John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
Knockout 2.0.0 [http://www.knockoutjs.com] was released last night to the web! You might have been tinkering with the 1.3.0 RC recently, but it has been renamed to 2.0.0. Steve lists a few reasons why he went this route and I fully support the decision to jump to a new major version number. If you l
[http://www.silverlight.net/downloads]Silverlight 5 was released to the web yesterday, finalizing the feature list that many of us have been tinkering with in 2011. I’m excited that a product I had a very small part in shaping is now out. The team members are amazing and did a fantastic job amidst
This month’s Papa’s Perspective shows you how to use some of the fundamental aspects of the HTML5 canvas to draw. [http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2011/12/01/working-with-the-html5-canvas.aspx] I go over some 101 level functions such as arc, beginPath, lineCap, lineJoin, lineTo, lineWidth,
I recently had an opportunity to review an advance copy of Julie Lerman and Rowan Miller's new book "Programming Entity Framework 4.1 Code First [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1449312942?t=johnpanet-20]". In short, this is a fantastic book that is a quick read. Read more about my review in
VSLive, Pluralsight WebCast and the inaugural Tampa Windows Developer User Group. That’s all that’s left for me this year for presentations. Actually, it’s a pretty full plate given that the year is almost up and the holidays are upon us. Here is my remaining 2011 schedule: Tampa Bay WinDev: Intro
