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E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 3 of n

May 25, 10 //
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Part 3 of the Beckman Meijer Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming Hypothesis/Challenge has finally arrived, Niners! :)
 
You learned about Brian Beckman’s perspective on covariance and contravariance in physics. Erik Meijer found this topic to be incredibly interesting and the two geniuses decided to take a stab at identifying the relationship between co/contra in two different domains: physics and programming.

What will they discover at the whiteboards?

Tune in to find out in this n-part series (part 1 here, part 2 here) with two of Channel 9’s and Microsoft’s most famous and respected software practitioners. Will there be a part 4? Perhaps you can help Brian and Erik find an answer to this interesting problem. They’re real close. Niners can help reach the end line (if there is in fact one). It is highly recommended that you watch the first parts before watching this one!

Thinking caps on? Go!

TWC9: Silverlight Tools for VS, Azure Guidance, Rx, and Home Server

May 22, 10 //
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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are back in the studio talking about the week’s top developer news, including:

Picks of the week

TWC9: Office & SharePoint 2010, Runtime Intelligence, and Windows Phone controls

May 15, 10 //
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This Week on Channel9, Brian and Dan are live from the Visual Studio 2010 launch party to discuss the week’s top developer news, including: 

Picks of the week:
- Dan’s pick: CodePlex adds Runtime Intelligence so that you can understand what features are being used in your application
- Brian’s pick: Outlook 2010’s Clean Up Folder feature

TWC9: IE9 Dev Preview, Sync SQL to SQL Azure, & useful CSS tools for ASP.NET

May 8, 10 //
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This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Picks of the week:

To win a copy of Brian’s book:
To win an autographed copy of Brian’s book, be the first person to post a comment with the right answer to this question:

  • What was the original code name for the application lifecycle management capabilities which shipped in Visual Studio 2010?

 

 

Update: We have a winner! Mohammad Jalloul correctly guessed “Rosario.” Read more about the selection of this code name here.

How ADFS v2 Helps Microsoft IT to Manage Application Access

May 5, 10 //
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ADFS 2.0 is being released today, but there is a group that has been using it for almost two years: Microsoft’s IT department, which dogfooded ADFS 2.0 from the very first pre-release.

Brian Puhl, Principal System Architect, and Femi Aladesulu, Service Engineer, share their vast experience in using ADFS 2.0, which they earned handling access to the Microsoft IT application portfolio on premises and in the cloud.

From the topology of Microsoft’s internal ADFS 2.0 deployment to the description of how day-to-day operations (such as a new application’s onboarding) are handled, Brian and Femi will take you on a whirlwind tour. Today, Microsoft IT is able to offer identity as a reliable, self-provisioned service. Tune in to get tips that will help you to achieve the same results!

TWC9: Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools Refresh, Messenger Wave 4 Preview

April 30, 10 //
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This week on Channel 9, Brian returns from his European tour and there is much rejoicing with Dan as they discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Picks of the week:
- Brian’s pick: TFS 2010 Power Tools now available, via Greg Duncan
- Dan’s pick: Auto-Update your wallpaper with Flickr images using your location with Arian Kulp’s Coding4Fun app – Geo-location and Flickr

Brian Beckman: On Analog Computing, Some Beckman History, and Life in the Universe

March 11, 10 //
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It’s been far too long since we’ve chatted with the great Brian Beckman, an astrophysicist, software architect, and Channel 9 icon. Some of you may know him as the wizard who appears out of thin air whenever the word Monad is said three times in succession. :->

A few weeks ago, Erik Meijer sent an email to Brian with a link to some videos about the use of analog computers in the US Navy in the 1950s. This got Brian thinking and reflecting about his past. Turns out Brian’s father was a famous Hollywood actor who also produced training movies for the US Navy. Well, I was added on to the email thread and we taped the conversation in this video a few days later.

It’s always a pleasure to embark on an unscripted chat with Dr. Beckman. There are always great nuggets of wisdom and insight around every corner. Here, you’ll learn about some of Brian’s personal history, some insights on analog computing, and even some discussion on the Drake equation, N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL, which attempts to formalize the probability of intelligent life in the universe.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy.

TWC9: 100th Episode! WPF, VS2010 RC tips, Bonus Footage

March 6, 10 //
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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Second patch for IntelliSense crashes in the Visual Studio 2010 RC
·Interesting because: The RC is the last public build prior to RTM. It’s pretty rock solid, but users of touch displays, tablet PCs, screen reader software, and potentially some others as well may need these patches.

Enabling Silverlight 4 with the Visual Studio 2010 RC (NOTE: This is an unsupported hack.)
·Interesting because: The RC of Visual Studio 2010 did not support Silverlight 4. This support is “coming” but no timeline yet. In the meantime, you can try this hack.

