Duncan Mackenzie
Duncanma
"yeah that's awful close, but that's not why I'm so hard done by"
Developer for the Channel 9 team, formerly worked on MSDN as a developer, content strategist and author.
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Windows 8 App for Channel 9 now availableYou’ve seen this app before in various forms (we had a version in the consumer preview for Windows 8, and a beta up on the forum for awhile), but the v1 release just hit the Windows store.
Features
- Pin your favorite shows and keep up to date with Live Tiles
- Watch videos with your choice of Progressive...
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Channel 9 turns 9!From our humble beginnings as a website built with alpha quality forum technologies that we stitched together with creative code and a lot of love, and our videos were made by a few dudes roaming the halls of Microsoft with a cheap camcorder – look at us now. Channel 9 streams live events to 100,000s...
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How One Company Turned an Internal Business Project Into a Global BusinessDec 20, 2012 at 12:31 AM
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Media Valet
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Invention company connects customers to network services in new and exciting waysDec 20, 2012 at 12:28 AM 0
Digimarc
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AzureEmotiveDec 20, 2012 at 12:27 AM 0
"I think the biggest benefit from what we're seeing with Azure today is we focus on the business problems, not the operational aspects."
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TWC9: Sharing Code, Cheat Sheets, and Jump Starting!This week on Channel 9, Duncan and Rick discuss the week's top developer news, including;
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TWC9: Windows 8 Launch SpectacularThis week on Channel 9, Dan and Duncan discuss the week's top developer news, including;
- [0:28] Windows 8 Launch!
- [1:47] Join us at BUILD 2012!
- [3:56] Now that's a BUILD Tent! (Todd Bishop)
- [5:00] Announcing Windows 8 on Channel 9! (Jeff Sandquist), http://channel9.msdn.com/Windows...
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Windows Store now open to developers from 120 different markets!The Windows Store blog announced today that the store is now open to a massive number of developers, from across 120 different markets. From their post:
Today's an especially great day to be a developer. We're very excited to announce the last significant milestone in the rollout of the Windows Store...
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Hot new Windows 8 content hits Channel 9So Windows 8 has hit MSDN Subscriber downloads (along with Visual Studio 2012) and Channel 9 has the content you need to get going right away. Check out the great new sessions in a Windows 8 Developer Camp published today, including this introductory session by John Lam.
Interested in getting better at...
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Build 2012 is sold out. Tune in online.Build 2012 sold out in less than an hour. Build 2012 will be unlike anything we've held on our corporate campus in a long time. For those unable to attend, there will be a world class online experience and local developer events throughout the world.
Staff
Here is a list of Channel 9 staff members.
Windows 8 Tip 3: Using Windows File Explorer
4 days ago@Arjang: Above the video, on the right
Windows 8 Tip 3: Using Windows File Explorer
4 days ago@Giedrius: What format/player were you watching? HTML 5 or Silverlight? And what browser? For reasons outside our control, all of those different scenarios end up getting different files and the resolution can vary. I just watched in Silverlight and the quality was great, so it would be very helpful to know what your experience was based on.
Series Introduction - 01
May 08, 2013 at 1:06 PM@Joseph: Hey Joseph, I'm the video guy here on Channel 9... and I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Stream Manager? Are you having trouble watching the video?
Announcing TechEd Achievements
May 02, 2013 at 2:32 PM@Ladewig: I suspect you have two different Live IDs (Microsoft Accounts), since this user:
http://channel9.msdn.com/niners/LadewigHotmail/achievements/TechEdNorthAmerica2013
has the achievement, but you do not...
TWC9: Next XBOX Announcement, AzureConf, Code Digger, Princess Leia and more
May 01, 2013 at 11:36 AMOh... and I just noticed, it is still in the 2011 list of top web design mistakes
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-10-mistakes-web-design/
TWC9: Next XBOX Announcement, AzureConf, Code Digger, Princess Leia and more
May 01, 2013 at 11:31 AM@Dark_Halmut: so... while I get the experience you two are after, as a general rule... making our hrefs open in a new tab is very rude and disruptive to the user.
http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/03/target-blank/
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-top-ten-web-design-mistakes-of-1999/ (see #1 and #2)
(yep those references are old... because this was identified as a problem a long time ago)
I believe it should stay as it is, so then you can *choose* to open in a new tab instead of having that choice made for you.
Countdown to TechEd: All About ScheduleBuilder
Apr 08, 2013 at 3:18 PM@RobHouston: The plan is to record all breakout sessions. Sometimes there are issues and something doesn't get recorded or an issue comes up with copyright and we have to hold a session back... but generally we try to hit 100% of content goes online.
Windows 8 App for Channel 9 now available
Apr 08, 2013 at 11:14 AM@cedricmi: Completely understand about the reduced functionality, we made some choices about what was important in the app experience and we decided it was all about watching videos. We will be adding in more features as we move forward. As far as poor navigation, I don't agree personally, I find navigating in the app to be super easy... perhaps if you gave some examples of where you found it difficult that would help us to plan future changes.
As far as the general comment about reduced feature sets in other apps, I can't speak to the general case, but I can imagine that if you have been developing a web application like Amazon over many years, the depth of features would exceed a new UI that you just created. Also, just like we did, I expect that each company is trying to optimize for certain use cases for their Windows 8 app, instead of just handling everything. I think this is true for app development across multiple platforms, reducing the scope of a touch-focused app to make it easier and simpler to use. Over time I'm sure that some of these apps will get to parity with their existing web experiences.
Defrag: Portable Office, Driver Bugchecks, C9 Win8 App
Apr 04, 2013 at 3:28 PM@JockStrap: You might be making a joke, but all Channel 9's video encoding is done using Expression Encoder, but it isn't really a video editing application, so the original video is created using Premiere.
Defrag: Portable Office, Driver Bugchecks, C9 Win8 App
Apr 03, 2013 at 4:32 PM@JockStrap: The high WMV is actually the 'source' video, and the size of that can change radically from one content creator to another. I honestly want the source to be as high as possible, since it is our master copy. Given that, perhaps we need to start making a high quality version separately instead of just giving people the original... something at a consistent bitrate/resolution (1280x720, 2.5Mbps for example?)
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