Android 4.4 Professional HIT November 2013 INFO
On Wednesday November 6th I will start to deliver a professional course for learning how to develop applications in Java for the android platform. The course includes 140 academic hours, it takes place in HIT, its cost is 5800 shekels and it splits into three parts. The first part covers the topics in Java required […]
Autumn 2013 Free Lectures in HIT INFO
On wednesday october 9th I am going to deliver 4 short lectures (40min each) in HIT: JavaScript Jump Start (1800-1840), PHP Jump Start (1900-1940), HTML5 Jump Start (2000-2040) and Dart Jump Start (2100-2140). Attending the lectures is free. You just need to reserve your seat in advance. the lectures will be delivered in hebrew. The […]
Google Charts Jump Start PRO
The Google Charts JavaScript library provides us with the capability to create various types of charts. The Google Charts library is available online hosted on Google servers. The following code sample shows how we can create a simple pie chart using the Google Charts JavaScript library. <html> <head> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://www.google.com/jsapi”></script> <script type=”text/javascript”> google.load(“visualization”, “1”, […]
UAParser.js Jump Start PRO
There are many cases in which we need to get exact information about the client on which the code we wrote in JavaScript is running. Getting the information we need out of the user-agent is not straight forward. Using the UAParser.js lightweight JavaScript library it becomes much simpler. The following demo shows how simple it […]
Microtext.js Jump Start PRO
The Microtext.js open source JavaScript library provides us with useful functions for working with texts. Using this library is fairly simple. It doesn’t require any other library. The following code sample shows how simple it is to use the functions this library provides us with. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>microtext.js demo</title> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”microtext.min.js”></script> </head> […]
Play Framework Jump Start in Scala PRO
I have recently started to work on a new course for learning how to use the Play Framework. Its community version is already available for free personal usage at http://abelski.lifemichael.com. So far I have completed the first two topics: Introduction and Jump Start. I believe that if you consider learning this framework then you might […]
Using Apache DB as In-Memory Database PRO
If you are already familiar with using the Apache DB I believe you will find it very simple to start using it as an in-memory database. You just need to change connection string you are using. Using Apache DB as an internal database running together with our application in the same process you just need […]
Open Source In-Memory Databases INFO
Using an in-memory database we get most of the data saved on the main memory instead of having it saved using the hard disk storage mechanism. The main advantage of using an in memory database is the excellent performance we can achieve. There are many in-memory databases we can use. Some of them are available […]
Parsing JSON in JavaScript PRO
There are many cases in which we need to parse JSON data our code receives. When writing our code in JavaScript parsing the JSON data is fairly simple. We just need to invoke the parse() function on the JSON object, as in the following code sample. The JSON object is available in most modern web […]
Collie.js Jump Start PRO
The Collie.js JavaScript library allows us to create simple 2D graphics animations. The Collie.js library indirectly uses HTML5 canvas based graphics capabilities. The following code sample shows how simple it is to use this library. The animation uses a simple image file. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>collie.js demo</title> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://jindo.dev.naver.com/collie/deploy/collie.min.js”></script> </head> <body> <div id=”drawingarea”></div> […]