Posts by Jeff Prosise

DevWeek is drawing to a close. Jeffrey is upstairs right now doing a full-day post-con workshop on writing great managed applications. I’m downstairs in the speakers’ lounge relaxing with a cup of coffee and doing e-mail. This is my first day off in a while, and I’ve been looking forward to it. I have lots…

John, Jeffrey, Dino, Sara, and I are in London this week for Bearpark’s annual DevWeek–a great independent conference that has become a favorite of U.S. speakers. We’re all shaking off jet lag and trying to get acclimated to the cold, damp weather. Jeffrey’s having the hardest time getting his body clock on schedule. He’s fighting…

John Robbins sent me this hilarious link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/4272041.stm Be sure to check out the photos of the burglar staring into the Webcam trying to figure out what it is. 🙂

Yesterday I flew to D.C. on the first leg of a 17-day trip. I’m home for 12 hours this weekend, then fly to London for DevWeek and go straight from there to Paris for a few days of consulting. John and Jeffrey will be with me in London, and Jeffrey and I are going to Paris…

I’m in Steamboat Springs, CO for a few days doing some skiing with my family. My wife and I have skiied for years, but this is the first time my kids have been on the slopes. So far, so good: they’re having a blast. My son wanted to go straight to the top of the…

You may have noticed that this blog has received a lot of comment spam recently. We made a change to the software today, implementing a simple algorithm that (we think) will eliminate most of the comment spam. We’ll see if it works. It’s a shame that you have to spend time writing code to counteract…

You probably know this by now, but Microsoft is getting into the anti-spyware business. I, for one, am glad. I recently spent a couple of hours cleaning the spyware off my kids’ PC, and I came away from it wondering how users that don’t work with computers for a living cope with the deluge of…

John, Jeffrey, and I are in Austin, TX this week along with a contingent of other folks from Wintellect for Devscovery. The conference is sold out and we’re having a blast teaching .NET and hanging out with the attendees at after-hours events. One of the new things we’re trying is offering scheduled 1-on-1 time with the…

I finally got around to upgrading my home network from 802.11b to 802.11g tonight. Wow! I wish I had done it sooner. What got me off my duff was walking into CompUSA and seeing a Netgear 802.11g router on sale for $29.99 after manufacturer’s rebate. At that price, you can’t afford not to upgrade. I’m…

A few weeks ago I wrote that my system was mysteriously rebooting itself from time to time. Little did I know that that was just the beginning of the biggest PC pain I’ve ever experienced. I’m finally back up and running tonight after three days without my primary PC. Here’s a summary of what happened–and…

Chris Kinsman alerted me to a brand new Futaba radio that looks to be the state-of-the-art in R/C aircraft transmitters: http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/index.php?action=expand,35482 http://www.flyrc.com/articles/SNEAKPEEK_futaba_14MZ.shtml It has dual processors and runs Windows CE. It has a big color display that looks to be active matrix. It plays music. And it apparently accepts voice commands, as in “gear up.” Wow! Now if they’ll…