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Joe Wilson Imagine Cup 2009 Video Diary #5

Clint Rutkas — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:24:00 GMT

It is finally here, Imagine Cup 2009 has kicked off in Cairo, Egypt. Ray Ozzy, Joe Wilson and more talked to the students during the opening ceremony which was at the Saladin Citadel of Cairo.

Previously, on Joe Wilson's IC09 Video Diary...

This Week C9: Speech Recognition, Army of 1, TweetCraft and more

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:26:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:

- Joel Bennett - Control your PC with your voice and PowerShell, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Frank La Vigne - Speech Recognition in WPF
- Dan Waters - Great 4-part series on Audio Programming
- Andrew Woodward - Doing Agile in a Team of One
- Leah Budley - UX Team of One, via Frank La Vigne
- Aaron Marten - Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines
- Corey Schuman - YouTube video in Silverlight 3, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Tina Wood - The History of Microsoft 1995
- Jaime Rodriguez - Best questions/answers in the WPF Discussions email alias
- MySpace Releases MSFast, a browser plugin for measuring CPU, memory, screenshost, HTML rendering, and more (download)
- Registering Preview Pane types using PreviewConfig, via Greg Duncan
- Alois Kraus - The differences between Logging and Tracing

Picks of the week
Brian's pick of the week: Habib Heydarian - Debugging a Unit Test Failure with the Historical Debugger
Dan's pick of the week: TweetCraft an in-game World of Warcraft Twitter client, including a gratuitous video trailer

PS - Happy fourth of July to our American viewers

TweetCraft - A World of Warcraft Twitter Client

Dan Fernandez — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:43:00 GMT

A gratuitious trailer for TweetCraft, a World of Warcraft Twitter client.

Twitter is open source and includes:
- A Windows client written in C# and Windows Presentation Foundation
- A Warcraft AddOn written in FrameXML and Lua using AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

Expert to Expert: Harry Shum - General Purpose Search, Decision Engines and Bing

Charles — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:44:00 GMT

Harry Shum is the VP of Engineering for Bing, Microsoft's latest search engine offering (well, it's more than a search engine - it's a so-called Decision Engine, but what does that mean, precisely?). Harry has a long history in the world of complex algorithm design and implementation. Before joining the Bing team (at Bill Gates' request), Harry was a reseacher in MSR specializing in computer vision, which is an algorithm instensive discipline rife with machine learning principles, statistics and in some sense artificial "intelligence" in terms of autonomous pattern recognition capability. At any rate, Harry is a developer and scientist through and through. We're very fortunate to have him running our search engineering efforts. General purpose search is an incredibly fascinating area with a great deal of potential, challenges and opportunities.

Erik Meijer, programming language designer, knight of the lamda calculus and Expert to Expert host, sits down with Harry to learn, at a high level (though deep in context), how Bing works, what, exactly, a decision engine is, what really happens when you Bing something and various topics related to the computation behind both general purpose search and accurately interpreting user intention. Of course, being an E2E, we take the conversation in many directions and Harry was a real sport. Thank you, Harry!

If you want to know the past, present and a little bit of the future of Bing technology, well, tune in and meet Harry Shum; a computer scientist, software developer and vice president.

Enjoy!

Absolute Software - Theft Recovery, Data Protection, Secure Asset Tracking

Charles — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:26:00 GMT

Absolute Software, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, is the industry leader in Computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection, and Secure Asset Tracking solutions. The company provides individuals and organizations of all types and sizes with solutions to manage regulatory compliance, data protection, and theft recovery. The organization has 300 employees, including a team of 50 former law enforcement experts and private investigators. Absolute Software is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a launch partner for Windows 7

Silverlight in KnowledgeLake Imaging for SharePoint

Ahmed El-Ramly — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:45:00 GMT

KnowledgeLake develops document imaging, document capture and workflow products and solutions for SharePoint. KnowledgeLake's suite of products extend SharePoint into a comprehensive ECM solution that enables businesses to reduce shipping costs, streamline operations and achieve regulatory compliance using familiar Microsoft products that most businesses already own and use.

When KnowledgeLake wanted to enhance the user experience in its SharePoint-based solution, they evaluated and decided on Sivlerlight 2. Listen to CTO Chris Caplinger describe the importance of Silverlight both for their customers and for their developers.

