John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
I can’t believe I missed this before, but there is a toggle button (F4) in Blend that simply make the sidebar windows collapse or expand. This is very cool when you are doing a presentation and the screen resolution is so tiny that the audience cannot see what you are doing with the other windows in
I just uploaded my code demonstrations for my 3 presentations at DevConnections in Las Vegas last week. You can download all 3 sets of demos from this link [https://www.johnpapa.net/wp-content/uploads/files/downloads/Connections%202008%20Demos.rar] . Inside the compressed file are the code samples f
A free teaser chapter is now available [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523091/chapter/index.html] for my book Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2 [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523091/]. The free chapter, Chapter 8 – Consuming Amazon’s RESTful Services with Silverlight 2, is in the PDF [h
I just unsubscribed from a bunch of email services I somehow got hooked into. When I clicked on the unsubscribe link for one of them, it opens a browser and shows me this awesome message: > You have chosen to disable new book notifications. You will receive an email confirmation shortly.
Last night I had the privilege of presenting the Entity Framework v1 to the Tampa .NET User Group [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/entity-framework-and-free-stuff-in-tampa-on-nov-6th/] at the Microsoft offices. I had just been up there for a half day of Silverlight 2 2 weeks ago and I have been overwh
