Scott Hanselman

Rory and Chris came over to the new house recently and this is what came of that visit. The video is up on10.

"In this edition of Show Us Your Home, Scott Hanselman - a guy who works out of his home office - shows us his Geek Developer Crib with Rory Blyth on the glass and Chris Sells on the open mic.
Scott takes us on a tour of his OCD wiring, Windows Home Server, Xboxen, and personal effects. Special thanks to Rory for producing."

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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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My one-hundredth podcast is up. Madness. This week I talk to Norm Judah, the CTO of Microsoft Services. We talk about running a world-wide multi-cultural organization of 16,000 consultants, building online community, and writing green software.

We spoke at Microsoft TechReady6, an internal Microsoft version of TechEd just for the field. Norm conceived and organized this massive conference in order to get the field up to date on the all the cool stuff coming out of development centers. Whip smart, yet still accessible, Norm was very cool to take time from his insane schedule and talk to me. I hope you enjoy it.

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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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Aptana has a cool Eclipse-based IDE for writing AJAX-y websites. It's got built-in support, via plugins, for most of the major Javascript Libraries. At the core of ASP.NET's AJAX support is the Microsoft AJAX Library 3.5 (direct download), a collection of Javascript classes that you can use in any application, whether it uses ASP.NET or not. The library is licensed under the Ms-PL, the least restrictive Microsoft license. It's the "do what makes you happy" license.

Anyway, I wanted it integrated into Aptana's Studio, so I took the client libraries and bundled them into a JAR file as an Aptana (Eclipse) plugin. You just download this one JAR and save it in the Aptana\Plugins folder and when you make a new Web Project, Microsoft Ajax 3.5 will appear in the list.

When you select (it's a checkbox, so you can add multiple libraries to one project) you'll get the Javascript and "intellisense" for the libraries, as well as a Hello World Sample...

...as well as integrated with the online Ajax Documentation

I think that JS components like MS-Ajax should be easily accessible in other IDEs that aren't Visual Studio, like Aptana.

The one big feature that I didn't have time to do was full Intellisense (Aptana calls it "Code Assist") as it'll require a custom ScriptDoc XML file to describe each method within the libraries. This means that you'll not get the extra documentation tooltip, but I'm working in it.

Bertrand has a post explaining what our format for JS metadata looks like. The Open Ajax Alliance has an IDE Charter that describes an interoperable way for IDEs to interact with libraries, publish metadata,etc. Microsoft joined the Alliance last year and passed the Open Ajax Interop Test last September. Bertrand has a whole category dedicated to Open Ajax. When these specs gets better figured out, we'll make sure this gets supported. I may write a tool in the short term to convert between our format into Aptana's if folks ask. Eventually, however, everyone will use the standard (after it comes out, you know how standard take time).

I've  been talking with Aptana to get this support built in and possibly auto-downloadable, but for now, if you're running Aptana and you'd like MS-Ajax support, save this JAR (com.ajax.ms.3.5.21022.8.jar) into Aptana's plugin directory and restart the IDE.

Later, I'll show you how to do the inverse with Visual Studio, integrating Prototype and JQuery.

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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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As a remote worker going to meetings sucks. It sucks big time. Huge. Nothing is worse (from a work perspective) than listening to six faint voices over a speakerphone get work done while you struggle to remain relevant.

Sometimes I can convince someone to bring a laptop to a meeting but inevitably they haven't got the right software working. If we can actually get a video going, I have to explain to them how to get it going full screen.

If we actually do get it working using either Office Communicator, Live Messenger or Skype, we can only have one to one video. (Yes, I know about iChat, but not everyone has a Mac).

I'm not sure of the relationship between ooVoo and the others, but I can tell you that ooVoo is like Skype PLUS multi-person chat. Wow. It's fantastic. It'll do 6 people. I tested it with four as you can see above. The video is better than the audio, but we had folks in 4 states (1 in Hawaii) so I'm not sure everyone had the best connection.

It also has a beautiful "You Don't Know Jack" juicy style animated interface. It's very responsive and you can minimize and maximize whatever individual or individuals are talking at the time.

Color me impressed. It doesn't have any of the office features like Office Communicator, so that'll still be my primary chat for work, but this'll be great for the couple of meetings I have a week with remote folks in many locations. If you sign up my ooVoo name is "shanselman."

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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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One of my first projects when I started working here is an ASP.NET Wiki. ScottGu had the idea and my team had to make it happen. The Beta (finally!) launched today. A lot of work went into the development and seeding of this project.

The idea is that folks spend a lot of time trolling the blogs, googling live-searching for answers to common "How To" questions. There's piles of fantastic community-created and MSFT-created content out there, but if it's not found by a search engine and the right combination of keywords, it's often lost.

Search is great, but for targeted answers you can't beat the one-two punch of search plus human  editing. I spent a long time looking for content and seeding the wiki, but there's still piles to do. Hopefully it won't be just me editing it.

What's the point:

• To provide a targeted, categorized, human-hand-edited, and living Wiki for finding answers to ASP.NET questions.

You can leave comments on the content, there's RSS feeds, and you add your own updates and make it better. You'll also get recognition points if you're a member of the http://www.asp.net community.

You can get there from http://wiki.asp.net/ and it's also been added to main tab menu of http://www.asp.net. Folks are already starting to discover the site and make changes. I hope you find it helpful!

Thanks above all to my friend Ward for inventing the Wiki in the first place!

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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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