Threat Analysis & Modeling Tool - TAM 3.0

Jossie Tirado — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:43:00 GMT

Anil Revuru (RV), from Information Security Tools, provides an overview of the new version of TAM (Threat Analysis & Modeling), an asset-centric tool which uses an objective methodology to analyze applications for threads and define mitigation plans for them. TAM aligns to the SDL-LOB as part of the Design phase.

RV describes the new features in this version, including the online repository for the attack countermeasures, automated use cases creation, composite threads, among others.

Learn more:

Ping 18: Ballmer apologizes, Paul Allens latest move, Surface fun, Security Beta

Laura Foy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:34:00 GMT

The boys took over this week and it's clear we have a bro-mance in the making. If you've ever wondered what guys talk about when they're alone...now you know:

Paul Allen makes it big!
Ballmer makes a boo boo
Surface gets even cooler...
Real DaVinci footage
Security Beta

The History of Microsoft - 1995

tina10 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:51:00 GMT

For Microsoft, 1995 was filled with Windows. On January 7, 1995, during his first keynote at the consumer electronics show in Vegas, Bill Gates announces Microsoft "Bob" for Windows. Microsoft and Dreamworks SKG announce that they have signed a joint-venture agreement to form a new software company and we announce internet explorer 1.0 for Windows 95.

Previous Episodes:

1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994

1995 Revenue/Headcount

The 1995 fiscal year-end sales total $5,940,000,000. The 1995 fiscal Year employee headcount totals 17,801 people.

Official Subsidiaries Launched: Microsoft d.o.o., Ljubljana (Slovenia), Microsoft Hungary,Microsoft Philippines, Inc., Microsoft Slovakia s.r.o. (Slovak Republic), Microsoft De Panama, S.A., Microsoft De Guatemala, S.A, Microsoft Corporation (The People’s Republic of China) ,Microsoft Uruguay S.A. ,PT Microsoft Indonesia

In the World:

· The Internet and World Wide Web explode in popularity and content, sparking heated debate of issues such as accessibility, censorship, privacy, and regulation.

· IBM pays $3.5 billion for Lotus Development Corporation.

· After tabulating 100 million votes, Mars, Inc., announces that blue is the overwhelming color of choice for the new M&M, winning over purple and pink.

· Cal Ripkin of the Baltimore Orioles sets a new record in baseball history by playing 2,131 consecutive games. (p.s. that’s the one time I’ve ever seen my husband cry watching TV)

· Oklahoma City: The Oklahoma City federal building is destroyed by a bomb blast, killing 168. Far-right militia member Timothy McVeigh is quickly arrested and convicted of the crime.

· Reeve: Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down in a horse-riding accident.

· Internet: Amazon.com makes its online debut.

· Earthquake: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hits Kobe, Japan, killing over 5,000 and causing $200 billion worth of damage.

· OJ: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend after a controversial 10-month trial.

· Comics: The last new Calvin and Hobbes comic strip is published.

· TV: “E.R.,” “Seinfeld,” and “Friends” are among the top television programs. “The Drew Carey Show” and “JAG” premiere.

· Balkans: The Dayton Accords end the three-year war in the former Yugoslavia and establish the independent nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

· Israel: Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by a right-wing Israeli extremist.

· Ebola: An outbreak of Ebola virus kills 244 in Zaire.

· Computing: Sun unveils the Java programming language.

· New Networks: The UPN and WB networks go on the air.

· Trade: The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established, superseding GATT.

· Terrorism: Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo releases Sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway, killing 12 and sickening over 5,000.

· March: Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakahn promotes a Million Man March of African-Americans in Washington, D.C.

· Movies: Top grossing movies of the year include Apollo 13, Babe, Toy Story, and Twelve Monkeys. Braveheart nets Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director (Mel Gibson), while Susan Sarandon wins Best Actress for Dead Man Walking, and Nicolas Cage takes Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas.

Introduktion till VSTS 2010, Del 4 - Test

Swedish MSDN Team — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:14:00 GMT

Den 15 juni hade Microsoft och Qwise ett event där Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 introducerades.

I del 4 av 4 presenterar Dag König, Microsoft följande:

Lab Management -hantering av virtuella testmiljöer
Det nya verktyget för automatiserade användargränssnittstester
Camano - det nya gränssnittet för testadministration

Introduktion till VSTS 2010, Del 3 - Team Foundation Server

Swedish MSDN Team — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:35:00 GMT

Den 15 juni hade Microsoft och Qwise ett event där Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 introducerades.

