Post Archives for October 2005

Erik Porter joins the Channel9 team

Erik Porter, the guy who I learned .NET with, is now joining our team at Channel 9!Awesome …

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posted on Oct 26th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Ch 9 Wallpaper - 9 Agent Yell

So I just recently thought to myself, "Why don't I try using Illustrator to...illustrate?". Yes there is a reason its called Illustrator, and it works quite well. Actually doing illustration with points, bezier curves and vectors feels much like cheating. While inking or painting your line…

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posted on Oct 21st, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Quartz Web Designer Blog

While scanning the blogs.msdn.com page, an entry titled 1024x768 rules caught my eye. Very cool info there, 55% of computer users are now running at 1024x768 or higher. Time to loosen up the website width restrictens a bit (e.g. MicrosoftGadgets.com)! But even better the link led me to a new blog…

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posted on Oct 18th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Simple friendly urls in ASP.Net (revisited and encapsulated)

I while back I blogged about a technique we used for simple url rewriting on Channel9. The topic came up again tonight and I realized that what we did could be encapsulated into a single page with an xml file as a data source.For the code to work properly, add the two files to your website (you'll m…

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posted on Oct 14th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Clipster is here!

One crazy idea and about 9 days of hard work has resulted in the Clipster. A new feature of the Channel 9 site which, simply put, allows you to save clips of videos to your profile. The idea is that you can then share the clips (all clips get a permalink), and refer back to certain parts of videos…

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posted on Oct 13th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Conceptual RSS Icons for IE7

Ok so go check out the rss icon... entry on the RSSTeam blog if you haven't seen it.First off, I'm a little suprised they are planning so many different states for the RSS icon. Most of the comments seem to think they are only choosing one which is what we are used today. Five or so, seem a bit much…

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posted on Oct 8th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (9)

The story of the most entertaining session at PDC 05

I mentioned earlier that the Avalon + Indigo = Magic talk given by Chris Sells and Doug Purdy was really fun. Chris Sells has posted an intriguing memoir of what went on to bring the talk together. While entertaining, he also provides some basic lessons on Microsoft terminology and that a California…

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posted on Oct 7th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Bill Gates talks about WPF/E (Jon Udell's PDC Interview)

This is an excerpt from Jon Udell's interview of Bill Gates at PDC. Its almost a month old but the information is still good. This excerpt brought to you today by the word pervasiveness.JU: So a few people in the audience spontaneously commented when they saw the light version of the presentation fr…

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posted on Oct 7th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

3D Channel 9 Guy - remix

A few months ago I was testing the ZAM3d beta and ended up with the 9 guy in 3d exported to XAML. Well he's been remixed by Jim Foley, a designer on the erain team and he's provided a video link on Channel 9.Its fun to watch someone more familiar with the tool use it, in addition the video has been …

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posted on Oct 4th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Help, we're getting overrun! Send backup!

Jeff posted about new positions available on the Channel 9 team. This is very exciting because we have a lot of different project ideas that we'd like to tackle, but we could use some more hands on deck to get things going. Looking forward to checking out the different responses we get. Good time…

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posted on Oct 4th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

NitSite Update

NitSite is the name of my custom blog software and I've just added a new update. Nothing too major at this time, looking forward to a new design, but three features stand out.First off I've gone XHTML compliant. I really didn't have too many changes to make, but I figured keeping my site valid wil…

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posted on Oct 3rd, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)