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Flash Fill: Text wrangling for non-programmers
As Elm City hubs grow, with respect to both raw numbers of events and numbers of categories, unfiltered lists of categories become unwieldy. So I’m noodling on ways to focus initially on a filtered list of “important” categories. The scare quotes indicate that I’m not yet sure how to empower curators to say what’s important. [...]
Scientific storytelling
It’s said that every social scientist must, at some point, write a sentence that begins: “Man is the only animal that _____.” Some popular completions of the sentence have been: uses tools, uses language, laughs, contemplates death, commits atrocities. In his new book Jonathan Gottschall offers another variation on the theme: storytelling is the defining [...]
Early Apps for Mozilla's Firefox OS Are Taking Shape
For several weeks now, Mozilla has been aggressively sponsoring events--including a series of hack days--to woo app developers to its emerging Firefox OS for mobile devices. Called “Firefox OS App Days,” hack day events took place in...Show More Summary
Learn Typography Basics With ‘On Web Typography’
Web typography has come a long way from the days when the only way to get a custom typeface on a page was with images created in Photoshop. These days, thanks to widespread browser support for CSS @font-face and services like Typekit, a couple lines of code will add actual font files to your pages. [...]
Video: Effectively Managing Your Personal Brand Online
This blog, my twitter, my YouTube are all part of my online presence. While my day job is ensuring that Microsoft's web developer tools work well across many cross cutting concerns, my passion remains teaching. When I went to work for Microsoft 5 years ago I made it clear that the blog, it's content, and my online voice would remain mine. Show More Summary
This Week in Grails (2013-05)
Check out Cedric Champeau’s detailed overview of how to work with invokedynamic in Groovy. Do you want Cedric to write a book on Groovy in French? If so, retweet this to let him know. There is only about one week left to submit talks...Show More Summary
Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: January 7th, 2013
I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me. Still, it's one more site to check and it's a hassle for some of you Dear Readers. Therefore, I will still do the newsletter, but I'll post each newsletter to the blog some weeks later. Show More Summary
Better Browser Caching is More Important than No Javascript or Fast Networks for HTTP Performance
Performance guru Steve Souders gave his keynote presentation, Cache is King! (slides), at the HTML5DevCon, besides being an extremely clear explanation of how caching works on the Internet and how to optimize your use of HTTP to getShow More Summary
Git support for Visual Studio - Git, TFS, and VS put into Context
Dogs and cats, living together...mass hysteria. This classic Ghostbusters quote is used by many geek-types (myself included) whenever something crazy or unexplained happens. Today Brian Harry from Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (or VS2012.2) the latest quarterly update. Show More Summary
Startup Accelerator for Windows Azure: Demo Day
Earlier this month, the 10 startups in our Fall 2012 Accelerator class got the chance to pitch to a room full of investors, mentors and technology enthusiasts. Over three hundred people joined us on the Redmond campus to see the final pitches in person. Show More Summary
The New And Improved Developer Toolbelt – Video From Fronteers
The recording of my talk from Fronteers is now up: http://vimeo.com/52450814. In it I discuss the front-end developer tooling landscape spanning the command-line, your editor, real-time feedback, build process and a few other (hopefully) helpful pieces. Slides are also available.
Remember Internet Explorer? You May Have Met in the ’90s
Microsoft taps '90s nostalgia for its latest Internet Explorer ad, reminding nerds of simpler times when 56K modems were screaming fast, trolls were just little figurines with pink hair and Internet Explorer was a cutting edge web browser.
The Unisex Geek Uniform - Anna Filina
I read an interesting point of view from Melinda Seckington. One thing that caught my eye was her mention of how she wears geeky t-shirts so that people believe that she’s actually a geek. Like her, I prefer to wear womanly clothes in public. Show More Summary
The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video
A few months ago while sitting at a Burger King (yes, I know) I recorded a video on "How to use Windows 8 in 3 minutes" and threw it up on YouTube. It's been viewed nearly a half million times. Eek. It's got poor audio, and it's WAY too fast. Show More Summary
The Story of How Turning Disk Into a Service Lead to a Deluge of Density
We usually think of the wonderful advantages of service oriented architectures as a software thing, but it also applies to hardware. In Security Now 385, that Doyen of Disk, Steve Gibson, tells the fascinating story (@ about 41:30) of...Show More Summary
Picking Up the Starfish
The flip side of capitalism.
I keep a five-dollar bill on me at all times.
Compassion comes in smaller denominations (and larger ones, to be sure). But I can't, in good conscience, carry less "spare change" on me than $5.00.
Let me tell...Show More Summary
2012 Archive of Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things
I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me. Still, it's one more site to check and it's a hassle for some of you Dear Readers. Therefore, I will still do the newsletter, but I'll post each newsletter to the blog a week or so later. Show More Summary
Reflections on 2012
I wasn’t prepared to write an end-of-year blog post given the impending destruction of the world via a Mayan prophesied cataclysmic fury. But since that didn’t pan out I figured I’d better get typing. Those of us that are software developers shouldn’t be too surprised that the world didn’t end. Show More Summary
OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits 2012 - Derick Rethans
OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits 2012 London, UK Tuesday, January 1st 2013, 00:04 GMT Just like last year I've analysed all the edits to OpenStreetMap and produced a visualisation. It was a bit trickier this year as I also wanted to visualize...Show More Summary
Designing for Resiliency will be so 2013
A big part of engineering for a quality experience is bringing in the long tail. An improbable severe failure can ruin your experience of a site, even if your average experience is quite good. That's where building for resilience comes in. Show More Summary
