The facemoods application allows us to embed cute emoticons into the textual status messages we post in our facebook account. We can place the small emoticons into our status, chat, messages and comments. The facemoods browser plugin is automatically installed into the web browser once installing the facemoods software application on our computer. Unlike the [...]
The possibility to develop web browsers plugins generates new possibilities and new business models. The pringles overshare web site allows end users to download and install a web browser plugin that adds the overshare button next to every like button we see when browsing the facebook social network. Although the end user might think he is [...]
Facebook has announced about a new service that allows its users to update their friends about their geographic location, similarly to GoWalla and Foursquare. Although this new service is a true alternative to GoWalla and Foursquare services, the laters chose to team up with Facebook and have already announced they will connect their services with Facebook [...]
I can still recall that summer. It was August 2002 when I attended a meeting with one of the biggest wireless carriers in Israel. They were looking for a software development company to develop games and applications for their new mobile telephones. The programming language was Objective C. Given the rising popularity of Java ME [...]
In this post I am trying to put together my top ten recommendations for learning software programming languages in an effective way. 1. Overcome The English Barrier The technical professional software development training material is in English. If you are still having problems with reading technical material in English you must overcome this difficulty. The sooner [...]
The facebook platform allows us to integerate our web site with their platform by embedding its social plugins into our web page. Embedding a social plugin into a web page is done by copying a short code. Most of the available plugins can be embedded using either a simple HTML or a simple XFBML code. [...]
During Spring 2010 I was teaching an academic Java EE course in Shenkar. This course is part of Shenkar’s BSc 4 years academic program in Software Engineering. The course covered various advance topics in Java EE, such as Servlets/JSP, JSP Custom Tags, JSTL, JavaServer Faces, JPA, Hibernate, Jasper Reports, Web Services, EJB, JDBC and more. [...]
I have recently completed to develop several video clips that explain fundamental topics in this programming language. The clips were developed as part of the ‘Scala Fundamentals’ course I am working on. This course is available for free personal and academic usage at www.abelski.com.
I was recently surprised to find out that C# supports the ‘goto’ command. I tend to believe that most of the readers of this post have already heard during their lessons in the university that using the ‘goto’ command is very bad, they should never use it and that is also the very same reason [...]
The Apache Commons open source project includes various useful components we can use in our code. One of them is the FileUpload, that allows us to develop a Java Servlet (or a JSP document) that handles files uploads. The following video clip presents a small code sample for handling a file upload coming from an [...]
