Scott Hanselman

I'm considering moving my whole family over to Google Apps.

Have any of you done this and how did it go?

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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 sixty- ninth podcast is up.  In this episode, Carl and I talk about building the ultimate developer PC. 

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Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts, a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show.

Telerik is our sponsor for this show.

Check out their UI Suite of controls for ASP.NET. It's very hardcore stuff. One of the things I appreciate about Telerik is their commitment to completeness. For example, they have a page about their Right-to-Left support while some vendors have zero support, or don't bother testing. They also are committed to XHTML compliance and publish their roadmap. It's nice when your controls vendor is very transparent.

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)

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.

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I awoke to discover that the video that accompanied my post on "Video: Windows Browser Speed Shootout - IE7, Firefox2, Opera9, Safari for Windows Beta 3" was removed from MSN Video soapbox as a "Code of Conduct Violation." Waa?

Check out the Code of Conduct posted at the Soapbox Site...I'm not pushing porn or exploiting minors...there's NOTHING in there about posting a video like this. Bummer. Perhaps Apple complained.

Anyway, here's the same video be encoded at 640x480 (4x the resolution that was up on Soapbox) and hosted via Silverlight Streaming. Grab Silverlight if you need to.

If you'd like to easily create Silverlight Videos, transcode them and blog them, take a good look at James Clarke's blog on JetFuel (download), his Windows Live Writer Plugin that will automate encoding, skinning and publishing within Windows Live Writer. Make sure you go download Expression Media Encoder also.

Here's the Windows Browser Speed Shootout video on YouTube.

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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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Scott Berkun has a great article over at his blog about *sshole Driven Development, or "ADD."

"Any team where the biggest jerk makes all the big decisions is *sshole driven development. All wisdom, logic or process goes out the window when Mr. A is in the room, doing whatever idiotic, selfish thing he thinks is best. There may rules and processes, but Mr. A breaks them and people follow anyway."

Of course, one should look to themselves and their own team first to make sure that you're (or me, for that matter) not Mr. A.

I've worked at places that seemed to promote what I've called Flaming Potato Development, also called "Not My Problem (NMP)"  Development in the comments on Scott's Blog:

"...in which all complex, complicated, expensive, or otherwise troublesome decisions/features/issues are pushed into someone else’s module?"

Great stuff, do check it out. Also, I encourage you to check out Scott's book on The Myths of Innovation, it's supposed to be pretty good, I'll be picking up a copy this weekend.

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.

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Originally I'd figured I'd shoot the moon and buy a mega-machine for and obscene amount of money, but then I realized that not only do I not have mega-money, but at some point one reaches a point of diminishing returns.

I want this machine to be ridiculously fast, but I want the price/performance ratio to be ideal.

Here's what Jeff and I finally came up with.

• Antec P182 Gun Metal Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
  Item #: N82E16811129025 $154.99
• MSI P6N SLI Platinum LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
  Item #: N82E16813130081 $144.99
• 2 x MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC GeForce 8600GTS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Over Clock Edition HDCP Video Card - Retail
  Item #: N82E16814127284 $337.98
• Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
  Item #: N82E16822136012 $199.99
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
  Item #: N82E16822148136 $119.99
• Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80562Q6600 - Retail
  Item #: N82E16819115017 $531.90
• Scythe SCMN-1100 100mm Sleeve CPU Cooler - Retail
  Item #: N82E16835185037 $32.99
• CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 520W Power Supply - Retail
  Item #: N82E16817139001 $129.99
• 2 x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KVR800D2N5K2/2G - OEM
  Item #: N82E16820134117 $216.98
• LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with 12X DVD-RAM write and LightScribe Technology Black E-IDE/ATAPI Model LH-20A1H-185 - OEM
  Item #: N82E16827106055 $33.99
• Subtotal: $1,903.79

In the coming few weeks we'll put it together, and then add Jeff's special touch which will include sound damping and overclocking. There will be pics and details on the performance before and after, and we'll see what this $1900 machine will be capable of.

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.

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