Channel 9 - Discussions by Zeo

Coffeehouse - What's Channel 9 at 9?

Zeo — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:10:55 GMT

Yes I am a long time niner.

I was a FTE employee at Microsoft for 5 years. Since 2010 I have moved to a smaller, leaner, faster, company working on Application Lifecycle Management (www.imaginet.com).

I still check 9 regularly and I hope the nine team continues the great work.

I just miss the unscripted days of Robert Scoble and Rory.

I'd love to just have the nine crew hit up internal events and interview employees UNSCRIPTED/UNEDITED and show the real, passionate, people work at Microsoft in many different areas and locations.

I like the live feeds...but I'd love just to watch "Jay Leno Jay Walking" content such as asking employees when they get out of their cars, "What are you thoughts about the death of Silverlight? What makes you want to make the next xbox?", and then hear the lower levels explain their actual views. Would be fun...and again it would follow the original charter behind why Len created channel 9.

Again keep up the great technical content but I'd love to see more human stories...

Coffeehouse - F*ck! too soon

Zeo — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:15:16 GMT

Wow that's sad.

Coffeehouse - New Fuggly W8 logo

Zeo — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:27:35 GMT

I think you guys are missing the point on the flag. Windows is Microsoft's flagship product.

After reading the Steve Jobs book about how much Job's cared about the NeXt logo and how much time/money(Millions) they spent focused on the logo I have to think Microsoft probably spent the same amount of time and effort(in today's dollars tens of millions of dollars).

The only downside to their current design is look at these two photos, which feels right today...but tomorrow will feel out dated. It's incredible to think how long the flag has been around (since the early 90s) will this new metro logo stand the test of time.

Only time will tell...

Which do you think consumers intuitively know is 'Windows'?

Interesting to think the Windows Phone logo will have to change now too for future versions.

Here's there current logo? What will the windows phone 8 logo look like?

I really think the new design costs BILLIONS of dollars in brand recognition....but with all of the efforts to change brand perceptions maybe this could be worth Billions...we just don't know...but it's new and it sure is different.

For all of you color fans

Coffeehouse - Technical Account Manager Interview

Zeo — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:04:26 GMT

Sure thing. Send me a message at Zeo 0 1 @ hotmail.com .

Coffeehouse - Best use of a Kinect ever - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test

Zeo — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:02:47 GMT

This is incredible - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8Bh5iI2WY

Coffeehouse - Another Softie Leaving - Michael Swanson

Zeo — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:26:31 GMT

Mike's been a great guy here on channel 9. I hope he finds a great new career.

From his blog:

"After 11½ years at one of the greatest companies in the world, I've decided to leave Microsoft and rejuvenate my entrepreneurial spirit. My last day in the office is Friday, September 30, 2011.

Thank you for subscribing to, reading, commenting, and e-mailing me about what I've written over the past 8 years. I've thoroughly enjoyed "talking" to all of you, albeit in virtual form. It's kept me grounded and in-touch, and your feedback has helped shape a lot of decisions at the company, especially those related to our PDC and MIX conferences.

Over the past 8 years, I've written 392 posts. You've left 3,227 public comments (I didn't track the number of private e-mails, but it's a lot). And according to our blogging platform, you've contributed to 10,273,373 total views. Wow!

I've setup a new personal blog at http://blog.mikeswanson.com, if you'd like to follow along. Or, you can see what I'm up to as @Anyware on Twitter. Either way, I hope that you keep in touch.

Take care, remember to take big, bold bets, and whatever you do, improve the world!"

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mswanson/archive/2011/09/27/moving-along.aspx

Seems like all the good folks are finding better stomping grounds these days. http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2011/09/friday-friday-friday-microsoft-company.html

Coffeehouse - Adobe is now resorting to magic in the new Photoshop

Zeo — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:01:37 GMT

OMG. This is the magic of software. I'm impressed as a developer...this has to be an april fool's joke, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI

Coffeehouse - Chrome Goat Teleportation - Best bug ever!

Zeo — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:00:43 GMT

I saw this thread on a bug discussion news group.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31482

I downloaded Chrome and repro'd the bug just so I could help keep the goats teleported.

Why aren't any of my bugs as funny as this.

Coffeehouse - Dan beatup Brian & broke his thumb?

Zeo — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:03:59 GMT

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-Project-Natal-Qex-for-SQL-and-Bing-for-Devs/

This week on channel 9 is pretty intense...Dan must of broke Brian's thumb in a WOW code off.

Coffeehouse - Microsoft rebrands Hotmail/MSN/Live/.Net/Microsoft Search (Again)

Zeo — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:44:46 GMT

exoteric said:

"Microsoft rebrands Hotmail/MSN/Live/.Net/Microsoft Search (Again)"

Can you substantiate this? Sure, they create a special version of Live Search but how do you get from that to a total rebrand of everything?
Dramatic effect?

I laughed pretty hard when I read this:

Q: What does "Bing" stand for?

A: "Bing Is Not Google".

Coffeehouse - I wonder where my hotel is, let me look it up on -Bing Maps-.

Zeo — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:44:15 GMT

ManipUni said:

MasterPie said:

*snip*

By that logic couldn't we claim that they're all the same brand because they all contained the word "Microsoft" in the name?

Don't forget the oldy but a goody : http://www.start.com

Still my favorite.

Coffeehouse - Can I work at Microsoft please?

Zeo — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:28:42 GMT

vesuvius said:

Spend some time at Channel9.msdn.com as well. I don't know what it is, but quite a few niners of late have joined the mothership; dahat, littleguru, joechung, iontodrel (from memory) and a few others.

Many of us niners...turned into blue badges...so if you're interested in learning about the whole process feel free to ping one of us. Good luck on your search!

