John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
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
ADO.NET Data Services (hereafter called Astoria) allows simple URI mapping to entity models. Pretty cool. We can also dive into the entity model and return hierarchical data. For example, a set of Customer entities can be returned without their children or the Customer can be returned with their chi
This Thursday at 3pm EST (12PT) I will be joining Glen Gordon and Brian Johnson for a MSDN geekSpeek webcast where we will be talking about Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services. Come for the great topic, conversation and demos! This is a great chance to hear and ask about some of the topics from my
This New Years Day I received a nice gift from the Microsoft MVP award program as I was renewed as a Microsoft C# MVP again for 2009. On Jan 1 Jake, my awesome program lead, notified me that I was renewed once again. I really do enjoy being part of the MVP community. This is my 4th year in the pro
I was reading a post by Tim Greenfield today regarding RIA and security [http://programmerpayback.com/2008/12/29/ria-security-101-logins-web-services-usernames-and-passwords/#comment-38] . He also followed this up with a nice post [http://programmerpayback.com/2008/12/29/ria-security-102-using-aspne
