Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Niners Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Niners http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/niners 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/Tags/niners en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:18:08 GMT Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:18:08 GMT Rev9 29 2 25 Goodbye 9: Nic Fillingham Exit Interview Nic Fillingham is moving on from Channel 9. It's been a fun four years or so and he's done some great stuff as a member of our small team. Nic's the guy behind Channel 9 Live and he's helped to improve the physical quality of Channel 9 media (16x9, 720p HD, etc). He's also been the champion of live streaming for our key events.

Nic will be heading to the Windows Live team where he'll be working on the Hotmail product as a program manager repsonsible for...something. This is Nic's lifelong dream and we're happy to see it finally realized Smiley 

Best of luck, mate. We'll miss you!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Goodbye-9-Nic-Fillingham-Exit-Interview Nic Fillingham is moving on from Channel 9. It's been a fun four years or so and he's done some great stuff as a member of our small team. Nic's the guy behind Channel 9 Live and he's helped to improve the physical quality of Channel 9 media (16x9, 720p HD, etc). He's also been the champion of live streaming for our key events. Nic will be heading to the Windows Live team where he'll be working on the Hotmail product as a program manager repsonsible for...something. This is Nic's lifelong dream and we're happy to see it finally realized   Best of luck, mate. We'll miss you! 1688 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Goodbye-9-Nic-Fillingham-Exit-Interview Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:23:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Goodbye-9-Nic-Fillingham-Exit-Interview Charles, Larry Larsen Charles, Larry Larsen 17 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Goodbye-9-Nic-Fillingham-Exit-Interview/rss c9 team Channel 9 Team Niners Anders Hejlsberg: Questions and Answers Anders wanted to hear from you to get a sense of what's on your mind with respect to C#. We asked you for questions and, as usual, you delivered -> this is your interview, Niners. Smiley Thanks for the great questions. Special thanks to Anders for taking an hour out of his insanely busy schedule to answer your questions.

Anders Hejlsberg: Questions and Answers (click on a link below to get Anders' answer):

03:16 exoteric -> When is Async not appropriate to use?

05:29 exoteric -> How long before the Async "virus" permeates all of .NET?

07:23 rhm -> Did you consider implementing a more general language facility to implement Async?

12:24 felix9 -> The TouchStudio guys have discovered that the touch UI or NUI has unique tooling needs, any thought on that front?

14:10 AdamSpeight2008 -> Will vb.net and C# ever have the ability to discriminate methods with the same input type signature but different return types?

16:10 SteveRichter -> What do you think about dependency properties in WPF (and in general...)?

19:18 mikebmcl -> Has the C# language team ever considered or would they consider adding a way to use custom logic with automatically implemented properties?

21:16 ktr -> With the future addition of "compiler as a service" are there any plans for possible support for metaprogramming?

23:13 felix9 -> How could Roslyn serve us 'coders' better directly?

26:10 Charles -> How much can you do with CaaS?

27:37 felix9 -> Programming language design, Delphi's impact on .NET, etc.

29:42 Bas -> My two questions would be: why the beef with optional parameters when they so elegantly bring that whole block down to the essence of it, and more in general, what ways does he see to reduce the amount of ceremony in future versions of C#?

31:47 Richard.Hein -> Thoughts on C# higher kind types?

33:52 Ian2 -> Can you conceive of a time when you don't have to write code to build software?

36:55 JoshRoss -> .NET on x86 versus ARM...

38:48 Richard.Hein -> Are there features in other languages that make you jealous?

40:15 Charles -> What do you think about JavaScript, from a language designer's perspective?

45:10 Dr Herbie -> As C# grows and ages do you miss the simplicity of first version?

47:07 Dr Herbie -> Do you think C# is a complete language or do you spend time thinking about what's missing?

49:00 Charles -> What do you think about C++?

51:32 Steve Richter -> Difference between explicit type casting and the as operator?

53:39 exoteric -> What inspires you?

56:38 aL -> What do you think about expanding the c# event syntax for better composability/interop with things like Async/Rx?

1:00:00 aL -> What features would you like to remove from C# as it is today?

1:02:41 Charles -> why did you choose "unsafe" for the name of unsafe block?

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-Questions-and-Answers Anders wanted to hear from you to get a sense of what's on your mind with respect to C#. We asked you for questions and, as usual, you delivered -> this is your interview, Niners. Thanks for the great questions. Special thanks to Anders for taking an hour out of his insanely busy schedule to answer your questions. Anders Hejlsberg: Questions and Answers (click on a link below to get Anders' answer): 03:16 exoteric -> When is Async not appropriate to use? 05:29 exoteric -> How long before the Async "virus" permeates all of .NET? 07:23 rhm -> Did you consider implementing a more general language facility to implement Async? 12:24 felix9 -> The TouchStudio guys have discovered that the touch UI or NUI has unique tooling needs, any thought on that front? 14:10 AdamSpeight2008 -> Will vb.net and C# ever have the ability to discriminate methods with the same input type signature but different return types? 16:10 SteveRichter -> What do you think about dependency properties in WPF (and in general...)? 19:18 mikebmcl -> Has the C# language team ever considered or would they consider adding a way to use custom logic with automatically implemented properties? 21:16 ktr -> With the future addition of "compiler as a service" are there any plans for possible support for metaprogramming? 23:13 felix9 -> How could Roslyn serve us 'coders' better directly? 26:10 Charles -> How much can you do with CaaS? 27:37 felix9 -> Programming language design, Delphi's impact on .NET, etc. 29:42 Bas -> My two questions would be: why the beef with optional parameters when they so elegantly bring that whole block down to the essence of it, and more in general, what ways does he see to reduce the amount of ceremony in future versions of C#? 31:47 Richard.Hein -> Thoughts on C# higher kind types? 33:52 Ian2 -> Can you conceive of a time when you don't have to write code to build software? 36:55 JoshRoss -> .NET on x86 v 3838 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-Questions-and-Answers Tue, 03 May 2011 15:36:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-Questions-and-Answers Charles Charles 62 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-Questions-and-Answers/RSS Anders Hejlsberg C# Niners Programming Languages This Week on C9: Random Musings of Jeff and Charles This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian aren't on This Week on Channel 9. No, ladies and gentlemen, not this week. Dan is writing a new version of Visual Studio for Linux and Brian is still trying to get TFS running on TimeWarp OS. 

