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What's your favourite Channel 9 videos?

My top picks so far, in no particular order:

• Brian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad
• Expert to Expert: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer - Inside the .NET Reactive Framework (Rx)
• Corrinne Yu - Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team Microsoft: Part One
• Corrinne Yu - Principal Engine Architect for Halo Team Microsoft: Part Two
• A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Bertrand Meyer - Objects, Contracts, Concurrency, Sleeping Barbers
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Burton Smith - Concurrency, Parallelism and Programming
• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Anders Hejlsberg - The Future of C#
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport - Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems
• Inside SPUR - A Trace-Based JIT Compiler for CIL
• Expert to Expert - Joe Duffy: Perspectives on Concurrent Programming and Parallelism
• Dave Probert: Inside Windows 7 - User Mode Scheduler (UMS)
• Gilad Bracha: Inside Newspeak and Objects as a Service
• Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 (1/2)
• Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 (2/2)
• Singularity (1/4)
• Singularity (2/4)
• Singularity (3/4)
• Singularity (4/4)

How can you ask us to choose?  There are so many.  On top of that list, VS documentary and the History of MS are well worth a mention.

Seems like Channel9 has really been on fire lately with the videos.  The C9 Live stuff, E2E, the lecture series, all great stuff.

 It's a real shame you can't sort the video list by rating, it would be inreasting to see the ones the members rate the highest. (OData feed on the videos please so we could do this ourselves?)

PerfectPhase said:

How can you ask us to choose?  There are so many.  On top of that list, VS documentary and the History of MS are well worth a mention.

 

Seems like Channel9 has really been on fire lately with the videos.  The C9 Live stuff, E2E, the lecture series, all great stuff.

 

 It's a real shame you can't sort the video list by rating, it would be inreasting to see the ones the members rate the highest. (OData feed on the videos please so we could do this ourselves?)

 

Too few people bother to give a thumbs up, unfortunately. The view count is probably a better measure.

And of course the Functional Programming Lecture Series must not be forgotten!

Charles said:

exoteric said:

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Agreed. We are working on making it more obvious...
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PS: Two new Lectures series in the works: STL (for the C++ devs out there) and a special series on type systems with a special (secret) guest lecturer..

Just one other things...  I went looking for the Corrinne Yu - Part 2 video on http://channel9.msdn.com/Media/ It was posted on 19th of May but does not show in the list?  You can find it via the tag cloud and the front page.  Just wondering now how many other videos just vanish into the mists of time?

Charles said:

exoteric said:

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Agreed. We are working on making it more obvious...
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PS: Two new Lectures series in the works: STL (for the C++ devs out there) and a special series on type systems with a special (secret) guest lecturer..

Channel 9 University! Where do I pick up my diploma?

Charles said:

rhm said:

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I like the sound of that: Channel 9 University.

 

We'd have to provide tests for you to pass in order to get your C9 Degree... Hmm.

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Please don't let Erik come up with the test. 

OR actually let Erik come up with the test based on previous C9 content.

Gotta say I like the Bertrand one  - a lot - with the sleeping barbers, I also enjoy the expert to expert ones a lot, and any with the Technical fellows (been a bit thin lately - the Butler Lampson one was great), but Daniel Moth, Beth Massi, Ron Jacobs even the 5 minute vid on creating a network diagram with Visio has got me out of a fix, contributing to the epic success of whatever I was working on at the time.

Definitely Singularity videos. They were like methadone version of Longhorn videos. I still haven't forgiven Microsoft for Longhorn.. I remember when it was just after XP got released and those videos started to come out. They made it look like second coming of Jesus.. Singularity videos were kinda like that. Charles, we want more of our favorite binary drug.. 

RoyalSchrubber said:

Definitely Singularity videos. They were like methadone version of Longhorn videos. I still haven't forgiven Microsoft for Longhorn.. I remember when it was just after XP got released and those videos started to come out. They made it look like second coming of Jesus.. Singularity videos were kinda like that. Charles, we want more of our favorite binary drug.. 

I think the current approach is for projects on the scale of Longhorn to be in private incubation, precisely because Microsoft doesn't want the public to expect whatever new research or incubation they lanch will turn into the next version of Product X when they are themselves not sure when or if these projects will turn into products. That said, one could argue that the main problem with Longhorn is that it was not an incubation project but rather in line to replace Windows with an unrealistic time schedule and unproven technologies.

I surely hope the dream of a managed code operating system is not dead within Microsoft but rather that the fundamentals needed to make it work will be tried and tested so that the next bet will be a sure one. One lesson is that's it's extremely important to manage expectations and to label projects correctly, be it Internet Explorer (Platform Preview; "where is my address bar") or Windows + 1. It's clear that Windows 7 is a very lean and cool but still incremental Windows. Maybe Windows 8 will be too. There is an interview with a member of the Windows core architechture team performed by Robert Hess (behind the code) where the architect, Richard Ward, says that he's working two versions ahead of the current version of Windows. Pretty cool.

The Singularity videos rock. No doubt about it.

I really enjoy the E2E series, as well as the lectures. There was one with a technical fellow (I don't recall his name) which I thought was excellent. You are definately doing some great work Charles.

The ones with Brian Beckman on the history of old computers (with the Curta, I think) and the physics simulation in Forza were great.

Edit: Links ...

• Brian Beckman: The Physics in Games - Real-Time Simulation Explained
• Brian Beckman: A Brief History of Computing

Can't believe I missed the 2nd Singularity video (Singularity Revisited). But its missing the media downloads. Charles, can you take care of the missing download link?

davewill said:

Charles said:

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Please don't let Erik come up with the test. 

 

OR actually let Erik come up with the test based on previous C9 content.

Or Brian for that matter!