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Advanced HTML5 and JavaScript APIs Slide Deck and Demos

Gil Fink — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:55:15 GMT

Advanced HTML5 and JavaScript APIs Slide Deck and Demos

Today I delivered a MSDN session at Microsoft Ra’anana about “Advanced HTML5 and JavaScript API’s”.
First of all, I want to thank all the session attendees!

In the session, I talked about the following HTML5 JavaScript APIs:

Web Storage API
AppCache API
IndexedDB API
File and FileSystem API
CORS
EventSource API
Web Sockets API

I also introduced story.js, the JavaScript library that I’m writing which handle storage APIs. You can read about story.js here. I published the session slide deck and demos in my SkyDrive.

Enjoy!

Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript Third Round – Session Recordings

Gil Fink — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:17:17 GMT

Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript Third Round – Session Recordings

A few days ago I delivered a third round of my HTML5 MSDN session at Microsoft Ra’anana. The recordings of the session are now available on Channel9 (in Hebrew).

Here is the first part and a link to watch it on Channel 9:

Here is the second part and a link to watch it on Channel 9:

Enjoy!

Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript Third Round – Slide Deck and Demos

Gil Fink — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:09:37 GMT

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 from here.

Enjoy!

Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript Session – Round Three

Gil Fink — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:34:40 GMT

Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript Session – Round Three

On October 31 and December 26 last year, I delivered the “Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript” MSDN session. Since both of the sessions were fully booked, I’m going to deliver the same session on February 9 at Microsoft HQ and give those who didn’t attended in the previous sessions the opportunity to hear it. If you are interested in HTML5 you can register here.

See you there!

Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript – Slide Deck and Demos

Gil Fink — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:09:23 GMT

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!

Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript Session – Round Two

Gil Fink — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:42:19 GMT

Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript Session – Round Two

On October 31, I delivered the “Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript” MSDN session. I’m going to deliver the same session on December 26 at Microsoft HQ. If you are interested in attending the session you can register here.

See you there!

Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript MSDN Session

Gil Fink — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:47:18 GMT

Build Modern Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript MSDN Session

HTML5 is making a lot of buzz lately and probably after the BUILD event the buzz will increase. It’s even said that it is going to be a major jump forward in the web and internet world. If you want to find out what is it all about you can attend an open MSDN session that I’ll have at Microsoft Ra’anana. For more details about the session and registration go to this link.

See you there!

MSDN Session: Internet Explorer 9 & HTML5 Videos

Gil Fink — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:27:00 GMT

MSDN Session: Internet Explorer 9 & HTML5 Videos

On March 30th I had a MSDN session about IE9 and HTML5. The session was recorded and can be viewed (in Hebrew) in two parts:

Part 1 - available for watching in Channel9
Part 2 - available for watching in Channel9

Enjoy!

IE9 and HTML5 Session Slide Deck and Demos

Gil Fink — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:31:09 GMT

IE9 and HTML5 Session Slide Deck and Demos

Today I had the pleasure to deliver a MSDN session about IE9 and HTML5 at Microsoft Ra’anana.
First of all I want to thank all the attendees who came to hear the session.
In the session I talked about IE9, Feature Detection and Modernizr, CSS3, HTML5 and more. The session was recorded and will be available soon on the internet (in Hebrew). You can download the session’s slide deck and demos from here.

Enjoy!

MSDN Subscriber Giveaway Form is Closed

Gil Fink — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:31:28 GMT

MSDN Subscriber Giveaway Form is Closed

The registration form for the MSDN Ultimate Subscribers giveaways is closed.
As I wrote in the previous post I will choose the new owners of the subscriptions after the form will be closed and the names are:

Adiel Sharabi
Eli Shalom

Thanks for all the participants who filled the form and didn’t get the giveaways. I hope that even so you will continue and contribute to the development community.

MSDN Subscribers Giveaways Reminder

Gil Fink — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:19:00 GMT

MSDN Subscribers Giveaways Reminder

In a previous post I wrote about two MSDN subscribers which I’m going to give away. As I wrote I’m giving this valuable gift to people in the Israeli development community that will be committed to volunteering at least 100 hours to develop open source projects during the following year.

