An HTML5 Session at AUBG

This is a recording of a lecture I made on April 14^th, 2014 at the American University in Bulgaria, in Blagoevgrad, in front of computer science students. The session was organized between Telerik and the university's Computer Science Students Union.
Below are the full recording (made with 2 laptops, 1 cordless keyboard, 1 cordless mouse and great help from the students), the pptx presentation, and the demos and links which were presented.

Full Recordings of my C# Programming Course on YouTube

The complete set of recordings of the "Programming Fundamentals with C#" course (presented in English) which I've lectured between 2011-2012 on the Telerik Academy, was uploaded to YouTube's Academy channel.

I've compiled here the full list of the videos, in their original presentation order. This may help anyone interested in following this course from start to finish.
All lectures were presented by me, except 3 in which I was absent and were presented by George Georgiev, and the general introduction to the course, presented by Svetlin Nakov.

For convenience, here are links to download the book of the course in Bulgarian and in English, and for each lecture I'm also linking the PowerPoint presentation and the demo materials from the academy site. Additional materials and demo tests can be found on the course's materials page.

A day in a life of a software developer

This is a short lecture I gave on 01/2012 to the students of the Telerik Academy.

The students who do well in the C# fundamentals course, in which I lecture, are offered jobs at Telerik. The job's pool is split into positions of developers, QA engineers and technical support engineers. Since Telerik's products are made for the usage of developers, knowledge of programming is required for all those positions (not just for the developers' positions).
In order to give the students a better understanding of what they may be facing in the future, Telerik Academy conducted a short seminar in which a lecturing representative of each of the aforementioned position gave an introductory presentation.
Representing the developers, I put together a short lecture, describing the everyday chores of of the poor developer.

The Answer - A Piano Improvisation

Piano improvisation inspired by Pablo Neruda's poem "The Question".

Insomniac

It's past 02:45 AM, the perfect time to start a blog.
I haven't written anything publicly in a while. Probably since I was leading and managing a forum of software developers (which does not exist anymore) on a popular-yet-crappy Israeli portal around 2002 A.D..


!שלום, עולם
Hello, world!
Здравей, свят!
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I am Alon Rotem, an Israeli living in Sofia, Bulgaria. An amateur musician, a professional software developer and a geek wannabe.
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What is this blog?
I hack, crack and script all the time. I constantly write computer programmes, scriptlets, bookmarklets, macros, batch files and other automations regardless of whether they are needed or not.
Starting from BASIC programs on my first computer, my dearly beloved long lost Atari 800 XL, through smart automation scripts on the mythological mIRC chat client, useful Microsoft Office macros, down to the latest .NET framework Windows and web applications.

I intend to use this small virtual piece of cyberspace as my public notebook for scripts and sample programmes I often build. Someone may find them useful.
Random thoughts and posts about subjects other than code may also appear without notice.
This blog will be mainly written in English and L33T, as those are the official languages of geeks worldwide.


Welcome.
Happy coding.
Do help yourselves to booze cabinet.


Bach's Well Tempered Clavier's Prelude & Fugue in C# Major played by Glenn Gould