This week, Charles and Jeff, two of C9's founding members, but more importantly, two long time curmudgeons with stories to tell randomize Dan and Brian's great geek show with, well, whatever comes to mind. Yeah, OldSchoolRandom rules in this episode. No links. No links to links. No links to links to links. Just Charles and Jeff talking. No slides. No slides of slides and no slides of slides of slides. 

this->GoRandom();

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-Channel-9-Charles-and-Jeff-Hijack-the-Set-Look-out This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian aren't on This Week on Channel 9. No, ladies and gentlemen, not this week. Dan is writing a new version of Visual Studio for Linux and Brian is still trying to get TFS running on TimeWarp OS.  This week, Charles and Jeff, two of C9's founding members, but more importantly, two long time curmudgeons with stories to tell randomize Dan and Brian's great geek show with, well, whatever comes to mind. Yeah, OldSchoolRandom rules in this episode. No links. No links to links. No links to links to links. Just Charles and Jeff talking. No slides. No slides of slides and no slides of slides of slides.  this->GoRandom(); 955 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-Channel-9-Charles-and-Jeff-Hijack-the-Set-Look-out Sat, 02 Apr 2011 01:51:06 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-Channel-9-Charles-and-Jeff-Hijack-the-Set-Look-out Charles Charles 21 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-Channel-9-Charles-and-Jeff-Hijack-the-Set-Look-out/RSS Niners Dean Hachamovitch: IE9 - Questions and Answers  

 

Not too long ago, a thread in the Coffeehouse was posted asking for your IE9 questions for Dean Hachamovitch, VP of Engineering for Internet Explorer. Thank you for asking such great questions, Niners! We didn't have time cover all of them, but we did manage to get through several of them (and there was some redundancy, too, so I took the liberty of choosing the questions. Also, I didn't ask any of the snarkier questions (though I probably could have, since Dean can handle it) and Dean did not want to see the questions before they were asked (which is commonplace among many executives). He's OldSchool9 that way and that's great!).

IE9 PP7 was released today and inside of it is one of the world's fastest JS engines (according to the SunSpider suite of JS performance tests, IE9 PP7 is faster than all other browsers out there...). Chakra, the IE9 JS engine, continues to evolve! Hats off to the Chakra team. Interestingly, Dean isn't overly excited about this news (though, obviously, he's thrilled) since JS execution speed is but one part of the overall performance story, which is actually divided into several pieces, not just two or three (see Jason Weber's quick chat on the overall performance characteristics that combine to form a user's experience of blazing fast web surfing, and read the IE team's blog post on the subject).

Here are the unedited questions Dean answered in this morning's conversation in the IE engineering building. Thank you, Dean, for taking the time out of your busy schedule to engage Niners' questions and concerns in an honest and open way. There is bonus footage at the end, too Smiley

I recommend watching all of this as the flow is nice and the questions lead into one another nicely. Great job, Niners! This is a 51 minute interview, which is a long time in VP Time. Dean's a big fan of yours, Niners.

[Questions begin at 00:14:15, asked in the order listed below. Click on a question to go directly to the answer in the video. I do recommend that you watch/listen to the entire conversation as it flows naturally from question to question with many questions and answers nicely building on those that come before and after...]

CKurt:

How you do personally feel about the way the HTML 5 standard is progressing? It's talking such a long time to form, it's slowing down the evolution of the uniform internet and causing more and more fragmentation between browsers. Is it not?

Bas:

What if the HTML5 standard changes/is finalized within IE9's lifetime and before IE10 is out. What's going to happen? A patch?

JoshRoss:

Windows 7 had a tremendous amount of telemetry captured from the beta users and that information was immensely valuable. Was or is there any telemetry data collected from current or past testers?

Exoteric:

How do you measure Internet Explorer stability and when it's ready for RTM? Does the beta have any kind of telemetry for latencies: when the GUI freezes, when a page takes a long time to load, etc.
How many test cases do you have for IE9 at this point?

ZippyV:

Will we be able to write javascript or .net plugins for IE? We need an easier way to interact deeply with the browser but writing native plugins is too difficult and accelerators can't go deep enough.

Nazmus1992:

Are you anxious to see if Mozilla actually sends in a cake to the IE team when IE9 ships?

Do you plan to have IE score a 100 in the acid3 test?

Typhoon87:

Will platform previews continue after RTW release so we can see where you are heading for the next release? You seem to be about a 6 week or so window for the platform previews currently.

Any possibility of smaller update window between releases? eg will we be likely to see IE 9.1 or 9.5 that is smaller in scope but quicker to market?

US Archer:

What improvements have been made around touch support?  Is the UI fully baked in this Beta?

What is the state of webslices, something you still encourage site developers to implement?  For IE9, it would be really useful if we could preview these from the pinned site icon.

