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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 -
Code Metrics in Visual Studio 2008 and the EvNet project
Monday, January 07, 2008I don't know if this is good or bad, but I thought it was neat that I could right-click the main project (excluding all our client script and HTML) that runs behind on10.net, pick code metrics and see cool #s like "23,442 lines of code" :) Lately though, I've seen us reducing that number while adding features, so this might the highest result I'll ever see for this project :) [read more...]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 -
Anyone have contacts with TVTonic?
Sunday, November 18, 2007One of their users emailed us to comment on our video quality... essentially pointing out that it sucked when viewed through their TV using TV Tonic. Well I was puzzled because, while we don't ship out DVD quality video, our high quality download is quite good for a podcast. Turns out though, after installing TV Tonic and picking on10.net out of their catalog, that the feed they have in their system is our 512kbps WMV feed... which is certainly not the best quality around, around 430kbps for video and 320x240... fine for display on our site, but not the hottest [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »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 -
Hey, I'm on Channel 10 ... just in time for Father's Day
Saturday, June 16, 2007I sat down to chat with Tina from Channel 10 to chat about my Xbox Dad articles, gaming with your kids, etc... [read more...]Share this -
Halo 2 on Vista interview up on 10
Wednesday, May 09, 2007Halo 2 on Vista: We've got the new maps, features and achievementsPosted by Tina Wood today at 8:40 AM Halo 2 is officially coming to Vista. It is shipping to retailers on May 22nd. I sit down with Jo Clowes from Hired Gun to talk about new features, new maps and what we can expect from Halo 2 on Vista. We bring you all the cool visuals. Jo talks to us about some of the achievements you can earn for both single player and multi-player. There's a flaming Ninja achievement you earn through multi-player where you kill three....oh, well you'll [read more...]Share this -
Trackbacks and URL matching
Thursday, April 19, 2007I recently noticed a bug in the trackback code on Channel 10, some sites were failing to send us trackbacks, even though we were receiving trackbacks from other sources and those sites were happily trackbacking (I'm just annoying the spell checker today) other blogs. Turns out the problem appears to be in our RDF block on our blog pages. On a page like this, the RDF block contains the following element:dc:identifier="http://on10.net/Blogs/tina/exclusive-video-first-look-at-the-xbox-elite/" This uses the permalink URL that we provide for this page, but of course there are several other urls that work to get to the same resource including http://on10.net/Blogs/tina/exclusive-video-first-look-at-the-xbox-elite/default.aspx, [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 -
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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