Fabulous Adventures In Coding : Video

Some new videos

Eric Lippert — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:17:00 GMT

Somehow it has happened again; people just keep on recording videos of me and putting them on the internet.

In these videos you find out what I look like when lit from above and behind. Kinda spooky. We should have made the room entirely dark and held a flashlight underneath my face. That would be, like, ten times scarier. Anyway, if you're interested in me blathering on about my favourite feature in C# 4, covariance and contravariance of interface and delegate types, here are two little demo videos: Part One, Part Two. (There seems to be some minor sound sync issues here and there, but it's not really a problem; most of the audio is voice-over.)

Charlie has been crazy busy getting these little videos together; here are some more of his recent efforts, including some good ones from my colleagues Chris and Sam talking about all the other far more awesome features of C# 4.0: dynamic interop, improved interop with Office, named and optional parameters, and so on. Links to all of our recent videos are here: http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2009/10/19/community-convergence-lvi.aspx.

Have an amusing and safe Hallowe'en -- I'll be going to Hallowe'en parties on a small island this year, just for a change of pace.

[Eric is on vacation this week; this posting was pre-recorded]

Many Happy Returns

Eric Lippert — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:35:00 GMT

Happy birthday Channel Nine! In this episode I finally discover why it is that Charles picked me to be the guinea pig, and I wax verbose on the subject of human brains.

The Future of C#, Part Four: Yet More Video

Eric Lippert — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:07:00 GMT

Mads, Chris, Sam and me on Channel Nine. Enjoy.

The Future of C#, Part Three: On video, plus the dead-trees edition

Eric Lippert — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:48:00 GMT

Amazingly enough, it has happened again. Why does this keep happening to me?

Anders, Mads and Eric on C# 4.0:

C# 4.0 with Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, and Eric Lippert - Part 1 of 2

C# 4.0 with Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, and Eric Lippert - Part 2 of 2

Anders, Mads and Scott on the new dead-trees edition of the C# 3.0 specification:

The C# Programming Language, 3rd Edition

Enjoy!

A Face Made For Email, Part Four

Eric Lippert — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:32:00 GMT

Good heavens, this just keeps on happening to me.

If you're interested in what we're musing about for future versions of C#, check out this video of Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth, Paul Vick, Mads Torgersen, Matt Warren, Jim Hugunin and, off in one corner, me.

Working with this caliber of people every day is a huge part of what makes this the best job ever.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/C-40-Meet-the-Design-Team/

A Face Made For Email, Part Three

Eric Lippert — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:38:00 GMT

Yes, it has happened again. This time, our fabulous C# Community Program Manager Charlie Calvert was good enough to put together a little half-hour-long video of me talking about the scenarios which justify changes to the type inference algorithm for C# 3.0. We've already made some interesting changes which will make it into the beta version, and there likely will be further refinements to the algorithm as we see how it works.

The video is here.

I shall also likely be blogging about these algorithms over the next few weeks when I find time to turn my developer notes into blog posts.

A Face Made For Email, Part Two

Eric Lippert — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:45:00 GMT

One year ago this week I was the Channel Nine guinea pig -- I'm still not sure why, but for some reason The Scobelizer and his cohort chose me to be the first guy interviewed for their project. (Probably because I'm mostly harmless.)

Channel Nine has succeeded tremendously, and I'm very pleased to have been a part of it at its birth. Recently Charles and Robert tracked me down and cornered me in a room with a really big XBOX screen to talk about Visual Studio Tools For Office and how we use .NET code access security.

If you've got 53 minutes to kill and you want to hear me ramble on about what I love to talk about most, check it out.

A Face Made For Email

Eric Lippert — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:49:00 GMT

A few weeks ago, Charles Torre and The Scobelizer showed up in my office with a hand-held camera, asked me a bunch of random questions for a couple hours, edited the video into bite-sized chunks and slapped it up on the web.

It's a blog, it’s a wiki, it’s a forum, it's a bunch of videos of geeks geeking out -- frankly, I'm not sure what exactly this whole Channel 9 thing is. I'm not sure that Charles and Robert know either, but I'm sure that we'll find out as the experiment continues!

Anyway, if you ever wanted (for some perverse reason) to know what people like me, Mike Howard, and the rest of us look and sound like, now you can find out why we mostly rely upon written forms of communication to get our points across. This was my first time ever being interviewed on video, and it was Charles' and Robert's first time doing the interviews -- I was their guinea pig. I've never had any media training, and it shows. Good heavens, you should see the uncut video! I'm constantly fidgeting and going off into non sequiturs. I had no idea that my hands were actually in shot. Live and learn I suppose.