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One of the things I was lucky to do at PDC 09 a few weeks ago was host a "talk show." The folks at Channel 9 hooked up some amazing equipment and a great team and had basically 8 solid hours of live television streaming (over Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming) every day using the Professional Developer's Conference.

I had an hour or so each day over the three day conference, usually around the lunch hour. Some guests were fun, some were more challenging, but I tell you - after having done stand-up (and kind of failed), doing code demos and powerpoint for years, hosting panels and roundtables, I think I'm supposed to be hosting my own talk show. ;) If I had more creative control (and wasn't working for The Man) I'd love to take on Craig Ferguson or Jimmy Fallon. What a blast!

Anyway, Nic and the team at Channel 9 are busy transcoding and chopping out many hours of videos and putting them up on Channel 9 under the "ch9live" tag.

Two of my segments are up so far, but there's a dozen segments with lots of great hosts like Charles Torre and Robert Hess. One day they'll let me near Ozzie, but this time I got to sit down with Bob Muglia and the deeply awesome Mike Anguilo. Mike is the GM dude that designed the laptop that all the PDC attendees took him. Even though I was nice to him, he didn't give me a laptop. Sigh.

Here's some video. I'll post more as it comes up, and be sure to check out the whole set as more are going up each day. Here's the complete Live on Channel 9 schedule.

Scott talks to Mike Anguilo about the PDC Laptop

Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Bob Muglia and the Cloud

 

I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I had doing them. More to come soon! Maybe they'll let me be more wacky at Mix 2010!

Oh, other thing, last week Jon Galloway and I were up in Redmond for his New Employee Orientation (NEO) last week and we stopped by (crashed, really) "This Week on Channel 9."

TWC9: Scott Hanselman, Jon Galloway, Bing, parallel unit tests, more

This week on Channel 9, we're joined by Scott Hanselman and Jon Galloway to discuss the week's top developer news, including:

• Bing blog - Bing announces a number of updates including using Silverlight, Streetside, integrated Photosynth, neighborhood outlines and integrated applications (Twitter, Traffic, etc)
• Laura Foy - First look at Streetside in Bing Maps
• VS Test Team - How to execute unit tests in parallel on a multi-CPU/multi-core machine
• Stephen Forte - How to use the Open Data Protocol visualizer to browse a Web service data model
• David Anson - Silverlight and WPF Data Visualization updated to support SL4/WPF4
• Clint Rutkas - Coding4Fun Projects at PDC
• Laura Foy - The PDC Geekfest party including the Drunktender contest
• Pete Brown - The Future of client app dev - WPF & Silverlight to converge
• Pinal Dave - How to build Comma Separated Values (CSV) from a table column
• Coding4Fun - Andy Beaulieu - Creating a Pinball game in Silverlight & Expression Blend and Farseer Physics, including 11-part video tutorial (Play demo)
• Picks of the week:
  • Dan's pick: favstar.fm which tracks the most favorited tweets on Twitter
  • Scott's pick: Zeo Personal Life Coach - Tracks when you're in deep sleep, REM, how often you wake up, and more
  • Jon's pick: John Sheehan - 130+ jQuery Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010make it so that you don't have to remember jQuery syntax

On the live side of things, Here's the other great segments from Channel 9 Live @ PDC as of the time of this post:

• Channel 9 Live at PDC09 Kurt DelBene<
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09 Mike Anguilo
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dean Hachamovitch
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Gary Flake
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Mark Russinovich and Patrick Dussud
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dr Jeff Norris, NASA
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Scott Guthrie
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Bob Muglia
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Ray Ozzie
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09 Schedule
• Announcing Channel 9 Live at PDC09

Enjoy!

While I was at PDC last week in Los Angeles I got to present an ASP.NET MVC 2 presentation. Phil has been home playing with his new baby so I was thrilled to be able to give a presentation on his behalf. I gave the talk immediately after the Day 2 keynote a few minutes after they announced that they were giving all attendees custom laptops.

This talk was a (virtually) no slides, just demos talk. I showed some new ASP.NET MVC 2 features, some tips and techniques that aren't/weren't ASP.NET MVC 2 specific. I also mentioned some community projects that are doing some cool things in the ASP.NET MVC space like MVCContrib and MVCTurbine.

