Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Sep 18th @ 6:21 PM | 27,928 Views | 13 Comments
On a very special episode of This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined Christian "Littleguru" Liensberger, and Sven Groot where we do blind taste-testing of beer, and  discuss the week's top developer news including:

- Dan introduces the blind beer taste test between Old English 800, Mickeys, Fosters, and Bud Light with Brian keeping score
- Sven discusses how he got talked into posing for a photo
Office Web Applications are now in a private preview
- Zune HD launches, XNA Game Studio 3.1 also launched and it supports building games for ZuneHD for free, no need for Creator's Club members
- Scott Guthrie - Microsoft AJAX CDN - Includes ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, and ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX libraries
- Mahesh Sabnis - What's new in WCF 4.0 Part 1
- C# FAQ - Building a Dynamic Method using Expression Trees
- Mike Swanson - Evolving the PDC09 Event Site
- Krzysztof Kozmic - How to contribute to open source without writing a single line of code
- PHP Toolkit for REST/.NET, via Joe Stagner
Julien Manici - Windows 7 logon background changer, via Paul Thurott
- Michael Ceranski - System.IO Improvements in .NET 4.0 make us all giddy like school girls
- Dare Obasanjo - Building Scalable Databases by denormalizing your database
- Scott Guthrie - Auto-Start ASP.NET 4.0 applications

Beer taste test results (1 right out of 12)
- Christian: 0/4
- Sven: 0/4
- Dan: 1/4

Picks of the week:
- Christian's pick: SQL Azure Migration Wizard CodePlex project
- Sven's pick: monoTouch - .NET development kit for iPhone
- Dan's pick: NotAlwaysRight.com, via Scott Hanselman
Rating:
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wow, this is something! Smiley

Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

Best TWiC9 evar!  Smiley

 

It's got long-time niners, beer tasting, premature optimization joke... who can ask for more!

Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

Amen.

 

Power to the Niners (and beer)! Welcome to the Mothership, Sven.

 

Smiley
C

The new Ajax CDN and System.IO improvements are great!

Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Drinking on the show. Nice! I especially love Brian's vacant stare as he's drinking.

figuerres
figuerres
???

WOW so none of them can tell which beer they drink by taste?  (Ok Sven you are excused - not fair to you)

 

way back I used to drink a *LOT* of Fosters -- but this was like 1981 and it came in big tin cans that we called "Oil Cans" cause they where just about the size and shape of a quart oil can for a car.  as a 19-20 year old back then i coluld down 4 cans in a night and still keep going...  Ah the days of mispent youth in the US Air Force...  I had a buddy who made killer "punch" with koolaid, vodka, everclear and moonshine, a dixe cup or two and you did not get out of the chair without help .... like 99.9% pure booze with a cover of sweet taste to hide it on the way down Smiley

 

 

 

 

littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle

That was a fun show to shoot. Smiley Dan and Brian should do that from now own during each show. Each week they taste the beer from another country. Tongue Out

figuerres
figuerres
???

Ales, Cream Ales, Lager, Stout.... Yum Smiley

 

now i hope everyone can tell a cream ale from a dark brew Smiley

 

wonder if i can find my old air force buddy and have him make some punch for a show ....  </cue in evil laugh>

 

TommyCarlier
TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

I loved the “Drinking Brian” stuff. That added a whole layer of craziness to TWoC9. It reminds me of “Blokken”, a quiz on Belgian TV where sometimes a guy dressed as a Viking would walk through the scene, just randomly.

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