On our tenth Software Craftsmanship meeting I was very excited to host Corey Haines . Corey flew to Israel on Tuesday just to conduct 2 code retreats on Wednesday and Thursday so obviously he was a bit tired when we gathered for the meeting. Corey gave a short talk, concentrating on reminding us what is the value for the business that we should provide. Here it is: After the talk we broke into pairs in order to hand interpreter a Piet language. Piet is a stack based language whose programs are bitmaps...

During the Google Developer Day in Israel I met Ade Oshineye the co-author of the Apprenticeship Patterns for an informal talk on his book. Unfortunately, my battery didn't allow me to record a longer session, but we did cover among others what is Software Craftsmanship, how Ade and Dave started to write the book and whether we can define mastership patterns... In addition, after the recording we had a great time in continuing the discussion on various topics that deserve their own blog post...

Adding Video Element on the Fly and Drawing it to a Canvas Element One of the requirements in a project that I work on lately is to create on the fly video elements and to show them inside a canvas element. This post will show you how you can do it. Adding Video Element on the Fly The HTML5 Video element is a DOM element. As any other DOM element you can create it using the document.createElement function and then to supply its relevant properties. After the creation of the element you will have...

Last month I presented a short lecture about Fostering Software Craftsmanship (or How to Build Successful Teams) to one of the top notch technological units in IDF. The lecture is a hybrid of management and engineering skills. It focuses on the dissonance between the needed software engineering skills in the industry and what happens in the reality. The main idea in the talk is that using Software Craftsmanship principles as individuals and as TEAMs makes it possible to create high quality groups...

Hi All, This is the interview I gave Intel last month at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco. http://software.intel.com/en-us/videos/black-belt-developer-asaf-shelly-at-idf-2011/ It has a few hints to future innovations. Asaf

ההרצאה האחרונה שלי בכנס מפתחי ווב במיקרוסופט עלתה לאויר בצ’אנל9 Win8, HTML5 and JS – Future of client technologies. החלק הראשון החלק השני בחלק הראשון אני מדבר על סילברלייט ועל חלונות 8 – שבוע לפני ההכרזה על חלונות 8 בכנס בילד בארצות הברית, ומביא סקירה על סילברלייט, ועל כך שנראה לכאורה שמיקרוסופט נוטשת אותו (ואולי אפילו את דוט נט עצמה), ועל פי מידע שדלף ממיקרוסופט בחודשים האחרונים אני מסביר למה זה רחוק מנכון, ולמה חלונות 8 זה הדבר הכי טוב שקרה למפתחי דוט נט בעשר שנים האחרונות. בחלק השני אני מראה איך...

Tweet In my previous post Kinect Reception–Introduction I’ve talked about Kinect Reception and What it is, in this post I’m going to talk more about How the Reception Application works. Using Kinect events I can see when user enters the frame, using two timers I can check if the user is just passing by or is standing in front of the camera. The below image describe the application flow, at the beginning the application will show random videos, when the Kinect Skeleton Event will raise then the Serious...

Tweet Since Microsoft has released the Kinect.NET SDK I wrote many articles on that subject: Kinect – Getting Started – Become The Incredible Hulk Kinect – Calculator – Adjust Skeleton Movements To Mouse More on Kinect I think Kinect it very cool and I’m searching for more projects and good ideas for Kinect, couple of days ago I talked with my friend Guy Burstein and he came with an idea for Kinect application, he said what if people will enter the Microsoft Israel reception and instead of video...

לפני כשבועיים ערכתי במסגרת ה - Expert Days סמינר על ארכיטקטורה של מערכות וביצועים שלהן. אז רגע אחרי שדנו ב משברים ואיך יוצאים מהם , רציתי לשתף אתכם במצגת ובכמה תובנות בנושאי ארכיטקטורה. האם הארכיטקטורה באמת קובעת? קודם כל אזהרה ! לא משנה איזו ארכיטקטורה תבחרו, השאלה היא כמה מהר תתאוששו מהחלטה שגויה וכיצד תוכלו לשנות תוכניות עקב צורך שעולה מ הצד העסקי של החברה . לשם כך תצטרכו לבנות קבוצת פיתוח מנצחת , לבחור כלי פיתוח תומכים ולהטמיע מתודולוגיות פיתוח נכונות כמו Code Review שעליה תוכלו ללמוד בפוסט אז...

In the last screencasts we've seen how to use and implement IValueConverter and how to use Multi-Binding for advanced data binding scenarios. This time we continue with advanced binding and explore the benefits of PriorityBinding, a useful binding gem feature that lets you define multiple sources for your binding target value, with priorities. Please notice that the screencast was recorded in Hebrew, but the demo is clear enough to be watched without understanding a word. You can watch the screencast...