Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Feb 1st, 2008 @ 8:17 AM | 28,926 Views | 26 Comments

This is Episode #1 of <insert.name.here>, a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more.

This week we cover:

1. MSDN Code Gallery went Live (found on Greg Duncan's Cool Thing of the Day blog)
2. Jason Olsen's App Compat C9 Video 
3. Pavel Bansky's Tetris on the .NET Micro Framework
4. C# Future Focus: Dynamic Lookup
5. Dan interviewing April Reagan on MSDN Help
6. Shawn Burke's Tip on disabling optimiziations when debugging reference source code
7. Joel Spolsky on SQL Server 2008 Reset and Phil Factor on Microsoft doing their homework
8. Dan with Scott Guthrie on IIS7 hosters for Mix
9. Dan and Scott Guthrie on Windows, Web, and RIA and talking about how he built the <asp:calendar> control
10. Brian and Dan mock each other's hair and how he "poked" Dan's wife on Facebook.
11. Facebook releases JavaScript APIs using Nikhil Kothari's Script# Library
12. CodeProject: Eric Williams HTML Editor control article
13. Josh Holmes Code to Live Video: What Richard Hale Shaw finds exciting in C# 3.0
14. Joel Pobar's MSDN Magazine Article: Create Your own Language Compiler, Lawrence Pit's OOK # .NET
15. Second Life replacing their scripting runtime for LSL with Mono and future .NET languages coming.
16. Brian's Pick of the week: Nic Fillingham's Custom Rockband Drum Kit at CES 
17. Dan Pick of the week: Greg Dolley's port of Quake 3 from C to C++/CLI
18. It Came from the internets: What every Microsoft employee does on a conference call 
19. Recap: email us at bestshow.nospam@microsoft.com and send us your name requests
20. Brian's Superbowl predictions

2/8 Update: Episode 2 is now available.

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This Week, where is the beer?  A faster pace please.
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
A name discussion is going on here.

Great show guys!
Larsenal
Larsenal
ready to give an answer
Call it "Nerd Cave" or maybe boost the lighting.
jeffsand
jeffsand
Inch by Inch
Coffeehouse TV.  Smiley
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
jeffsand wrote:
Coffeehouse TV.  Smiley


Haha! Or just "Best Show" - is not a bad name for the show...

btw. could you guys make the screen recording record at a higher frames rate? I guess it was recorded Camtasia that did drop the FPS.
mawcc
mawcc
Make it so
Nice! I like this show.

But why make it look so depressing? Everything is dark. Lighten it up! Don't make it look as you're filming in a cubicle.
jsampsonPC
jsampsonPC
SampsonBlog.com SampsonVideos.com
You guys should zoom in a little when you're in web-view of a video. Showing the Silverlight player in the page is great, looks cool, but you should zoom in a bit more so I'm not watching only 20% of the screen with a bunch of non-important stuff around it.
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
mawcc wrote:
But why make it look so depressing? Everything is dark. Lighten it up! Don't make it look as you're filming in a cubicle.


That's really true... Guys don't make Microsoft appear as if you all life in black rooms. Lighten it up!
HumanCompiler
HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code
littleguru wrote:

mawcc wrote: But why make it look so depressing? Everything is dark. Lighten it up! Don't make it look as you're filming in a cubicle.


That's really true... Guys don't make Microsoft appear as if you all life in black rooms. Lighten it up!


I like how Digg nation did it.  Sitting on a couch with Beer.  That's how we all code, right?!?!  Tongue Out
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