On Wednesday October 7th at 6:30pm several of the Florida.NET crew and I are gathering at Champps sports bar at the Tampa International Plaza Mall [http://www.nerddinner.com/1103]. I will be moving out to Redmond [https://www.johnpapa.net/silverlight/next-stop-redmond-wa/] the following week so this

I have been a consultant for most of 14 year career working with dozens of customers large and small on business applications. I really enjoy working with customers and seeing the results of hard work. The interaction with everyone is one of the huge benefits for me personally. I’ve also been involv

I’ve been asked how I use Twitter [http://twitter.com/John_Papa], what I try to avoid, what I try to emphasize, and just some basic guidelines for using it. Frankly, I just ride the wave and tweet my personality. I find it makes it easy, non intrusive into my work day, and I never regret something I

I recently wrote an article that demonstrates how to use the DataForm and validate data entry in Silverlight using the DataAnnotations. One of the pet peeves I have with the validation is that it throws in exception in the setter of your public property. Putting my disagreements with that aside for

Tonight is opening night for the NFL season! This year NBC will showing the Sunday Night Football games in HD via Silverlight. You can catch the games at http://snfextra.nbcsports.com/ It’s just a few minutes into the opening night game and I am watching it side by side with my HD TV to get a comp