A question came up regarding the AVS Media Video Convertor application.  Someone asked if the video convert app will down convert HD videos.  The answer is yes and it does that quite easily.    First start up the app as shown in the first pic.  Choose which video format you wish to convert to, then click on Edit Profile button. The edit profile dialog... [More]

I'm at the Madison .NET User Group tonight.  We are fortunate to have Jason Bock from Magenic presenting tonight.  He came over here from Minnesota.  Fortunately the weather held out.  He is speaking on .NET Reflection.  All his slides and source code can be found here.

Normally I don't like to brag about how small something of mine is but in this case:  My projector is smaller than your projector :) I bought a Pico Projector Development Kit.  It is DLP technology made by Texas Instruments using LED lighting.  As you can see from the picture, it is barely the size of a business card.  It is about a centimeter thick and ha... [More]

I've been busy organizing a Team Foundation Server study group and studying for a Microsoft certification.  I decided to organize a study group for TFS 2008 in Madison.  We're using it more and more at work.  I was getting tired of just using it for source control and not digging into all the features that are built in.  Learning more about TFS will help me be... [More]