Today I decided to try out a new theme for my site at johnpapa.net . Rich Mercer has a handful of nice themes posted in his site including this one, which is a variation of the Point Space Blue theme. I'm going to try it out and see where it takes me. Its a pretty clean theme though there are a few...

As I mentioned previously, I am in the process of redesigning my personal site with all of my articles, presentations, downloads, upcoming events, and other paraphernalia. The move is going well, but due to the holidays I am taking it slow so it will take me some time to get everything up there. Graffiti...

I am setting up my schedule for the first quarter of 2008, and the first .NET user group I will be heading to as an INETA speaker in 2008 is the Space Coast .NET User Group in Melbourne, Florida . I will be presenting an approximately 2 hour long session on the Entity Framework including what it is,...

Today I started the migration of my web site at www.johnpapa.net and blog to Telligent's new tool, Graffiti . You can check out the latest news on Graffiti at www.graffiticms.com . It is currently in beta, but has some very interesting features. I am sure to go through some growing pains with it...

Congratulations to 2 of the newest Microsoft MVP's: Brian Peek and Jonas Stawski were both just awarded with the C# MVP award. Congratulations guys!

There is a boy, Shane, in a school local to my home town. Shane is dying of cancer and is part of "Make a Wish". When Make a Wish asked him his wish Shane said he would like 1 million birthday cards for his 8 th birthday on May 30 th . There is a large effort underway by means of word of mouth...

I set up a new dedicated server at GoDaddy.com this weekend. One of the issues I struggled with was when I set up MailEnable to run on the server I could not send mail. I could receive it just fine, but it would not go out anywhere. A friend of mine helped me track down what the issue was and it turns...

Let me start by saying that I have been working some crazy hours lately and I am battling a fierce springtime cold. OK, so there is my lame excuse …. I left my 2GB USB flash stick in my shirt pocket and threw it in the wash today. My wife just folded the laundry and brought the poor soul out to...

Here is a very funny post that my friend Dustin showed me today about how Hollywood and the movies portray “coders” at this link http://www.drivl.com/pages/code . Many of these hit home with me as I was reminded of watching movies like Hackers, Matrix, War Games, and others with my friends...

Writing a blog is not really that difficult (OK, I’ve been really lazy the past few months on this). But I do find that I am often in my email client whether that is on my desktop, laptop or on my SmartPhone. So when I heard that blogmailr existed, I figured it was worth a shot … especially...