I did it ... I admit it. I was one of the many silly people that got hyped up on the just released Motorola Q Smartphone. (It runs the Windows Mobile 5 OS  … the Smartphone edition). My contract was up and I was itching for a new phone/pda. I was debating over the Treo 700w, Treo 700p and the Motoro

A buddy of mine, Wally McClure [http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/], has a podcast called the ASP.NET Podcast [http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/default.aspx] that he maintains and hosts. In this week’s podcast [http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2006/07/21/349

2 days ago I posted about my frustrating experiences with Resharper v2 [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/john.papa/archive/2006/06/20/146617.aspx], specifically how when I type there is a delay in characters appearing. It was really slowing me down and causing me to stop and repeat my steps. I sent a

If you are interested in System.Transactions, I'll be doing a MSDN WebCast next week on Using System.Transactions in .NET 2.0 [http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032295237%22%2f%5e%7earg+

I always put my cell phones and portable music players in my pocket. I like my devices thin and in my pocket. I just don’t like bulky belt clips that make you look like Batman. So I buy thin devices but they tend to get scratched in my pocket and dust can get under the screen. The biggest issue is t