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HTML5 Adoption Strategies One of the questions that I got in the session that I delivered today was how to adopt HTML5 today? Since this was a very good question I decided to share what I think about it. Why Do We Need Adoption Strategies? You might ask yourself why do you need an adoption strategy for HTML5? The answer is simple. HTML5 includes many specifications that evolve in different rates. Therefore, the specification support in browsers is complicated to implement for the browser vendors...
Not Just a Designer: Code First in Entity Framework Article on VS Magazine Lately I wrote an article about Code First approach in Entity Framework 4.1 for Visual Studio Magazine . The article was published a few days ago and you can read it here . Enjoy! CodeProject
Wrapping Up the MIX11 Experience I got back home yesterday’s evening after ~20 hours on flights. This is the time to wrap up the MIX11 conference experience. Here are all the posts I wrote during the conference: MIX11 Keynote Session Summary MIX11 First Day Sessions Summary MIX11 Second Keynote Session Summary MIX11 Second Day Sessions Summary MIX11 Third Day Sessions Summary Summary of MIX11 announcements - IE10 Preview 1 was released and can be download from here A new tools update for ASP.NET...
What to Look in an ORM Solution? One question that I sometimes being asked is what to look for in an ORM solution or more properly which ORM is preferable and why. The decision which ORM to choose is very crucial to the project development since after you start developing it will be hard to go back and use another ORM solution. Since there are many ORMs out there, here is a checklist that will help you to evaluate ORM solutions and to pick the one that fits your needs: Basic Features Can handle inheritance...
My SDP Lecturer Interview Last week Sela conducted a live broadcast with trailers to the sessions that will be presented on stage in the SDP conference. The broadcast was recorded if you want to see me “making a fool” of myself in the live broadcast you can watch the recording of my interview here ( in Hebrew ). I’m reminding that I’m going to have two sessions: Creating OData Services with WCF Data Services Data is a first-class element of every application. The Open Data Protocol (OData) applies...
.NET Reflector is Becoming a Paid-For Product Red Gate announced a few days ago that .NET Reflector will become a commercial product from the end of February 2011. Here is what Neil Davidson, Red Gate’s Co-CEO, wrote as an open letter to the .NET community: ”Red Gate has announced that it will charge $35 for version 7 of .NET Reflector upon its release in early March. Version 7 will be sold as a perpetual license, with no time bomb or forced updates. As many of you know, our original intention was...
Book Review – Entity Framework 4 In Action I spent some time lately to read the book “Entity Framework 4 in Action” which was written by several authors – Stefano Mostarda, Marco De Sanctis and Daniele Bochicchio. This book was sent to me by Manning Publications as part of the Manning Early Access Program ( MEAP ). What You are Going to Gain from The Book? The book is all about Entity Framework 4. The authors don’t assume that you are familiar with the technology and they take you to an Entity Framework...
MIX11 Open Call Voting Has Started Today MIX conference is the biggest Microsoft web conference which occurs every year in Las Vegas. As in every year Microsoft asked the developers and designers communities to propose sessions that will be part of a community voting. The sessions that will be chosen will be performed on stage at this year’s conference. Since I’m going to MIX11 as in last year, I proposed two sessions and they were chosen to the open call voting. This is the session descriptions...
SDP Conference 2011 is Coming Sela Developer Practice (SDP) conference will occur between 13 to 16 of March. In this annual conference we ( Sela Group ) are going to share the current and future Microsoft technologies. The conference will give you a chance to see the best lecturers and leading experts, to be exposed to new technologies and to learn about the Microsoft products that have been launched last year. This is of course an opportunity to meet with colleagues from different organizations...
Book Review – HTML5: Up and Running In the last two weeks I read the book “HTML5: Up and Running” that was written by Mark Pilgrim. Since I’m and always was a web guy I always like to read about the things to come and HTML5 is a specification that is heading our way very fast. What You are Going to Gain from The Book? The book is about HTML5 which is a specification that is being written in these days and will be the de facto standard in the next years. Since reading all the specifications would...
Detecting HTML5 Features Using Modernizr In the past I wrote a post about using feature detection instead of browser detection when writing web applications/sites. There are frameworks like jQuery that do that for you and all you have to do is to use them. There are other frameworks like Modernizr that are specializing in testing the current browser you use in order to detect whether it supports upcoming features such as HTML5 or CSS3 . What is Modernizr? Taken from Modernizr site: “ Modernizr is...
Entity Framework 4 Session Lately I wasn’t blogging or working because of a very annoying virus. I’m feeling better now so don’t worry I’ll return blogging gradually. I also wanted to tell you about an open house I’m having at Microsoft about Entity Framework 4 . The session will take place at Microsoft ’s office at Ra’anana in Monday 24 of January. In the session I’m going to introduce Entity Framework and then what’s new in Entity Framework 4 . For more details and for registration you can go to...
Sela College Channel (Beta) is Broadcasting My company Sela has created a project which is on air currently. Sela infrastructure team created an internet broadcasting channel which will broadcast content about topics related to computers (focusing on development and testing). In the channel you can watch sessions from open houses we conduct, sessions that were taken from courses that Sela deliver, experts sessions, conferences sessions and more. Also, you can register to the channel and upload your...
My Teched Session (or Why I’m Not Blogging Lately) If you are a reader of my blog probably you have noticed that I didn’t write posts for a while. The reason is obvious… I’m getting ready for my Teched session. My coming session isn’t going to be an introduction to Entity Framework . This time I’m going to talk about considerations and approaches for building N-Tier applications with Entity Framework . I wrote a teaser Hebrew article about the subject which was published in Newsgeek and you can read...
Feature Detection for Better Compatibility in Web Development One of the things I talked about in the session I had about what’s new in IE9 for web developers was how to make your web site/application more compatible. In this post I’ll try to give the highlights from the session. Same Markup When we develop web sites/applications we need to strive to use features that give us the same markup in every browser. When we know about a feature that is compatible in every browser we can use it without any...
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