On april 17th 2013 I delivered a free lecture about WordPress. The lecture took place in HIT. You can download the slides I was using during the lecture. You can find (within the slides) the links we mention during the lecture. For a smooth start I recommend on starting with setting a simple web site [...]
On Tuesday November 27th I delivered a practical jump start for websites development using the WordPress open source project. You can find the detailed presentation I was using during the lecture ready for download at http://www.lifemichael.com/presentations/wordpressjumpstart.pdf. I have just complete to prepare a series of short video clips (in hebrew) you can watch for free and [...]
On february 28th I gave a short lecture about word press in Ariel college. During that lecture we overviews the WordPress open source project and practiced a simple installation. People were using their laptops in order to set up a new blog for themselves. The following resources were mentioned during my lecture: www.wordpress.org – main [...]
I have recently completed training material that teaches how to develop plugins for WordPress. The following three video clips explain how to develop different types of WordPress plugins. The source code is available in my WordPress Plugins Development new course. You can find its community version available for free personal and academic usage at www.abelski.com
The Mozzila Seabird project is Billy May‘s perspective for a possible community based open web mobile telephone model. This project was born as part of Mozilla Concept Series, an open forum for sharing ideas, expertise and vision for the future of the web, the Mozilla project and Firefox. The technologies presented in this video clip already [...]
Looking for a decent graphics editor I can use for free in order to avoid the purchase of the hiqh quality Photoshop or Fireworks applications I found the Paint.NET available for free download at www.GetPaint.net. Unlike all other freeware graphics editors I had experience working with so far (e.g. Gimp), I was surprised to find an easy [...]
I met Soso Jana for the first time 9 month’s ago when he came to the ‘PHP Jump Start’ lecture I gave. It was a free lecture I gave towards the ‘PHP Web Applications Development’ course that was about to start. Through that lecture I explained the first steps towards self learning of PHP. In [...]
The Tango Desktop Project assists with creating a consistent graphic user interface. This project can be your source for the small graphics required for completing the development of the user interface of your application. More info can be found at http://tango.freedesktop.org, where you can download all open source graphics that project includes.
Three years ago I met, for the first time, the Joomla open source project. I was amazed of how simple it is to install that software and use it for setting up a web site. Following those exciting moments I found my self exploring the amazing world of free open source projects… most of them [...]
One of the courses I have recently developed at abelski is ‘PHP Open Source Code Projects’. Though it is mainly a technical professional course its introduction slides present more than a few samples for various types of open source products developed in PHP and available for free usage. Those samples include CRM, ERP, CMS and [...]