AndyC:

Does the IE team still feel like they're playing catch up or are they now at a point where future versions of IE might start to drive new ideas once again?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dean-Hachamovitch-IE9-Questions-and-Answers     Not too long ago, a thread in the Coffeehouse was posted asking for your IE9 questions for Dean Hachamovitch, VP of Engineering for Internet Explorer. Thank you for asking such great questions, Niners! We didn't have time cover all of them, but we did manage to get through several of them (and there was some redundancy, too, so I took the liberty of choosing the questions. Also, I didn't ask any of the snarkier questions (though I probably could have, since Dean can handle it) and Dean did not want to see the questions before they were asked (which is commonplace among many executives). He's OldSchool9 that way and that's great!). IE9 PP7 was released today and inside of it is one of the world's fastest JS engines (according to the SunSpider suite of JS performance tests, IE9 PP7 is faster than all other browsers out there...). Chakra, the IE9 JS engine, continues to evolve! Hats off to the Chakra team. Interestingly, Dean isn't overly excited about this news (though, obviously, he's thrilled) since JS execution speed is but one part of the overall performance story, which is actually divided into several pieces, not just two or three (see Jason Weber's quick chat on the overall performance characteristics that combine to form a user's experience of blazing fast web surfing, and read the IE team's blog post on the subject). Here are the unedited questions Dean answered in this morning's conversation in the IE engineering building. Thank you, Dean, for taking the time out of your busy schedule to engage Niners' questions and concerns in an honest and open way. There is bonus footage at the end, too  I recommend watching all of this as the flow is nice and the questions lead into one another nicely. Great job, Niners! This is a 51 minute interview, which is a long time in VP Time. Dean's a big fan of yours, Niners. [Questions begin at 00:14:15, asked in the order listed below. Click on a question to go directly to the answer in 3117 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dean-Hachamovitch-IE9-Questions-and-Answers Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:15:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dean-Hachamovitch-IE9-Questions-and-Answers Charles Charles 29 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dean-Hachamovitch-IE9-Questions-and-Answers/rss C9 Conversations Dean Hachamovitch HTML 5 HTML5 IE 9 JavaScript Niners Web standards Web Development Brother to Brother: The Sampsons - From Rocky's Boots to the Cloud Frontier
Adam Sampson (aka Sampy's younger brother) is a developer on the Windows Azure SDK team. He's done some very interesting experiments in/on Azure, as you'll see (in fact, he's known as the "guy who gets crazy stuff to run on Azure"). Apparently, MadSkillz are genetic constructs..

This is the first (and potentially last) episode in a series of brother-to-brother interviews on C9. Here, Sampy interviews Adam about what Adam is working on (Azure dev platform samples) and the brothers reveal the secret to their success in software development and more. Tune in.

Enjoy. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Brother-to-Brother-The-Sampsons-From-Rockys-Boots-to-the-Cloud Mike Sampson (aka Sampy) is a lead developer who has worked on two iterations of Channel 9 and several other websites that sprung from our team. Before joining us, Sampy was a developer on the Visual Basic team. As you'll learn here, he started programming at a young age. Sampy's got mad skillz.Adam Sampson (aka Sampy's younger brother) is a developer on the Windows Azure SDK team. He's done some very interesting experiments in/on Azure, as you'll see (in fact, he's known as the "guy who gets crazy stuff to run on Azure"). Apparently, MadSkillz are genetic constructs..This is the first (and potentially last) episode in a series of brother-to-brother interviews on C9. Here, Sampy interviews Adam about what Adam is working on (Azure dev platform samples) and the brothers reveal the secret to their success in software development and more. Tune in.Enjoy. 2948 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Brother-to-Brother-The-Sampsons-From-Rockys-Boots-to-the-Cloud Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:23:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Brother-to-Brother-The-Sampsons-From-Rockys-Boots-to-the-Cloud Charles Charles 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Brother-to-Brother-The-Sampsons-From-Rockys-Boots-to-the-Cloud/RSS Channel 9 Cloud Computing Niners PowerShell Programming Windows Azure Erik Meijer and Team: Cloud Data Programmability - Connecting the Distributed Dots ).

It's great that we were able to put a real live Niner into the fire for one of Erik's team meetings. Wonder what Erik et al will talk about? Rx, maybe? Tier splitting? Monads? Hmm.

There is a great deal to learn here. Thank you, Sven, for being a real sport!

Tune in. Enjoy. 

Play with Rx! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Erik-Meijer-and-Team-Cloud-Data-Programmability-Connecting-the-Distributed-Dots When Sven Groot was in town a while ago (this summer?) we dropped by Erik Meijer's world and got a look at what he and his team of superdevelopers are up to (thus there really is no out-of-date property of this fun and insightful interview that is as off-the-cuff as it gets: heavy Channel 9 ). It's great that we were able to put a real live Niner into the fire for one of Erik's team meetings. Wonder what Erik et al will talk about? Rx, maybe? Tier splitting? Monads? Hmm. There is a great deal to learn here. Thank you, Sven, for being a real sport! Tune in. Enjoy.  Play with Rx! 2012 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Erik-Meijer-and-Team-Cloud-Data-Programmability-Connecting-the-Distributed-Dots Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:11:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Erik-Meijer-and-Team-Cloud-Data-Programmability-Connecting-the-Distributed-Dots Charles Charles 16 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Erik-Meijer-and-Team-Cloud-Data-Programmability-Connecting-the-Distributed-Dots/RSS Cloud Computing Cloud Data Programmability Erik Meijer Niners Reactive Extensions Rx Niners on 9: Sven Groot - Past, Present and Future Sven Groot is a long time Niner and one of the more active contributors to the C9 forums (you'll note that Sven answers technical questions when he can and has always been respectful in the way he interacts with his fellow Niners). Sven is also a PhD student at Tokyo University where he is working on and thinking about large scale distributed clustered computing (now we know why he was so keen on my producing a Dryad piece for Going Deep - Sven is a clever guy...). 

Sven was in town recently on vacation in Seattle (why not Maui or one of the Tahitian islands, man?), so we had to interview him. Also, I brought Sven to a randomly generated team meeting of one of the most innovative teams at Microsoft (and filmed it). So you will see more of Sven and learn more about some very interesting technologies, but here we learn all about Sven, the man, the legend.