Coffeehouse - The Psychology of Incompetence - Ron Burk

Zeo — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:43:07 GMT

Are you an incompotent programmer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vcy7I0zIM

Coffeehouse - Talking about Windows

Zeo — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:05:26 GMT

Somehow I missed the announcement but the windows team has gone off and built their own Channel9 type site with some really good conversations: http://talkingaboutwindows.com/archive/2009/04/17/mark-russinovich.aspx"> http://talkingaboutwindows.com/

I just watched the Mark Russinovich video, pretty neat:
http://talkingaboutwindows.com/archive/2009/04/17/mark-russinovich.aspx">http://talkingaboutwindows.com/archive/2009/04/17/mark-russinovich.aspx

Coffeehouse - Microsoft Interactive Canvas

Zeo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:31:39 GMT

http://blogs.technet.com/matthewms/archive/2009/03/25/interview-taking-a-look-at-the-microsoft-interactive-canvas.aspx

Some pretty cool stuff.

I wish I had one of those walls at home! I bet Steve B does.

Coffeehouse - Who's on Twitter then?

Zeo — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:22:59 GMT

Cyonix said:
Mine is http://twitter.com/jmerriweather but i never use it, I only joined up to see what it was all about.

Most of my friends that would be the most likely to use it think its lame. But these are the same friends that didn't like facebook when it came out and they are on facebook now. It would use it if more people i knew used it.

Also, as I'm in Australia they won't send me SMS's anymore. They did for a while but seem to have cut it off.

Take a look at Twhirl. Connect up with Ping.fm and friend feed.

Suddenly the internet feels a lot smaller because I'm able to quickly connect with many of my friends.

Btw with twhirl you can update your:

facebook status,
twitter status,
linked in status
youtube status
MSN messenger status
Digg status
Reddit status

all at the same time.

Check it out: http://ping.fm/

http://friendfeed.com/

http://www.twhirl.org/project/twhirl

Btw if you want to get a laugh throughout the day follow this guy: http://www.twitter.com/Real_Bin_Laden

Coffeehouse - Who's on Twitter then?

Zeo — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:44:10 GMT

littleguru said:

webmonkey said:

*snip*

I have an account as littleguru too... quite never use it. I'm not that much attracked to it.

I'm on twitter. I use twhirl and it's really nifty. My twitter name isn't creative it's just ianceicys.

Coffeehouse - Visual Studio 2008 + WPF = Pile of Crap

Zeo — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:04:29 GMT

Maddus Mattus said:

Dr Herbie said:

*snip*

Don't do freaky stuff in the constructor of your form!

Do it in the onload so the designer does not fire the code!

If you're running into issues at work with Visual Studio being slow with TFS. Turn on the logging for a normal session (1-4 hours) and then send the log file to the administrator.

http://blogs.msdn.com/edhintz/archive/2007/03/30/tfs-client-tracing.aspx

If you tweak TFS it should be running fast.

BTW, how much RAM do you have on your client machine, also how fast is your disk (5400rpm, 7200rpm, 10,000 rpm)?

Coffeehouse - C# MVP also in 2009

Zeo — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:15:08 GMT

Ion Todirel said:
not for the whole year, though

Congratulation! Enjoy the summit! There's a lot of help customers will need this year understanding VS2010, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2...etc.

Keep up the great work and from a former MVP I want to say thank you!

Coffeehouse - Sign-up for American Programmer (C9park)

Zeo — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:53:59 GMT

jamie said:
funny avatars

* thought i could do this tonite - people coming over now...

might be a while

keep on posting

Coffeehouse - Why is Microsoft a large contributor to the toxic e-waste?

Zeo — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:33:24 GMT

joechung said:

jamie said:

*snip*

Mentioning Greenpeace in the same breath as Windows Explorer UI latency is "crackpot" material.

Please stop killing the bunnies.

Every time you respond to this thread the CPUs of Microsoft's massive datacenters have to be used...which entails several additional bunnies being killed.

Not to mention the fact that most niners are reading this thread on Vista machines...and from this thread we all know what that means from a UI problem....more e-waste.

The problem is compounded by the the fact that most niners use IE 7.0 which I hear kills a puppy evertime a new tab is opened.

Coffeehouse - Interview idea: The young(er) Microsoft

Zeo — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:16:44 GMT

staceyw said:
It would be nice to get this guy (Mr. Cutler) to take about past and present (azure). But probably will not happen.

Great idea little guru...just one question what does "young(er) Microsoft" look like to you? College hire, interns, new employees, those under 21,25,30,40?

I've been with the company 3 years and while I like to think I'm young (age 25)....I don't know if people outside of Microsoft consider someone who's been with the company over 3 years to be young.

Coffeehouse - Updated Microsoft .Net Logo sweetness

Zeo — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:04:46 GMT

Check out the updated .NET logo:

PDC is going to be rockin!

Coffeehouse - PDC 2008 Who's coming to PDC Thread

Zeo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:46:32 GMT

PaoloM said:

Stebet said:

*snip*

Sadly, not.

I'll be at PDC. Last PDC we organized a channel9 dinner. I'd love to help plan another one.

Coffeehouse - It's over. I'm leaving.

Zeo — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:18:18 GMT

BlackTiger said:

Charles said:

*snip*

Errr... Just celebration of "jamie"'s leaving...
Deep-fried Mars bars, deep-fried pizzas and haggis, plain haggis, irn-bru, climbing on Walter Scot's monument etc...

Last week's VS2010 series was terrible, horrible.

In fact I can't believe how poorly done each of those video were.

I'm with Jamie...I'm going to leave C9...

C9 is a terribly boring place and Charles and crew don't listen to the community here.

Plus I can't believe how lazy the dev team is...goosh..