This Week on C9: Live Wave 3, Coding4Fun - the book, Johnny Chung Lee, and Rise

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Dec 6th, 2008 @ 1:04 AM | 68,808 Views | 20 Comments
This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss this week's developer news including:

- Windows Live Wave 3 updates (0 - 1:20)
- Dan's Coding4Fun book is out, includes cool endorsement from Alex Albrecht, co-host of Diggnation (1:20 - 2:57)
- The Coding4Fun book contributors include some very cool people including Brian Peek, Johnny Chung Lee, Gabor Ratky, Clint Rutkas, and Dan Fernandez (2:57 - 5:22)
- Dan does a live demo of InnerTube, a sample app to download multiple videos from YouTube, converts them to MP4 and/or WMV and add them to Zune and/or iTunes (5:22 - 13:06)
- Spec# Design by Contract MSI is now available for Visual Studio 2008, via Alvin Ashcraft (13:06 - 15:10)
- Yochay Kiraty's Windows Developer Blog launches, shows off Windows Vista Bridge samples (15:10 - 15:40)
- The new free ASP.NET Charting control includes pie charts, line graphs, bar charts and lots more (15:40 - 16:45)
- Sarah Perez on Channel 10 gives a rundown on Silverlight 3 including h.264 support, 3D, GPU, and more (16:45 - 18:39)
- Live Labs: Seadragon AJAX - Build Deep Zoom applications directly with AJAX (18:39 - 19:55)
- Rob Miles's Coding4Fun article on using the .NET Micro Framework to control Holiday Lights based on RSS feeds (19:55 - 21:14)
- Charles Torre video with Rico Mariani - Answering Niner questions (21:14 - 22:10)
- Brian's Pick of the week: RiSE - Research in Software Engineering, the team that does Spec#, Chess, Pex, etc (22:10 - 23:22)
- Dan's Pick of the week: Video clip of Johnny Chung Lee's TED Demo showing off his Wiimote hacks (23:22 - 29:50)

** - News we just missed - the Channel 9 Dev team and the Mix Online team just published Oxite, an open source Content Management System built using ASP.NET MVC
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#Dec 6th, 2008 @ 2:11 AM
TommyCarlier
TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!
The TED video is awesome. Thanks for that.
#Dec 6th, 2008 @ 3:58 AM
dot_tom
dot_tom

Very happy to see the Spec# release. Looking forward to giving it a run around this weekend.

I've often wondered how Microsoft measures the return on investment when it comes to things like Channel 9. Should the pointy nosed bean counters ever start pounding on Charles' and the rest of the 9er crew's doors demanding a blood sacrifice then I will happily get on a plane, come to the 'States and explain to them - with diagrams - why Channel 9 rocks and from my perspective represents the best outreach / programming community initiative I've experienced from Microsoft in 15 years of programming on Windows.

#Dec 6th, 2008 @ 5:00 AM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
Best TED videos: Vilayanur Ramachandran on the brain and phantom limbs and Joshua Klein on crows. I can listen to Vilayanur's talk hundreds of times in a row, just because of his awesome accent.

That Vista Bridge API is a gift sent from the Gods. This has been frustrating me so much, and finally, a solution. Thanks for the link, guys.
#Dec 6th, 2008 @ 11:09 AM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
Thanks for the kind words and support dot_tom.
C
#Dec 7th, 2008 @ 12:22 PM
Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
Hey, that's hitting a little close to home. But, no worries, I'm hard headed. I still love you all!!!  Typing on the iPod a sucks a$$ Smiley
#Dec 7th, 2008 @ 2:19 PM
briankel
briankel
I've got nothin' but love for ya, Minh! Hope you know I was only kidding. Smiley
#Dec 7th, 2008 @ 3:04 PM
Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
Hehe... Of course. I literally LOL'ed when I saw it.
#Dec 7th, 2008 @ 3:49 PM
aL_
aL_
Rx ftw
woah! does jonny work at microsoft?
charles, pleeease interview him Smiley
#Dec 8th, 2008 @ 1:26 AM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
I have to agree! Great show this week. Also congrats to Dan for publishing his first book.
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