This Week on Channel 9: Feb 8, 2008 Episode

We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap:
- We have a new logo (courtesy of Lincoln Anderson at
352 Media) and
Scott Hanselman joins us in-studio (0 - 1:45)
- Microsoft Entertainment and Devices
acquires Danger Inc for consumer mobile phones (1:35 - 3:38)
- Microsoft Virtual Earth
acquires Caligari for 3D rendering (3:38 - 5:32)
- Dan interviews Bill Gates and Bill leaves Facebook (5:32 - 8:17)
- Microsofties saying "so" and "actually" (8:17 - 9:04)
- Charles Torre's Lang.NET interview of Wayne Kelly and Charles Nutter on implementing Ruby on static VMs and Wayne
Kelly's post after Lang.NET on moving Ruby.NET efforts to
IronRuby and the DLR. (9:04 - 11:57)
- Terrell Cox on UX @ Microsoft and Scott relays his "WOW" experience when setting up Windows Server 2008 (11:57 - 14:20)
- Minh's Yellow Harvest
Movie Trailer and Star Wars trivia (14:20 - 16:00)
- Brian's Pick of the week:
Fixing SLN files that don't open (16 - 18:13)
- Dan's Pick of the week: Geek proves LifeHacker's story on Felonspy.com is a scam (18:31 - 20:15)
- Scott's Pick of the week: ASP.NET MVC is source changeable (20:15 - 22:39)
- Scott pulls a "BillG" and bails early on us (24:10)
- Scott does some *not to be missed* hilarious imitations of what it would be like if celebrities were coders Bill Cosby, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, Ross Perot, and more (24:55 - End)
Ion Todirel wrote:nice episodeand its written "JavaScript" not "Javascript"!!! in tags... and btw I don't remember talking about JavaScript in thi episode...
staceyw wrote:
Here is your *.sln fix. A 1-liner in PowerShell:
[Sean Connery accent]Great Scott! This was the funnest Channel9 show I've ever watched!
I laughed my gluteus maximus off at the end.
Glucose wrote:I wonder how many folks are watching past the credits...
Glucose wrote:I wonder how many folks are watching past the credits...
Koogle wrote:you should get Scott to do some more of those celebrity/ coder impersonations, those were all pretty good
jamie wrote:
i dont know anything about dan - but from this video
... he seems like a nice cool likable guy.
(phew)
Ion Todirel wrote:any chance to get Jeff Atwood on the show in the near future? please?
ariw wrote:I would like to subscribe to the show as a video podcast. Is there a feed for that?
cool, thanksDan wrote:
Ion Todirel wrote:
any chance to get Jeff Atwood on the show in the near future? please?
I'm a big Jeff Atwood fan, so yeah
I think he's going to Mix so we'll be able to interview him there
mtz wrote:any comments about starting shooting in widescreen? 16:9 is a lot nicer tha 4:3 ..most video here seem to be abnormally streated to 4:3 (to me atleast)
hello, you could try my app, here http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=385668ariw wrote:Great show guys!
I would like to subscribe to the show as a video podcast.
Is there a feed for that?
Thanks,
Ari