John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
> This morning I am at the keynote of MIX09 getting ready to listen to Scott Gu and the crew to see the latest and greatest announcements. It will be nice to finally e able to talk about some of the awesome stuff they are producing. I’m sitting with Dave Campbell of www.Silverlightcream.com [htt
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.
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
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
