TWC9: Imagine Cup, Azure deploy in 30s, MVC Roadmap, VS & ALM Feedback

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:

 

• [00:47] Brian and Dan discuss Dan's 10 year's at Microsoft and how the net weight of M&M's is different based on the type of M&M (plain vs peanut vs pretzel vs dark).
• [02:40] Microsoft News Center: Imagine Cup 2011 Winners - Imagine Cup Winners announced
• [03:59] LINQ to HPC Beta 2, formerly DryadLINQ provides a programming model for analyzing large volumes of unstructured data and integration with SQL Azure, and SQL BI tools including PowerPivot
• [05:05] Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles enables you to quickly deploy apps (in 30 seconds) to Windows Azure
• [06:10] IE Blog - Debugging Web Workers in IE 10
• [07:37] Adam Kinney - Set your Windows Phone Mango app to be an Instant Answer with Bing
• [08:56] MVC Team - ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap talks about goals, themes and features for MVC in the future, via Phil Haack
• [10:34] User Voice sites for Visual Studio and Visual Studio ALM
• [12:28] Charles - Checking in episode with Erik Meijer and Gov Maharaj
• [13:56] Coding4Fun - Soul Solutions - Skeleton Custom Control for Kinect SDK, via Greg Duncan

Picks of the week!

• [15:14] Brian's pick: Ed Kaim - FinalBot - A community for competitive software developers
• [16:23] Dan's pick: Dick Craddock - Mark an email from your friend when their accounts are hacked, even Yahoo and Gmail

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