Channel 9 - Discussions by jeffsand http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by jeffsand http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/jeffsand/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/jeffsand/Discussions en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:47:38 GMT Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:47:38 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - May your 2013 be better than 2012 Happy New Years! May your 2013 be extraordinary. Thank you for stopping by.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/May-your-2013-be-better-than-2012/3483e19f683241d188d7a1390039a572#3483e19f683241d188d7a1390039a572 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 03:29:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/May-your-2013-be-better-than-2012/3483e19f683241d188d7a1390039a572#3483e19f683241d188d7a1390039a572 Jeff Sandquist 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/jeffsand/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - First look into the BUILD conference facilities Remember the post, where we announced Build 2012?

BUILD 2012 will be on the Microsoft campus, and I know what you're thinking ... if it's not in some cavernous convention hall, then it must be a dialed-down version of last year's event, etc. ... but don't be confused: this will be unlike anything we've held on our corporate campus in a long time. More details to come Smiley.

Now you know what we meant by this. It will be a great event here and also on Channel 9.

Fun times... The team is working like crazy and can't wait to see you all.

-Jeff

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I thought he had lost his mind, but he went on to say how you have to see this video from Bill Hill and how he goes on to say how Windows is not the most important OS, not Linux, nor the Macintosh. We went to Bryn's office watched classic Bill Hill on Bryn's machine and we then knew what we'd show. Those videos became some of our first content and drove us to where we are today.

Thank you Bill. Bless your soul and thank you for your time with us here.

We are indebted to you. Heavy hearts to Bill's family.

-Jeff Sad

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/hi-niners/6c5bc93ef43d47dca4e19f58010e4c9c#6c5bc93ef43d47dca4e19f58010e4c9c Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:24:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/hi-niners/6c5bc93ef43d47dca4e19f58010e4c9c#6c5bc93ef43d47dca4e19f58010e4c9c Jeff Sandquist 34 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/jeffsand/Discussions/RSS Site Feedback - Bring back the "Show Us Your Home" series Take a look at http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Show-Us-Your-Tech the series has evolved, but I think you will enjoy it.

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, Michael Butler wrote

@jeffsand: thanks for this. managed to watch the keynote a couple of hours after it finished. Although, I think somebody needs to work on the Streaming Server config, as it hit buffering quiet a lot Wink



We're sorry about that. We have made many tweaks with our upstream provider and from reviewing Twitter and our app logs appear that issues have been resolved. If you continue to have problems please let us know and make sure you tune into tomorrow's keynote.

Lots of great new stuff and plenty of representation from folks you've seen on Channel 9 before including many folks from my team in the final 20 minutes. Smiley

See you all tomorrow.
-Jeff

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, Michael Butler wrote

I'll second the request to get the downloads available ASAP. Keynotes especially. I had planned to finish work early to watch them live, but sadly that isn't going to happen.

I'll be happy if I can stream it from the beginning a few hours after the keynote is finished.

You got it. Smiley The plan is within 24 hours to have a streaming version *and* downloadable versions too. You should start seeing the breakout sessions tomorrow morning (9:00 am PST) and the keynote later today.

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Be sure to tune in on day 2 where some members of  channel 9 team will have a significant role in the final 20 minutes of the keynote.

 

All keynotes and breakouts will be available here on channel 9 in the events area within about 24 hours.

 

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One of the things we've been thinking about is using the Coffeehouse as well for announcements about Channel 9. Like we did for the Ninies or for Channel 9 Live at Mix. The next step is being able to push these types of threads to the top of the homepage on Channel 9. We're coding up a simple way to that right now so we can give visibility to these posts on the homepage and also be able to do it for things like our new event session content too.

I love the coffeehouse and being able to chat with you all. I think it is important for us make sure people are aware it exists and can join in too.

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-Jeff

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The home server is awesome for performing hard drive replacements/upgrades and Mozy is a wonderful fail safe.

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Green Screen

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When we built features for Channel 9, they can often fit into a number of buckets, like:

  • new areas of the site (like the new coding 4 fun area)
  • bug fixes
  • user suggestions

The feature above of the sharing via FB / Twitter was added to a number of areas in this minor update. We added the ability to share projects, show pages with the idea that when people do this it helps build awareness of the content to other users and more people coming to Channel 9.

One of the things we've often tried to do with the coffeehouse is treat these forum posts with more equality to our videos and with that allow people to share them on the same terms as they would other content.

Thanks for the feedback on what you want done with the forums.

-Jeff

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One remark: 'See it in action' opens the Zune desktop software and then gives me an error "This can not be displayed" in my local language. Is that becaus I don't have a phone? The should stille be able to explore the apps rigth ? I'm not able to go to 'apps' under the marketplace section, the link is just not there.

Interesting, what is your locale? I suspect it could be that the marketplace is not available in your locale??

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http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/pdc-and-silverlight/ 

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http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/pdc-and-silverlight/ 

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We continue to add features, squash bugs, so please keep adding new items and voting up the ones you like over on Connect.

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,PerfectPhase wrote

@Charles: Seems you guys have really got the deployment sorted.


a couple of things that have helped.

1. Windows Azure really helps us, we can stage, preview and deploy packages a lot more easily.
2. We have more people working now on Channel 9 than we have ever had. While we built this new version that you are now using. Duncan was the sole person updating production 9, now that rev 9 has shipped the entire team of Duncan, Cara, Geoff and Sampy are shipping bug fixes and building new features.

So you should be seeing more progress on making this a great place.

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One thing you will notice is that we now have many folks working on the current site in production (Duncan, Sampy, Geoff, Cara and the rest of the team logging bugs, testing,etc.)

In order to keep the team focussed while we built out this new site, Duncan did the vast majority of bug fixes for what was in production (Channel 9 classic) and we kept the remainder of the team working strictly on rev 9 (what you are using now).

Now that we have shipped, we can have all hands on deck fixing bugs and building new features. Technically we've never had more people focussed on building Channel 9 not even in the earliest of days. Back then it was Bryn and Charles (and sometimes a little bit of me too Smiley

Fun times ahead. Smiley
-Jeff

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