I del 3 av 4 presenterar Magnus Timner, Qwise följande

Hierarkiska Work Items, och den nya Agila processmallen.Rapporter i Excel.
Förenklad installation och uppgradering
Nya möjligheter till lastbalansering på applikationsservern och scale out på databassidan.
Administrationskonsollen
Nya webbaccess gränssnittet

Yochay Kiriaty - Windows 7 Developer Training Kit

Robert Hess — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:13:00 GMT

Windows 7 introduces some new UI enhancements, as well as a few additional features that developers should be looking at incorporating into their applications. Yochay Kiriaty joins us to talk about he and his team have been working on creating the Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers. This special training kit not only explains what many of these new features of Windows 7 are, but also includes coding labs to help you figure out how to use them.

And here are some additional links that you may find useful as you get your applications ready for Windows 7:

Introduktion till VSTS 2010, Del 2 - Utvecklare

Swedish MSDN Team — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:37:00 GMT

Den 15 juni hade Microsoft och Qwise ett event där Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 introducerades.

I del 2 av 4 presenterar Mathias Olausson, Qwise följande:

Historical debugging
Test impact analysis
Förbättrad profilering

Vi tar också en titt på nyheter i källkodshanteringen:

Förbättrat stöd för parallellutveckling
Byggautomatisering baserat på workflowteknik
Gated checkin och buddy builds

Introduktion till VSTS 2010, Del 1 - Arkitekturverktygen

Swedish MSDN Team — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:23:00 GMT

Den 15 juni hade Microsoft och Qwise ett event där Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 introducerades.

I del 1 av 4 presenterar Magnus Juvas, Qwise följande:
En övergripande genomgång av nyheterna i VSTS2010 och en titt på de nya arkitekturverktygen

Alex Weinert on Forefront Identity Manager 2010

Vittorio Bertocci — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:31:00 GMT

In this episode Alex Weinert, Group Program Manager, provides an in-depth interview around Identity Management in the enterprise. He begins with an overview of the current identity synchronization technologies on the Microsoft platform, MIIS and ILM 2007, and then pushes into a whiteboard session on the architecture and capabilities being built into the new Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 product (formerly known as Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) “2”). Built on .NET 3.5 technologies, FIM 2010 web services APIs provide the means for broad extensibility for the enterprise developer and ISV alike. And for the IT Pro, there’s rich codeless extensibility built into the product as well. You can download FIM 2010 RC0 from here for evaluation.

URL references:
Forefront Identity Manager 2010
The Identity key topic on Channel 9

"I'm a VB" Interview: Jim Duffy, Visual Basic MVP

Beth Massi — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:24:00 GMT

Jim Duffy, Visual Basic MVP, is one of the funniest people I know. At the MVP summit I grabbed him for a quick interview on how he uses Visual Basic and his favorite features, but what I didn't realize is how many smart a$$ answers I would get from him. I got him back though -- just take a look at the sub-titles ;-) Jim's a great sport and there are some definite gems in here. Check out Jim's MVP bio.

Post your own story and/or comment with your own experiences for the VB Team to hear on the VB Team blog. For more fun interviews visit www.IMaVB.net.

About the “I’m a VB” Interview series:
Who’s the “typical VB.NET developer”? Is there one? There are millions of VB.NET developers in the world, and they each have their own unique story. We decided to talk to some of them to find out what kinds of applications they’re building, what technologies they’re using, and what their favorite features are. Watch the interviews and find out for yourself who today's VB.NET developers really are!

"I'm a VB" Interview: Ken Getz, Visual Basic MVP

Beth Massi — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:24:00 GMT

In this quick interview I catch Ken Getz, Visual Basic MVP, in the cafeteria of building 34 and we chat about his experiences with Visual Basic over the years and he tells me what he likes most about Visual Basic and Visual Studio. Check out Ken's MVP bio.

Post your own story and/or comment with your own experiences for the VB Team to hear on the VB Team blog. For more fun interviews visit www.IMaVB.net.

About the “I’m a VB” Interview series:
Who’s the “typical VB.NET developer”? Is there one? There are millions of VB.NET developers in the world, and they each have their own unique story. We decided to talk to some of them to find out what kinds of applications they’re building, what technologies they’re using, and what their favorite features are. Watch the interviews and find out for yourself who today's VB.NET developers really are!

"I'm a VB" Interview: Bill Wolff, Visual Basic MVP