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[Joe]

much thanks to "dudewheresmyxb" on the txb forums and channel9.com...

xbox live development manager #1
xbox live development manager #2
director of programming #1
director of programming #2

some quotes from the channel9 staff members on their forum:

Major Nelson (aka Larry) is well known. He even was recently interviewed by ActiveWin.

One thing you should catch is the logo on his t-shirt. Xenon is the code-name for the next version of the Xbox. We tried to get Larry to talk about that (or, even, the anticipated Halo 2, which will be shipping in November) but he wouldn't talk.

people on the txb forums say if you pause it the back of the shirt says "time to lead!"

Over the next week you'll get to know a bit more about how Xbox Live's system was developed (the backend was done in C# and SQL Server, among other things) and Larry shows you what Xbox Live is all about.

Boyd runs the Xbox Live development team and he has some interesting insights into what makes a great developer.

Actually, we asked him whether he was using any of the latest development methodologies like test driven development or extreme programming.

He answered the question by bragging about a developer on the Xbox Live team.

Yes, we asked him who this developer was. He wouldn't tell us. Seems he is worried that another team would try to hire this guy away.

they promise more from these guys soon so i guess stay tuned to their site.

also, go to their videos page:
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=14

they have a ton of cool videos all about programming, check it out.

 

[CaptainABAB]

nice find.

Some other interesting videos....

any of the videos with Anders Hejlsberg
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=10189#10189

or any of the ones from the Research group showing off windows concepts demos.

 

[Joe]

bump. i thought more people would have been interested in this...

 

[Joe]

one last bump

 

[segasonic]

very cool, thanks for posting these!

 

[Prine]

Thanks! Downloading now

 

[Joe]

2 new video interviews (both short):
how xbox live was made
how to join an xbox live game (this one is pretty much useless)

also, here's an article about using .net in xbox live:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/NETMatters/default.aspx

 

[jedimike]

thx rat... finally got around to watching them. The dev manager was certainly passionate about code writing.