This post is only a reminder that on the 26 of September (in four days) the applying form will be closed.
Terms of participating:

You need to be an Israeli (because if you will be selected I’ll be able to give you the subscriber personally).
You are committed to volunteer to at least 100 hours to help developing an open source project during the following year.
Filling up the applying form.

Thanks for those who already applied!

MSDN Ultimate Subscriber Giveaways

Gil Fink — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:26:41 GMT

MSDN Ultimate Subscriber Giveaways

A few days ago I got three MSDN subscribers for MSDN Ultimate to give away as I see fit.

The subscriptions allow their owner to download and own full featured versions of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, as well as most of Microsoft software. The retail value of such subscriber is approximately $12,000. Also, the subscriptions are valid for one year of use.
So I thought to myself how do I intend to give away such a valuable gift? do I intend to give it in a session I deliver in a user group? or maybe I’m going to give it to one of my friends?
I discarded these ideas since I wanted to give away these subscribers to people who will deserve them.
I decided to give out two subscriptions to people in the Israeli development community that will be committed to volunteering at least 100 hours to develop open source projects during the following year. This way I’m giving the subscriptions to people who are willing to give back to the development community.
Terms of participating:

You need to be an Israeli (because if you will be selected I’ll be able to give you the subscriber personally).
You are committed to volunteer to at least 100 hours to help developing an open source project during the following year.
Filling up the applying form.

The applying form will be open until the 26 of September. After this date I’ll choose two people that will be given the subscribers.
Open source projects that need help can also appoint me through my Blog contact form.

Stay tuned for more details and details about the third subscription.

My Article on This Week On Channel 9 Show

Gil Fink — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:07:00 GMT

My Article on This Week On Channel 9 Show

I got an email yesterday from Guy Burstein that pointed me to the “This week On
Channel 9” show which includes a reference to one of the articles I published in
The Code Project site. The article “How To Use Unity Container In ASP.NET MVC Framework” explains how to use Unity IoC container inside an ASP.NET MVC application. You can see the show here. They mention the article about 09:28 minutes after the show starts.
Very flattering.

New Tracing and Caching Wrapper Providers for Entity Framework

Gil Fink — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:26:03 GMT

New Tracing and Caching Wrapper Providers for Entity Framework

Yesterday two new Entity Framework
Wrapper Providers were added to
MSDN Code Gallery. The new providers:

EFTracingProvider – adds the ability to
log SQL commands that are executed against
the data storage
EFCachingProvider – adds query results cache to Entity Framework

These providers will add more power to Entity Framework especially the
caching provider that also enables using Microsoft Distributed Cache
codename "Velocity".
You can look at the announcement in Jaroslaw Kowalski’s blog and get some
details here. You can download the providers from here.
Thanks to Guy Burstein for pointing out this release.

ADO.NET Entity Framework Extensions Library

Gil Fink — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:25:31 GMT

ADO.NET Entity Framework Extensions Library

As part of the MSDN Code Gallery you
can find the ADO.NET Entity Framework
Extensions library. The ADO.NET Entity
Framework Extensions includes
“utilities that make querying stored procedures,
creating typed results from DB data readers and
state tracking external data much easier in the
Entity Framework. A sample application demonstrates several patterns using these
utilities, including stored procedures with multiple result sets, materialization of
CLR types, and registering entities in the Entity Framework state manager” (the
description is taken from the library’s page).
The following utilities are included in the current release of the
ADO.NET Entity Framework Extensions library:

Execution of store commands via the ObjectContext.
Connection lifetime management.
State management of entities from external sources.
Materialization of arbitrary CLR types given a data reader or DB command.
Stored procedure mapping:
- Multiple result sets.
- Column renames, polymorphic results and nested structures via the
  materialization service.
Getting and setting key values for entity references.
Rewrite InvocationExpressions in LINQ queries and expressions.

You can download the library from here.
Enjoy!