The Future of Silverlight and Flash PRO
Trying to forcast which technology will rise and which technology will fall is a mission impossible. The technology world is too complex driven by away too many forces, both technology and social. In addition, it is important to remember that each and every technology stands on its own and the case with one technology isn’t […]
HIT Android Spring 2011 ACD
During this semester (Spring 2011) I deliver an academic course dedicated to the Android platform. The course takes place in HIT as part of HIT Computers Science BSc academic program. The topics this course covers include the following: Introduction Application Resources The Intent Concept User Interface Controls Layout Managers Menus and Dialogs Touchscreens Style Definition App Widgets […]
HIT Android Autumn 2010 ACD
During the coming semester (Autumn 2010) I am going to deliver an academic course dedicated to the Android platform. The course will take place in HIT and I deliver it as part of HIT Computers Science BSc academic program. The topics this course covers include the following: Introduction Application Resources The Intent Concept User Interface Controls […]
The Objective C Popularity BIZ
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 […]
The Android Internals PRO
The main programming language for Android applications development is Java. As of Android SDK 1.5 the possibility to develop native code in C\C++ exists as well. The integration between the Java part and the native one is accomplished using JNI. I have recently chose to explore these possibilities and summarize my findings in a dedicated course available for free […]
Android Fundamentals INFO
I am glad to announce about the new version of the ‘Android Fundamentals’ course I have recently developed. The professional commercial version is available at www.xperato.com. The community version is available for free personal and academic usage at www.abelski.com. I will be more than happy to get your feedback! The new version covers all the new stuff […]
The Israeli Computer Science Teachers Conference 2009 INFO
Dear Teachers, Thanks for attending my lecture about ‘Applications Development for Mobile Telephone’ in Ben Gurion University. You can find the slides from my lecture at slides. During the lecture I mention several URL addresses that are not shown in the slides. These addresses include the following: www.abelski.com This web site (english) offers online courses I develop […]
PHP Jump Start – Free Introductory Lecture INFO
This Thursday (July 30th 2009) at 17:30 I am going to lecture about the PHP Programming Language. This lecture will be delivered in Ness College (Tel-Aviv, Kiryat Atidim). It will be delivered in Hebrew and is free of charge (subject to pre registration via Yaniv Zlatin at Yaniv.Zlatin@ness.com). During the lecture I will go over PHP […]
PHP. The Business Perspective. BIZ
PHP is one of the most popular programming languages used for web applications development. Millions of developers world wide use it and is one of the most popular programming languages used by open source communities. Being endorsed by leading players in the IT market, such as IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, PHP might be the ideal […]
Lambda Expressions in Android Studio
The Android platform doesn’t provide a full support for the new features introduced by Java 7 & 8. One of them is Nevertheless, the developers of the Android Studio IDE chose to provide their own implementation for lambda expressions. When folding the code that includes the instantiation of an anonymous inner class that implements an […]