John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
Technology has been changing at a rapid pace over the past few years and so are conferences. It’s a great time to head to one of the newer conferences like ASP.NET and HTML5 DevIntersection from April 8 - 11 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV [http://devintersection.com?papa]. I’ll be there with a
Often I like to test my web apps in a real website. For me, Windows Azure is ideally suited for this. I can spin up a site as needed, publish my demo, test it on a variety of devices, and tear it down when I am done. the best part is that it only takes a few moments to learn how to do this. What do
Most every team enjoys easy to maintain and well-organized code that follows a consistent pattern (whatever that pattern may be). When developing with JavaScript it is just as important to follow a pattern to help the developer behind you, perhaps because it is so easy not to. JavaScript is a dynami
Dan Wahlin [http://twitter.com/danwahlin]and I have just published a new course at Pluralsight [http://www.pluralsight.com]titled TypeScript Fundamentals [http://jpapa.me/typescript101]. This course walks you through the key concepts and features that you need to know to get started with TypeScript
It’s likely that you’ve used classes and interfaces in statically typed languages to organizing your code into logical units. When you work with JavaScript these constructs do not exist, so we use the excellent replacements like constructor functions and the module pattern. However, you may still mi
