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’ll be presenting a MSDN Firestarter event on Silverlight 2 at the Microsoft Office in Tampa, FL on Friday October 24th [https://www.johnpapa.net/events]. This is a free event, you just have to register [http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032387218&culture=en-US] onlin
In case you missed it, the NY Giants lost Osi Umenyiora for the rest of the season due to a tear in his knee. Osi is a phenomenal player who requires double teaming by the opposing team’s OL. This is a huge advantage for any team to have guy on the DL that can occupy 2 people. WIth Osi and Strahan
One of the frustrations I have is the common confusion over REST services and POX services for those trying to understand it from scratch. It does not help that some popular services that claim to be REST or technically POX. Flickr is one of these IMO. REST services expose resources through a uri ma
When I write I need to remind myself of the point sometimes. It may sound funny but it’s true. I set out to write a book that shows how to use data services of all kinds with Silverlight 2 [http://www.amazon.com/Data-Services-Silverlight-John-Papa/dp/0596523092/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&
According to FOXNews.com and the WSJ [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,407702,00.html], Microsoft has hired an ad company and Jerry Seinfeld to help its image amongst the famous Mac vs PC ads. We’ve all seen them, laughed at them, and many of us see the obvious flaws in them. But the problem is t
