Posts by Jeff Prosise

I usually begin presentations on Atlas by saying “Atlas is Microsoft’s AJAX framework for ASP.NET.” That assumes everyone in the room knows what AJAX is. IBM’s Web site contains an excellent article describing the fundamentals of AJAX. It’s written for Java developers, but it cuts across language and platform boundaries and makes an excellent read for ASP.NET…

I continue to be excited by the potential of Atlas. I’ve been doing talks on it at conferences and user groups and the buzz is unbelievable. It reminds me of the early days of XML when XML talks packed the house. This week I’m traveling to Atlanta to present Atlas to some big companies down there…

It’s finally online: my blog from Wintellect’s December 2004 .NET Nirvana Geek Cruise. I intended to post it several months ago, but then decided to wait for our new site to roll out. Then one thing led to another and…well, better late than never, as they say. Read all about the 60-foot wave that caused…

This weekend the Chattanooga Radio Control Club held its annual Warbirds Over the Summit meet, which brings warbird lovers from all over the Southeast together to fly models of WWII aircraft. The turnout was great, as was the weather once last week’s storms finally moved out of the area Saturday morning. I took my B-25…

I spent several weeks this winter documenting the internals of Microsoft’s ASP.NET 2.0 providers. You can view the results at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/downloads/providers/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/asp2prvdr01.asp. While you’re at it, you can also download the source code for many of Microsoft’s providers and get a look behind the scenes at how they work. (The published source isn’t perfectly identical to…

Below is one of my favorite airplane pictures. It was taken by Wintellectual Mark Kovalcson a year or so ago as my AT-6 Texan climbed out after a beautiful take-off. Poetry! I’ve been fooling around this evening writing up a piece for the club’s newsletter. (The flying club, that is.) It’s titled “You Know You’re…

Need a quick laugh to start the day? Check out this little gem from Google Videos: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2899771876757809023 Look for enrollment to suddenly increase in journalism schools.

As you can see, our new Web site is finally live. It has been in the works for many months, and a lot of people put in a lot of time to make it happen. The look was designed by Kevin Goldman, an independent Web designer in Seattle who’s a favorite of ours and of…

I’ve been away from the blog for a while because I’ve been immersing myself in Atlas, the code name for the forthcoming product from Microsoft that is, for lack of a better term, AJAX for ASP.NET. AJAX is the hottest thing going in Web programming these days, and it’s no surprise that Microsoft is working…

I recently wrote an article for my local flying club’s newsletter and it got picked up by the national organization (the Academy of Model Aeronautics, or AMA). Titled “The Three Deadly Sins of RC Flying,” you can read it here: http://www.modelaircraft.org/insider/06_01/02.html I didn’t figure any of my computer buddies would see the article, but I’ve…

True story from Sara Faatz, Wintellect’s director of marketing and communications, who recently moved from Virginia to Georgia: I went to UPS today to ship out some packages.  As part of UPS’s shipping regulations, they have to look at your drivers license (or government issued ID) and enter your name and state in the computer…