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VSLive Chicago Here I Come In about a few hours I’m starting a trip to Chicago to attend VSLive Chicago conference. It is going to be the second time I’m speaking in VSLive conference and I’m excited (the previous one had been in VSLive Redmond 2012). This time I’m having three back-to-back sessions at the same day (Wednesday). The session topics are: Working with Client-Side HTML5 Storage Technologies HTML is the markup language that every web developer uses in order to structure and present content...
JavaScript Libraries are Not Your Front-End Architecture This is not going to be a post about architecture but more about MHO. Lately, I’m asked to evaluate the architecture of small to big front-end solutions. There is big buzz around front-end development and it drives a lot of companies to build client-side solutions without considering how to build them. One of the misunderstandings I’m facing a lot is calling the existence of JavaScript libraries in the solution a solution architecture. Sorry...
New Speaking Engagement – VSLive Chicago Lately, I have been chosen to speak at VSLive Chicago conference. The conference will take place in May 13-16 at Hilton Chicago, USA. This is going to be the second time that I’m speaking in VSLive conferences and I’m very excited. In the conference I’ll have three sessions: Working with Client-Side HTML5 Storage Technologies HTML is the markup language that every web developer uses in order to structure and present content in the Internet. HTML5 is the standard...
My Speaking Engagements Until End of 2012 If you want to meet me in person and talk about development/technology or any thing else, you can catch me in the following speaking engagements I have until the end of 2012. So here it goes: DevConnections Between October 29 and November 1, I’ll attend DevConnections conference which will take place at the Bellagio hotel, Las Vegas, NV, USA. During the conference I’ll have two sessions: Using Communication and Messaging APIs in HTML5 Applications HTML5 defines...
Hard Interview Questions? Last week I’ve interviewed a few candidates for a web developer position. Most of the candidates’ resumes indicated that they know JavaScript and jQuery and worked as web developers for at least 3 years. During the interview I wrote a piece of HTML on a whiteboard. This is the HTML: < body > < div id ="div1" > < img src ="pic.png" /> < ul > < li > Hello </ li > < li > World </ li > </ ul > < input...
Microsoft Courses 40003A and 40004A Released In the last few months, I was co-authoring (with Amit Raz , Erez Harari , Alon Levi and Sebastian Pederiva ) two Microsoft learning courses: Course 40003A: Programming Windows 8 Metro Style Apps using HTML5: Early Lab Collection Course 40004A: Programming Windows 8 Metro Style Apps using C#: Early Lab Collection The courses are a three-day instructor-led courses. they provides students with a first look at the features of Metro style app development for...
New Speaking Engagement – DevConnections Lately, I have been chosen to speak at the DevConnections conference . The conference will take place between October 29 and November 1 at the Bellagio hotel, Las Vegas, NV, USA. I’ll have two sessions in the HTML5 Connections : Using Communication and Messaging APIs in HTML5 Applications HTML5 defines new standards for communication and messaging between the browser and the server. In this session we will deep dive into HTML5 messaging APIs such as postMessage...
The story Begins Lately, I’ve decided to write my own JavaScript library for educational and experimental purposes. The idea came to me while I was creating a demo to a session that I will deliver in the near future. In the session, I wanted to show how to use different JavaScript storage types and didn’t wanted to change my code every time for every storage type. So I’ve created a library to handle client-side data storages in simple and consistent way. The library is called story.js and its first...
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...
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...
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