HanselMinutes on 9 - #1 -
- Posted: Mar 28, 2007 at 10:22AM
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Scott Hanselman is a pretty well known guy around the .NET world for a bajillion reasons (reasons will not be listed here).
We decided to make it a bajllion and one reasons.
Scott has a podcast, produced by Carl Franklin of .NET Rocks fame, called HanselMinutes. It seems to be generally well liked, and Scott and I thought we'd borrow the branding for a series of short Channel 9 videos.
In this first series (yes: first - if you like it, we might do more), we walked around building 42 and surprised people with impromptu requests for interviews.
Most accepted.
A typical Channel 9 interview is booked anywhere from days to months in advance, so this is a different sort of thing.
This one is about Polita Paulus, a dev on the ASP.NET team who is responsible for some well known things. We didn't know what to expect, as we were just going door to door, but we stumbled upon the dev who coded the GridView.
Yeah. We felt pretty lucky about that 
Let us know what you think about this format. Another thing to note is that it's shorter than recent 9 videos. We've been seeing a lot of comments from viewers asking that we shorten them up. This one is just under 15 minutes long, so tell us what you think of that as well.
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One suggestion: Call it RoryMinutes or whatever, just modify that branding! Scott's podcasts are highly individual and so are yours. And I think the objectives are different as well...
Thanks for the great work.
Great video!
we want more, more, more!!!
Quick, snappy, fun and interesting. I look forward to more in this style.
Keep hunting down the devs!
I even cleaned my glasses and monitor twice just to make sure.
As an aside, since you found the "one dev" in that building, are you surprised that she owns a whole lot of features?
"Man, System.Web?! That was YOU?! Awesome. What were you on when you created Viewstate?"
One observation: I am a little suprised that developer's at Microsoft aren't more familliar with the larger universe of .NET (i.e., Monorail, Hanselminutes, Scott's book, etc.)
VERY good video, more would be great.
That was an excellent video. Snappy, interesting material, excellent length for this type of video. Also, Scott and Rory make a great team.
More of this sort of stuff, please!
Given the comments so far, it's safe to say we'll definitely be doing more of these.
I'm rendering the others right now. Don't know how many there'll be total (some of the stuff can't be released until Mix), but we'll hopefully be able to post enough to make you people happy
The video was pretty much all Scott. I was behind the camera, and I added some comments here and there, but he drove the interviews, and did a fantastic job.
For that reason, I'm keeping the HanselMinutes brand. The guy deserves as much credit and attention as we can give him.
On a slightly different subject, I'm hoping this'll start a trend around here of inviting various personalities to be guest hosts on 9. I like what happened by involving Scott.
I'm a pretty technical guy, but my interest in the videos lies mostly in the human angle. Scott is interested in that, too, but he's much more likely to dive into the subject than I am.
I think of myself as being halfway between a Scoble and a Torre.
Scott is closer to a Torre, but with his own thing going on.
Wow. I'm rambling
Point being, Scott rocks, and I want this series to reflect that.
I used to feel the same way. What I've learned from getting to spend a lot of time walking around the halls here is that most devs are too busy to get that involved.
It's my job to know about what's going on Out There and In Here. It's a dev's job to create the stuff we put on 9.
Looking at it another way, I don't have time to code anymore. I can do little projects on the side, but nothing big, and it's because I spend so much time writing posts/comments/etc..
Something else we forget is that the "community" is actually quite small when measured against the number of devs in the world (MS or otherwise). I meet tons of people who don't know what 9 is, who don't know anything about certain blogs, who don't know what Scoble does (or did when he was here), and so on. They show up, do their jobs, and then go home.
Not too surprising, either, when you think about it. The dev stereotype is someone who lives in a basement, has never seen the sun, and is only passingly familiar with the concept of Other People.
The type of geek who hangs out here is probably someone who is much more social than the geek norm. We're all much more likely to know what's going on.
Just my opinion...
Nice interview. Scott is great especially for getting into architectural topics and higher level topics, is he going to join Channel9? Rory and Scott seemed to make a good team so far.
I thought it was too short, but if you put out more short ones, then it'll make up for it.
Cheers,
Richard
It's Ruby on Rails for .NET. Mono is a .NET implementation that is opensourced. Monorail generates a framework and web pages based on a database, using MVC and ActiveRecord patterns. Essentially, it's a web application framework generator that can make an entire CRUD-based web app in a few minutes.
Great video! And, yes, shorter videos are excellent!
I would love to see the developer who created the XmlDataSource answer Scott's question about namespaces. Actually, I would love to hear that developer tell Scott that they intend to fix this oversight in the .NET 3.5 version of the XmlDataSource.
Then I can retire my XSL template that strips namespaces off XML documents and forget that bloody hack (my XSLT, not your code -- I like the XmlDataSource) ever existed...
I believe Monorail not related to Mono open source. They just put mono in front of it for unknown reason. Not because it is derive from Mono open source or Mono open source derive from Monorail. Logically thinking, there's nothing we can relate between Mono and Monorail.
Do I have to submit the software that I create to MSFT to find out if I am entitled to use my own code?
Does channel 9 have any independence within MSFT? How can you be celebrating developers and then turn around and tell them they cant use the code methods they create independent of others?
