Entries tagged with community - Channel 9

Niners on 9: Sven Groot - Past, Present and Future

Charles — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:25:00 GMT

Sven Groot is a long time Niner and one of the more active contributors to the C9 forums (you'll note that Sven answers technical questions when he can and has always been respectful in the way he interacts with his fellow Niners). Sven is also a PhD student at Tokyo University where he is working on and thinking about large scale distributed clustered computing (now we know why he was so keen on my producing a Dryad piece for Going Deep - Sven is a clever guy...).

Sven was in town recently on vacation in Seattle (why not Maui or one of the Tahitian islands, man?), so we had to interview him. Also, I brought Sven to a randomly generated team meeting of one of the most innovative teams at Microsoft (and filmed it). So you will see more of Sven and learn more about some very interesting technologies, but here we learn all about Sven, the man, the legend.

We cover a lot in this impromptu conversation and Sven has many interesting things to say about cloudy computation and the future of distributed computation somewhere up there. It's great to have you as a vocal member of Channel 9, Sven. Thank you for the feedback on C9 (some of which is shared in this conversation) and for being helpful to your fellow Niners. See, Niners, when you come to Seattle, you never know if you will sit down in front of a camera, rolling 9.

Enjoy and thank you again, Sven!

PHP Core Entwickler Pierre Joye im Interview - Teil 1 von 3

Jan Schenk — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:27:00 GMT

Letzte Woche hatte ich die Ehre, mich mit Pierre Joye zu treffen, seines Zeichens Team Leader unter den PHP Core Developern der Windows Division. Pierre ist für die Stabilität und Performance der Windows-Builds verantwortlich, und hat mit PHP 5.3 die beste Windows-Unterstützung geschaffen, die es jemals gab. Nicht zuletzt dank der Verwendung eines neueren Compilers, der den 10 Jahre alten VC6-Compiler abgelöst hat. In diesem Video interviewe ich Pierre zu seiner Person, seinem Privatleben und seinen Hobbies. Wer hätte gedacht, dass ein PHP Core Developer so offen gegenüber Microsoft sein kann? Nach der Devise "Make Web, Not War!" ist Interoperabilität und Zusammenarbeit der Schlüssel für bessere Technologien. Aber seht euch das Video einfach an und freut euch auf den zweiten Teil, in dem es um PHP 5.3 gehen wird!
Mehr zum Thema Interoperabilität und "Make Web, Not War" gibt es in meinem Blog unter http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche

Jan Welker über dotnet-kicks.de

Dariusz Parys — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:43:00 GMT

Auf dem .NET Open Space Süd hatte ich die Gelegenheit mit Jan Welker über das Projekt dotnet-kicks.de zu sprechen. Jan erzählt was letztendlich mit dieser Seite gemacht werden kann und wie es dazu kam das er zusammen mit Gordon und Klaus diese Seite aufgebaut hat.

Viel Spaß beim reinschauen,
Dariusz

Small and Mighty - Community Talk with Steve Andrews

Brian Johnson — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:00:00 GMT

In this episode of Community Talk, Danilo Diaz interviews Steve Andrews. Steve is a TFS MVP and INETA board member. Steve is what you might call a community fanatic. His New Year's resolution was to speak at 52 events in 2009. Dani talks to Steve about about his passion for community and some of the projects is currently involved with.

VS 2010, Oslo, WCF, WF, and Dublin PDC Bits Review

Marcelo Belinazo — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:59:00 GMT

As many Europeans attending PDC, blogger Alan Smith took advantage of the extra "free time" from the time zone difference to play around with the bits delivered to attendees. You don't wanna miss his meaty review of VS 2010, Oslo, WCF, WF and Dublin. See full story here.

Steven Sinofsky at the PDC2008 Open Space

Charles — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:22:00 GMT

Steven Sinofsky participates in an Open Space Discussion on Windows 7 at the PDC.

PDC 2008: Microsoft says Game On

Marcelo Belinazo — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:50:00 GMT

Dion Almaer (Google) shares his thoughts about some of the things he saw at PDC 2008. "Windows Azure looks great. The “on premise” feature looks particularly intriguing. If they can bridge the data center and the cloud, they have something quite compelling… I am curious about the details… Even though we knew about this (PDC announcements), I don’t know if we thought they were this far along. Microsoft is executing." Read Dion's post here.

Video: Microsoft's 'SecondLight' project

Marcelo Belinazo — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:43:00 GMT

Todd Bishop posted a video with the demo run by Microsoft researchers on Wed showing a project called SecondLight, an extension of the company's Surface tabletop computer. Technical details about this project can be found here.

jQuery and Microsoft: Repercussions of Yesterday's Announcement

Marcelo Belinazo — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:48:00 GMT

Microsoft announced yesterday it is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform which means that jQuery will be distributed with Visual Studio. The news got a positive reception by the jQuery team: "we are quite excited by these prospects and wishes to take this opportunity to welcome both companies to the jQuery community." Blogs posts by Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman, both at Microsoft, have posts on the subject matter from their perspective.

Windows Media Center in the PDC Build of Windows 7

Marcelo Belinazo — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:26:00 GMT

If you are attending the PDC 2008 you received a pre-beta Windows 7 build yesterday (6801) which contains many features the Windows Media Center team has been developing over the past year. Charlie Owen from the Media Center team took a few minutes to outline some of these new features for you. Full story here.

Live Blog of the Microsoft Research Keynote

Marcelo Belinazo — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:55:00 GMT

Missed today's keynote? Wanna know more about The Worldwide Telescope, Project Boku (lightweight programming environment for kids) or SecondLight (extending surface computing)? Just visit the live blogs BetaNews and All Star Bloggers.