You can watch the HD version of the talk using Silverlight Smooth Streaming 1280x720 here or the non-HD version embedded below.

You can download the talk in these formats:

• High Quality WMV (1280x720, not smooth streaming)
• WMV (640x360) video
• MP4 Video

There are a number of interesting one-off utilities for downloading all the PDC Videos in a particular format. Here's a few of note:

• On the basic side, you can use Mike Swanson's downloader batch file.
• Download CURL and put it in a folder.
• Download this Batch File and this Renamer Batch File and put everything in one folder
• There's about 96 gigs of WMV High videos, but the other formats are a lot smaller.
• For more features, Naeem Khedarun has a fancier PDC Video Downloader at his blog that includes many improvements over the original "Alternative PDC Downloader" from Frank's World. It has features like Resuming and Balloon Tips, and it runs in the Tray. As of the timing of this post the most recent version was v4 but check out his blog for the latest.

Enjoy!

My one-hundred-and-eighty-eighth podcast is up. This last week I was at PDC but just before he left I chatted with Phil Haack about his exciting release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta. They chat about the changes, and Scott gets a surprise phone call from The Gu.

Subscribe:

Download: MP3 Full Show

Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts, a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show.

Telerik is our sponsor for this show.

Check out their UI Suite of controls for ASP.NET. It's very hardcore stuff. One of the things I appreciate aboutTelerik is their commitment to completeness. For example, they have a page about their Right-to-Left support while some vendors have zero support, or don't bother testing. They also are committed to XHTML compliance and publish their roadmap. It's nice when your controls vendor is very transparent.

As I've said before this show comes to you with the audio expertise and stewardship of Carl Franklin. The name comes from Travis Illig, but the goal of the show is simple. Avoid wasting the listener's time. (and make the commute less boring)

Enjoy. Who knows what'll happen in the next show?

My one-hundred-and-thirty-seventh podcast is up.

Well, actually a few weeks ago, but I totally forgot to update my website with the details. You'd think somewhere around 100 shows I'd had automated this somehow. Hm. If I only I know a programmer and the data was available in some kind of universal structure syndication format…;)

Scott catches up with Richard Campbell at DevConnections in Las Vegas and they chat about the announcements at the 2008 Microsoft PDC and how/if the new stuff will affect our lives.

Subscribe:

• Download: MP3 Full Show #137
• Play in your browser.

Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts, a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show.

Telerik is our sponsor for this show!

Building quality software is never easy. It requires skills and imagination. We cannot promise to improve your skills, but when it comes to User Interface, we can provide the building blocks to take your application a step closer to your imagination. Explore the leading UI suites for ASP.NET and Windows Forms. Enjoy the versatility of our new-generation Reporting Tool. Dive into our online community. Visit www.telerik.com.

As I've said before this show comes to you with the audio expertise and stewardship of Carl Franklin. The name comes from Travis Illig, but the goal of the show is simple. Avoid wasting the listener's time. (and make the commute less boring)

Enjoy. Who knows what'll happen in the next show?

My one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth podcast is up.

Well, actually a few weeks ago, but I totally forgot to update my website with the details. You'd think somewhere around 100 shows I'd had automated this somehow. Hm. If I only I know a programmer and the data was available in some kind of universal structure syndication format…;)

One of the hidden gems this year at the PDC conference was the Microsoft Research section. It was buried in the back of the convention center, unfortunately, so a lot of people didn't know it was there. Scott talks to each team at length and gets the scoop on what project are coming to an IDE near you sometime soon.

Subscribe:

• Download: MP3 Full Show #136
• Play in your browser.

Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts, a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show.

Telerik is our sponsor for this show!

Building quality software is never easy. It requires skills and imagination. We cannot promise to improve your skills, but when it comes to User Interface, we can provide the building blocks to take your application a step closer to your imagination. Explore the leading UI suites for ASP.NET and Windows Forms. Enjoy the versatility of our new-generation Reporting Tool. Dive into our online community. Visit www.telerik.com.

As I've said before this show comes to you with the audio expertise and stewardship of Carl Franklin. The name comes from Travis Illig, but the goal of the show is simple. Avoid wasting the listener's time. (and make the commute less boring)

Enjoy. Who knows what'll happen in the next show?