Mike Sampson
Born and raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Sampy came to Redmond after two internships with the VB team. After working 3 years on VB, Sampy has joined the team behind 9 to make the site even better.
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Announcing MSDN Profile IntegrationWe just released a feature that integrates MSDN profile information directly into Channel9. Now, for any niner that has an MSDN account, Channel9 shows that user's MSDN statistics – points earned in the MSDN profile system, badges, and links to their MSDN activity page and profile – both on hover of...
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Blizzcon 08: Frank Pearce on random instances, Wow Mobile and moreChannel 10 interviewed Frank Pearce, Executive Vice President of Product Development for Blizzard Entertainment on what's coming after Wrath of the Lich King, random instances in Wow, Wow outside of Wow, class balance, destructible cities, armor dyes, and more.
Note: Due to the audio quality, the transcript...
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BlizzCon 08: Diablo III Class Design PanelOne of the first panels I attended was the Diablo III Class Design talk featuring Jay Wilson and other members of the D3 team. We had just witnessed the unveiling of the brand spankin' new Wizard class so this panel promised to give us a sneak peak behind the newest defender of Sanctuary as well as other... -
BlizzCon 08: Sampy and Dan at the show!Hey all you PC gamers out there, didn't get tickets to BlizzCon? Don't have DirectTV Pay Per View? Don't worry! Dan and I are on the case!
We're here right now in the BlizzCon convention hall recording and blogging the even just for you (well, and Channel 9 too). We just witnessed the opening ceremonies... -
Life At Microsoft - The Truth RevealedPeople often stop me in the streets to ask "Hey Tina, what's life "really" like at Microsoft? Sometimes I can't even walk outside my house without somebody standing there with a giant neon sign that blinks "What is life "really" like at Microsoft"? ...
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Jack Gudenkauf - .Net 3.5 for ISVsSeveral weeks back James Vastbinder was able to coax Jack Gudenkauf into doing an interview on .NET 3.5 targeted at ISVs. Jack is an Architect on the Base Class Library team and tasked to work with Microsoft’s ISV Partners.
In this interview:- Jack talks about the BCL team and how...
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Channel9 Version 4: 3 Minutes with the dev teamWe're working hard but we'll take three quick minutes to let you know what we're up to.
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MC Chris Rocked the houseAwesome show last night from MC Chris.
capitalSteps opened the show with some rocking techno played only on GameBoys. He had an SP, a Micro and a super old school original GameBoy complete with LightBoy. You gotta see to rock.
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Shipping the 10 updateLast week we shipped out an update to 10 that not only refreshed the design but set up the EvNet platform to support Channel9. You've seen us before and you'll see us again as we move forward with the 9 update.
WARNING: We were very tired and very zany. Enjoy
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Intro to Windows Azure with Scott Hanselman
Oct 24, 2013 at 1:42 PMGood stuff
First look at 5 features of IE9 RC
Feb 10, 2011 at 1:54 PMI like the new tabs
Inside the new Channel 9: Random Team Drive-By
Sep 17, 2010 at 11:50 AMYeah, we didn't get IE 9 that much ahead of you guys but we have top men working on it.
Top. Men.
Mike Sampson: Inside Rev9
Jul 29, 2010 at 11:34 AMQueryFactory is actually very simple
namespace Channel9Controller.Infrastructure { public class QueryFactory : IQueryFactory { private readonly IUnityContainer container; public QueryFactory(IUnityContainer container) { this.container = container; } public TQueryType Create<TQueryType>() where TQueryType : IQuery { TQueryType query = container.Resolve<TQueryType>(); query.EnableCaching(); return query; } } }The trick is that every query takes an NHibernate ISession that it uses to do its work. I have that session delivered up by the Unity container so all the Query has to do is specify that it needs ISession by taking one it its constructor and it gets the session for this request. Queries can also take addition parameters if they need. Most don't need any but some need to do operations based on when Now is so they take an IClock which is a simple interface that has a single property Now. I use this instead of DateTime.Now to make things easier to test and to ensure that time is tightly controlled in the application. I even have a specialty clock that returns Now as the most recently passed 5 minute mark (10:00, 10:05, etc). I use this for checking things like Published on an Entry or Banned on a user so that the query will cache better.
Hanselminutes on 9 - ASP.NET MVC 3 and NEW ASP.NET Futures with Phil Haack and Morgan the Intern
Jul 27, 2010 at 10:30 AMI can't wait to move to this.
I'm going to get to delete so much code.
A screenshot tour of the new Channel 9
Jul 26, 2010 at 9:24 AMWhere do you mostly run into this content in other languages? My guess is the Related Videos and What you are watching sidebar boxes.
I'll see if I can get a fix in to have related only show things in the same language as the current video (or at least English + current video's language).
A screenshot tour of the new Channel 9
Jul 24, 2010 at 9:22 AMWe still have the user CSS feature so you can change it if you want
TWC9: The First Look at the New Channel 9!
Jul 24, 2010 at 9:18 AMmemcached. I'll talk on Monday about how I do elastic scaling of the cache nodes. It's pretty well known stuff but it integrates well with Azure.
But the cache model is fully abstracted from the rest of the code. In fact, in dev it uses the ASP.Net cache and swaps to memcached in production. If we ever wanted to change to AppFabric, it wouldn't be very hard.
A screenshot tour of the new Channel 9
Jul 24, 2010 at 8:57 AMAs in on your Xbox? Yeah, that's not really up to us
I don't think that kind of integration is possible.
TWC9: The First Look at the New Channel 9!
Jul 24, 2010 at 8:51 AMOnly comments have no paging. Forum threads still page.
I'll talk about this more in Monday's video but the forums are completely separate from the comments on an entry.
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