TWC9: Sven Groot, Beer taste test, Office Web, ASP.NET Auto-Starts, System.IO changes

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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#Sep 18th @ 7:58 PM
Ion Todirel
Ion Todirel
buuu

wow, this is something! Smiley

#Sep 18th @ 8:30 PM
Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

Best TWiC9 evar!  Smiley

 

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

#Sep 18th @ 10:12 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

Amen.

 

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

 

Smiley
C

#Sep 19th @ 1:27 AM
joechung
joechung

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

#Sep 19th @ 3:20 AM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

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

#Sep 19th @ 5:31 AM
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

 

 

 

 

#Sep 19th @ 2:00 PM
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

#Sep 19th @ 6:13 PM
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>

 

#Sep 20th @ 2:12 AM
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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