John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
TypeScript 0.8.1 was just released [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2012/11/15/announcing-typescript-0-8-1.aspx] and it now supports debugging right inside Visual Studio! You can read more about TypeScript and its latest changes in this post [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/20
Interested in learning more about Single Page Apps? Want to watch right from your desk? Then please register for the live webcast [http://lidnug-johnpapa-spa.eventbrite.com/] this Thursday where I’ll be presenting how to build a SPA. I’ll focus on the core principles of a SPA and how to get started
I’m working on a new course that will help folks get a jump-start on building a SPA. The course’s working title is SPA Fundamentals. I decided to present some of the early demos from this upcoming Pluralsight course at some recent events. These are early prototypes of the main app (titled “Code Camp
Zen Coding is a faster way to write HTML using a CSS style selector syntax, and you can now use Zen Coding in Visual Studio via the Web Essentials 2012 plug in [http://jpapa.me/webess2012] (v1.7).Zen Coding [http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/] was introduced by Sergey Chikuyonok in 2009 (according
Just a few months ago Hans Fjällemark [http://twitter.com/hfjallemark] and I released toastr and since then we’ve had a lot of great feedback that we’ve worked into our free open source library.Toastr is a simple JavaScript toast notification library [http://jpapa.me/c7toastr] that is small, easy to
