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Announcing - 20481A and 20484A Microsoft Official Courses I’m pleased to announce the release of two new Microsoft Official Courses (MOCs): Course 20481A : Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps Using HTML5 and JavaScript Course 20484A : Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps Using C# Both of the courses were created by Sela Group and I had the pleasure of co-authoring course 20481A. This is the third Microsoft Official Course that I’m co-authoring. The previous ones were: Course 10953A...
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...
Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript Third Round – Slide Deck and Demos Today, I delivered a third round of my HTML5 MSDN session at Microsoft HQ. I want to thank all the attendees who attended and heard about the transition that the web eco-system is going through. The session agenda was as follows: What is HTML5? The New Elements Migration to HTML5 HTML5 APIs (Canvas, Web Storage, IndexedDB, AppCache, Geolocation and Web Workers) CSS3 The slide deck and demos can be downloaded...
Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript – Slide Deck and Demos Today, I delivered a second round of my HTML5 MSDN session at Microsoft HQ. I want to thank all the attendees who attended and heard about the transition that the web eco-system is going through. The session agenda was as follows: What is HTML5? The New Elements Migration to HTML5 HTML5 APIs (Canvas, Web Storage, AppCache, Geolocation and Web Workers) CSS3 The slide deck and demos can be downloaded from here . Enjoy...
Keep Users Coming Back With Desktop Notifications for Web Apps Article A few days ago, an article I wrote for DZone web site was published in their HTML5 Microzone . The article is called “ Keep Users Coming Back With Desktop Notifications for Web Apps ” and it discusses desktop notifications and in particular IE9 Pinned Sites and HTML5 Notification API. You can read the article here . Enjoy! CodeProject
Third Year in a Row Yesterday I received the mail from Microsoft that congratulate me for being a Microsoft MVP for the third time. It’s is a honor for me to get the award three years in a row. This time the receiving of the mail was somewhat weird since I saw on Twitter that people got the mail and I didn’t get it… Apparently, my Gmail mail account (which is my personal mail account) “thought” that the congratulation mail is spam and moved it into the spam directory. This of course shows the true...
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...
Microsoft MVP for the Second Time A few minutes ago I got the mail from Microsoft that informed me that I’m a Microsoft MVP for the second time. The mail is written as follows: “Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Data Platform Development technical communities during the...
Web Platform Installer – Web Installation on Steroids One of the most annoying things that I’m sometimes get stuck with is to install my machine with the latest components. Trying to grab all the installation packages for every application or library that I need can be a very painful thing and also consumes a lot of time. This is the reason that a tool like Web Platform Installer was very welcome to my arsenal of tools. In the post I’ll describe what is the Web Platform Installer and show a scenario...
MIX10 – Summary Home sweet home! I arrived today back to Israel after a trip of six days to the MIX10 conference (three days conference and almost three days “on the roads”). To tell the truth, I was a little disappointed from the conference. I’ve expected more relevant information and less recycling of things that I already know. As you know (if you followed the MIX10 ), there were announcements about Windows Phone 7 , Silverlight 4 , OData protocol, IE9 and more. After being at the conference and...
MIX10 – Last Day Wrap up The last day of MIX has arrived and in this day we haven’t had a keynote session. The first session I went for was Building Great Standards-Based Websites for the Big Wide World with Microsoft ASP.NET 4 . A very big title for a session about XHTML, usability and accessibility which are things that you are require to do when you develop major sites. The lecturers showed an Australian site which was developed with standards. Also they showed an nice open source framework that...
MIX10 – Second Day Wrap up This is the wrapping up of the second day I had in the MIX10 conference . In the keynotes Dean Hachamovitch talked about IE9 and how it will support HTML5 standard. There will be a lot of improvements in IE9 which include: performance, standards support, GPU powered HTML5 , an IE9 platform and the punch line hardware accelerated HTML5 video. After Dean Scott Guthrie talked about the Microsoft web platform which include a lot of enhancements and there were demos of VS2010...
MIX 10 – First Day Wrap up As I wrote earlier this week I’m attending the MIX conference at Las Vegas. This is a summary of the first day I had in the conference. The day started with a keynote session by Scott Guthrie . The keynotes included information about Silverlight 4 , Windows Phone 7 and more. Lots of cool demos and exciting news for web developers. After the keynote I went to the Building Offline/Cache mode web Apps using Sync Framework session with Mike Clark . The news here are the OData...
Entity Framework Evolution in .NET 4 at DevAcademy4 As I wrote yesterday DevAcademy4 is coming next month. My part in the conference will be a breakout session on EF4 . In the session we will explore the major changes that EF4 offers and how they can contribute to develop better data access layers. There are other great sessions in the conference which you can review from here . See you there!
Developer Academy 4 is Coming The biggest Israeli .Net developers conference is coming. Today the conference site of Developer Academy 4 was launched and you can sign in to the conference from here . You can also register as a fan in Facebook from here for online updates. This year the conference will be focusing on Visual Studio 2010 , Windows Azure and Silverlight . There are going to be many breakout sessions and also mini sessions which will include only demos. The conference will occur in March...
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