Contents tagged with Channel9

  • The new and improved Channel 9 has shipped!

    Jun 11 2008 9:27 AM

    When 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 :) Continue reading...

  • Looking for good examples of Mobile Interfaces

    Dec 31 2007 8:39 PM

    I'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 phone. I found a lot of the comments to that post to be completely unhelpful... because they were focused on sites that are specific to the iPhone! Building an interface for the iPhone is not a bad idea, but I certainly wouldn't try to do that until after we had a good general purpose interface for a much wider variety of mobile devices. I did find a few interesting sites though, from the comments and from another site (Brian Cantoni's list of good mobile sites at http://cantoni.mobi/): Continue reading...

  • Picked up Mass Effect today... built XML site maps instead of playing it :(

    Nov 21 2007 7:02 PM

    I'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?). Continue reading...

  • Added Support for Soapbox Videos on Channel 9

    Aug 29 2007 12:34 PM

    When 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. Continue reading...

  • The Channel 9/Channel 10 team is hiring

    Jun 28 2007 5:16 AM

    Hey 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 :) Continue reading...