Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Scott's confused about what 'WinRT' is. Is it a new .NET? A new runtime? Is .NET dead? He's totally confused so he talks to Immo Landwerth who sets him straight with complete context from Win32 to COM to .NET and beyond.

Scott sits down with Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon at OSCON 2012 in Portland, Oregon to talk about community. Does it need to be managed? Is community a garden to tend or something that handles itself?

Scott gets schooled by Damian and Levi on the differences between parallelism, background processing, and asynchronous programming. How does await and async change the game and what do you need to know to get started today.

Scott sits down with developer and JavaScript expert Dave Ward. They talk about Twitter's recent move away from hashbangs, their recent performance improvements, and the direction the web is heading. Is performance achieved on the client or the server or some combination of both?

Scott talks to Damian Edwards to get the latest information on ASP.NET 4.5. This includes improvements to the Core of ASP.NET, ASP.NET Web Forms and the inclusion of SignalR with Damian Edwards. They also talk about One ASP.NET and what that means to the developer this fall.

Ben Kamens is the lead developer at The Khan Academy and was also a part of the storied Fog Creek Software. He's managing 12 summer interns at the Academy this year. Scott talks to Ben about the mentor relationship, how to manage code reviews, one on ones, preparing for their arrival and more. How can you get the MOST out of your interns?

What causes one community to be empathetic and another not? What really drives us as creators? Is it money, tech or the potential connection we can have to other people? Scott talks to Leon Gersing out of Columbus, Ohio about promiscuous pairing, kindness vs. empathy and the user connection.

Scott checks in with Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror since his mini-retirement. They talk kids, Star Wars and Windows 8. All this and less on this episode of Hanselminutes.

Announcing GitHub for Windows. The Git client you always wanted is here and it's for Windows. Our own Phil Haack and new friend Tim Clem talk about metro-style, WPF, their design philosophy, open source, and talk about our many other contributors and supporters like Keith Dahlby and the amazing Paul Betts.

Baratunde Thurston has extensive experience in being Black for more than 30 years. Baratunde was the Digital Director at The Onion until recently and is now striking out on his own with a new venture called Cultivated Wit. He keynoted SXSW this year and is currently on tour promoting his book "How To Be Black." He talks to Scott about how he used technology to turn his memoir into a New York Times bestseller.