John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
We can build amazing SPA and HTML5 applications when choosing a powerful framework like Angular [http://www.angularjs.org], Durandal [http://www.durandaljs.com], Ember [http://emberjs.com/], or Backbone [http://backbonejs.org/]. And while I love my personal favorites Angular and Durandal, it's n
I’m excited that I just received an Intel Haswell Ultrabook to review! Last year I reviewed an Intel Ivy Bridge Ultrabook with Windows 8 and touch screen [http://www.johnpapa.net/win8sensors/]. Overall I was happy with the device, the hardware, and sensors. Battery life was so-so, but then again, i
What do you get when you combine FontAwesome [http://fontawesome.io/] icons with Toastr [http://toastrjs.com]? Maybe ToastrAwesome or ToastAwesomer. If you have used Toastr then you know you can use your own CSS styling and make the toast look however you desire. Toastr comes with 4 basic icons as
Glimpse.Toastr, a plugin for integrating toastr diagnostics into Glimpse, is now available on NuGet [https://nuget.org/packages/glimpse.toastr] and GitHub [https://github.com/johnpapa/glimpse.toastr]. If you haven’t checked out Glimpse [http://getglimpse.com/] yet, you are missing out. And if you h
Building JavaScript apps or SPA’s with Knockout and interested in taking those skills up a notch? Then check out my new course Essential Knockout and JavaScript Tips [http://jpapa.me/kotips], at Pluralsight [http://pluralsight.com]. By the end of this course you will learn more about how Knockout wo
