Scott Hanselman

My fourth Podcast is up. This was one is on Continuous Integration in .NET.

We're listed in the iTunes Podcast Directory, so I encourage you to subscribe with a single click (two in Firefox) with the button below. For those of you on slower connections there are lo-fi and torrent-based versions as well.

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)

• Each show will include a number of links, and all those links will be posted along with the show on the site. There were 15 sites mentioned in this fourth episode, some planned, some not. We're still using Shrinkster.com on this show.
• The basic MP3 feed is here, and the iPod friendly one is here. There's a number of other ways you can get it (streaming, straight download, etc) that are all up on the site just below the fold. I use iTunes, myself, to listen to most podcasts, but I also use FeedDemon and it's built in support. IPodder is also a nice, free, client.
• Note that for now, because of bandwidth constraints, the feeds always have just the current show. If you want to get an old show (and because many Podcasting Clients aren't smart enough to not download the file more than once) you can always find them at http://www.hanselminutes.com.
• I have, and will, also include the enclosures to this feed you're reading, so if you're already subscribed to ComputerZen and you're not interested in cluttering your life with another feed, you have the choice to get the 'cast as well.
• If there's a topic you'd like to hear, perhaps one that is better spoken than presented on a blog, or a great tool you can't live without, contact me and I'll get it in the queue!

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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Jamie Cansdale has done it again. Jamie's the maker of TestDriven.NET, the Visual Studio AddIn that I use religiously. It's really a must-install for Visual Studio.NET.

His new version adds a few new features of note. First, "Test With...Coverage." You have to see this to believe it. Sure, Visual Studio.NET 2005 Team System supports code coverage, but not everyone is on the latest and greatest.

The test coverage uses NCover and Grant Drake's NCoverExplorer, a tool that reads NCover's XML files and eschews the slow default XSL integration for a streaming approach. It's wicked fast, I can speak to that.

TestDriven.NET now offers code coverage integration for all Visual Studio Users. All of them. Since I do all my Coding4Fun development using the Express SKUs, I installed this on my Tablet PC. Not only does it integrate with my Visual Studio 2003 (.NET 1.1) install, but it also added coverage support in Express. Very cool. The free Express SKUs along with Jamie's stuff will really open up the possibilities for development in 3rd world countries where not everyone can afford a MSDN license.

Kudos for Microsoft for making the Express SKUs so powerful and kudos to Jamie for improving Test Driven.NET with code coverage.

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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Years ago I wrote a "C" application for the original Palm called GlucoPilot that I later updated to color Palms. It was the first Diabetes Management Application for a PalmPilot and gained a following. I sold the product to Healthetech who continued to sell and support it for a few years longer. Then, Healthetech got out of the diabetes business and into the diet-related market among other things.

There are literally tens of thousands (perhaps more) of GlucoPilot users in four languages. I've approached Healthetech with the idea of making a GlucoPilot Community Edition that would be Open Source, but with a commercial friendly license that would allow Healthetech to take the changes and potentially commercialize GlucoPilot later. This is similar to the approach newtelligence took with DasBlog.

Right now, GlucoPilot isn't available to download, and doesn't work on Palm OS 5 systems. Palm OS 5 was the one where the CPU totally changed and I never got a copy of Metroworks CodeWarrior as well as the new APIs. I'd like to update GlucoPilot to support not only the newer Palm systems like Treo's but also high-res displays.

However, with my current commitments I couldn't head the technical aspects of this project - I could only act as a product manager. If you, or someone you know, is an experienced Palm programmer and, hopefully, a diabetic, and are interested in truly committing to this product and it's community, please contact me. Please spread the word.

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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Arthur Wait just turned me on to a project he's written called TitleZ.

It's written in ASP.NET and has some clever Ajax-like and DHTML behaviors. You can set up your own "watch list" of books as well as great printed reports. It's free now, and they'll charge a small fee when it's out of beta. I can see my editor using this tool.

I'd probably invert the Y-axis on the graph such that a low ranking made the line appear higher and there's a few small problems with stylesheets in FireFox with the printed reports, but otherwise, it's pretty slick for a beta!

He says he's tracking 250,000 titles right now. This is great for authors who want to track their rankings and also for competitive research.

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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A few people asked me recently for my blogroll, so I took a bit of time and pared it down to 206 (from the 250+ it was) and posted it here. You can get to my live updated Newsgator OPML here. I'm sure I missed some folks or accidentally deleted your blog, just email me and I'll get you back in there.

A lot of folks don't realize that DasBlog already includes a Blogroll.aspx page that will automatically style a file called blogroll.opml if you place it in your /SiteConfig folder. It's styled using a file called opml.xslt. In my case, I blatently stole mine xslt file from Joshua Allen's OPML page and modified it for my own use.

If you have DasBlog installed, put your blogroll.opml file in /SiteConfig and visit /blogroll.aspx yourself. Of course, you're welcome to modify the existing shody opml.xslt as much as you like. Maybe I'll included a version of Joshua's with DasBlog.

Now playing: Mario - How Could You

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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