New Features in Web Platform Installer v2 | AdamKinney

ZippyV
Fired Up

Boring video, next time take the camera to their office.

AdamKinney
Agent of Change

So filming in the studio is dull or boring to you? What do you like better about the office setting? More casual conversation, maybe?

ZippyV
Fired Up

In reply to AdamKinney

#Sep 24th @ 7:47 AM

Channel 9 is about getting to know how Microsoft works from the inside. I can read the V2 announcement everwhere and this video didn't add anything to it. Try to find out who they are, what they did in the past, why they are doing this project now and how they do it.

In a studio everything looks stiff and prepared. It's boring and looks like video marketing.

AdamKinney
Agent of Change

In reply to ZippyV

#Sep 24th @ 9:19 AM

Ah hah, now we're getting somewhere. I agree that it was a demonstration video but that was its purpose. I'll go double-check the Channel 9 doctrine and make sure it still fits. If its any consolation I truly am excited about the prospect of a "one-click" dev environment setup, that wasn't practiced or fake.

gbrayut

Great video! Is there any more information about the URL format that can be used to specify which components should be installed? That would be very helpful for establishing a "platform baseline" when creating troubleshooting documentation.

Charles
Welcome Change

In reply to ZippyV

#Sep 24th @ 9:19 AM

There are (and have been for a very long time) multiple styles of content on Channel 9 (Conversations, Presentations, Screencasts, Podcasts, etc). Adam is in the business of helping developers get up to speed with new technologies (and learn things about them that you can't on MSDN or the products' marketing sites). He's a developer and an evangelist. Adam is not in marketing and has been around C9 for many years (remember, he built a few versions of C9 Smiley )... Suffice it to say that Adam gets C9... But "getting" C9 does not mean making content that is unscripted-conversational in nature only... You will continue to see directed technical content like this on Channel 9 just as you will continue to see interviews that happen in a conversational manner with no script, riding the random.

Adding things is not the same as substracting things (in practice).

Thanks for the great content on C9, Adam! Very helpful. Zippy, you'll get plenty of the Old School as well. Everybody is happy happy.

C

AdamKinney
Agent of Change

In reply to gbrayut

#Sep 24th @ 12:45 PM

I'm working on obtaining more information on the URL format, but the team appears to be a little busy today Wink

Keep an eye on the Web PI forum and this thread. I'll post a link here if I get it figured out before its posted on the forums.

LukePuplett
They're my own arms

Firstly, I feel that variety is the spice of life and that while the office-based videos are cooler, I almost always want a better look at what's on the computer screens than can be achieved by waving a camera at it. So this format of video is good for that.

While I have you, some other suggestions and moans; please can you fix the site so I can login and comment without interrupting playback? And have you thought about a video queue and single player (with size options)? This would also prevent the volume resetting each time. And if you could make it always on top and 50% transparent so I can keep working. And a new car and a slice of cake.

Thanks Wink

Charles
Welcome Change

In reply to LukePuplett

#Sep 25th @ 3:00 AM

Thanks for the feedback! Car and cake will be hard to implement, but maybe we'll try!

C