Web series "The Code Room"

"…The Code Room (Encoding Room) is a cold, dark place."

"The Code Room" is a half-hour web-based TV series aimed at showcasing the latest tools and technologies for solving real-world software development problems to technical professionals. This series, which is professionally produced and directed, highlights the social, team-based, and technical challenges involved in completing a software development project…

The third episode, recently released, is titled "Break into Vegas," and it tells the story of a group of hackers who infiltrated a casino's system and stole several million dollars. The casino then hires a few experts to solve the case, one of whom is Keith Brown, the author of several books on Windows security.

In the second episode, a group of Embedded/Compact Framework experts, including the well-known Paul Yao, spent an afternoon developing a kiosk system that could search for products in a shopping mall via Bluetooth-enabled phones.

In the first episode, three developers attended a lecture on an early version of ASP.NET Whidbey and subsequently developed an e-commerce website within a few hours.