We cover a lot in this impromptu conversation and Sven has many interesting things to say about cloudy computation and the future of distributed computation somewhere up there. It's great to have you as a vocal member of Channel 9, Sven. Thank you for the feedback on C9 (some of which is shared in this conversation) and for being helpful to your fellow Niners. See, Niners, when you come to Seattle, you never know if you will sit down in front of a camera, rolling 9.

Enjoy and thank you again, Sven! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Niners-on-9-Sven-Groot-Past-Present-and-Future Sven Groot is a long time Niner and one of the more active contributors to the C9 forums (you'll note that Sven answers technical questions when he can and has always been respectful in the way he interacts with his fellow Niners). Sven is also a PhD student at Tokyo University where he is working on and thinking about large scale distributed clustered computing (now we know why he was so keen on my producing a Dryad piece for Going Deep - Sven is a clever guy...). Sven was in town recently on vacation in Seattle (why not Maui or one of the Tahitian islands, man?), so we had to interview him. Also, I brought Sven to a randomly generated team meeting of one of the most innovative teams at Microsoft (and filmed it). So you will see more of Sven and learn more about some very interesting technologies, but here we learn all about Sven, the man, the legend. We cover a lot in this impromptu conversation and Sven has many interesting things to say about cloudy computation and the future of distributed computation somewhere up there. It's great to have you as a vocal member of Channel 9, Sven. Thank you for the feedback on C9 (some of which is shared in this conversation) and for being helpful to your fellow Niners. See, Niners, when you come to Seattle, you never know if you will sit down in front of a camera, rolling 9.Enjoy and thank you again, Sven! 2451 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Niners-on-9-Sven-Groot-Past-Present-and-Future Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:25:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Niners-on-9-Sven-Groot-Past-Present-and-Future Charles Charles 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Niners-on-9-Sven-Groot-Past-Present-and-Future/RSS Community Niners Niners on 9 Programming Jeff Sandquist: Channel 9 Through the Years
Happy Birthday, Niners!!! Here's to another 5 great years!! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Jeff-Sandquist-Channel-9-Through-the-Years When we launched Channel 9 five years ago we weren't sure what to expect from the community and from Microsoft. What would developers think of this non-corporate, free wheeling website designed by and for geeks and developers (and one great designer, David Shadle - designer of the 9 Guy and first iteration of Channel 9)? Did we do the right thing? Will Channel 9 be taken seriously? Are we crazy? Well, history has answered these questions and the next five years will be very interesting indeed. I thought I'd pay a visit to my friend, fellow Niner and co-conspirator Jeff Sandquist. I don't think I've ever really interviewed him. 5 years!!! Wow. Happy Birthday, Niners!!! Here's to another 5 great years!! 2184 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Jeff-Sandquist-Channel-9-Through-the-Years Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:06:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Jeff-Sandquist-Channel-9-Through-the-Years Charles Charles 17 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Jeff-Sandquist-Channel-9-Through-the-Years/RSS C9 Turns 5 Channel 9 Niners Brian Beckman: On the General Theory of Channel 9 and Life in the Universe

Happy Birthday, Niners!!!

Cheers!! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Brian-Beckman-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9-and-Life-in-the-Universe Brian Beckman, software architect and astrophysicist, discusses his General Theory of Channel 9, what Channel 9 means to him personally, his love for the Niner nation, the power of humanized corporate communication and life in the universe. Happy Birthday, Niners!!!Cheers!! 1041 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Brian-Beckman-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9-and-Life-in-the-Universe Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:42:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Brian-Beckman-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9-and-Life-in-the-Universe Charles Charles 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Brian-Beckman-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9-and-Life-in-the-Universe/RSS Brian Beckman C9 Turns 5 Channel 9 Niners Bill Hill: On Channel 9, Niners and Homo Sapiens 2.0 Long time Niner, typography master, ClearType co-inventor and more-than-avid reader Bill Hill reflects on Channel 9, the state of the economy, Homo Sapiens 2.0 and the next version of, well, Bill Hill (Bill Hill 2.0).  Smiley

Bill was the focus of one of the very early interviews on Channel 9 and it was where we captured the raw human quality that makes Channel 9 special. Of course, Bill Hill is great to listen to and learn from. We were lucky to get him early on in our development as it really helped us grow and plot a content course for C9. Thank you, Bill. You are a legendary Niner. Much love!

Update: Bill passed away suddenly on October 16, 2012. We are all deeply saddened and send our heartfelt condolences to Bill's family. We've lost a visionary and iconoclast. RIP.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Bill-Hill-On-Channel-9-Niners-and-Homo-Sapiens-20 Long time Niner, typography master, ClearType co-inventor and more-than-avid reader Bill Hill reflects on Channel 9, the state of the economy, Homo Sapiens 2.0 and the next version of, well, Bill Hill (Bill Hill 2.0).  Bill was the focus of one of the very early interviews on Channel 9 and it was where we captured the raw human quality that makes Channel 9 special. Of course, Bill Hill is great to listen to and learn from. We were lucky to get him early on in our development as it really helped us grow and plot a content course for C9. Thank you, Bill. You are a legendary Niner. Much love!Update: Bill passed away suddenly on October 16, 2012. We are all deeply saddened and send our heartfelt condolences to Bill's family. We've lost a visionary and iconoclast. RIP. 1358 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Bill-Hill-On-Channel-9-Niners-and-Homo-Sapiens-20 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:41:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Bill-Hill-On-Channel-9-Niners-and-Homo-Sapiens-20 Charles Charles 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Bill-Hill-On-Channel-9-Niners-and-Homo-Sapiens-20/RSS Bill Hill C9 Turns 5 Channel 9 Microsoft Microsoft Personalities Niners Larry Osterman: Happy Birthday Channel 9! Larry Osterman, Software Engineer extraordinaire and long time Niner, reflects on Channel 9, Niners, Birthdays and his almost 25 years at Microsoft (wow, Larry, that's impressive!!!!). Larry loves birthdays! We love you, Larry!!!

