo and Dubai. I presented in three keynotes and did a total of 10 sessions. I crossed 12 time zones and missed my kids. I talked to/with/at about 3000 people. I'm utterly shattered. I..."
Read more » Video Trip Report: If this is Tuesday, this must be Cairo
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 05 Mar 2010 22:24
Scott Hanselman writes "....My two-hundred-and-third podcast is up. I was in Egypt and had the opportunity to sit down with Lamees and Abeer, two successful women in IT. Lamees is a programmer transitioning to Systems Analysis, and Abeer is a veteran Senior Systems Analyst..."
Read more » Hanselminutes Podcast 203 - Women in Technology in the Muslim World
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 02 Mar 2010 20:24
Scott Hanselman writes "....You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code. That's the idea behind this series, "The Weekly Source Code." You can certainly become a better programmer by writing code but I think good writers become better by reading as much..."
Read more » The Weekly Source Code 51 - Asynchronous Database Access and LINQ to SQL Fun
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 25 Feb 2010 14:09
Scott Hanselman writes "....I noticed a post over at a blog called "The other side of the moon" where the author suggests that we put pictures and details of missing children on on 404 pages. It's a simple and brilliant idea. Millions of 404s are delivered every..."
Read more » Put Missing Kids on your 404 Page - Entirely Client-Side Solution with YQL, jQuery, and MSAjax
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 21 Feb 2010 06:38
Scott Hanselman writes "....My two-hundred-and-second podcast is up. I sit down (in my home, actually) with Tatham Oddie to talk about the WebFormsMVP open source project created by he and Damian Edwards. What does it add? Can we have the best of both worlds,..."
Read more » Hanselminutes Podcast 202 - A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 21 Feb 2010 06:36
Scott Hanselman writes "....My two-hundred-and-first podcast is up. Two Englishmen in a row? What a sellout I am. This week I chat with Chris "ChrisNTR" Hardy, an ASP.NET programmer by day who writes C# code for the iPhone by night. He took it upon himself to answer..."
Read more » Hanselminutes Podcast 201 - The Making of a Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 18 Feb 2010 08:27
Scott Hanselman writes "....I got a nice little Yellow Screen of Death (YSOD) error on some code running under IIS that worked fine when running on the VS Developer Web Server. The error was "A generic error occurred in GDI+" and you know that if an error is generic,..."
Read more » The Weekly Source Code 50 - A little on "A generic error occurred in GDI+" and trouble generating images on with ASP.NET
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 17 Feb 2010 07:34
Scott Hanselman writes "....After I made my Webcam Cart and blogged about it a package I'd forgotten about arrived. It was a cheap "Zeikos ZE-WA37S 37mm 0.45X Wide Angle Lens." Only $10. I've looked all over for wide-angle webcams and they just don't exist. Over the..."
Read more » DIY: Making a Very Wide Angle Webcam on the Cheap
