It’s the FINAL Countdown!!! @anyware and @ritzy report on MIX10 statistics and tell behind the scenes stories from the conference. Guess how much coffee and how much bandwidth MIX10 users went through this year, and who got a broken nose!
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Countdown to MIX10: From the Road
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Countdown to MIX10: Drinking Las Vegas
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Sure, sure. MIX is mostly all about the great keynotes, sessions, networking, and all the awesome content that is going to make your brain hurt in a good way, but that doesn’t mean you can’t go out for a good time while you’re in Sin City! On this, our last Countdown to MIX10 show, @anyware and @ritzy get advice from THE cocktail evangelist, Robert Hess, who tells us where to find a mean cocktail in Vegas. If we’re not at the conference, you might find us bellied up to a bar somewhere, and if you do, maybe your next round will be on us. See ya in Vegas!
This is our last show for MIX! Thanks all for your tremendous help!!!
Countdown to MIX10: We’re baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
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What, only 10 weeks until MIX? It can’t be! Oh, yes, it can be and it is say @Ritzy and @Anyware who are launching their first countdown to MIX show where in just ten minutes each week they’ll give you the inside scoop from the MIX planning team at Microsoft. What have we got so far? Community voting on content! MIX10 Workshops! Free hotel rooms at the Mandalay Bay! Contests! And more, more, more! Register for MIX by January 15 and save a boatload. What are you waiting for? http://live.visitmix.com/
Yes. You read the title correctly! For today’s lecture in the Functional Programming Fundamentals series of lectures the great Dr. Graham Hutton, author of the Programming in Haskell book that Dr. Erik Meijer has based this lecture series on, is guest lecturing Chapter 11 – The Countdown Problem! Thank you, Graham! What an honor and a treat to have you on Channel 9, especially in this context. 
This lecture was filmed in Dr. Hutton’s office at the University of Nottingham. What is the Countdown Problem, exactly? It’s a numbers game, based loosely on a very popular television series. The point is that you will need to use, well, functions to solve the Countdown Problem. Of course, it goes without saying that Haskell is very well suited to solve these kinds of problems.
Tune in and learn from a Haskell master. It should be clear that you will want to have had gone through the earlier episodes (if you are beginning with functional programming and Haskell, specifically) to get the most out of this lecture. That said, it’s quite amazing to learn directly from the author himself. What a nice surprise!
Enjoy!
The .NET4 Countdown Synchronization Primitive
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Join Josh and Steve as they demonstrate how to use the new .NET4 Countdown event synchronization primitive in task coordination scenarios.
Countdown and related constructs are new with .NET4 and Visual Studio 2010.
Learn more about the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace and keep abreast of Parallel Computing tools and techniques via the Concurrency Dev Center.
Behind the PDC 3D Video – A How-To
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As promised I give you a quick walk-through of how we did the PDC Countdown video in 3D. Hardware used included a pair of Flip Ultra HD cameras, a bracket and connector, and an affordable little tripod – Total cost: $340. The software I use is Stereo Movie Maker, which is freeware and can be downloaded here.
Let us know if you’d like to see more content in 3D (probably in addition to 2D video rather than instead of). And post a link in the coffeehouse if you end up doing some of your own.
Countdown to PDC09: Win a Free Trip to PDC
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Countdown to PDC09: Win a Free Trip to PDC
In a speedy 10 minutes, Mike and Jennifer cram in an update about PDC content, Birds-of-a-Feather, hotel options, the PDC attendee directory, and how to win big bucks and a free trip to the PDC by entering the www.Code7Contest.com. Phew, that’s a mouthful! Don’t forget to email