This Week on C9: Fireworks, Powerset, Equipt, Pex, and cool downloads (Channel 9)

This Week on C9: Fireworks, Powerset, Equipt, Pex, and cool downloads

Posted: Jul 04, 2008 at 3:10 PM

By: Dan Fernandez

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This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian go through the week's news and celebrate the 4th of July (American Independence Day):

- Shooting Roman Candles at a video camera with a fireproof screen
- Microsoft acquires Powerset, a natural language search company
- Microsoft announces Equipt, a $70/year subscription to Microsoft Office that includes three Office licenses and OneCare (via ReadWriteWeb.com)
- Imagine Cup 2008 Finals are taking place in France and Long Zheng from istartedsomething.com is competing (via Liveside.net)
- Video by Jason Sobel from Facebook's infrastructure team on how Facebook supports billions of photos(via James Hamilton)
- Video clip of Brian interviewing the researchers building "Pex" a new tool for automated exploratory testing
- Video clip of Amanda Silver on making tough feature cuts for Visual Basic 2008
- New, cool 3D XNA Starter Kit: Robot Game, available for download for Creator's Club subscribers
- Bart de Smet's blog post: A Lap around "Velocity"
- Sandcastle source code published to Codeplex (via Todd Mancini)
- New PDC Sessions updated on MicrosoftPDC.com
- Andy Konkel's Coding4Fun article: BlueBoss, Bluetooth Proximity Detection
- How Stuff Works: How Fireworks work
- Dan's Pick of the week: Erik Klimczak: Coding4Fun: WPF Custom Screensaver Art
- Brian's Pick of the week: Nick Berardi's analysis on male/female ratio's for developer bloggers (Phil Haack wins!)
- After the credits, Roman candle test failure

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HumanCompiler Now with more program management

Jul 04, 2008 at 4:17 PM

The Channel 9 team will be evaluating Velocity. Thanks for the Velocity link!

Nice hole in your pants too.
K0ogle

Jul 04, 2008 at 4:38 PM

guys guys.. this is how you should have done roman candle stunt ... skip to 0:44 for the match

liking that blueboss extension idea
Dan

Jul 04, 2008 at 5:06 PM

LOL that video is hilarious, the night shot + UT sound effects make it full of win!
PerfectPhase "This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

Jul 04, 2008 at 5:16 PM

The velocity link is broken for me, this one works fine http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2008/06/30/a-lap-around-microsoft-quot-velocity-quot-cache-it-now.aspx
wisemx Live it

Jul 04, 2008 at 5:46 PM

Whew...I thought for a second there you guys jumped ship to the Discovery Channel.
Rock on bros.
littleguru <3 Seattle

Jul 05, 2008 at 2:02 AM

I hope that Long Zheng is not going to win... Hint hint

Edit: Now I'm also for Long's group
Dan

Jul 05, 2008 at 2:34 PM

Ah nice, I didn't know you were going to the finals, you gotta tell us these things, congrats!!!
littleguru <3 Seattle

Jul 05, 2008 at 5:58 PM

thanks... Well I somehow forgot to post about it in the forums. Anyway we didn't make it through the first round; Long did. And since I know Long, Ed and Dimaz I'm now all for them!
Mark Brown

Jul 07, 2008 at 12:01 AM

Fricken hilarious. Please include more slow motion videos of you guys shooting incendiary devices at each other. It really is great fun for the whole family.

thanks,
mark

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