Posts by Jeff Prosise

I finally test-flew the Corsair today. It flew great, and with full flaps, it lands nice and slow and remains responsive even at low speeds. Only tricky part is that after it lands, it like to ground loop (do a quick 360). A hard ground loop on my final landing bent one of the struts on the…

I just finished teaching an ASP.NET class in Boise, ID and am headed home bright and early Saturday morning. I just realized that I’ll be traveling on 9/11. I’m sure airports will be extra watchful for suspicious activity tomorrow, so I feel reasonably safe and secure. Hard to believe it’s been three years since 9/11.…

I got back from Devscovery Friday afternoon and spent some much-needed time at home. Tomorrow I leave for Boise, ID to teach an ASP.NET class. But first: it’s football time in Tennessee! The whole family’s going to tonight’s home opener. Tennessee is going to play two hotshot freshman quarterbacks. Should make for an exciting time in…

We’re two days into Devscovery and so far things have gone exceedingly well. John Robbins opened the conference with a keynote on software development, and after that we worker bees took over and began delivering conference sessions. John has dropped a lot of weight in recent months and is back into his old Army fighting shape.…

Richter and I spent the weekend writing ASP.NET 2.0 code and loving it. After we ported a bunch of pages to ASP.NET, we looked back and marveled at how little code we had written. Jeffrey mostly worked on designing database tables and migrating code from one database to another (and coding a news aggregator algorithm…

I’m in Redmond (actually, Bellevue) WA this week presenting at an internal Microsoft event named Airlift. A few hundred Microsoft people from field offices all over the world have come together to get the inside scoop on what’s coming in Whidbey and other technology areas and to get the content and know-how they need to…

I skipped church this morning because I was nearing the end of the project I’ve been working on since May–building an ASP.NET 2.0 course for Microsoft–and I knew I couldn’t get my mind on worship when it was consumed by work. I spent yesterday doing some rework to the course’s labs to better show off…

I’ve almost finished writing the 3-day ASP.NET 2.0 course I’ve been working on. I put the finishing touches (including copious presenters’ notes) on the slides last night and am working on the final lab today. Once that lab is done, I have a few modifications to make to the existing labs and then the course…

This weekend was beautiful in East Tennessee, with temperatures that felt more like a September afternoon than the dog days of summer. I took time out to fly my P-51 and shoot some video. Actually, a friend shot the video, and he was bold enough to get take-off and landing footage from the ends of…

It’s late, but my P-51 engine came back from the shop today. I’d like to get this bird back in the air this weekend, so after hours I remounted the engine. It took a few hours because there’s a lot of stuff in not much space. But the engine’s back on, it’s perfectly aligned, and the…

I’m back from L.A. and running on 4 hours of sleep. I had a great time with Scott Robertson and crew last night at the L.A. .NET user group. After the meeting, we had dinner in Westwood just a couple of blocks from the UCLA campus. Scott’s been around long enough to remember when I wrote…

I’m off to Los Angeles at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning to speak to the L.A. .NET User Group. If you’re in Southern Californa and feel like trekking up (or down) to UCLA for the event, come join the fun. It’s sponsored by INETA, which usually means there will be free pizza. Nothing attracts geeks like free…