Finally, iPad users can get LinkedIn. And the app for this tablet, released Thursday, really is more than a reformatted iPhone app.

The app was designed with the functionality of the iPad and users' tablet tapping mostly in the morning and evening in mind, according to a blog post from LinkedIn. The layout is a bit reminiscent of Flipboard, with a design that integrates the multitouch navigation of the iPad.

Date: March 31, 2012
Place: Kiev, "KPI"

Deadline of registration: March 20, 2012

Organizer: Scientific Society of undergraduate and graduate students NTU "KPI», ssa.org.ua

Website: ssa.org.ua / ...elopment-course

Scientific Society of undergraduate and graduate students NTU "KPI" invited to participate in the basic course to develop cross-platform software for mobile devices, which will be held March 31, 2012 in the auditorium. 299 (6) case number 1 NTU "KPI" (Kiev).

The course program includes the study of methods for developing cross-platform software for mobile platforms using HTML5/CSS3/JS.

Date: March 16, 2012
Place: Kharkov

Target Audience: testers, Automator, developers and designers.

Coaches: Andrew Tink, Misha Polyarush.

Training will be held within QAClub Conf 1.1: Automation & Tools.

What is Selenium? This is not to find a specialist in the modern IT world, who have not heard about this tool. But not all who heard him were able to learn. Some people do not have enough perseverance to explore, some aid to the emerging issues. And another - "pendelya magic" - to download the library and start step by step to develop technology. Selenium - is a tool for automated testing of web applications of varying complexity. Starting from a simple HTML form, finishing with heavy RIA and Flex applications.

Developers now have until June 1 to make their applications compliant with the new Mac App Store sandboxing restrictions, Apple announced on Tuesday.

The original deadline was March 1, but developers now have an additional three months to bring their software in line with the new rules. The sandboxing entitlements are already found in OS X 10.7.3 Lion and new APIs in Xcode 4.3.

Sandboxing of applications is Apple's initiative to make the Mac platform even more secure by restricting what applications can do within the operating system. This helps to prevent problems like malware taking over third-party applications and utilizing them to do something malicious.

Date: February 24, 2012
Place: Kiev, i-Klass, st. Lavra, 16

Have already confirmed their participation in the discussion panel:

Pavel Bashmakov - Director Stanfy, which specializes in mobile application development platform for iPhone, iPad, Android and others;

Arseniy Finberg - the owner of the largest site of Kiev and a tour desk, "Interesting Kiev." An avid user of mobile platform Android, which resulted in the blog about the applications and experiments with the axis - prostodroid.com;

Sergei Shindiapin that a student has written a programming language and database. He is now technical director of "Simple Solutions Engineering Company."

Date: February 11, 2012
Place: Kiev

The meeting will consist of 20% practice and 80% of theory. The presence of a laptop is desirable but not mandatory.


The purpose of the training:
- To give you a clear understanding of the types of applications in the mobile market
- Show you the best practices for the automation of those applications

Date: February 8, 2012
Place: Kiev
Price: 200 Uah if paid before 01/23/2012, 300 Uah if paid before 01/30/2012, 400 Uah if paid before 07/02/2012.



For 4 hours, we will work intensively for laptops in groups. As before, start with 5% of theory. Become acquainted with the tool and its capabilities Robotium for automated testing of native Android applications. Further work will be the most practical, without departing from the topic.

To the meeting was productive, we will survey. The results of which will determine who will benefit from this workshop, and who is still a little brush up. What to do if you are not yet ready for such a practical intensives? You can read the articles on our site or in the news our mailing list. Likewise, you can visit our other training courses, where we teach more basic things or theoretical osnovam.Takaya classification will help participants meet to learn the greatest number of useful information! And we - most focus on the program we have prepared and fully explain the topic.

