John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
Sometimes things go amiss. Sometimes they work out. And sometimes we have no idea why things end up where they do. Today I was installing SQL Server 2005 developer edition on a Vista 64bit PC. I’ve done this dozens of times between 32bit and 64 bit OS’s, including Vista 64bit so there was nothing ne
Its been about a month since my book Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2 [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596523092/johnpanet-20] hit the stores just around Christmas. That last week of December I imagine people wanted to do other things like spend time with their families :), I know I d
This Tuesday I will be presenting Silverlight and data services in West Palm Beach, sponsored by INETA. I've presented Silverlight quite a bit and each time I do I change a little of the presentation and demos as I find new interesting demos. This presentation will focus on data binding techniqu
When developing a Silverlight 2 project that uses WCF service references or ADO.NET Data Services Astoria references, and you want to push the builds to a test server, there are a few changes that need to be made so the references point to the test server and not the dev box. Shawn Wildermuth has
Its been about 3.5 years for me since I last bought a PC. At the time it was a high end system and I am pretty happy that it lasted this long. In fact, I am hoping to get to 4 years with it. That may sound funny, but I have never gone past 3 years on a development ox before. This one, while not scre
