Posts by Jeff Prosise

Whew! I’ve come up for air after a busy last few weeks. I’m still on a high after spending spring break in Grand Cayman, where my family logged a total of 40 dives. My son did 16 dives, I did 13, my oldest daughter (and newest diver in the family) did 7 dives, and my…

No sooner had I posted the previous entry about the XBox making it to the 278th than I read that their unit had suffered its first casualty in Iraq: http://www.wbir.com/news/search_article.aspx?storyid=24231 They can probably use a little morale boost right now. Perhaps we helped out, if only in a small way.

The 278th is still waiting for their XBox to arrive. It should arrive any day now. It seems packages take anywhere from two weeks to a month to make it to military personnel in Iraq. Today I sent another package containing the DVDs you sent me, along with a few videos of my own and some purchased…

It’s spring break, and to make up for a vacation that I had to cancel last summer, my wife and I are in the Cayman Islands with the kids. We’re staying at a dive resort on the north coast of Grand Cayman. My son and I got in three good dives today. The first was on…

The simulator that I flew in was manufactured by a company named CAE. I didn’t have my trusty digital camera with me (unfortunately), but CAE’s Web site has a picture of a simulator like the one I flew in as well as lots of other interesting stuff. I forgot to mention that as we took…

I had the thrill of a lifetime yesterday—literally. I had the opportunity to do something I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid. It was maybe the most exciting one hour of my life. I hardly even remember the 4-hour drive home. I was on Cloud 9 reliving the experience.   I was in…

I received several responses from folks who wish to send DVDs and XBox games to the 278th in Iraq. Today I received a package from the Microsoft XBox team containing 10 brand new, shrink-wrapped games to include in the package that we send overseas. This little grass-roots project has already succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. Kudos…

One of my good friends is in Iraq right now. He’s a member of the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, which was deployed to Iraq late last year and will be there for at least one year. Through him, I learned about two members of the 278th who have no family back home…

Microsoft says that the performance of XslTransform in beta 1 is NOT indicative of its final performance and that performance will be greatly improved in beta 2. They also intend to do additional perf-testing and tuning post-beta 2. Their goal is to deliver MSXML.dll-like performance in the shipping version of XslTransform. The really good news…

Jeffrey and I finished our work in Paris today and are looking forward to heading home bright and early tomorrow morning. As we bid au revoir to France, we’re left with a burning question: why is the .NET Framework’s XslTransform class so slow? It’s no secret to anyone who has used XslTransform that XslTransform.Transform is…