Happy Birthday, Niners!!!!

Cheers!! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Larry-Osterman-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Larry Osterman, Software Engineer extraordinaire and long time Niner, reflects on Channel 9, Niners, Birthdays and his almost 25 years at Microsoft (wow, Larry, that's impressive!!!!). Larry loves birthdays! We love you, Larry!!!Happy Birthday, Niners!!!!Cheers!! 220 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Larry-Osterman-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:31:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Larry-Osterman-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Charles Charles 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Larry-Osterman-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9/RSS C9 Turns 5 Channel 9 Larry Osterman Niners Scott Guthrie: Happy Birthday Channel 9!

Happy Birthday, Niners!!!

Cheers!! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Scott-Guthrie-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Scott Guthrie, VP of all things .NET (and IIS), wishes Channel 9 and the Niner nation a very happy 5th birthday!!! Thanks for spending time on Channel 9, Scott! You're a rock star. Happy Birthday, Niners!!!Cheers!! 93 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Scott-Guthrie-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:24:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Scott-Guthrie-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Charles Charles 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Scott-Guthrie-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9/RSS C9 Turns 5 Channel 9 Niners Scott Guthrie Erik Meijer: Happy Birthday Channel 9!
Happy Birthday, Niners!!! Here's to 5 more years!!!

Cheers!! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 High Priest of the Lamda Calculus Erik Meijer, wearing celebration lights around his neck, reflects on Channel 9, Niners and the importance of showcasing the humans behind technology. Erik is the star of our Expert to Expert series and will continue to provide incredible conversations for Channel 9 for a long time to come. Thank you, Erik!! You rock, man!Happy Birthday, Niners!!! Here's to 5 more years!!!Cheers!! 166 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:17:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Charles Charles 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9/RSS C9 Turns 5 Channel 9 Erik Meijer Niners Mark Russinovich: Happy Birthday Channel 9! SysInternals co-creator, Microsoft Technical Fellow and Windows Kernel Jedi Master, reflects on C9 through the years and explains what Channel 9 means to him. Mark's Channel 9 interview, Inside Windows 7, is the most viewed technical conversational piece on Channel 9. Over 500,000 views. Incredible!

Happy Birthday Channel 9!!!!

Cheers!!! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Mark-Russinovich-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Mark Russinovich, long time Niner, SysInternals co-creator, Microsoft Technical Fellow and Windows Kernel Jedi Master, reflects on C9 through the years and explains what Channel 9 means to him. Mark's Channel 9 interview, Inside Windows 7, is the most viewed technical conversational piece on Channel 9. Over 500,000 views. Incredible!Happy Birthday Channel 9!!!!Cheers!!! 195 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Mark-Russinovich-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:13:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Mark-Russinovich-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Charles Charles 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Mark-Russinovich-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9/RSS C9 Turns 5 Channel 9 Mark Russinovich Niners Anders Heljsberg: Happy Birthday Channel 9!
Cheers!! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Heljsberg-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft Technical Fellow and C# Creator, reflects on Channel 9 at 5, Channel 9's birth, Niners, and to the future of Channel 9. Happy Birthday, Niners!!! Cheers!! 138 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Heljsberg-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:45:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Heljsberg-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Charles Charles 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Heljsberg-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9/RSS Anders Hejlsberg C9 Turns 5 Channel 9 Niners Soma: Happy Birthday Channel 9!
Cheers!! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Soma-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Senior VP of the Developer Divison, S. Somasegar (Soma), is one of the biggest fans of Channel 9 and the Niner nation. Here, Soma reflects on Channel 9, the importance of customer engagement and, of course, Niners. Happy Birthday!!!! 5 Years!!!Cheers!! 200 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Soma-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:50:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Soma-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9 Charles Charles 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Soma-Happy-Birthday-Channel-9/RSS C9 Turns 5 Channel 9 Niners Soma Eric Lippert: Happy Birthday Channel 9! Eric Lippert played the esteemed role of C9 interview guinea pig. He was the first engineer we interviewed and it was his interview that showed us that we might just be on to something. For those of you who are sticklers for detail, yes, Eric's interview did not ship first on the site, but it was the very first interview conducted.

I remember all of us (Bryn, Jeff, Lenn, Scoble, Charles) huddled around my office watching the conversation with Eric, at that point in time an engineer on the Trinity team. We looked at each other and smiled. This is so cool, we thought. C9.Iterate( 5 );

What a great five years it's been since then and a great big THANK YOU to Eric for letting us into his office with a camera five years ago. Here, Eric reflects on Channel 9, his current role as C# compiler developer and of course Niners.

Happy Birthday, Niners!!!

Cheers!! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Eric-Lippert-Happy-Birthday-C9 Five years ago, Eric Lippert played the esteemed role of C9 interview guinea pig. He was the first engineer we interviewed and it was his interview that showed us that we might just be on to something. For those of you who are sticklers for detail, yes, Eric's interview did not ship first on the site, but it was the very first interview conducted.I remember all of us (Bryn, Jeff, Lenn, Scoble, Charles) huddled around my office watching the conversation with Eric, at that point in time an engineer on the Trinity team. We looked at each other and smiled. This is so cool, we thought. C9.Iterate( 5 ); What a great five years it's been since then and a great big THANK YOU to Eric for letting us into his office with a camera five years ago. Here, Eric reflects on Channel 9, his current role as C# compiler developer and of course Niners.Happy Birthday, Niners!!!Cheers!! 436 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Eric-Lippert-Happy-Birthday-C9 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:48:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Eric-Lippert-Happy-Birthday-C9 Charles Charles 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Eric-Lippert-Happy-Birthday-C9/RSS C9 Turns 5 Channel 9 Eric Lippert Niners Windows Home Server: PDC 08, New Features, Meet some of the Team dahat on Channel 9. Yes! Another Niner joins the ranks of Microsoft! Brendan is well known for the great add-ins he's written for Windows Home Server and, equally as important, for the full size Channel 9 Guy costume he created a few years back. Welcome aboard, dahat! It's great to have another excellent developer join  the Happy Death Star.

