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Google Cloud Endpoints And HTML5 In Hebrew

This post is a short one… It’s contain the same talk I gave last week but, this time it’s in hebrew. So for the millions of front-end developers that wish to hear this in hebrew. This is the ‘one time only’ you can enjoy it.

Btw, this week we had a very cool event in Campus TLV on ‘Multi Screen-X’ world. So tomorrow, we are going to air the first talk from these two packed days.

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Google Cloud Endpoints And HTML5

GDL-ILToday in Google Developers Live Israel I’ve spoke about Google Cloud Endpoints and new HTML5 APIs. Before we started I’ve mention that hot news from yesterday about G+ sing-in and I suggest you to check it out.

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Women Tech Markers With Yael Karov of Ginger

GDL-IL women techmakers giger softwareToday we published the second episode of GDL-IL Women Tech-makers with Yael Karov (Founder and CEO of Ginger Software). Gingre is a service built from Karov’s 20+ years of experience in the field of natural language processing and machine learning that helps users improve their online English language communication. Here the discussion was with Michal Segalov and Dana Gabel (Software Engineer in Google), about Yael’s experiance in commercial launch of innovative products to market.

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DevConTLV Summary

DevConTLVLast week, I had the pleasure to present at DevConTLV for the 3rd time. It a great conferance that bring to Tel Aviv some rock-stars from companies like: Github, CouchDB, Amazon and many others. The location (Ozen Bar) is a cool place where you can hear live music during the nights and drink good coffee during the mornings. So it is a natural location to such an event. Ahh… and yep, the opening of the day was done with a live rock band! (just like JSConf). Continue reading

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Web Components Talk At HTML5-IL Meetup

Chrome love HTML5Last week I had the pleasure to take part in the first HTML5-IL meetup. If you are a front-end developer that live in Israel you should try and come to this group events. Lots of great developers, designers and others that share the same passion for the web. Great stuff. Unfortunately  I didn’t have more then 30min for this new, hot, complicated topic. So I hope to have more time to cover some of the aspects during the next meetup. From the four main aspects we touched only on the first two: Continue reading

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HTML5 APIs At Google Developer Group Haifa (Hebrew)

html5-cakeIt was the first meeting of GDG Haifa at the technion. I gave the first talk about HTML5 (new) APIs that front-end developers should leverage. It was a good kick-off event and it seems that this group will produce many more quality events. You can check the demos and the slide at my project site.
Enjoy.

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UX Drinking Game On Google Developers Live Israel (Hebrew)

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Last week we have a great talk in Campus TLV during our work with startups. This time is was in hebrew… on UX and how startups should think on their MVP and the UX of it.
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Web Components On Google Developers Live Israel (Part 2)

Today, I covered web components a bit deeper then the last episode. Since it’s a new, hot, complicated and fun topic it should get more time, right? There are four main pieces that provide this technology. We touched only  the first two. We spoke about templates (define a piece of markup that are inert but can be activated for use later). Think on a new object you are using out of your class definition. Then, we spoke about decorators – which apply templates to let CSS affect rich visual and behavioral changes to documents. Both ‘Custom elements‘ and ‘Shadow DOM’ will be on the next episode. Continue reading

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GDL IL – HTML5 Game (In Hebrew)

Screen Shot 2013-01-16 at 2.59.35 PMThis week in Google Developers Live Israel, we talked with Mor from zloof.co.il about his new HTML5 game that is ‘conquering’ new gamers in Israel. There are many demos that show us the power of the web and its readiness for gamers. We covered some of the aspects that might interest developers who wish to build their first HTML5 game. We spoke about IDEs (sublime text 2, eclipse, web storm, netbean), tools, Model-View frameworks and learn a bit from Mor’s experience. Continue reading

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Building Better Mobile Web Apps

When we thinking on web apps and specially mobile web apps, we wish to make them smooth a responsive as possiable. The main problem is latency/network and luckily we have enough APIs in HTML5 to make sure we can achieve this goal. A good recent example is fastbook (yep… just like facebook but working FAST with HTML5). Here I’ll summaries some of the main points you wish to pay attention when you building your next amazing mobile web app. Start with ‘offline first’ (after all, you are on the right path with ‘mobile first’ already).

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Offline First

  • You should store all the main assets of your application. There are several APIs you can use:
    • AppCache – for the main index.html page and all your JS, CSS code. You could also use it for images and other static data.
    • Filesystem – You have an option to work with files: text and binary data. This is a great option for cases where you have a lot of images/mp3/videos etc’. In order to manage the work with files there is a great library – filer.js
    • Storing state/data:
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