I am in the middle of unrolling on Pluralsight, a complete entry-level program in 
developing Web Applications, with a focus on free and open-source software.
At its heart are these courses:
In this podcast, my friends Jon Galloway and Jeffrey Fritz turn the tables, and interview 
me about life, the Universe and everything.
Basem is a Senior Software Engineer at Falafel Software. He has over 10 years experience as a consultant and developer for dozens of projects 
for educational, advocacy, non-profit, small business, enterprise, and governmental organizations. As an innovator who recognizes and leverages the power of the web, he has been able to help real estate agencies, schools, hospitals, wholesale distributors, shipping carriers, and other businesses pioneer their industries utilizing the best that today’s technology has to offer from a more creative point of view. Simple yet elegant is the key to his approach, as well as the belief that continual process improvement is always possible.
In a previous posting, I explained that Intel sent me a Haswell Ultrabook to review. 
I’ve had it now for a few months, and, despite the problems I’ve had due to it being a pre-production module, it remains a superstar.
Very pleased to announce my latest Pluralsight course: Getting Started With ASP.NET MVC, ServiceStack and Bootstrap
In this course you will learn to create a meaningful web application using Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC coupled with the open-source projects ServiceStack and Bootstrap.
ServiceStack will provide a web service and API as well as dependency injection through an Inversion of Control container, and it will provide ORMLite, a light-weight Object Relational Mapper.
Bootstrap will provide a much cleaner and more professional UI design than might otherwise be available.
Together, these libraries make creating a real world web application not only possible, but relatively straightforward, even if this is your first web app. Some knowledge of C# is required, as is familiarity with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Jon Galloway joins me in talking with Phil Japikse and James Bender of Telerik about Test 
Driven Development and related techniques.
Jon Galloway joins me in talking with the amazing John Sonmez, who has written over 50 
courses for Pluralsight. We focus on ServiceStack and then on Xamarin, but touch on many related topics.
Please note that I have two Pluralsight courses coming in 2013 on ServiceStack; the first with ASP.NET MVC, the second with Angularjs. More information soon.
Dan and John are both Microsoft MVPs and Regional Directors, and they are both brilliant, 
fascinating and expert on AngularJS. They are very successful Pluralsight authors, and Dan is the founder of the Wahlin Group. John and Dan are Internationally sought-after speakers.
Lance Bullock is the VP of Mobile Solutions for Falafel Software.
Lance has over 20 years’ experience leading teams, architecting, and developing enterprise-level solutions for some of the world’s largest corporations.
Prior to joining the Falafel team, Lance served as a Group Manager at Check Point Software Technologies. As a leader and engineer, he was responsible for scalability, performance, feature development, federation/clustering, and protocol work on the Check Point Endpoint Security Secure Access Server; which managed tens of thousands of desktop security installations.
Prior to Check Point, Lance was CTO/Vice President of Technology at Full Moon Interactive and .class Corporation, where he was a recognized industry expert in Delphi, JBuilder, and Windows development; as well as a speaker, author, and trainer. Lance holds a B.S. in Computer Science/Mathematics from California State University Sacramento. In his spare time, Lance can usually be found at some random Bay Area sports venue, watching his sons in their various athletic pursuits.
[Please see the Table of Contents for this series.]
In this entry, I look at creating menus in an Android application.
This article is available on Falafel.com here.
Very pleased to announce my latest Pluralsight course: 
Sublime Text 3 From Scratch
Sublime Text 3 is the premier text editor for programmers. This course provides a complete tour of the editor along with extensive coverage of options, plugins, customization, editing, managing files and projects, selection and manipulation of text, automation and much more.
Thank you for considering my course, and please do leave feedback if you watch.
In a very recent post, I described a number of Insanely Essential Utilities for developers. It occurs to me that I put the cart before the horse, and prior to installing any of that, you need a development environment that is going to make you maximally productive.
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