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 […]
Facebook Places is Accessible via Facebook Graph API PRO
The data collected from each check-in users perform when using the Facebook Places service is collected and is now accessible through the Facebook Graph API. Each single check-in is represented using a single object with its own ID number. The Facebook Graph API allows us to get social data represented using objects connected with each […]
Introduction to Facebook Places SOC
Facebook has announced about a new service that allows its users to update their friends about their geographic location, similarly to GoWalla and Foursquare. Although this new service is a true alternative to GoWalla and Foursquare services, the laters chose to team up with Facebook and have already announced they will connect their services with Facebook […]
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 Android Sensors Simulator PRO
The android platform supports various hardware sensors with which our application can interact. These sensors include (among others) a sensor for the outside temprature, an accelerometer, a compas and a sensor for getting the device orientation. The current standard android emulato bundled with the android SDK doesn’t allow us testing applications that use these sensors. I have recently found the […]
Java SE Core Web Services INFO
I am glad to announce about “Java SE Core Web Services” new course available for free at www.abelski.com. The Extensible Markup Language (XML), a subset of SGML, was originally formed to enable generic SGML to be served, received and processed on the web (as HTML). XML is the natural choice for B2B connectivity. This course focuses on […]
Yaniv Golan’s Pogg.me Success Story INFO
I can still remember meeting Yaniv Golan for the first time (nearly 8 months ago) during the ‘PHP Jump Start’ free lecture I gave in Ness College (Tel-Aviv). It was mainly an introductory lecture about PHP and about the ‘PHP Web Applications Development’ course I deliver. I can still recall Yaniv‘s question at that meeting: […]
XML Professional Course INFO
The Extensible Markup Language (XML), a subset of SGML, was originally formed to enable generic SGML to be served, received and processed on the web (as HTML). XML is the natural choice for B2B connectivity. It allows an easy and accurate data storage as well as B2B interaction between systems developed in different software programming […]
Ness College PHP Web Applications Development Course #1 INFO
Dear Students, This post will be updated concurrently with our course, starting on Wednesday May 27th 2009. Our course includes 20 meetings and is composed of the following small separated courses (modules) available at http://xperato.abelski.com: Introduction to Procedural Programming Introduction to The Internet SQL Fundamentals Introduction to XHTML CSS Fundamentals Introduction to MySQL PHP Fundamentals Introduction […]
DeviceAnywhere Review EXPR
One of the problems I mentioned in my recent post about Java ME was the lack of reliable emulators on which Java ME applications can be tested. As a result of that, during the years the need to have every Java ME application tested on every mobile telephone model has become a MUST. Given the huge growing number of mobile telephones […]