-Steve Richter
I don't know why you'd be upset, but it's really up to you how you'd like to react to the news (not really news, actually - like any other corporation, we take out patents on a regular basis and have been doing so for a long time).
Uh-huh.
How many times have we stopped you from writing code?
I'm not a lawyer. I'm not going to play lawyer.
Just as it's your choice to be upset about the news, my guess is that it's also up to you to make this choice. If you really think we're going to try and bust you, then my recommendation would be to submit your code to the legal department of the company you work for (if you work for yourself, then hand the code over to your own lawyer).
Next, your legal team can contact ours. It'll probably be really expensive to do this, and it'll probably take a really long time, so be prepared for a hit to the wallet and a long unpaid vacation.
I haven't heard of any other individuals submitting their code for review, but if it's what you want, then you can give it a try.
Those are great questions. If I should ever find myself in the position of "celebrating developers" and then turning around to "tell them they can't use the code methods they create," I'll let you know what I think.
However, since that hasn't happened yet (not sure how you even got on the subject), I'm afraid I have no further comment. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
This is another case where you should consult your legal representatives.
Monorail! Monorail!
Anyway, really good video, snappy, quick and light. Although I'm curious as to how the rest turned out - I got the feeling you might have got a bit lucky with having a really good interviewee. Or it could be that MS's halls are stuffed with interesting intelligent people and they're all awesome.
If the rest are half as good though it'll still be worth it.
Scott just recently did a show on Monorail. Thats probably why he came up with this
Anyway, very nice fun video ! Looking forward to seeing the other ones.
I hope we get more HanselMinutes!
Find it here: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=218065#218065
Please accept my apology for posting before seeing the video. I got the idea that Scott was a "silent partner" (so to speak) from the text. My bad...
Also, every other "brand" I could think of, including name mashups, just didn't float. So I violated the principle "if you can't think of something better, just shut up." I guess I'd better hurry up and sign off!
Walt
Best Channel9 video ever.
keep them coming!
I used to love the videos were they would just wander corridors and speak to people, even the ones where the interviewees looked like rabbits startled in the headlights.
Keep it up and get back to your roots.
Charlie
Polita Paulus - BLINQ
No harm done - no apology necessary
I just wanted to make sure Scott got the credit he deserves.
That's who she reminded me of! Amazing!
Enjoyed this video! As it was only 15mins I watched it before starting work... Good way to start the day?!
I remember Polita from the Blinq video that Charles did. I remember thinking at the time that she looked just like Natalie Portman (Padme)!
One thing (but not the only) I have always found very interesting about Channel 9 is that it does indeed put a face to the technology that we as developers use everyday. I use the GridView, ObjectDataSource and data binding in general everyday and you can form a picture in your mind that this stuff was developed with a ton of c++ geeks and a grand master plan (okay maybe thats just me who thinks that - I work for a small e-learning solutions company with a handful of developers so I wouldn't know)?! It's refreshing and suprising to see that this stuff is owned and developed by one person (and some collaboration of course). Gives us all hope (or delusions of grandure)?
Like Polita alot... an interesting person in her own right but very interesting in that she owns stuff that is so prominent. Scott was really good too (good addition to C9 perhaps?) and obviously it wouldn't be the same without you Rory!
Polita should start blogging in the vein of Scott Gu and Nikhil Kothari me thinks!
Job well done.
They've a DEVELOPER inside Microsoft!
I'm impressed. I though there are no developers...
I was so impressed when I first discovered ObjectDataSource its just great! Being able to easily data binding to objects really makes the world of difference to data binding IMHO.
Id love to learn more about the daily goings on of the devs at Microsoft, hopefully the rest of us may be able to improve the way we work from seeing how others go about theirs.
Duration wise I think this worked well, often with longer videos I have to stop and start and then I forget what I was watching (maybe it’s related to me having a memory like a gold fish!), now what was I saying...
Thanks again,
Steve.
Q) Dinner burning in the oven when you’re coding?
A) DinnerTimer.com
Hello!
I'm new to channel 9 and this is the second vid. I have watched to date, the other one was a patterns and practices discussion which was also quite good.
This was amazing - I have been working as a developer for 7 years now, started writing Asp.Net applications for the company I work for in 2003.
It is great to kind of get to know the people behind all these wonderful frameworks / tools that we use on a daily basis.
I will most definetely bookmark channel 9 - largely due to these two great vids that I have now watched.
Keep well!
Ian from South Africa
I had also noticed and was starting to get reluctant to listen to hour long C9 videos. I welcome this shorter format. There are perhaps a few topics worth an hour. Anytime you get Anders Hejlsberg, Eric Meier and Herb Sutter together I'm willing to carve out a chunk of time to listen to these guys.
Videos with developers - usually less than 20 minutes
Videos with PM/marketing - 40+ minutes
Hmmm...
I'd just like to chime in though that this shouldn't mean that all videos should be capped at 15 minutes now. There are some videos, like the Going Deep videos, dat definitely warrant one hour of material. The UAC video, for instance, was amazing.
wow. i wanna be like her some day.
I understand Scott's mantra about not wasting people's time, but I don't think that means keep it short...just keep it informative.
Good job guys.
Are we all guys like this when we see a pretty face? I just feel sorry the gals.
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Hats off for the dev... great work.
Thanks for the video Scott.
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