• Home
  • Speaking
  • Training
  • Articles
  • About
  • Contact
  • Twitter Twitter icon
  • Instagram
  • Dev.to dev.to icon
  • LinkedIn LinkedIn icon
  • RSS RSS icon

Kindle 2 – Is It Worth It Now?

9 February 2009 All

I love to read. I don;t read enough, well, there can’t be enough :) … but I wish I had more to read as my book list keeps growing faster than I read. I’m an early adopter for many tech items, but the steep price tag for the Amazon Kindle v1 was too much for me to throw at something I had no experien

Book Review: Silverlight In Action

3 February 2009 Silverlight

[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933988428/johnpanet-20]I had the chance to read through  Chad Campbell and John Stockton’s book Silverlight 2 in Action [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933988428/johnpanet-20] recently. I’ve read this book along with a few others on Silverlight 2 r

Sir DevFish’s Crusade of Enlightenment

3 February 2009 All

[https://www.johnpapa.net/wp-content/uploads/files/media/image/WindowsLiveWriter/SirDevFishsCrusadeofEnlightenment_11376/devfish_2.png] <p>The economy is down, weather is cold, and dragons are roaming the  earth once again. Yet even in the darkest of times, when the shadow looms over us all

Silverlight, Syndicated Feeds, and Isolated Storage

31 January 2009 Silverlight

In the latest issue of my Data Points column in [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419660.aspx] MSDN Magazine (Feb 2009 issue) I wrote an article titled “Syndicated Data And Isolated Storage In Silverlight [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419660.aspx]”. In the article I address:

Installing SQL Server on 64bit Vista – The Native Client Got Restless

30 January 2009 All

Sometimes things go amiss. Sometimes they work out. And sometimes we have no idea why things end up where they do. Today I was installing SQL Server 2005 developer edition on a Vista 64bit PC. I’ve done this dozens of times between 32bit and 64 bit OS’s, including Vista 64bit so there was nothing ne

Newer Posts
Page 151 of 232
Older Posts

John Papa

Hi, I'm John Papa. I author this blog, create courses for Pluralsight, and work in Developer Relations. I am a professional storyteller, I contribute to OSS, and I'm a Web technologist

Latest Projects

  • Comparing Callbacks, Promises and Async Await in TypeScript
  • Debug Angular 9: Interacting with Components
  • Vanilla JavaScript and HTML - No frameworks. No libraries. No problem.
  • Shifting Your Node Express APIs to Serverless
  • Predictive Preloading Strategy for Your Angular Bundles
  • How I Write Online Articles
  • Debug Your Node.js App in 60 Seconds
  • The Next.js for Angular - Analog on Web Rush #290
  • VS Code to the Cloud in 60 Seconds on Web Rush #289
  • Make AI Useful For You on Web Rush #288
  • Why You As A Developer Must Care About Managing Your APIs on Web Rush #287
  • Fast Development with Visual Studio on Web Rush #286
  • The Best of Build for Developers on Web Rush #285
  • App Spaces: Simplifying App Development in Azure on Web Rush #284
  • Twitter Twitter icon
  • Instagram
  • Dev.to dev.to icon
  • LinkedIn LinkedIn icon
  • RSS RSS icon
Copyright 2025 John Papa

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. In other words, share generously but provide attribution.

Disclaimer

Opinions expressed here are my own.

Published with Ghost

This site is hosted on Ghost.io
Theme by Cross Stroke.