John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
Some great Silverlight gurus at the MIX keynote, getting there early for some good seats. Pete Brown, Jay Kimble, Nikita, Bryant Likes, Page Brooks, Frank LaVigne, Dave Campbell, Bill Buxton and more! [https://www.johnpapa.net/wp-content/uploads/files/media/image/WindowsLiveWriter/SomeSilverlight
Today, Shawn Wildermuth shared what he uses to develop Silverlight applications [http://wildermuth.com/2009/03/12/What_I_Use_for_Silverlight_Development]. Its a good list of mostly essential tools if you are going to work with Silverlight. While you do not need Blend, for example, you are severely h
My article that I alluded to yesterday [https://www.johnpapa.net/silverlight/silverlight-chord-finder/] on building a guitar chord calculator with Silverlight [http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/using-silverlight-to-build-a-guitar-chord-calculator/] was just published by Simple-Talk.
I’ve been working on an article that features several aspects of building a Silverlight application. The article demonstrates data binding, some visual effects, effective resource use, playing audio files, creating states with the Visual State Manager and the CoolMenu from the SilverlightContrib [ht
I’ve had my Kindle 2 for a week and my early impressions are favorable, though I do have some dislikes already too. Overall its a great machine that handles books very well, is easy on the eyes and very easy to hold onto (form factor is sweet). I’ll be posting a review on the Kindle 2 in the near fu
