En février, lors de Microsoft TechDays à Paris, je n’ai pas assisté à une seule conférence (ce n’est pas grave, il y a toujours les webcasts) mais j’ai quand même pu arpenter le salon pendant trois jours pour rencontrer du monde entre autres pour la WebTV de SUPINFO.
J’ai fait, avec d’autres, plein d’interviews pour aborder à peu près tous les sujets : les communications unifiées, les femmes dans l’IT, les communautés, etc. L’épisode TechDays 2009 avait été mis en ligne il y a un moment, mais ma préférée reste quand même celle que j’ai fait d’Eric Mittelette (a.k.a. ericmitt), responsable du groupe pour les les relations techniques avec les développeurs chez Microsoft France. C’est normal, puisqu’on parle développement. C’est pour ça que j’ai récupéré les rushes et je l’ai reprise en entier pour la partager ici.
Je déteste ma voix sur la vidéo, mais j’adore la discussion avec Eric, que je remercie une fois de plus pour les minutes qu’il m’a accordées, même si je sais qu’il était extrêmement occupé pendant la conférence. Je vous laisse regarder :
Enfin, si le “développement vert” ou la “Green Dev Attitude” vous intéresse, voici la conférence Développement d’applications vertes dont parle Eric.
Et comme je sais que la plupart ne voudront pas aller chercher trop loin, voici aussi l’épisode complet de la Web TV:
Pierre sent me a DM to let me know that I appear for a second or so in this Microsoft video:
I’m guessing that many of you won’t watch it until the end, so I’m just going to copy the part that caught my attention the most:
I bet you didn’t know this
42% of global IT employment…
relies on Microsoft technologies.
Wow!
Finally, as a side note to myself: do not accept interviews late at night, especially if you hadn’t slept much the nights before ;)
As funny and cute as this little girl talking about Visual Studio 2008 might be, I’d be really, really scared if my kids turned out like this :P (that is, assuming anyone would actually dare have kids with me in the first place).
Oh, and did she actually test the WPF designer and XAML Intellisense? All the rest, I pretty much agree, but I’m really looking forward to better WPF and XAML support in VS 2010 ;)
Subtitulada en español en todo caso.
Hace varias semanas hablé de un video llamado “History of the Internet”, la Historia de Internet. Se trata de un trabajo de Melih Bilgil para su diploma, pero mis colegas y yo lo hemos encontrado tan interesante que hasta lo hemos integrado a ciertos cursos en la universidad.
Claro, el video está en inglés, así que tuvimos que hacer un trabajo de traducción para poder distribuirlo a nuestros alumnos franceses y puesto que estábamos en esas me dije que por qué no escribir los subtítulos en español también.
Así que, gracias a la opción que permite subtitular los videos en YouTube, ahora pueden ver la Historia de Internet narrada en inglés con texto en español:
(Hay que hacer clic en la flecha abajo a la derecha, después en CC y buscar “español”, aunque pareciera que sólo funciona directemente en la página de YouTube)
Espero que sirva ;)
Don’t worry, I’m not getting into a useless debate; I’m just sharing a little humor and the great technical skills of Nick Greenlee.
So, sit back, ignore the first couple of seconds of really bad acting, and enjoy seeing how one of the two platforms has to cheat (as usual?) to win in this epic battle :P
Very nice video created by Melih Bilgil as part of his diploma project PICOL illustrating the history of the Internet from 1957 to 1990.
He uses the icons of his design to represent every element of the story. That and a well written voice over, make for a very interesting, easy to understand video. I’m actually considering asking my teachers to play this as an introduction to our web development classes.
Noticed the music by Matthias Grübel? I liked it a lot. Click on his name to visit his very weird web site, filled with photos and poetry, or go visit his myspace profile for more music.
Times change and smart people adapt in consequence. That’s pretty much the definition of evolution, right? And it’s those who adapt, the fittest, who will survive. Well, today the one place where change is taking place is on the Internet and I honestly believe that only those who can adapt will survive.
A few months ago we learnt that the Queen of England (it’s actually the British Monarchy, but the Queen sounds better) had a Royal Channel on YouTube. We know that the Prime Minister has a Twitter account. Yesterday, President Elect Barack Obama addressed the Nation on YouTube:
Sure, the New York Times reported today that once he takes office President Obama will probably lose his e-mailing rights, but in the meantime, I think that using the Internet is a positive sign of someone who understands the world today.
A few weeks ago I posted the pictures of the Imagine Cup conference that took place in Paris and during which I had the opportunity to interview Bill Gates.
An event like that was of course filmed and now the videos are also available for online viewing and for download from the web site of Microsoft France.
There are six videos:
Click on "Voir ..." to view the video online or "Télécharger" to download.
Have fun!
I'm currently reading a pretty good book by Lawrence Lessig called Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. It's a very interesting analysis of the state of copyright law in the United States that takes a look at the past, the present and the future. I'm only half-way through, but I still heartily recommend it.
If, like me, you don't live in the US, you're probably wondering why you should care about US copyright law and US lobbies, etc. Well, simply put, because bad ideas have a tendency to escape the United States and spread throughout the world, like a tumor spreads its deadly tentacles throughout a healthy body (and there you go, I'm now probably banned for life from entry to the United States for exercising one of the rights Americans appreciate the most.)
Anyway, if you do not have the time to read the actual book (freely available from the book's web site, by the way) or you do not like reading in English, you might want to take a look at this presentation that, even though it does not really summarize the book, does cover some of its main points:
OK, maybe the title doesn't mean much, but I couldn't think of anything better. So how about you just watch the videos?
I was barely finished with last week's TED post when I stumbled upon the first of this week's recommendations. I know I said that TED videos were only 18 minutes long, but I guess when you're Jane Goodall you're inherently expected to need a little more:
As inspiring as Mrs. Goodall might be, I would have preferred a longer talk from Alan Russell, the speaker on this video called Why can't we grow new body parts?:
