Scott Hanselman’s Greatest Hits in 2009

Scott Hanselman‘s Greatest Hits in 2009 (also in  2008):

General Geekery

• Painful Reminder: Focus on Core Competencies (and Back Stuff Up)
• 10 Awesome Things I Remember About Computers
• FizzBin – The Technical Support Secret Handshake
• Paving my machine for a fresh 2009 – First-Pass Must-Haves
• Low Bandwidth View and other Hidden (and Future) Features of MSDN
• Less Virtual, More Machine – Windows 7 and the magic of Boot to VHD
• Switching my Windows 7 Boot Disk from D to C with BCDBoot rather than BCDEdit
• Running a Subversion Server off your Windows Home Server
• Virtual Camaraderie – A Persistent Video “Portal” for the Remote Worker
• Upgrading my Lenovo W500 to a OCZ Vertex 250GB SATA II Solid State Disk (SSD)
• Step-By-Step: Turning a Windows 7 DVD or ISO into a Bootable VHD Virtual Machine
• Step-By-Step: How To “Upgrade” from Windows XP to Windows 7
• Scott Hanselman’s 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
• Herding Cats: Organize your Desktop Icons with Stardock Fences for Windows
• Get those pixels working for you

Blogging

• Don’t Give Bile a Permalink – Finding Balance within The No Asshole Rule
• These are the little bugs that lead to madness

Twitter

• How To Twitter – First Steps and a Twitter Glossary
• When Word of Mouth Got a Permalink – Companies, Customers and Twitter
• Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You

Podcasts

• Week Three in South Africa – Scott talks to his Wife, Ntombenhle and Hanselminutes Podcast 153 – Scott’s Wife Mo interviews Scott Hanselman
• Hanselminutes Podcast 145 – SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob – Robert C. Martin
• Hanselminutes Podcast 161 – BBSs and Wildcat! from Mustang Software
• Hanselminutes Podcast 166 – Windows Presentation Foundation explained by Ian Griffiths – I still get mail on this podcasts saying it was the best episode we’ve ever done. The credit for this goes squarely to Ian.
• “Hanselminutes on 9” – I did lots of fun videos for Channel 9 this year and I was very proud of these.

Programming

• Hanselminutes Podcast 145 – SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob – Robert C. Martin (ya, twice. It’s a good show)
• Real World Apps in Days not Weeks
• Back to Basics: 32-bit and 64-bit confusion around x86 and x64 and the .NET Framework and CLR
• Mix: Getting my head around Oslo, M and MGrammar
• The Weekly Source Code 39 – Commodore 64 Emulator in Silverlight 3
• The Weekly Source Code 40 – TweetSharp and Introducing Tweet Sandwich
• Breaking All The Rules with WCF
• Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7
• The Weekly Source Code 45 – Kicking Butt on Windows 7 *and* Windows XP
• Programming for Absolute Beginners
• Light it Up: List of Applications that use new Windows 7 Features

.NET and ASP.NET

• ASP Dynamic Data Preview – More ways to exploit ADO.NET Data Services for fun and profit
• Splitting DateTime – Unit Testing ASP.NET MVC Custom Model Binders
• ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!)
• C# 4 and the dynamic keyword – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1
• ASP 4 – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1
• MultiBrowser or CrossBrowser Testing and deconstructing Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview

Gadgets and Product Reviews

• A year with an Amazon Kindle (and new Kindle Cases)
• Accidental Prescience and the Secrets of Project Natal
• It’s a Man-Bag – Muzetto Laptop Messenger Bag Review
• Review – Mophie Juice Pack (not the Juice Pack Air)
• Review: Mimo Monitors – iMo Pivot
• Review: Trying Clear from Clearwire – Mobile Broadband Service
• Review and Comparison: Microsoft LifeCam Cinema HD and VX-7000 with High Quality Video in Skype and Live Messenger
• Herding Cats: Organize your Desktop Icons with Stardock Fences for Windows
• Screenshots: Amazon Kindle 2 gets Better Battery Life and Native PDF Support
• Review: Zeo Personal Sleep Coach
• The (Near) Final Word on Multi-Monitor Taskbars for Windows 7 – Ultramon vs. DisplayFusion

Speaking and Presentations

• Mix 09 – First Half Rollup and Session Videos
• Mix: Mobile Web Sites with ASP.NET MVC and the Mobile Browser Definition File
• Social Networking for Developers – Conference Talk Video
• The HaaHa Show visits .NET Rocks
• Videos from the Norwegian Developer’s Conference
• Oredev Keynote – Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency
• Oredev 2009 – LIVE (now recorded) Closing Panel Video

Personal Stuff and LifeHacks

• South Africa 2008: NewsFlash – Turns out eating less and moving more causes weight loss
• Technical Presentations: Be Prepared for Absolute Chaos
• Baby Sign Language 2.0 – Update at 14 months
• Paint Fence, Cut Wood, Pull Weed, Plant Tree – Finding Geek Balance Outside My Comfort Zone
• Building your own Arcade Cabinet for Geeks – Part 7 – Success and Conclusion
  1. 1. Cabinet and Power
     2. Monitor and Mounting
     3. Control Panel
     4. Sound and Lights
     5. Paint and Art
     6. Computer Hardware and Software
     7. Success and Conclusion
  • The Complete Series
• Best Practices for Individual Contribution
• Burnt Day – I need a Do-Over for Monday
• Square Foot Gardening for Programmers
• The Three Most Important Outlook Rules for Processing Mail

MVC and MVP Patterns

Following are a few links related to MVC and MVP design patterns:

• MVC Pattern
• MVC Pattern Implementation in Asp.Net
• MVP Pattern
• MVP Pattern Implementation in Asp.net

Read more information from Patterns & Practices and in Martin Fowler article.

ASP.NET MVC Stuff

Here are some places on ASP.NET MVC and membership/role providers.

• ASP.NET MVC – Official site
• Getting started with ASP.NET MVC: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• ASP.Net MVC Membership – http://www.squaredroot.com/
• ASP.NET MVC Framework – ScottGu’s Blog
• An Architectural View of the ASP.NET MVC Framework
• ASP.NET MVC: Building Web Apps without Web Forms
• Ajax with the ASP.NET MVC Framework – Nikhil Kothari’s Weblog
• ASP.NET MVC article on CodeProject: Part 1, Part 2
• Hosting an entire ASP.NET MVC request for testing purposes.
• ASP.NET MVC: List Helper Extension Method
  
• Dependency injection made easy for the ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET MVC XForms
• MVC XForms framework
• ASP.Net MVC XForms
• How to Learn ASP.NET MVC
• CRUD with ASP.NET MVC (screencast)
• 13 major extensibility points available in ASP.NET MVC
• Binding in ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates

ASP .NET, ASP .NET MVC, and Silverlight Videos:

ASP.NET 4

• Videos : Part1 and Part 2
• Slides
• Samples

ASP.NET MVC

• Videos : Part1 and Part 2
• Slides
• Walkthrough Slides

Silverlight 4

• Video
• Slides
• Samples

ASP.NET Membership and Role Providers

These two sequel articles talk about some basic description on membeship and role providers in ASP.NET:

• Part I: Membership provider
• Part II: Role provider

ASP.NET Related Links

Following are some links related to ASP.NET:

• Steve Walther’s ASP.NET Weblog