Ray Ozzie on Azure, Office Web, and Openness

Marcelo Belinazo — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:33:00 GMT

Interviewed by Steve Gillmor, Ray talks about the changes happening inside Microsoft three years after he wrote the famous Services Memo. Full interview here.

Azure and Architects: Clouds in the Sky?

Marcelo Belinazo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Justin Davies introduces an interesting discussion: the impact of Microsoft Azure for Enterprise Architects. He ponders: "for many organisations Architecture = Microsoft has simplified a very complex debate and cut short many a 12 month engagement for budding enterprise architects." What do you think? Join the conversation here.

PDC Buzz on Twitter

Marcelo Belinazo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:18:00 GMT

The conversation is happening now and here are the highlights:
Andrew Connell: "Azure, VS10, Win7... PDC2008 ROCKS!!!!"
John Osborn: "Applause for multiple WebConfig files to support dev and deployment scenarios..."
Robert Hallock: "Steve Sinofsky demonstrated a build of Windows 7 that was only 500MB small. It ran on an Eee PC w/ 1GHz CPU & 1GB DRAM. Daddy want."
Brady Anderson: "Watched some impressive Live demos at PDC2008”
DevHawk: "Did the Gu just say Silverlight is installed on 100 million machines? 25% of all internet connected machines? wow."
Daniel Cazzulino: "Web.config with support for Web.Debug.config, Web.Release.config, Web.Staging.config, etc.. KILLER!!!"

First Look of Windows 7

Marcelo Belinazo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:52:00 GMT

Windows 7 was demoed for the first time this morning at PDC 2008. Even if you attended the Keynote you can't miss this recap wrote by Ed Bott full of screenshots and details about the cool features of the new OS.

Office Web: What People Are Saying

Marcelo Belinazo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:29:00 GMT

Microsoft announced this morning that the next release of Microsoft Office will include “lightweight”, browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote (read the full story). Here is what people are saying: Joel Oleson thinks this is a pretty exciting stuff! Joe Wilcox wants to know “how will Google competitively respond, particularly since Microsoft has disclosed its plans?” Mark Hachman thinks that “Office Live compatibility with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari is a nice touch.” Henry Blodget notes that “Microsoft finally appears to have launched its own Google Apps killer.” And you? What do you think?

Meshfied Applications = Awesome Sync + Social Networking

Marcelo Belinazo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:56:00 GMT

Earlier this morning, Ori Amiga has joined Treadwell on stage, showing a "Meshfied" photo application automatically synching files between different machines and mobile devices . Live Mesh will have a broader beta starting later this week, with new features and support for Macs and Windows Mobile 6 phones. More details about this demo and the second PDC 2008 Keynote here.

"Damn, Windows 7 is Looking Goooood"

Marcelo Belinazo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:12:00 GMT

Get an inside scoop on Windows 7 and what the community is saying after the recent PDC 2008 announcements and demos. Follow the live blogs BetaNews and 8 Live Bloggers (Ed Bott, Paul Thurrott, Kip Kniskern, Mary Jo Foley, Rafael Rivera, Tom Warren, Todd Bishop, and Long Zheng).

More on Windows Azure

Marcelo Belinazo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:31:00 GMT

Since this morning's Windows Azure announcement, a lot of details have materialized. Peter Bright provides a rundown of what was announced today.

Microsoft Azure Aims to Re-define the OS

Marcelo Belinazo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:45:13 GMT

Blogger Richard MacManus was among a small group of people who had a roundtable today with Microsoft executives Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia and Amitabh Srivastava. The topic of conversation was Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing operating system announced earlier today. Richards asked Ray Ozzie about the relationship between Azure and the core Windows (in particular the new version, Windows 7). Read Ray’s answer for this question and much more here.

Ray Ozzie: "Windows Azure represents a major platform shift in our industry."

Marcelo Belinazo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:35:37 GMT

This morning, Ray engaged audience members by reminding them that Microsoft executives "viscerally understood" that for the company to be successful, developers also had to be. Microsoft Watch considered Ray's keynote "refreshing and down-to-earth. His early delivery was unusually engaging for someone who often is too heady in his delivery." Read the full story here.

Live Blogging from PDC08: Ray Ozzie Keynote, Windows Azure Announcement

Marcelo Belinazo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:45:00 GMT

Get the details about Windows Azure and other technologies announced this morning from the live blogs BetaNews, CNET or the community live blogging session done by Long Zheng, Ed Bott, Paul Thurrott, Kip Kniskern, Mary Jo Foley, Rafael Rivera, Tom Warren, and Todd Bishop directly from the fist PDC 2008 Keynote.

Expectation builds up for Windows 7 announcements @ PDC 2008

Marcelo Belinazo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:49:49 GMT

Last Fri, Microsoft posted the "Windows 7 Software Logo Program for Client." The 58K document is a quick download if you're curious, and can be found here. Charlie Azman blogged about the move. Is Microsoft trying to get the Windows 7 'buzz' going early? Or maybe, just maybe, Microsoft is pushing Windows 7 out faster than a lot of us think?

What PDC 2008 Attendees Will Get

Marcelo Belinazo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:34:58 GMT

How many times in the past year has anyone asked about a product, a service or a strategy to be told by Microsoft officials: “Just wait till the PDC. We’ll explain all”? Finally, that promised “tell-all” date is here. Microsoft PDC 2008 kicks off next week. Mary-Jo Foley reveals what attendees will get starting tomorrow morning.

Send Us Your PDC Videos!

Marcelo Belinazo — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:28:31 GMT

Attending PDC? Planning to capture all the action on camera? Don't forget to send your PDC videos to our Content Manager, Mike Swanson. Take a look at his post "Send Me Your PDC Video" for more details.