Date: February 2, 2012
Place: Kiev, Radishcheva street 10/14, Building B, business center, "Irv" level -1 (classroom, "Parthenon")


Speaker: Alexander Krakovetskiy - the developer, regional director of Microsoft, ASP.NET MVP, the leader of the Vinnitsa Microsoft User Group
Attendees of the seminar will be able to obtain information about the ecosystem Windows Phone, the design language of Metro, the main features of the platform, as well as ask questions.

Objectives: To give students an overview of the platform, Windows Phone.

More than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from Google's Android Market.

To mark the moment Google said that for the next 10 days it would cut the price of some top apps to 10p each.

The search giant announced the milestone on its blog adding that the store's apps were being downloaded at a rate of one billion a month.

However, some industry analysts played down the figure saying Google should do more to address poor-quality programs.

There are many organizations that provide various HTML tools to the XML designers and to the VML designers. One of the professional tools provided to the designers is ‘HTML WYSIWYG editor control'. This tool is developed for .NET- Win Forms application.

The HTML tool is the first world wide MSHTML functional implementation that does not use the Interop-DLL. The tools are based for HTML designers who design and edit their documents as a .NET control. The tool offers many editing features to the users, such as bold, italic, underline; DOM access, element insertion and more text operation features.

The plug INS is used extensible with Table designer, spell checker, XML designer, VML designer (Vector Graphic Designer). There are many organizations that are advanced in TextProessor, HTML editor within users .NET2.0 Windows forms application and with Graphic designer. These HTML coding is written in C# language.

Could a software program determine if an employee at work has good or bad habits? That's the possible interpretation of a newly revealed application by Microsoft to the US Patent and Trademark Office. As reported by Geekwire, the idea behind the patent proposal is that the monitoring of an employee's interactions with others via phone, email, text messages and more could be categorized by a computer program. That program could then generate a score based on pre-determined parameters for each employee.

The proposal would even extend to video conferences. The application claims that gestures from employees during the conference could be monitored and interpreted by the program. Likewise, other factors such as what a team member wears to work could be categorized by the proposal software program and raise or lower an employee's overall score. As with other patent applications there's no word if Microsoft actually has such software in development.

Date: November 17, 2011
Place: Kiev, m. Shulyavska, Street Metalistov 24, company SysIq


AT.Info gathering has become a platform where people are formed into groups for automation projects. Which once again underlines the usefulness and practicality of these meetings. At the meetings you can find like-minded colleagues who are also developing in this area. And it gives the maximum effect in a short period of time.

Date: November 19, 2011
Place: Kiev

Coach: Nicholay Alimenkov

Duration: 8hours

This training is designed to not only introduce you to WebDriver / Selenium and give practical experience in its use and implementation, but also consider the tools that exist in its database or integrate with them. 

Microsoft has just made available for download in the Android Market its official Hotmail application for devices powered by Google's mobile operating system.

With the new mobile software, users can easily access their email while on the go, while receiving notification on each of the new messages they receive.

Apple Inc. has removed a mobile app, called "Jew or Not Jew?" from its online App Store in France. Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said the app did violate local law, so it was removed from the French App Store. It is still available outside France, however, and currently sells for $1.99 through Apple's US App Store.

Apple has removed numerous apps from the App Store since it launched in mid-2008 for violating myriad restrictions it imposes on developers. Take a look at other notable apps that ran afoul of the company's screening process.

Facebook is finally launching its iPad application and will be doing so at Apple’s October 4th event, rumored to be the release of the iPhone 5.

According to Mashable‘s sources, the social network may also introduce its latest iPhone app, potentially revamped in HTML5, at the same event.

The app has been long awaited. In July, iPad-wielding Facebookers were given a taste of what may come when screenshots of the app were leaked. The app has been in development for over a year and just this morning Jeff Verkoeyen, the former iPad app lead engineer, quit out of frustration.

IDG's InfoWorld, the technology media brand devoted to modernizing enterprise IT, has announced the winners of its annual Best of Open Source Software awards (Bossies). Chosen by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, the annual Bossies recognize the best and most innovative open source software products for end users, businesses and IT professionals.

