Posted on Monday, January 05 2009 by John Papa
This New Years Day I received a nice gift from the Microsoft MVP award program as I was renewed as a Microsoft C# MVP again for 2009. On Jan 1 Jake, my awesome program lead, notified me that I was renewed once again. I really do enjoy being part of the MVP community. This is my 4th year in the program...
Posted on Wednesday, December 17 2008 by John Papa
From the JetBrains web site I grabbed this info below that explains the latest features that the next release of Resharper should have. I love this tool, personally. I’ve tried many refactoring tools and this is the only one that does not get in my way, is easy enough to learn, and offers me a big productivity...
Posted on Monday, December 15 2008 by John Papa
Last week I presented several sessions at VSLive Dallas along with some great other speakers. I attached the latest session code samples to this blog post since some of the code was written on the fly. It was a cold couple of days in Dallas, a brisk change from southwest Florida! But it really was a...
Posted on Wednesday, November 26 2008 by John Papa
This awesome stroller / race car was available to rent at the mall, so of course we had to rent it. My daughter had a great time, most especially since we heeded the warning on the stroller. It’s shocking to believe that this warning is needed. But I am sure someone tried it. (Click to zoom in...
Posted on Tuesday, November 25 2008 by John Papa
I added a few more events to my winter schedule. You can check out the full list of past, present and future events on my events page. I am hitting the Tampa Code Camp on Dec 6th to do an Astoria talk. Then I head to VSLIVE in Dallas for 4 different sessions. Next up a Geek Speak with Glen Gordon (from...
Posted on Saturday, November 08 2008 by John Papa
I just unsubscribed from a bunch of email services I somehow got hooked into. When I clicked on the unsubscribe link for one of them, it opens a browser and shows me this awesome message: You have chosen to disable new book notifications. You will receive an email confirmation shortly. ...
Posted on Friday, November 07 2008 by John Papa
Last night I had the privilege of presenting the Entity Framework v1 to the Tampa .NET User Group at the Microsoft offices. I had just been up there for a half day of Silverlight 2 2 weeks ago and I have been overwhelmed by the great participation of this group. The people really get into the presentations...
Posted on Wednesday, November 05 2008 by John Papa
I’ll be heading up to Tampa tomorrow to present “Developing Applications with the Entity Framework” at the Tampa Bay .NET Users Group on November 6th at 6:30pm, sponsored by INETA . The location for the event is: Microsoft Gulf States Office 5426 Bay Center Drive Suite 700 Tampa, Fl 33609 There was an...
Posted on Tuesday, October 28 2008 by John Papa
I took some raw notes from the PDC keynote today, during Scott Gu’s presentation that I thought I would share. Enjoy: Reviewed some of the Windows 7 highlights .NET 3.5 SP 1 improvements Graphical improvements Start up performance of .NET code WPF improvements, including graphics and performance .NET...
Posted on Tuesday, October 28 2008 by John Papa
I recently signed on with www.InsideRIA.com to write a guest blog. In my first post I wrote about my excitement at how the Silverlight 2 community has become so interested in it . While its a small community relative to the entire .NET community I have seen a great impact in a very short time (considering...
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