Tune in the learn a bit about the next release of Windows Home Server, what devs will get to program against and meet some of the people who passionately drive Windows Home Server evolution. As always, the conversation is non-linear with a splash of fun and an extra helping of humanity. Windows Home Server is a great product and these folks are part of the reason why.

Enjoy!

Links galore:

Channel 10 Interview (with a first look at new Windows Home Server hardware)

Windows Home Server team blog: 
http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/

Windows Home Server dev center on MSDN: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/bb981194.aspx

SDK: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb425866.aspx

Product website: 
www.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver

Community forums: 
http://forums.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver/default.aspx?siteid=50

Our top Windows Home Server ‘enthusiast’ site: 
www.wegotserved.co.uk (not affiliated with MSFT)

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Home-Server-PDC-08-New-Features-Meet-some-of-the-Team Windows Home Server is evolving. To learn about how to take advantage of the new capabilities of Windows Home Server, we sit down with Program Manager MCJ Saretto, Product Manager Mark Pendergrast and Software Developer Brendan Grant, aka dahat on Channel 9. Yes! Another Niner joins the ranks of Microsoft! Brendan is well known for the great add-ins he's written for Windows Home Server and, equally as important, for the full size Channel 9 Guy costume he created a few years back. Welcome aboard, dahat! It's great to have another excellent developer join  the Happy Death Star.Tune in the learn a bit about the next release of Windows Home Server, what devs will get to program against and meet some of the people who passionately drive Windows Home Server evolution. As always, the conversation is non-linear with a splash of fun and an extra helping of humanity. Windows Home Server is a great product and these folks are part of the reason why.Enjoy! Links galore:Channel 10 Interview (with a first look at new Windows Home Server hardware)Windows Home Server team blog:  http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/ Windows Home Server dev center on MSDN:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/bb981194.aspx SDK:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb425866.aspx Product website:  www.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver Community forums:  http://forums.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver/default.aspx?siteid=50 Our top Windows Home Server ‘enthusiast’ site:  www.wegotserved.co.uk (not affiliated with MSFT) 2117 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Home-Server-PDC-08-New-Features-Meet-some-of-the-Team Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:36:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Home-Server-PDC-08-New-Features-Meet-some-of-the-Team Charles Charles 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Windows-Home-Server-PDC-08-New-Features-Meet-some-of-the-Team/RSS Niners PDC 2008 PDC08 Windows Home Server This Week on Channel 9: Feb 15 with Scott Hanselman!

We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap:

- We have a new logo (courtesy of Lincoln Anderson at 352 Media) and Scott Hanselman joins us in-studio (0 - 1:45)
- Microsoft Entertainment and Devices acquires Danger Inc for consumer mobile phones (1:35 - 3:38)
- Microsoft Virtual Earth acquires Caligari for 3D rendering (3:38 - 5:32)
- Dan interviews Bill Gates and Bill leaves Facebook (5:32 - 8:17)
- Microsofties saying "so" and "actually" (8:17 - 9:04)
- Charles Torre's Lang.NET interview of Wayne Kelly and Charles Nutter on implementing Ruby on static VMs and Wayne Kelly's post after Lang.NET on moving Ruby.NET efforts to IronRuby and the DLR. (9:04 - 11:57)
- Terrell Cox on UX @ Microsoft and Scott relays his "WOW" experience when setting up Windows Server 2008 (11:57 - 14:20)
- Minh's Yellow Harvest Movie Trailer and Star Wars trivia (14:20 - 16:00)
- Brian's Pick of the week: Fixing SLN files that don't open (16 - 18:13) 
- Dan's Pick of the week: Geek proves LifeHacker's story on Felonspy.com is a scam (18:31 - 20:15)
- Scott's Pick of the week: ASP.NET MVC is source changeable (20:15 - 22:39)
- Scott pulls a "BillG" and bails early on us (24:10)
- Scott does some *not to be missed* hilarious imitations of what it would be like if celebrities were coders Bill Cosby, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, Ross Perot, and more (24:55 - End)

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-Channel-9-Feb-15-with-Scott-Hanselman We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap: - We have a new logo (courtesy of Lincoln Anderson at 352 Media) and Scott Hanselman joins us in-studio (0 - 1:45) - Microsoft Entertainment and Devices acquires Danger Inc for consumer mobile phones (1:35 - 3:38) - Microsoft Virtual Earth acquires Caligari for 3D rendering (3:38 - 5:32) - Dan interviews Bill Gates and Bill leaves Facebook (5:32 - 8:17) - Microsofties saying "so" and "actually" (8:17 - 9:04) - Charles Torre's Lang.NET interview of Wayne Kelly and Charles Nutter on implementing Ruby on static VMs and Wayne Kelly's post after Lang.NET on moving Ruby.NET efforts to IronRuby and the DLR. (9:04 - 11:57) - Terrell Cox on UX @ Microsoft and Scott relays his "WOW" experience when setting up Windows Server 2008 (11:57 - 14:20) - Minh's Yellow Harvest Movie Trailer and Star Wars trivia (14:20 - 16:00) - Brian's Pick of the week: Fixing SLN files that don't open (16 - 18:13)  - Dan's Pick of the week: Geek proves LifeHacker's story on Felonspy.com is a scam (18:31 - 20:15) - Scott's Pick of the week: ASP.NET MVC is source changeable (20:15 - 22:39) - Scott pulls a "BillG" and bails early on us (24:10) - Scott does some *not to be missed* hilarious imitations of what it would be like if celebrities were coders Bill Cosby, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, Ross Perot, and more (24:55 - End) 1688 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-Channel-9-Feb-15-with-Scott-Hanselman Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:51:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-Channel-9-Feb-15-with-Scott-Hanselman Dan Fernandez Dan Fernandez 32 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-Channel-9-Feb-15-with-Scott-Hanselman/RSS 3D JavaScript JSharp LangNET 2008 MIX08 Microsoft Exeutives Niners ODC2008 Orcas Programming Ruby User Experience Virtual Earth Visual Studio 2008 Windows Server Welcome Dan Fernandez to the Channel 9 Team! Dan Fernandez has joined the Channel 9 team!!! We are very lucky to have Dan as a.... Tune in and find out. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Welcome-Dan-Fernandez-to-the-Channel-9-Team Dan Fernandez has joined the Channel 9 team!!! We are very lucky to have Dan as a.... Tune in and find out. 259 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Welcome-Dan-Fernandez-to-the-Channel-9-Team Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:47:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Welcome-Dan-Fernandez-to-the-Channel-9-Team Charles Charles 25 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Welcome-Dan-Fernandez-to-the-Channel-9-Team/RSS Channel 9 Team Community Niners Wandering Around London's Science Museum with Some Niners
Some interesting trivia here: We learn that Dave Oliver's (Sabot) mother was a software developer back in the day when there was more gender parity in the field. Very cool! We also look at some brains...

