Channel 9 - Discussions by WinInsider

Coffeehouse - Seinfeld/Gates 2: "New Family"

WinInsider — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:01:45 GMT

Does anyone know which book (title) Bill Gates was reading... "The fact that design uses inheritance and polymorphism doesn't make it good design"?

EDIT: FYI the quote if from Steve McConnell "Code Complete 2" section 18.2 - Table Driven Method

The fact that a design uses inheritance and polymorphism doesn’t make it a good design. The “rote object-oriented design” example described earlier would require as much code as a rote functional design…or more. That approach made the solution space more complicated, rather than less. The key design insight in this case is neither object-orientation nor functional orientation—but the use of a well-thought-out lookup table……..

Coffeehouse - Reality Check

WinInsider — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 03:41:38 GMT

Scoble, for my own sanity (and sanity of others), no video avalanche – for next few weeks, please. I am still viewing ones from PDC.

More videos with developers! After so many videos one can get the impression that only PMs are developing software at Microsoft. We had few videos with PM and few developers in a room, but PM always monopolized the discussion. Have few developers (and only developers) from a team that worked on a part of a product discuss challenges, features, and benefits to users, etc... Maybe give them some topic areas few days in advance.

Charles, you are onto something, on few video you asked questions along... what makes good language, what makes good code, your interviews tend to gravitate towards architectural discussions. Your deep dives series is the most insightful videos. Keep asking questions along the lines of “elegant code”, code level architecture, and good design patterns. Keep MC++ discussions going, hang around Visual C++ team.

The following maybe already in place, in Bill Gates’ video C9ers did put forward some questions, if I am not mistaken. How about allowing C9ers to put forward questions for upcoming interviews. Ofcouse you guys decide which questions get asked. Sometimes you get several minutes with some of the greatest minds in the company and you would like to ask some insightful question, but the interview ends prematurely because there are no more questions to ask. The list of questions would provide a healthy pool of good question to draw from when you get precious minutes with someone that actually wrote the software or is an architect on the project.

Last but not least, screencasts also very good, keep them coming (no more then 10/15 minutes in length).

Mike

Coffeehouse - Katrina aftermath is stunning

WinInsider — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:46:28 GMT

leighsword wrote:

just be curious about what the US government will do for help their people in this situation, and how much budget they spent for preventing future disaster?

The reason for more frequent hurricanes and their increased severity is result of warming ocean waters. The warmer then usual ocean gives more strength and fuels these monsters. Prevention is cheep and simple: burn less fossil fuels and everything that goes with it. Pressure your government to impose stronger environmental control laws, buy hybrid cars (the right type of hybrid car -- not the ones that just add more power to the engine), etc... It is improbable to prevent nature from its course of action... but we could minimize negative effect that we have (reduce frequency, strength and severity). If noting gets done about this, it will get even worse year after year.

Best prevention is not to contribute in first place.

Coffeehouse - Escape from Yesterworld

WinInsider — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 03:32:21 GMT

On Escape YesterWorld website there are few video clips (on the "Main Control Room" slide).

I do not want to read too much into the video clips, but is it wise marketing practice to depict developers in the clip (#1, #3) as slaves?

Coffeehouse - Design Refresh in progress

WinInsider — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:59:58 GMT

Sweet!

Good to see Channel9 expending and developing to accommodate the growing community around it. Keep up the awesome work.

Mike
Microsoftonian
WinInsider.com

Tech Off - Building a Picture Frame with Windows CE 5.0 - Step 1

WinInsider — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:56:25 GMT

Mike, instead of using Camtasia, why not use Windows Media Encoder 9, it comes with Screen capture capabilities, and you don't have to store chunky AVI file.

Mike
WinInsider.com