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

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Jul 4th @ 3:10 PM
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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#Jul 4th @ 4:17 PM
HumanCompiler
HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code
The Channel 9 team will be evaluating Velocity.  Thanks for the Velocity link!

Nice hole in your pants too.  Smiley
#Jul 4th @ 4:38 PM
K0ogle
K0ogle
guys guys.. this is how you should have done roman candle stunt ... skip to 0:44 for the match



liking that blueboss extension idea Smiley 
#Jul 4th @ 5:06 PM
Dan
Dan
LOL that video is hilarious, the night shot + UT sound effects make it full of win!
#Jul 4th @ 5:16 PM
PerfectPhase
PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

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

                                                                
#Jul 4th @ 5:46 PM
wisemx
wisemx
Live it
Whew...I thought for a second there you guys jumped ship to the Discovery Channel. Smiley
Rock on bros.
#Jul 5th @ 2:02 AM
littleguru
littleguru
allein, allein,... allein, allein!
I hope that Long Zheng is not going to win... Hint hint

Edit: Now I'm also for Long's group Wink
#Jul 5th @ 2:34 PM
Dan
Dan
Ah nice, I didn't know you were going to the finals, you gotta tell us these things, congrats!!!
#Jul 5th @ 5:58 PM
littleguru
littleguru
allein, allein,... allein, allein!
thanks... Smiley 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!
#Jul 7th @ 12:01 AM
Mark Brown
Mark Brown
Virtual Earth
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