HanselMinutes on 9 - #2 - Weapons and Debugging the .NET Runtime

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.
Great video!
we want more, more, more!!!
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!
waltal wrote:This is a great idea, and I look forward to more stuff along this line.
waltal wrote: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...
cbilson wrote: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.)
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
ZippyV wrote:What the hell is Monorail?
I want an interview with the guy who coded the RepeaterRory wrote: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.
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...
Richard.Hein wrote:
ZippyV wrote:What the hell is Monorail?
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.
DenvilleSteve wrote:If it is true that MSFT is patenting the software methods used in the .NET framework, I will be very upset.
DenvilleSteve wrote:The thing I enjoy most about programming is that so often after coding applications, working out the problems, writing reuseable code, .... I feel like I have invented something new. I am under no illusion that what I have created is unique or cant be duplicated. But I do feel that I own what I have created and I can use it without having to get the permission of someone else who came up with the same idea and was able to obtain a software patent.
DenvilleSteve wrote:Do I have to submit the software that I create to MSFT to find out if I am entitled to use my own code?
DenvilleSteve wrote: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?
ZippyV wrote:What the hell is Monorail?
ZippyV wrote:What the hell is Monorail?
Best Channel9 video ever.
staceyw wrote:Good video. BTW - She did a whole video (good one) about Blinq on C9 not too long ago.
waltal wrote:Rory,
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...
DarthVista wrote:Padme...is that you?
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.
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
hillr wrote:Oooh I like. Short and informative. I really like Scott's general approach to avoid wasting the listener's time on his Hanselminutes podcast. I think there is some room for improvement for future HMC9 episodes in terms of keeping it short and sweet. Remember that our time is money too and whatever you can do to be concise, informative and entertaining enough to not put us to sleep will be greatly appreciated.
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.
Hats off for the dev... great work.
Thanks for the video Scott.