I’ve loved my iPhone so far. It has some awesome features, keeps me connected to work, allows me to not carry an iPod and a phone, and the AppStore is killer. But there are some well documented issues from many users. The battery life is horrific. I cannot get through half a day of normal without
O’Reilly has been busy making preparations for my book lately. One of the items on there list was to get the information about my book up and on their web site [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523091/]. So my book is now listed on the O’Reilly site including a description of the contents. Soon
I just finished another chapter of Data Services with Silverlight 2 [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596523092/johnpanet-20]. It’s a great feeling when this happens. There is always a bit of a slight pause afterwards though as I begin to realize how much more I have to write. For example
I’ve been using Instant VB [http://tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com/] for a few months now to convert code snippets in my Silverlight 2 book [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596523092/johnpanet-20] from C# to VB. I tried a few free tools, but they just could not compare with the experience I
This tip comes right from some of the examples I am writing for my book Data Services with Silverlight 2. I was writing a LINQ query definition for LINQ to XML that parses through a response from an Amazon RESTful web service when I realized I cannot be sure if a book will have a price stored in th
