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  We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap: - We have a new logo (courtesy of Lincoln Anderson at 352 Media ) and Scott Hanselman joins us in-studio (0 - 1:45) - Microsoft Entertainment and Devices acquires...

I'm such a huge Bill Gates fan, not only for his technical and business brilliance, but for all of the work his foundation has done. That's why when Jeff Sandquist and Charles Torre told me I was going to be interviewing Bill, I was....beside myself....

This is Episode #2 of This Week on Channel 9 a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more. This week we cover: 0. Changes to the show based on feedback, our name...

Kudos to Brian for editing everything last night, I think he's sleeping on my couch right now, but our video is now live , check it out as we go through lots in this episode Episode #1 Recap MSDN Code Gallery went Live (found on Greg...

If you're a rock star developer that loves to develop Web applications using ASP.NET, then you owe it to yourself to check out the opening on Duncan's team . You'll work directly on writing code to support some of the highest trafficked developer communities...

Last night, I caught up with Scott Guthrie and we talked about the up-and-coming technology that will be shown at Mix . I just posted Part 1 of the video onto Channel9 where we discuss IIS 7.0 and what it means for developers. I'll post Part 2 tomorrow...

As Rob Caron points out, we just release the Visual Studio 2008 Feature Comparison Chart ( downloadable version ) which is ever-so-helpful when you need to point to a definitive reference when a feature is/is not in a SKU.

This week I officially became the newest member to Jeff Sandquist's Channel9 team ! Here's my quick-and-dirty interview on Channel9 . I'm really excited to be on the team and yes, I am not afraid to go back to Stage 1 - Incompetence in the new employee...

I'm late on this, but BIG kudos to the Popfly team for having the sole Microsoft entry in PC World's Top 25 Most Innovative products ! Here's a snippet from the article: Microsoft Popfly Innovation: Lets you use Microsoft's Silverlight platform...

I'm proud to announce that AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft is now available to download from CodePlex ! This was one of those personal projects done in my "free" time, but its amazing to see how well it turned out, kudos to our extensibility...

Visual Studio Express 2008 is now available for download !!   Our new Web site is http://www.microsoft.com/express !   Below are my top 15 things to love about Visual Studio Express 15. Free hosting for client-based Web sites with Popfly Explorer...

I'm back in Seattle after attending TechEd Europe earlier in the week. It was an absolute blast and thanks to everyone who came to the overflowed Popfly session! Tony Goodhew and I did demos in Soma's keynote, check out Patrik and Andrew's blogs for a...

Phil Haack blogged about how, as a new Microsoft employee, he's drinking through the firehose [FYI to Phil: Brian Goldfarb has been using this as the motto on his blog since 2003 , before Dare's post ] and I'd thought I'd add my two cents to the lifecycle...

What an exciting time, the whole Popfly team has been working on towards our open beta announcement at the Web 2.0 Summit just a few hours ago and I was lucky enough to demo Popfly in action with John Battelle and Steve Ballmer on stage (see Barron's...

Jeff Sandquist is looking for potential Microsoft employees who wouldn't mind showing how they've pimped their house with technology like X10, Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server, and more. This is an awesome idea and it rocks that Jeff and team...

As Kathleen McGrath blogged about in detail , we're running a survey on Visual Studio content with the goal of improving this over time. Please give us feedback :)

Check out Scott Guthrie's blog post for information and screenshots . Yes, you'll have to sign a license for it ( reference license ), but this is huge and a big request from customers to be able to step into actual .NET/BCL code. Currently available...

* A couple of updates here Our team has a packed schedule in the coming weeks and months :) September 20th ( Dave Bost ): Chicago Popfly Demo at Silicon Prarie Social September 24th (Me): Halo 3 Silicon Valley Pre-Launch Party ( on Facebook ): I'm doing...

I've had this problem occur on two PCs so I thought I would post the fix (courtesy of Brian Keller ) since I'm likely not the only person running into this. Go to this page to install Flash (uncheck Google Toolbar, no idea what that has to do with...

In just the last couple of weeks, 2 of our Coding4Fun authors became official Microsoft employees. Congratulations to Scott and Clint and welcome to the borg!! Scott's blog post: Blue Badge Clint blog post: sell_out(Clint, Microsoft) The good news is...

The Facebook is a "Walled Garden" meme continues today with a post from pal Robert Scoble that continues the assumption that all Facebook data is somehow "locked" into Facebook. Here's a quick snippet: First, let’s go back to Facebook. Why does everyone...

This 5-part blog series will help you, dear reader, to understand what new features will be directly supported inside of Visual Studio Express 2008. In this post, I'll give a quick overview of the most common questions still asked about Express and then...

Visual Basic Visual C# Visual C++ Visual Web Developer Express Are all now available for download for free!

Courtesy of Jana , next time you're out to dinner with friends, remember to pull out your handy Seafood guide provided by Seafood Watch so that you can make an educated choice on seafood entrees and avoid over-farmed or bad-for-the-environment choices...

First it was John's story about a fleet of 29,000 rubber ducks that are " invading" the UK after being at sea for 15 year's and traveling over 17,000 miles. Then Tim Heuer made me a Simpson's Popfly avatar with the very cool online Simpson's Avatar creator...