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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...
A New Professional Website Lately, I’ve decided to create my own professional website. In the website I’ll update the public courses I’m going to teach, speaking engagements, my articles links, my publications link and more. You can take a look at the site in the following link: www.gilfink.net . If you have any feedback please contact me.
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 DevConnections Trip Was Cancelled First of all, I want to start with an apology to the DevConnections attendees for not making it to the conference. The arrival to the conference was very important to me and I had no luck. On Saturday, I changed my scheduled flight to a later flight this week because of the news about Sandy hurricane. Both the original flight and the new flight were cancelled, and due to that I couldn’t attend the conference. As a speaker, I feel awful because I worked very hard...
Fourth Year as Microsoft MVP Two days ago, I was awarded for the 4th year as a Microsoft MVP. I’m now an ASP.NET/IIS MVP since the Data Platform Development expertise was retired. It’s is a honor for me to get the award for the fourth year. I want to thanks everyone in the community that read my blog, attended my presentations and finally follow me on twitter and other social media networks. Also, I would like to thank the following people - Guy Burshtein , Maor David , and last and not least to...
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...
Wrapping up the VSLive Redmond Week A few days ago I had the opportunity to deliver two sessions in the VSLive Redmond conference. In the conference I delivered two different sessions: Working with Client-Side HTML5 Storages – slide deck and demos are available to download from this link . Not Just a Designer: Code First in Entity Framework – slide deck and demos are available to download from this link . I want to thank all of the attendees in both of the sessions. I had the opportunity to meet...
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...
Consultants are Evil? First of all I want to confess – I’m a consultant and I’m working as a consultant for a few years. This post is written as a response for a conversation that I had with a friend today. The friend and I worked for more than two years together before I became a consultant and he learned to respect my opinions. The Conversation Details In the conversation, my friend asked me if some solution is practical. In his workplace he is working with another respectful consultant which is...
HTML5 and Government Organizations Session Slide Deck Yesterday I had the pleasure of delivering a session in the HTML5Fest conference. The session subject was about HTML5 and government organizations . I want to thank all the attendees who came to hear me. The topics that I talked about included: What is HTML5? Government Organizations Main Challenges HTML5 and Government Organizations If you are interested in the session slide deck you can download it from here . CodeProject
Update Your Windows Phone 7 to Mango Release Today Two days ago I updated my Windows Phone 7 (HTC HD7 device) to the Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) even though the update didn’t arrive to my device from my device carrier. If you ask yourself how I did it, the answer is simple. I used a hack. You can read about this hack in this PC magazine article – How to Force Your Phone to Upgrade to Windows Phone Mango . Pay attention that it might take a few tries up until this hack will succeed to operate (it took...
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