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The new and improved Channel 9 has shipped!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008When I joined my current team, it was called the Channel 9 dev team, because Channel 9 was the big site that they had built and was the center of all of their efforts. You certainly wouldn’t have known that from how we spent the last two years though :) We built a whole new code base for a video blog site and launched a new site (Channel 10) on that code, bringing some of the video style of Channel 9 to a new audience. We often discussed, as we shipped out revision after revision of the Channel 10 home [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
Looking for good examples of Mobile Interfaces
Monday, December 31, 2007I'm part of a dev team that builds blog/forum software and I've been thinking about mobile interfaces lately... so I'm trying to find a good example of site like ours that provides a good (enjoyable, useful and usable) mobile interface... one that will work across a variety of browses. It seems 37 Signals is thinking about the same thing these days and they've made a blog post looking for exactly the same thing I am, examples of good mobile interfaces. I'm looking for sites that are some combination of text and video blogging and are usable via a relatively modern [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Picked up Mass Effect today... built XML site maps instead of playing it :(
Wednesday, November 21, 2007I'm very excited about it... really! I just got distracted on http://sitemaps.org and ended up building a site map for this site... real brute force, just grabbed all the blog entries and tags and output the appropriate absolute paths into some objects that I then wrote out into an XML document. Same method wouldn't work on Channel 9 though, it has too many entries, so I'll need to move to a site map index with multiple sub site maps... now I just have to figure out how to divide the entries up (by tag, by type of content, by date?). [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Sampy explains how we built the Silverlight player for Channel 8
Wednesday, September 26, 2007In an interview with Adam Kinney on Channel 9 today, Sampy goes over how the player works and why using the JavaScript and templates from Expression Media Encoder saved us a bunch of hassle See this video on Channel 9! [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Added Silverlight Streaming support to Channel 9's forums
Monday, September 03, 2007Continuing on in the same pattern as my last post, adding Soapbox support to C9's forums, Adam Kinney bugged me a bit and I went ahead and added support for Silverlight Streaming as well. It will be interesting to see if (or more accurately, how long before) someone turns this to malicious purposes. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Added Support for Soapbox Videos on Channel 9
Wednesday, August 29, 2007When I started on the C9 dev team, one of the first things I did was to remove the ability for users to post embed, object and script tags. We had a couple of people abusing this feature and I wanted to lock it right down. The downside to this move was that it prevented some forms of user interaction/posts that we didn't really mind and in some cases would even like to encourage. As a small step towards a more community-driven future, I added support to C9 today to allow you to embed Soapbox videos in any forum post. [read more...]Share this -
The Channel 9/Channel 10 team is hiring
Thursday, June 28, 2007Hey folks, I work as the dev lead for Channel 9, Channel 10, Mix Online and other sites. We build community sites for Microsoft using video, audio and text blogging and we build them using the latest .NET technologies. If you are into web development, if you have a passion for design and user experience, and if you really rock at AJAX, Javascript, CSS, C# and ASP.NET .... then this is the job for you :) The Developer and Platform Evangelism Team is hiring a software design engineer to join the team that builds and extends Channel 9, Channel 10 [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Something I'm working on for Channel 9 and on10.net...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007Search based RSS... http://www.mscommunities.com/MixItUp/Search/Default.aspx?s=c9&q=TechFest set s=c10 (or s=on10) for searching http://on10.net instead, or remove it altogether to search both sites (using s or q twice won't work) q=<search term> .... multi word terms need to within quotes, like this; http://www.mscommunities.com/MixItUp/Search/Default.aspx?s=c9&q="Visual%20Studio" Thoughts? [read more...]Share this -
Rory gives us the inside scoop on the Microsoft Research TechFest
Tuesday, March 06, 2007Microsoft Research TechFest - Intro, DynaVis, and FastDash ... In this, the first video in what will be a series covering this event, we get a nice introduction to TechFest, some info about Microsoft Research (MSR), and two projects: DynaVis and FastDash.When you watch this video, hopefully you get an idea of why I'm so excited right now. Once I have the whole series online, you'll be able to see the amazing work being done in MSR - and this only represents a few projects. There are many others. ... Every year at Microsoft there is a little internal-only [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
Channel 9 and 10 Corvettes
Tuesday, February 06, 2007I'm not sure if there is a tool to make these or why someone did them... but I'm still glad they did :) [read more...]Share this
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