In the past few weeks we had the pleasure to host in Google two amazing women that lead by showing how you can innovate in the tech space. The first conversation was with Rony Ross (Founder, Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Panorama Software Ltd). It was an interesting discussion between Daniela Raijman-Aharonov (Engineering Manager and Software Engineer in Google), and Michal Segalov (Software Engineer in Infrastructure), on Ross’ role in expanding Panorama’s global presence, once the leading developer and marketer of software products for OLAP and BI in the Israeli market.
GDL Israel On Yeoman.io, AngularJS And Github Pages
In this week episode of GDL-IL we talked with Ran Tavory on his new conference and how he built its website. Here are the main topics we covered:
- Yeoman as the main built tool. We found out that is easy to start working with it. This powerful tool gives you a set of tools that any modern web developer should use. Yeoman is a robust and opinionated set of tools, libraries, and a workflow that can help you be more productive and use the best practices in modern web development. Give it a ride…
- AngularJS – To add the dynamic part for our site. It’s very interesting to see how Ran used google spreadsheets as his database in the cloud and with the add angular he fetch the data and update the content automatically.
- Github pages – As a free (and scalable) hosting service.
- Twitter Bootstrap – Because it is saving you a lot of ‘leg work’ by using this powerful css framework. Ran didn’t start with it… but once he saw that the site doesn’t look good on mobile, he jump on this wagon and luckily for him it worked.
- Google spreadsheet as a database and a simple database for our CMS in the cloud. Continue reading
Frontend Development Sources
Here are a few new/cool sources I’ve bumped into during last week events (and meetings). It is always a great fun to talk with developers and learn on new tools that they are using in order to do their work. If you have something interesting, please don’t be a stranger and let me know…
HTML5
- Wanna see what can WebRTC do for you? Check out this cool demo of moving html5 slides with your hand like Tom in “Minority Report”.
- Let your IE users enjoy the power of HTML5 with this new great tutorial that explain how to bind Chrome frame to your site. Continue reading
GDL-IL On Campus TLV
As you know, this week we open Campus TLV so it’s natural that we will have our Google Developer Live episode devoted to this amazing project.
First, What is Campus TLV?
Campus Tel Aviv is a hub for entrepreneurs and developers. In this special space you will be able to organize events, find mentors and share thoughts with other entrepreneurs.
There is a “hacking space” and device library to test your mobile apps on a range of devices. Other program is “Google Launchpad”: a two-week boot camp for early stage start-ups helping with subjects including user interface, product strategy & technology, marketing, business development etc’. Continue reading
Google Campus TLV Is Open!
Today we (Google Israel) are opening Campus TLV. It’s going to be a great place for entrepreneurs and startups in Israel. We are going to have a big space for events, hackathons and a nice device library (so you could test you mobile apps on all the important devices out there). If you are starting a company and/or working on your idea, you could checkout the Campus site and see what event/meetup will be best for you. The Campus space will be used by developers, start-ups and partners for events, and entrepreneurs will get access to Google’s teams and other experts. We’re also working with tech incubators, accelerator programs and other partners to bring their start-ups to Campus for an initiative called “Launch Pad.” It’s a two-week “bootcamp” for more than 100 start-ups each year, aimed at enhancing existing accelerator programs by providing expertise in user experience and design, product strategy, global marketing, business development and more. Continue reading
Barcelona GDG 2012 – Keynote On HTML5 APIs
After the keynote, I gave another talk on HTML5 and big data (with google cloud services). Overall, it was a great experience and the organizer did a great job. I hope to be able to make it again next year…
- Slides for the keynote
- Slides for HTML5 and Big Data – There is no video for now. Thus, I hope to get it soon and post it.
Chrome Extensions Updated Features
In this Google Developer Live episode I covered some of the new elements you wish to pay attention when you are starting to develop your Google Chrome Extension. If you don’t know what is an extension and why it’s great way to improve Chrome, try this true 101 tutorial first. As you (might) know, there is a new version for the manifest file that include few improvements. The first basic change is to add this simple declaration:
manifest_version: 2
This is a mandatory and if you have a current extension in the Chrome web store I suggest you update it to include it. The second bold change in the manifest file is the ability to make it more secure. For this we have to define what is our extension’s Contact Security Policy. In the demo case that I’ve showed, it will look like that: Continue reading
My Talk At HTML5Fest Israel (In Hebrew)
Two week ago, I have the pleasure to take part in HTML5Fest Israel and give the keynote. It was a great event that the Israeli office of the W3C organize. If you wish to read some of the main points check out this blog post. It was a short talk because I thought I had 30min but in the end of the day… It was shorter.
Nevertheless, I had great time having interesting conversations with lead developers in the crowds for the rest of the day. I can’t wait for next year event…
The Brain, Entrepreneurship And Life With Jeff Hawkins
I’ve watch this interesting conversation between Jeff Hawkins and Michael Chui. For the ones that are old enough to remember Palm (yep, Palm V!) and Handspring – Jeff was the founder of both but he has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time at Numenta
. In this hour conversation there are lots of interesting points on the brain, his life and some great tips for entrepreneurs. Few points that I wrote down from his thoughts: Continue reading
A Hangout On HTML5 APIs And CSS3 (New) Layouts
Last night, I gave this talk to Google Developer Group Tallinn about the new APIs that we have today in HTML5 and CSS3. It was (another) great hangout where you can ‘touch’ people that are quite far from your location and speak with them about mutual interest.
Some of the topics that I covered during the talk where: Continue reading
