Project: Keeping Track of your GitHub Open Issues in Real Time

The need

Since my team started working more and more on open-source projects, which are publicly shared on GitHub, I faced a need to have an easy way to follow up whenever new issues (GitHub's euphemism of bugs) were submitted by users.

There is a way to keep track by "watching" repositories of your choice, for which you get email notifications, but those emails are not limited just to newly submitted issues, but also to every pull/push request and comments. Also, for some reason, although I have clearly unsubscribed ("unwatched") specific repositories on my list, GitHub continues to notify me about them (which seems to be an issue in itself).

Thus, I decided (as always) to take things to my own lazy hands, and spent ~2 days building my very own GitHub Issues Notifier.

Get it on GitHub!

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.

This blog is not dead!

It just smells funny...
(Updates will come soon. I hope).

זכות הצעקה: על המחאות בבולגריה שהעולם מתעלם מהן

זכות הצעקה: על המחאות בבולגריה שהעולם מתעלם מהן

אני טקסט פוליטי

זה הפוסט הראשון בבלוג שהחלטתי לפרסם בעברית, וגם הפוסט הפוליטי הראשון (מי שמכיר אותי יודע שאני אדם א-פוליטי, על גבול האנטי-פוליטי), אבל ההחלטה הזאת הגיעה באופן ספונטני במטרה לפרסם ולהפיץ את הבשורה של מה קורה כאן, כי דברים קורים. ובקנה-מידה היסטורי בינלאומי והתקשורת הישראלית משום מה מתעלמת.
את התמונות כאן צילמו חברים קרובים ועמיתים לעבודה, שעמדו עם הרוב המוחה מול בניין הפרלמנט במרכז סופיה.

הפגנות מול בניין הפרלמנט. צילום: סלבייקו אינגיליזוב

My Very Own Single-Serving Site - Is it 18:00 yet?!

Single-serving sites are awesome. Well, some of them are. Some of them answer really crucial questions.

My contribution to the world of SSS: Is it 18:00 yet?
Sometimes you really really need to know if it's 18:00 already. My informative site "Is it 18:00 yet?" is here to the rescue!
It also shows a countdown till 18:00 (or a count-up, showing how much time has passed since 18:00).
What else happens on the site at 18:00? I'll let you browse and see the wonder for yourself!

GitHub hosting
This SSS is hosted on GitHub (yes! it's possible!). A link to the repository: IsIt6.
To learn about GitHub hosting go to GitHub Pages.

Other examples
Here's a part of my SSSs collection. Some more useful than others:

Alon In The World - Now on Facebook

Like my blog?
Really like my blog?
Now you can really really my blog...
Join the sensation! Because that's what all the hip hipsters do!

Yo Dawg, I heard you like tech blogs and liking things on Facebook,
so I put my blog in your Facebook so you can like while you like!

Oh, and thanks for liking my blog!

Babylon-based dictionaries on Kindle - Round 2

My post "Using Babylon-based dictionaries on your Kindle" seems to have gotten relatively wide attention. Currently the statistics show that 2595 users have seen it, 31 of them commented, 2 more via Facebook and a number of emails I've received from readers.
People's interest in pre-built dictionaries which they can run on their Kindle devices (specifically English-Hebrew dictionaries, but not just) is understandable. There are some issues with the BabylonToHtml conversion tool I've put together.

Due to lack of time for resolving the known issues with the project, or for production of pre-built dictionaries, I've decided to share BabylonToHtml publicly as an open-source project, for anyone who wishes to update/improve it.

Pre-Built Dictionaries in this post!

I'm sharing some pre-built dictionaries in this post. Some were produced by me and some by others. They are shared here so that they can be freely downloaded and used by anyone.
This section will be updated with dictionaries which the readers share with me over time.
 Jump to the pre-built dictionaries section!