John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
Single Page Apps (SPA) are all the rage, and while it’s exciting to talk about the JavaScript we use in the SPA, the HTML is just as important. If HTML5 tags are used, then its important to make sure that you prepare for a graceful degradation if you want older browser support. Also, the HTML shell
It’s about T-4 weeks til my Pluralsight course is available. As I get closer to reaching completion I’ll continue sharing some thoughts on how the SPA is architected. Web Service Layer and JSON The X AJAX stands for XML … but most of us use AJAX for requesting/pushing JSON. Most HTML5/JavaScript
Some skills never go out of fashion. Managing data and serving it up to a client is one of those skills. Sure, the technologies change and the way we use them, but we’re still gathering and delivering data. Recently I wrote about how my new course is progressing for Pluralsight [http://www.pluralsi
Last week I wrote about the overall story for my new course [http://jpapa.me/spapost1] for Pluralsight [http://www.pluralsight.com/] “Building Single Page Apps (SPA) with HTML5, ASP.NET Web API, Knockout and jQuery” (due out August 31st). This week I want to share some of the client technologies th
I’m currently recording a course for Pluralsight [http://www.pluralsight.com] with a working title of “Building Single Page Apps (SPA) with ASP.NET Web API, Knockout and jQuery” targeting to be out by August 31. This is an end to end course that hits hundreds (ok, not quite) of technologies that wo