Enjoy! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Wandering-Around-Londons-Science-Museum-with-Some-Niners While in London not too long ago I met up with some friendly neighborhood Niners to check out London's awesome Science Museum. Two of the usual suspects, blowdart and sabot are on the scene and somebody you've never met before (at least in video context).Some interesting trivia here: We learn that Dave Oliver's (Sabot) mother was a software developer back in the day when there was more gender parity in the field. Very cool! We also look at some brains...Enjoy! 808 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Wandering-Around-Londons-Science-Museum-with-Some-Niners Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:29:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Wandering-Around-Londons-Science-Museum-with-Some-Niners Charles Charles 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Wandering-Around-Londons-Science-Museum-with-Some-Niners/RSS Niners Niners on 9: Littleguru, Zeus and JasonOlson
These are some of the questions that I got a chance ask at TechED 2007 Developer where I ran into a few Niners attending the event in Barcelona. We talked a bit about V4 and their favorite features in V3 (that will also be in V4). The dev team is working really, really hard to build a high quality next version of C9 that does not reuse any of the current code base, yet maintains the current featureset. It's a very hard problem, but our great dev team (Duncan Mackenzie, Erik Porter, Mike Sampson, David Shadle and Grace Francisco) are making great progress!

Tune in. Meet Littleguru, Zeus and JasonOlson. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Niners-on-9-Littleguru-Zeus-and-JasonOlson Who are the people behind the C9 handles and avatars? Why did they join Channel 9? What do they do on Channel 9? What do they like and dislike about C9? These are some of the questions that I got a chance ask at TechED 2007 Developer where I ran into a few Niners attending the event in Barcelona. We talked a bit about V4 and their favorite features in V3 (that will also be in V4). The dev team is working really, really hard to build a high quality next version of C9 that does not reuse any of the current code base, yet maintains the current featureset. It's a very hard problem, but our great dev team (Duncan Mackenzie, Erik Porter, Mike Sampson, David Shadle and Grace Francisco) are making great progress!Tune in. Meet Littleguru, Zeus and JasonOlson. 885 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Niners-on-9-Littleguru-Zeus-and-JasonOlson Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:37:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Niners-on-9-Littleguru-Zeus-and-JasonOlson Charles Charles 50 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Niners-on-9-Littleguru-Zeus-and-JasonOlson/RSS Niners TechED2007 Niners Talking. A W3bbo-Minh Production Listen in (and watch Minh's creative video) as Niners talk about various topics. Thanks to Niners W3bbo and Minh for producing this and to all the Niners whose voices we hear in this segment (Hosted on SoapBox as well - originally posted here).

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Niners-Talking-A-W3bbo-Minh-Production Listen in (and watch Minh's creative video) as Niners talk about various topics. Thanks to Niners W3bbo and Minh for producing this and to all the Niners whose voices we hear in this segment (Hosted on SoapBox as well - originally posted here). http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Niners-Talking-A-W3bbo-Minh-Production Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:36:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Niners-Talking-A-W3bbo-Minh-Production Charles Charles 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Niners-Talking-A-W3bbo-Minh-Production/RSS Niners The C# Disco Floor Guy - Clint Rutkas Clint Rutkas when I read a Coding4Fun article in which he described what it took to build a C#-driven disco floor for his apartment (Clint has since become the Coding4Fun blog home page author - congrats on that).

I figured I'd meet him at a conference someday or something, but otherwise tucked the information into the back of my head.

Then, last week, Mel Sampat, a guy who works on Windows Mobile stuff, sent me an email saying that he had a visitor with him who really wanted to meet me.

This happens every once in a while, and, yes, my ego inflates a bit each time. But this was different.

When Mel showed up with Clint, I still didn't know who Clint was. I thought he was another person stopping by to say "Hi" and get a tour of the Channel 9 offices.

About three minutes into meeting him, though, Mel told me who he was - The Disco Floor Guy!

I went a little nuts. Now, instead of Mel bringing someone by who wanted to meet me, it turned into Mel bringing someone by who I wanted to meet.

Many of us have been through something similar to this. You find out who someone is online - usually through articles, a blog, or whatever - but you have no idea what that someone looks like, so, the first time you meet in person, you talk for anywhere from three minutes to three hours before realizing who it is you're talking to.

That's what happened here, and it was neat.

I gave Clint a tour around the offices, and then asked if he'd like to be in a C9 video.

