zadi and belqui: my best friend/cousin spent this past weekend in LA. We were able to have a couple of wild (for us) girl’s nights out. fun!...

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Welcome to the 100th episode of Going Deep! It's been a great ride so far and I hope you've been enjoying the show over the years. For this momentous occasion, meet Bart de Smet, a software engineer extraordinaire on the WPF team who spends his free time blogging (what an incredible wealth of truly...

Note: Due to the screen resolution, we recommend you watch this in full screen mode or download the video. Now that Silverlight 2 has released to the Web, we sat down with Scott Guthrie as he walks us through handcoding a basic Silverlight 2 application. You'll see the Silverlight eventing model, co...

Here, we continue our focus on concurrency and parallelism with native (C++) Parallel Computing Platform team members Rick Malloy, Niklas Gustafsson, Mike Chu and Stephen Toub. This conversation covers native (C++) asynchronous agents (and agent programming, generally) and pipeline archite...

Joanne speaks with artist Lincoln Schatz about his project CUBE Portraits currently on display at the Hearst Tower in New York City. Watch more Rocketboom Interviews...

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp sails with the Dutch Navy who are protecting vessels of the World Food Programme from pirates off the coast of Somalia. More than 60 ships have been attacked by pirates off of African waters in the past year....

LOL. Hey Sarah Palin (with lyrics/subtitles) (via VengaProductions)...

behind the scenes: wrapping up tuesday...

Yes you do if they’re PDC Badges!  Collecting PDC Badges is the way for anyone attending PDC to capture their experience at the PDC conference.  Just for showing up at registration you’ll receive the “I was there at Microsoft PDC2008 Badge”.  If you go to a PreCon, you’ll get the “Cap...

The Parallel Computing Platform team's David Callahan (Distinguished Engineer) and Keith Yedlin (Product Unit Manager) sit down with me to discuss Microsoft's vision for general purpose Parallel Computing. Keith demos the power of the Microsoft Parallel Computing Platform on a 26 processor machi...

On a "very special" episode of This Week on Channel 9 from Blizzcon, Dan is joined by Mike "Sampy" Sampson as they discuss the interesting developer stories of the week: - WPF Effects Library ships on Codeplex (video demo) - Stephen Walther - ASP.NET MVC 5-Part series on building a Family Videos s...

Last week I visited JamBase.com, a San Francisco-based website that is all about finding and going to live music performances.  I met Andy and his colleauges at the Bandwidth Conference this summer and after hearing about their new API, I just had to try doing a mashup with it using Popfly - I wro...

Built from the ground up, the .NET Micro Framework is a platform for resource-constrained devices that extends Microsoft’s embedded offering to smaller, simpler “sub-CE”  devices  (i.e. devices using 32 bit processors without an MMU, and with as little as 64K of RAM). The .NET Micro Framewor...

Intervista a Mario Fontana sul percorso formativo sulla sicurezza applicativa. Il percorso è suddiviso in arene tematiche: Security Basics, Platform, Framework .NET, Web Applications, Web Service, ALM, Mobile. Il percorso è consultabile sul sito MSDN all'url: http://msdn.microsoft.com/it-it/cc2993...

You've been hearing a lot lately about parallelism and concurrency here on Channel 9 and the fact that before you know, you'll be writing highly concurrent code due to the advent of multi-core and the soon-to-be many-core (greater than eight cores) processors. It's hard if not impossible to expres...

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