On a "very special" episode of This Week on Channel 9 from Blizzcon, Dan is joined by Mike "Sampy" Sampson as they discuss the interesting developer stories of the week: - WPF Effects Library ships on Codeplex (video demo) - Stephen Walther - ASP.NET MVC 5-Part series on building a Family Videos site, via Alvin Ashcraft - Microperformance benchmark - XMLDocument vs XElement, XElement performs 5-10x faster, via gOODiDEA.NET - Live Search now in Facebook via Sarah Perez - Web Platform installer ships, via Scott Hanselman - Mono 2.0 is out, via Miguel de Icaza - Video clip of Charles Torre interviewing Anders Hejlsberg on adding language constructs to C# for concurrency - Video clip of Bill Hill whiteboarding how fonts include thousands of lines of assembly code to improve readability - Touchless Multi-touch (video demo) open-source SDK on Codeplex, via TechCrunch - Sampy's pick of the week, the Diablo III Wizard class - Dan's pick of the week, the Blizzard Costume contest with the scary undead rogue girl