Students versus employees: meet Charles and Barry from Channel 9

Posted By: Christian Liensberger | Jan 11th @ 9:20 AM

While speakers were speaking, people were listening, guards were guarding and cooks were cooking, Will and I met Charles Torre (the dude with the cam and interesting questions on Channel 9) and Barry Dorrans (nickname blowdart in the Channel 9's Coffeehouse).

We spoke about students, student life, Channel 9, what Charles studied, what Barry "studied", why we like Robotic Studio *grin* and a lot of other very important stuff!

Tune in if you ever wanted to know who the guys on Channel 9 (posters as in Barry and hard workers as in Charles) are and why Charles started to work for Microsoft after having studied something completely different!

Tags: Barry Dorrans, Channel 9, Charles Torre, microsoft, Student Life

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Miguel

Very cool interview guys, congrats!! Smiley

AthemeX

Great interview, interesting to hear why Charles actually started in the technology industry.

About why Microsoft and technology is so cool I absolutely agree with Will on the Impact 'you' as a developer or whatever can have on someone else's day-to-day activities is really cool, and also the integration part. While I think there are actually two sides to that. First of all the integration we as developers have with the .NET framework and de CLI and CLR to be able to program in whatever language we feel most comfortable with. Also the integration with several technologies like say active directory is actually a great example of this. You can use AD for almost if not everything which has to deal with users and/or authentication.

So great stuff you guys, keep it up Smiley

Charles

It was fun chatting with you and learning about your motivations and interests in technology. I'm not always comfortable being on the other side of the camera, but you are both great interviewers so I felt relaxed and engaged.

Keep it up!

JKrebo

really interesting stuff. It's not often we get to hear the perspective of people behind the camera...

It's great you guys are keeping an ear to the community--by being a part of the community!

littleguru

I'm not always comfortable being on the other side of the camera, but you are both great interviewers so I felt relaxed and engaged.

Man you were AWESOME! It was such a big pleasure to do the interview with you both. Great great stuff!

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blowdart

I should point out employees isn't accurate; it should be employee (Charles) and general troublemaker on Channel9 (me). I'd hate for people to think that MS actually is silly enough to employ me.