On June 30th I am going to lecture about Hybrid Applications for Mobile Telephones in Open Source 2011 conference. You can download the slides. If you have any professional question following my lecture please don’t hesitate and place it as a comment to this post.
Today I deliver a short lecture, kind of a jump start, for those who are interested in doing their first steps with F#. The lecture takes place in Microsoft Israel (Raanana). Doing your first steps with F# you will find everything you need to download and install on your computer available for free at www.fsharp.net. [...]
Google has just introduced Google+, a new alternative for the facebook platform. The user interface amazingly resembles the one we know in facebook. In the meantime, Google+ is limited for invited people only. Google+ includes the following three main components: Circles, Hangouts and Sparks. In addition, it provides with a simple and easy navigation to its other [...]
PHP Zend Studio allows us to specify a code format profile we want our code to be formatted with. Once a format profile was set we can easily change the code format of every PHP source code file we open by pressing CTRL+Shift+F. The following video clip shows how to do it.
I chose to write this post for the benefit of all people who are not familiar with hybrid applications for mobile telephones. In the past, applications for mobile telephones were developed similarly to applications we install on our personal computer. When the case was iPhone they were developed in Objective-C. When the case was Windows [...]
I have recently completed to develop a course that overviews CSS3 capabilities. CSS3 is the latest standard for CSS. It extends the well known capabilities of the previous versions. Some of the more important new capabilities relate to transitions, transforms and animations. This course includes the following topics: Introduction Borders Background Texts Transforms Transitions Animations Columns You can [...]
The Azure platform allows us to store data through several “no sql” services. One of them is tables. Each table holds entities. Unlike tables on relational databases, these tables don’t follow a schema. Each entity they hold can be with a different number of properties (similarly to MongoDB). The following video clip shows how simple [...]
The Azure Storage Explorer is one of many tools that allows you to manage the data you store on the Azure platform. You can download it for free at http://azurestorageexplorer.codeplex.com. The following video clip shows how simple it is to use it.
Similarly to software programming languages as Java and C#, PHP also allows us to write code that finds information about objects and classes. Whether the class was already known during the development phase or was created afterwards, using reflection we can get detailed information about the class and even invoke its methods or access its [...]
PHP 5.3 allows us to group the classes, the constants and the functions we define into separated groups, also known as namespaces. Doing so we can cope with possible names collisions. Unlike previous PHP versions that introduced new features their syntax derive from Java (e.g. the extends and implements keywords), this time the developers of the PHP [...]
