Dan Fernandez's Blog
Evangelism - Developer and Platform Evangelism
WebMatrix & Razor: A new option for beginning developers
We' just announced WebMatrix, a new, simple IDE to build and customize Web sites. As someone who...
Date: 07/06/2010
Correcting Grammar for Microsoft Products and Technology
I see book authors, editors, bloggers, press, team members, and occasionally even a VP misspell our...
Date: 04/27/2010
Happy Valentine’s Day from Channel 9!
Yes, it’s Valentine’s day on Channel 9, time to have some more fun. Kudos to Laura Foy as this is...
Date: 02/14/2010
Bug Killer - A Channel 9 Halloween Special!
Check out Laura Foy’s “Bug Killer”, a Channel 9 Halloween special.
Date: 10/30/2009
Visual Studio Documentary Part 1 & Part 2
I'm the last person to blog about this, but we've launched the Visual Studio documentary on Channel...
Date: 10/27/2009
Download Visual Studio Express Editions
- Updated 3/31/2015 While this post was originally written in 2009, it still gets a ton of hits!...
Date: 10/21/2009
My Picks for PDC 2009
With a little over a month to go before Microsoft’s biggest and best developer event, I wanted to...
Date: 10/13/2009
Popfly Game Downloader Available
While it’s sad that Popfly is going away, it’s cool that the Popfly team put out (an unsupported)...
Date: 07/22/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet
Hey folks, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available for the world to download and here's your...
Date: 05/20/2009
TwitterDrive - Tweets are the next evolution in message protocols
Today we announced TwitterDrive, a free, open source application that will revolutionize cloud...
Date: 04/01/2009
Coding4Fun Book: The people and the projects
Available now on Amazon.com for $26 (34% off!) Our Coding4Fun book, Coding4Fun 10 .NET...
Date: 12/10/2008
PDC Recap
With PDC just about a week over, it's about time I finally got around to blogging about it. Here's...
Date: 11/10/2008
CodePlex Community Meetup at PDC
As Sara mentioned in the CodePlex blog, we're having a CodePlex meetup at PDC on Wednesday from 1:30...
Date: 10/20/2008
Announcing Visual Studio 2010
Since I'm a Visual Studio fanboy, I love hearing about the future of Visual Studio, now officially...
Date: 09/29/2008
Opening the kimono on Windows 7
Today we officially announced that PDC is the first time Microsoft will be discussing Windows 7...
Date: 09/24/2008
Popfly Game Creator Goes Beta
Congrats to the Popfly team for moving Popfly Game Creator from alpha to Beta and adding a bunch of...
Date: 09/02/2008
The Unofficial Microsoft Overworked Advisory System
Scott Hanselman recently blogged about "Ninjas on fire" as a way to describe being...
Date: 08/08/2008
AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft v2 Beta now available
For World of Warcraft developers looking to build AddOns, a BETA version of AddOn Studio is now...
Date: 07/30/2008
We want to hear your stories
Hey folks, if you've built some cool project, the Non-Pro team wants to hear from you! Send them an...
Date: 07/25/2008
Fun Silverlight Game: Crayon Cannon
Kudos to the Popfly team for adding new features in their July update. My favorite features are the...
Date: 07/21/2008
Bioware Knights of the Old Republic MMO Coming!
Woohoo! From Joystiq, Bioware has officially spilled the beans that they are building a MMO based on...
Date: 07/17/2008
Goodbye to Bill Gates Links
Yes, it's Bill's last day, here's a collection of videos for your viewing pleasure: Channel 9: Bill...
Date: 06/28/2008
The Superficial Poll: Blonde or Brunette
Margaret Rouse from the Overheard blog calls me out for dying my hair blonde: I’m a big Dan...
Date: 06/23/2008
Bill Gates Transition Interview on Channel 9
In case you haven't heard, this week is BillG's last week as a full-time Microsoft employee as he...
Date: 06/23/2008
New Popfly Game Creator Features
Adam Nathan recently blogged about some of the new features they've added to Popfly Game Creator...
Date: 06/18/2008
Coding4Fun Talk at TechEd
At TechEd this year, I gave what can only be described as an overly ambitious talk given I only had...
Date: 06/11/2008
SQL Server Express 2008: Now in two flavors
As I blogged about on Channel 9 earlier (I love that we can have text and video posts now), SQL...
Date: 06/10/2008
Jeff Sandquist on Microspotting
Ariel interviews Jeff Sandquist, my manager on scary VPs and the dfiference between evangelists and...
Date: 05/16/2008
AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft V2 in the works
I recently posted a high-level feature specification for version 2.0 of AddOn Studio for World of...
Date: 05/14/2008
Popfly Game Creator Alpha Launches!
Popfly Game Creator Alpha launches today and It's amazing. Kudos to Adam Nathan as he's really shown...
Date: 05/02/2008
Settings1.Designer.cs Bug: Multiple settings files
I ran into this bug today which was unfortunately closed as can't repro. I was renaming some...
Date: 04/27/2008
Live Mesh Launches
Live Mesh is a new technology and platform that enables synchronization and storage "to the cloud."...
Date: 04/23/2008
Top 6 Pet Peeves from an MSDN Editor
Read the article here I don't fully agree with the bullet point pet peeves as I think they're very...
Date: 04/10/2008
Channel 9 Spam Video Filter Beta Launched
In an on-going effort to ensure that Channel 9 videos only display appropriate content, the Channel...
Date: 04/01/2008
Microsoft the Contest Machine
Last updated: 6/30/08 NOTE: If you've been forwarded a link to this blog post, it's likely that one...
Date: 03/17/2008
Microspotting lands an interview with Mini-Microsoft
Kudos to Ariel Stallings, Microsoft employee and author the Microspotting blog (one of my favorite...
Date: 02/27/2008
Popfly Nominated for C|Net WebWare 100!
Kudos to the Popfly team for being nominated to C|Net's Webware 100! If you like Popfly, as John...
Date: 02/26/2008
Session Notes: Life on the Bungie Farm: Fun Things to do with 180 servers and 350 processors
Speakers: Luis Villegas, Sean Shypula from Bungie Distributed client/server system split up, runs it...
Date: 02/22/2008
Session: Star Wars, The Force Unleashed
Full Title: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: How LucasArts is Building a Game Development Team and a...
Date: 02/21/2008
Top 10 Interesting Nuggets from the Microsoft GDC Keynote
The US video game industry revenue is now $18 Billion and continues to grow. Games have not only...
Date: 02/21/2008
Session: WiiFit: Creating a Brand New Interface for the Home Console
Speaker: Takao Sawano WiiFit Examples Family weighing themselves and tracking health Father doing...
Date: 02/20/2008
Session: Taking Xbox LIVE Arcade Games to the Next Level
Note: I'll be regularly blogging on session at GDC (Game Developer Conference) Rough notes Speaker:...
Date: 02/20/2008
DreamSpark: Free Microsoft software for students
DreamSpark is a new program that launched today (Feb 18th) at Stanford Univ. with Bill Gates giving...
Date: 02/19/2008
This Week on Channel 9: Feb 15 with Special guest Scott Hanselman
We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap: - We have a...
Date: 02/15/2008