Getting Silverlight 3 to build with Team Build 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood
·Interesting because: If your projects use Silverlight 3 and you use Team Build on a 64-bit server, you’ll need this. But it’s also a good look at debugging a Team Build 2010 workflow.

What’s new in Visual Studio 2010 (ALM | The rest)
·Interesting because: There is a LOT of new stuff in this release. Blink and you’ll miss something. These documents do a pretty thorough job of documenting the goodness.

Beta of FireFox testing package for Visual Studio 2010 is now available
·Interesting because: Visual Studio 2010’s testing framework is extensible and will provide support for additional target platforms via add-ins from Microsoft and 3rd parties.

Optimizing Visual Studio 2010 and WPF applications for Remote Desktop via Greg Duncan.
·Interesting because: The Visual Studio 2010 IDE makes heavy use of WPF. If you RDP into a development workstation, or build applications in WPF, this post is a must-read.

Configuring VS2010 with SourceGear’s diffmerge
·Interesting because: The diff / merge tool that ships with Visual Studio is fairly dated, but it’s easy to swap in your favorite tool in its place. This one is free, and comes highly recommended.

Expression Studio 3.0 Tutorials from Paolo Barone
·Interesting because: Free hands-on tutorials featuring Silverlight, DeepZoom, SketchFlow, and more…

Roundup of WPF Documentation Samples
·Interesting because: One-stop shopping for all of your WPF sample needs.

4 free open-source WPF utilities
·Interesting because: Some good stuff in here; Snoop = “Firebug for WPF”, Inkscape = vector graphics editor…

Write code to enter the NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge
·Interesting because: There are dozens of coding competitions out there at any given time, but we thought this one was really cool – you can either build a “mechanical Turk” game or an image recognition application. And c’mon… it’s Mars! That should be reason enough.

Picks of the week!

Dan’s pick: Some (not all) MSR TechFest 2010 content is public and online

Brian’s pick: Telling the Visual Studio 2010 testing story with DeepZoom, and SpeakFlow as a new non-linear presentation medium based on DeepZoom.

And after the credits… special 100th episode bonus materials…

TWC9: MIX10, Tweevo, Silverlight Augmented Reality, testing

February 27, 10 //
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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

  • Mike Swanson – MIX 10 Recap
    • Interesting because: MIX10 is going to be BIG this year and Mike discusses everything going on with the event 
  • Coding4Fun – Brian Peek – Tweevo (download) – A free, open source application to have your Tivo Tweet what you’re recording
    • Interesting because: This is cool if you’re a Tivo user and want to know what your Tivo is doing while you’re busy at work :)
  • Ayende Rahien – LINQ to SQL Profiler released, enables you to see which LINQ statement created a query
    • Interesting because: It shows the SQL being generated by your LINQ queries
  • Mike Taulty – Silverlight 4 TCP Sockets video
    •  Interesting because: Mike has an 8 part series on networking with Silverlight
  • Somasegar - Key Software Development Trends
    • Interesting because: Brian makes the point that testing is now a 1st class citizen 
  • Adam Kinney - Ryan Lee creates Gesturecons, a set of free icons to describe touch gestures
    •  Interesting because: For touch interaction, a picture is worth a thousand words, and they look cool
  • System.Net team – FAQ on System.Uri, via Greg Duncan
    • Interesting because: You should really use System.Uri instead of strings where you can
  • Code Project – How to automate software using WPF UI Automation
    • Interesting because: It’s an underused, yet incredibly handy feature that lets you automate manual tests of an application  
  • Mercurial Integration with Visual Studio on CodePlex, via DotNetKicks
    • Interesting because: It’s a visual step-by-step tutorial on how to use CodePlex’s Mercurial integration inside of Visual Studio
  • Automated Tester: How to use Selenium and NUnit together
    • Interesting because: Selenium is a good, free option for Web testing and Brian compares it to Visual Studio’s Web testing tools
  • Web Distortion – 60 .NET libraries every developer should know
    • Interesting because: It’s always interesting to find new and useful APIs

Picks of the week!

  • Dan’s pick – Rene Schulte’s Silverlight Augmented Reality Toolkit (SLAR) is now available on CodePlex, via Alvin Ashcraft
  • Brian’s pick Robocode .NET Beta – A Terrarium-esque programming game where you build a tank and battle against other tanks programmed in C# of Java, perfect for C# versus J# 

    • TWC9: Windows Phone 7 Series, Hanselcart, MS Deploy

    February 20, 10 //
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    This week on Channel 9, Brian, Clark Sell, and a surprise guest discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

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