HanselMinutes on 9 - #1 -

Posted By: Rory | Mar 28th, 2007 @ 10:22 AM | 49,714 Views | 55 Comments
Scott Hanselman is a pretty well known guy around the .NET world for a bajillion reasons (reasons will not be listed here).

We decided to make it a bajllion and one reasons.

Scott has a podcast, produced by Carl Franklin of .NET Rocks fame, called HanselMinutes. It seems to be generally well liked, and Scott and I thought we'd borrow the branding for a series of short Channel 9 videos.

In this first series (yes: first - if you like it, we might do more), we walked around building 42 and surprised people with impromptu requests for interviews.

Most accepted.

A typical Channel 9 interview is booked anywhere from days to months in advance, so this is a different sort of thing.

This one is about Polita Paulus, a dev on the ASP.NET team who is responsible for some well known things. We didn't know what to expect, as we were just going door to door, but we stumbled upon the dev who coded the GridView.

Yeah. We felt pretty lucky about that Smiley

Let us know what you think about this format. Another thing to note is that it's shorter than recent 9 videos. We've been seeing a lot of comments from viewers asking that we shorten them up. This one is just under 15 minutes long, so tell us what you think of that as well.
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#Mar 28th, 2007 @ 10:56 AM
waltal
waltal
Walt Lounsbery
This is a great idea, and I look forward to more stuff along this line.

One suggestion: Call it RoryMinutes or whatever, just modify that branding!  Scott's podcasts are highly individual and so are yours.  And I think the objectives are different as well...

Thanks for the great work.
#Mar 28th, 2007 @ 12:16 PM
erik_
erik_
Tablet Power

Great video!

we want more, more, more!!!

#Mar 28th, 2007 @ 12:17 PM
Andrew Davey
Andrew Davey
www.aboutcode.net
Quite simply, the best video I have seen for a while on Channel 9!
Quick, snappy, fun and interesting. I look forward to more in this style.
Keep hunting down the devs! Big Smile
#Mar 28th, 2007 @ 12:29 PM
CRPietschmann
CRPietschmann
Chris Pietschmann
Awesome! I can't wait for more.
#Mar 28th, 2007 @ 12:44 PM
Lazycoder2
Lazycoder2
This is one blurry video. What happened?

I even cleaned my glasses and monitor twice just to make sure.

As an aside, since you found the "one dev" in that building, are you surprised that she owns a whole lot of features? Wink

"Man, System.Web?! That was YOU?! Awesome. What were you on when you created Viewstate?"
#Mar 28th, 2007 @ 12:58 PM
Cyonix
Cyonix
Me
Great video. Talking to developers is great fun
#Mar 28th, 2007 @ 1:15 PM
cbilson
cbilson
This is the best thing I've seen from Channel 9 in a long time. It's very interesting to see the real people working on this stuff and get an idea of what's on their mind.

One observation: I am a little suprised that developer's at Microsoft aren't more familliar with the larger universe of .NET (i.e., Monorail, Hanselminutes, Scott's book, etc.)
#Mar 28th, 2007 @ 1:43 PM
INeedADip
INeedADip

VERY good video, more would be great.

#Mar 28th, 2007 @ 1:53 PM
martinwoodward
martinwoodward
Very enjoyable, and good to meet real people rather than the managers - no reason why the audio of this couldn't get dumped into an MP3 and put into a podcast feed, you would still get nearly all of the detail for an interview like this with no demo etc.
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