Kindel Systems

Dan Fernandez is the lead product manager for Visual Studio Express . He just blogged about developing tools and applications for Windows Home Server using Visual Studio. + As I mentioned in my Channel9 video I'm super excited that WHS is going to enable geeks, makers, hobbyists, or whatever you want...

My Channel 9 interview video just went live. Please don't tease me about how often I say “um”. http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=270965

I built MCE Controller as something that would be useful for my own home. I had minor aspirations of making it do more than it does, but the reality is that I don’t really have the time nor the inclination (it works beautifully for me as is). Until today I have resisted making it open source for...

I’ve been a programmer for 20+ years now, so you can imagine how dumb I felt today when I first read about the INTERCAL programming language. INTERCAL was invented in 1973 by Jim Lyon and Don Woods. I learned about INTERCAL today because I just hired Jim Lyon to my group and he wrote about it in...

I’ve released an update to MCE Controller that fixes a bug where it would prevent Windows logoff and shutdown. Head over to http://www.kindel.com/products/mcecontroller to download it. MCE Controller allows the Media Center application of Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) to be integrated into...

Channel9 has posted a wicked-cool video of Alex Kipman demoning using Visual Studio to write slick SmartPhone app that talks to both the GPS and MapPoint via a web-service. Who says Microsoft can't innovate? What other platform provides anywhere near the richness and integration across devices?!?! I...

We're busy doing a bunch of prototyping on my double-super-secret project at work and I decide I need to chip in and help. I haven't used Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) yet, so I figure I'd build a little app we need using it. I sat down Wednesday night and started hammering away... Not a complex app,...

I don't get to write much code anymore. When I do I get an amazing amount of joy out of it. Tonight I realized that my MCE Controller , which I hacked up to enable me to control my Windows Media Center machine via Ethernet from my Crestron system has simply "just worked" since I released version 1.0...

I'm still an absolute n00b when it comes to regex. Even after reading Mastering Regular Expressions . But man, is it powerful. Tonight my wife asked me to help her create name badge labels for an org she's in. All she had was an email that had a list of names like this: DI- PAID IN FULL Lynn Melton 2...

A new site has sprung up that provides a very cool, and very creative, way for helping people construct C# managed code declarations for native code interfaces. http://www.pinvoke.net/ Almost every time I write C# code I end up having to do some native code interop. Even though I used to know the Win32...