Mark Miller on Events and Delegates

Mark Miller takes delegates, a fundamental programming feature, where few have gone before. This show is as entertaining as it is educational.

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Scott catches up with Scott Guthrie in an interview covering Ajax, Asp 2.0, extender controls, CSS adapters and more.

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Carl and Richard were in Sofia, Bulgaria at the very first DevReach conference last week. A lively panel discussion is accented with short interviews with the locals.

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This year will be the ultimate prank, so long as I can actually pull it off. In theory it will work great. It's a real-time video image of a head floating in the doorway that actually talks with the people on the porch.

My outside front door is a full-length glass door. The inside door will be open and you'll see up the stairs into my house. As soon as the doorbell rings, the head will appear, look at the kids and say "go away! There’s no candy here!" or something. It will then proceed to comment on their costumes and talk to them. Of course, it's me in a mask or makeup or something.

The Ingredients:

• A decent LCD projector with a good contrast ratio.
• A low-lux color CCC video camera
• A wireless lapel microphone connected to a mixer
• A 5'x5' sheet of black fleece
• A transparent projection screen big enough to cover the glass in my front door
• A wireless security camera with audio
• A set of powered speakers to hide on the porch with a subwoofer under the cement platform.

The transparent screen gets taped on the inside edges of the glass door, completely covering it. I am sitting in the basement in front of the black fleece. The color camera is sitting on an LCD monitor aimed at me, and I've got the lapel mic hidden but close to my mouth. That mic goes to a mixer which is fed to the speakers under the porch. The wireless security camera is outside, aimed at (but out of view of) the porch. The video feed from that goes to the monitor, and the audio feed goes to a small earbud in my ear (also out of view of the camera). The LCD projector is hidden and projecting my face onto the door. I can see and hear them. They can see and hear me, and there's my semi-opaque head floating in the window. Hiding the LCD projector is the biggest challenge. We may have to use one or two mirrors.

We're going to videotape the whole process. I promise to share. :-)

Some Thoughts on Reincarnation

I think I've managed to explain some statistical trends, here.

Hey, British People Don't Suck as Much as we Thought!

Mark extends an olive branch of peace to those oh-so polite British folks, and learns a thing or two about rubbers and spotted dick. Hey! It's not what you think!

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Scott turns the tables and interviews Jeffrey Snover, the Architect of PowerShell (previously Monad) and gets the lowdown on the history of this enhanced management shell.

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I’ve learned that “mamka mu” means “Oh Shit!” in Bulgarian. However, I learned this after we spent 4 hours in a restaurant agressively toasting “mamka mu!!” and drinking large quantities of rakia.

I’ve learned that shaking your head means yes and nodding means no in Bulgaria. Fortunately, I was warned before I did my talk.

I’ve learned that when you ask the locals how to say “thank you for the beer” in Bulgarian, they might tell you how to say “my mother is a sheep” or “I have three testicles”, so always get a second opinion.

This is a photo (click to enlarge) taken by Sahil Malik at what was our best night out since we got here. We went to a great restaurant up in the mountains of Sofia, which we got to by taxi. The road turned to cobblestone as the grade increased, and the driver was absolutely booking up this road. Potholes be damned. From left to right are Goksin Bakir (the Golden Boy RD from Turkey), Mire Ivanova and Svetlen Nakov (See Julie Lerman’s Blog later in the week for a video of this crazy Bulgarian Chalga man), and Stephen Forte… all doing the Chalga dance.

The DevReach conference was two days (October 9 and 10, 2006) in Sofia Bulgaria.  I did a talk on RSS, Podcasting, and Syndication, and we also recorded a live .NET Rocks! at the end of the first day. Listen to next week’s show for more stories from Sofia.

In this episode of Dot Net Rocks, one of our earliest guests returns to talk about the power of (and problems with) the patent process, and the growing complexity of intellectual properly law in the Enited States, Europe, and the world.

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the Bluvaries Show

Carl, Richard, Mark, Karen and Geoff are back once again! The recurring theme of this week's show is not unlike the infamous Hawaiian Lackanookie syndrome. Bluvaries.

We had some technical and timing issues this week, but Lawrence is fast at work editing Mondays, and it WILL BE ONLINE sometime today…. we hope.