WordPress Jump Start Lecture INFO
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 […]
Simple Zend Framework Jump Start PRO
I have recently created a simple demo for using the PHP Zend Framework. The simple demo was prepared in order to assist my students doing their first steps using this framework. The demo includes few controllers and it basically shows a list of books and a list of reviews for each one of them. In […]
The Israeli Guide to C# INFO
During the past 2 years I have been working on a short practical guide for learning C#. The guide includes texts and video clips. The texts were written in Hebrew. The video clips were taken in Hebrew as well. You can find it at www.CSharpBook.co.il. I have recently upgraded this website.
Silverlight Initialization Parameters PRO
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 […]
Please Don’t Send Me Professional Questions
For most people, this post will most likely seem strange and for some, it might even look a bit of an arrogant one. For a very small group of people, the problem I am about to describe in this post might sound familiar. I have always (and still am) enjoy assisting others and sharing my knowledge and […]
Tango Open Source Graphics INFO
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.
Java EE & .NET Frameworks BIZ
Those who know me and especially my former students will certainly be surprised reading this post. Though it doesn’t try to erase the clear advantages the Java EE platform enjoys comparing with .NET (from a business perspective), this post surely does show respect to Microsoft’s business management. They surely know how to run their business. […]
Web Browsers Speed Comparison TECH
I chose to initiate a short test and browse using each one of today popular web browsers (Safari, Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome) at www.abelski.com, a relatively heavy website. Safari and Chrome seem to be the fastest web browsers. Up to 4 times faster than Internet Explorer. The next fastest browser (right after those two) is Opera. You […]
Joomla Case Studies Year 2008 INFO
During 2008 I was involved with the development of several Joomla CMS web sites. The Joomla CMS is an open source project available for free usage. You can download it for free, set it on your server and start running your own web site. The Joomla CMS allows managing the web site content via a comfortable web based […]
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 […]