This coming summer semester (Spring 2012) I am going to deliver a basic Java EE course in HIT. The course is part of the HIT Computers Science BSc academic program. The main topics we are going to cover in this course are: Java Servlets & JavaServer Pages Java Server Faces Java Persistence API Java EE Web Services [...]
This semester (Spring 2012) I deliver a basic Java EE course in Shenkar. I deliver it as part of Shenkar Software Engineering BSc academic program. The main topics we are going to cover in this course are: Java Servlets & JavaServer Pages Java Server Faces Java Persistence API Java EE Web Services In addition, we are going [...]
In December 2011 I will start to deliver a professional course for developing cross platform web applications in PHP. I deliver this course through the external studies unit of HIT. The programming language selected for the server side is PHP. Most of the course focuses on PHP. The rest of the hours are allocated for complementary [...]
I have recently decided to start using webinars for delivering my knowledge and experience. I will deliver my first professional webinar on December 4th. It will be kind of a PHP Jump Start and apart of PHP it will cover various web technologies such as JavaScript, Ajax, HTML5 and jQueryMobile. During the webinar itself I [...]
During the coming semester (Autumn 2011) I am going to deliver a detailed Java EE course in Tel-Hai. This course is delivered as part of Tel-Hai Computers Science BSc academic program. We are going to cover the following Java EE topics: Java Servlets & JSP Java Server Faces Java Persistence API We are going to [...]
We can easily pass initialization parameters from the HTML code that invokes the Silverlight application to the Silverlight application itself. The parameters should be placed as key value pairs, while the keys are their names and the values are the values of each one of them, as a string which is the value of a [...]
During summer 2011 I taught in Tel-Aviv Jaffa Academic college a course about hybrid applications development for android devices. During the course my students learned how to exploit today newest web technologies in the development of hybrid application for android. We covered JavaScript libraries, such as jQueryMobile and SenchaTouch that enable you to develop user [...]
The PhoneGap library allows us to develop hybrid applications that render JavaScript code that interacts with the device as if it was an ordinary native applications. The following video clips explains the first steps. The possibility to write code in JavaScript that interacts with the device itself while using a JavaScript API identical for all [...]
I was recently asked ‘what is your recommendation for the first programming language to teach in a three years academic program?’. Thinking about this question, it was clear to me the programming language itself is just a tool and the topics been taught are the ones that should be in question. Unlike many others, I believe [...]
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 [...]
