This week’s guest on the Ignite Your Coding live webcast needs no introduction: it’s Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, whose job is to talk about software development and how to do it right, primarily using The Empire’s tools and technologies. He’s a household name in the minds of .NET developers worldwide, and even when I was deep in the world of open source software, I’d heard of him, what with his blog, the Hanselminutes podcast, his presentations at various Microsoft conferences and (of course) his membership in the elite group known as “The Gang of Foreheads”. His influence in the Microsoft universe is like that of the Illusive Man in the Mass Effect universe.
John Bristowe and I will chat with Scott about a topic near and dear to us: the state of the .NET developer nation. It’s an exciting time to be a .NET developer: we’re a year into Windows 7, a couple of days after the release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0, Windows Phone 7, Silverlight 4 and Internet Explorer 9 looming in the not-too-distant future and Microsoft making a lot of right moves. I can’t think of a better time to pick Scott’s brain and find out, straight from the source, what’s hot and what’s not in the world of .NET development. We’ll also pick his brain for tips on how to stay on top of your game as a developer in today’s ever-morphing industry.
We’ll be chatting with Scott live this Thursday at 2:00 p.m. (11:00 a.m. Pacific) online.
What’s Ignite Your Coding About?
Ignite Your Coding is a webcast series all about helping you, the software developer. We want to help you find ways to stay on top of the technological, economic and social changes that affect you and your work every day. We contacted some of the biggest thinkers and doers in our field and asked them if they’d like to chat about the industry, how they got started, where they see the opportunities are, how they deal with change and how to be generally awesome. We hope it informs and inspires you!
How Do I Catch the Live Webcast?
You’ll need:
- A Windows machine
- Live Meeting (you can get a free version of Live Meeting here), which will let you see visuals, hear the audio and type in questions to ask Richard
- To register for the webcast (it’s free), click here; you’ll get the link for the webcast
- To catch the webcast on Thursday at 2:00 p.m. Eastern / 11:00 a.m. Pacific!
How Do I Get the MP3 Recording of the Webcast?
It’ll be posted on this blog in about a week.
Who’s Coming Up on Ignite Your Coding?
- Jeff Atwood on “Horrors, Overflows and Fake Plastic Rock”
- Robert C. “Uncle Bob” Martin on software craftsmanship
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