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He eventually joined Microsoft to help evangelize the author and columnist—Charles Petzold—who marked his 25th year company’s RIA eff orts. as a contributor to this publication. So it’s appropriate, I suppose, “When I got into Silverlight I saw a great opportunity to work that I dwell now on another valued columnist who left the maga- with patterns, data and client-side RIA technology,” Papa says. “Th e zine aft er more than a decade, only to return to the fold this month. opportunity I had to be the corporate evangelist for Silverlight/ John Papa first began writing for MSDN Magazine back in XAML was awesome. Th ey gave me the freedom to run and try December 1998, and for eight years from 2002 through 2009 new ideas like Silverlight TV, running communities, MIXer parties, authored the popular Data Points column, which continues today open source events, the Silverlight Firestarter and much more.” under the stewardship of Julie Lerman. Papa wrote his last column in February 2009, stepping down when he took on a role with Microsoft as a corporate evangelist for Silverlight and XAML. Now “We need to use the right tool for Papa is back, penning a new column called Client Insight, which focuses on the fast-changing arena of rich client development the right job. A lot has changed technologies and platforms. “Client technology has really changed over the past few years just in the past two years, with XAML, HTML5 and mobile devices,” says Papa, who adds that he hopes to bring together the best parts of XAML and HTML5. but that rule hasn’t.” “I plan on exploring the good, the bad and the challenging aspects of client technologies,” he continues. “Anyone interested in So why the Client Insight column, and why now? writing soft ware for the next generation should enjoy the column For one thing, Papa left Microsoft in November to move back as I plan to cover HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, patterns, XAML, to his native Florida, where he had lived prior to relocating to mobility, tooling and much more.” the Redmond area in 2009. More to the point, the emergence of For Papa, the new column is a second chance to pursue a passion. JavaScript/HTML5, alongside the evolving Microsoft XAML/ Th e Data Points column got its start in 1998 because he felt at the Silverlight strategy, has turned the client development space on its time that data-related topics were being neglected.