He did Smiley ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/The-C-Disco-Floor-Guy-Clint-Rutkas I first learned about Clint Rutkas when I read a Coding4Fun article in which he described what it took to build a C#-driven disco floor for his apartment (Clint has since become the Coding4Fun blog home page author - congrats on that). I figured I'd meet him at a conference someday or something, but otherwise tucked the information into the back of my head. Then, last week, Mel Sampat, a guy who works on Windows Mobile stuff, sent me an email saying that he had a visitor with him who really wanted to meet me. This happens every once in a while, and, yes, my ego inflates a bit each time. But this was different. When Mel showed up with Clint, I still didn't know who Clint was. I thought he was another person stopping by to say "Hi" and get a tour of the Channel 9 offices. About three minutes into meeting him, though, Mel told me who he was - The Disco Floor Guy! I went a little nuts. Now, instead of Mel bringing someone by who wanted to meet me, it turned into Mel bringing someone by who I wanted to meet. Many of us have been through something similar to this. You find out who someone is online - usually through articles, a blog, or whatever - but you have no idea what that someone looks like, so, the first time you meet in person, you talk for anywhere from three minutes to three hours before realizing who it is you're talking to. That's what happened here, and it was neat. I gave Clint a tour around the offices, and then asked if he'd like to be in a C9 video. He did 1056 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/The-C-Disco-Floor-Guy-Clint-Rutkas Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:41:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/The-C-Disco-Floor-Guy-Clint-Rutkas Rory Rory 15 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/The-C-Disco-Floor-Guy-Clint-Rutkas/RSS Blogs Community Customer Hardware Niners The Best XNA Movie in the UNIVERSE
But, on the bright side of things, power's back, and I can finally post the video I was going to post on Friday before nature had its way with Seattle.

In this video, I head off to the official XNA launch event and talk to quite a few very interesting people, all of whom had something valuable/interesting to say about XNA.

In this video, you'll see:

- George Clingerman

George runs an XNA site called XNA Development. He was my main guest in this video, and he stuck around to patiently answer question after question on XNA. If I had been in his position, I would have hit me to make me shut up. I couldn't stop asking questions, but I just find this stuff so interesting - game development is a whooooole different kind of coding, you know?

While he doesn't work for Microsoft, he knows his stuff, and it was a great pleasure getting to talk to him.

He also has a personal blog that you can find here.

- Major Nelson

Major Nelson (real name: Larry Hyrb) is something of a phenomenon in the Xbox community. George and I got a chance to talk with the legend as well as get some hugs. We weren't going to let him get away without hugging us. It was just too cool.

- Andy Dunn

Andy is the guy who, after having been a web developer at Microsoft, quit, took a year off, and then came back as a contractor to write the SpaceWar game that's shipping as one of the examples for XNA Game Developer Studio Express.

His story is an interesting one, and it's crazy to think that, someone who previously had no gaming experience whatsoever, was able to put together a game that is one of the main examples of good XNA development.

It was actually pretty much the first game he had ever written.

If you, in your little office/basement/wherever you're reading this, just heard a distant explosion, it was the sound of my head blowing up in response to the thought that someone so inexperienced with game development could do something so cool.

Check out Andy's blog here.

- Other Assorted Characters

There are cameos from many different people in the industry.

Paolo, who hangs out in the Channel 9 CoffeeHouse, makes an appearance with a buddy of his.

David Weller assaults me near the end of the video for reasons which will become apparent as the scene unfolds.

And, I got to talk to many others, all of whom had something to say that was, or wasn't, particularly interesting.

Either way, this is currently the world's best XNA documentary.

Given that it's probably also the world's only XNA documentary should not, I feel, in any way detract from this self-appointed title of greatness.

Anyway, enjoy, my friends.

Enjoy...

- Links to Things Referenced in the Video

XNA Game Studio Express - The tool itself - The reason for the hooplah - The thing behind the excitement - Yours to download Smiley

TorqueX - A simple game development tool being built on top of XNA (yes - it's a tool that takes XNA and makes it, somehow, even easier)

Phrogram - A programming language with a very simple syntax, currently being ported (by Andy Dunn, as a matter of fact) to work with XNA - A DirectX version is already available ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/The-Best-XNA-Movie-in-the-UNIVERSE On behalf of all of us at Channel 9, sorry about not having any content on Friday, but 2/3 of our city shut down because of a little bit of wind. Most of us woke up Friday morning to discover that, without heat, it's very easy for your house/apartment/condo to turn into a freezer over night in the Pacific Northwest during winter. Even worse, you can't play your Xbox. Seriously. It sucked. But, on the bright side of things, power's back, and I can finally post the video I was going to post on Friday before nature had its way with Seattle. In this video, I head off to the official XNA launch event and talk to quite a few very interesting people, all of whom had something valuable/interesting to say about XNA. In this video, you'll see: - George Clingerman George runs an XNA site called XNA Development. He was my main guest in this video, and he stuck around to patiently answer question after question on XNA. If I had been in his position, I would have hit me to make me shut up. I couldn't stop asking questions, but I just find this stuff so interesting - game development is a whooooole different kind of coding, you know? While he doesn't work for Microsoft, he knows his stuff, and it was a great pleasure getting to talk to him. He also has a personal blog that you can find here. - Major Nelson Major Nelson (real name: Larry Hyrb) is something of a phenomenon in the Xbox community. George and I got a chance to talk with the legend as well as get some hugs. We weren't going to let him get away without hugging us. It was just too cool. - Andy Dunn Andy is the guy who, after having been a web developer at Microsoft, quit, took a year off, and then came back as a contractor to write the SpaceWar game that's shipping as one of the examples for XNA Game Developer Studio Express. His story is an interesting one, and it's crazy to think that, someone who previously had no gaming experience whatsoever, was able to put toget 3656 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/The-Best-XNA-Movie-in-the-UNIVERSE Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:06:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/The-Best-XNA-Movie-in-the-UNIVERSE Rory Rory 48 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/The-Best-XNA-Movie-in-the-UNIVERSE/RSS Community DirectX Microsoft Personalities Niners Xbox XNA XNA framework