The 2011 awards, which recognize 37 projects, reflect the dominance of open source software on the desktop, in mobile technology, in business applications, in application development, and in the data center and the private cloud. This year's winners include long-standing projects that are leading the way in established product categories and new projects that are taking freshly innovative approaches to new problems.

Apple Inc.'s skills at keeping its sensitive data secret just got another black eye.

Just a day after news broke out that Apple lost its prototype next-generation iPhone at a bar in San Francisco, an enthusiast site has reported that a Genius Bar technician at an Apple Store in Connecticut handed over to a customer a hard drive containing the Apple Store's internal files.

Cult of Mac said the hard drive contained a complete "Time Machine" backup of the Apple Store’s internal file server, "filed with top secret and confidential Apple Store documents."

Skype Access hits fruit themed gadgets

COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE provider and recent Microsoft acquisition Skype has added WiFi connection services for the Ipad and Iphone.

The addition was announced in a blog post by the firm's Shadi Mahassel, who said that the service was also available for the Ipod Touch. The addition, which was originally called Skype Access, is available as a free download from the Apple App Store.

Your ideas for Android or iOS apps could make you money, via the free FundedApps application. But you'll have to pay to submit your ideas.
Price: free for app; £1.49 per idea (iOS and Android)

If there’s a major weakness in Android, it remains the lack of really superb apps. Where there is a massive increase daily in the number of apps available, it’s the lack of real polish and finesse in many that plagues Android. That’s surely why even Andy Rubin, Google’s man in charge of Android, was still describing the entire platform as ‘for early adopters’ relatively recently.

Apple reviewers are already sounding off about features and functionality in the fifth beta version of iOS 5 that was released to developers this weekend.

Apple's iOS 5, which is tied to the upcoming iCloud service, debuted at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June.

MacRumors says the latest update includes fixes but no major new features.

But CNET's Edward Moyer says the release includes a Hearing Aid Mode designed to improve compatibility between iOS devices and hearing aids.

Apple rumored to work on an enhanced voice command system for its future iPhones.

Apple may bring the voice control system to its iO5 coming later this year, says AppleInsider. The enthusiast site noted the groundwork for Apple's voice command overhaul may have started when Apple acquired Siri, an iPhone personal assistant application heavily dependent on voice commands.

The proposed solution looks to cut down on the verbosity or "wordiness" of audio feedback systems, so they would not overwhelm the user. AppleInsider said the first application, entitled Adaptive Audio Feedback System and Method, streamlines systems that may contain a large amount of information.

Date: 12.09.2011-16.09.2011
Place: Odessa
Couch : Krivosheev Evgeniy
Cost: 5600 UAH     .

Description: The main aim of the course – examination of setting up conceptual model of application techniques, which are based on the usage of templates, as well as possibilities of repeated use of developed items which has been made in the frames of object oriented analysis.
During the course the most used basic templates and analytical templates used during the solution of typical tasks are examined.

Its code was found within an iPhone app update, and looks to be better-looking and easier to navigate than the iPhone version

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month announced the release of new chat features, including Skype video calling, and mentioned that many more launches would appear in the coming weeks. Now, a Canadian engineering student has found one of the most anticipated launches ahead of its actual release -- the Facebook iPad app.

Marvin Bernal, a Canadian engineering student and iOS enthusiast, discovered the iPad app hidden within the code of Facebook's iPhone app after Facebook released an update to its iPhone app. Version 3.4.4 had some fixes, but Bernal noticed the iPad app code almost immediately and tweeted it for everyone to see.

Google has released the official Google+ app for the Apple iPhone. You can download it now directly from the Apple App Store.

Make sure that the version you grab is 1.0.1.1809 or later. Google mistakenly released a previous test version of the app which didn't have the stability and fixes that the latest version has. To check the version number, click on the gear icon on the top left of your app's homescreen and look right above the Help button.

Also, it's important to note that this app is just for the iPhone, not iOS in general. Google says that iOS5 is unsupported at this point and that iPad device support is coming soon. The search giant did not give details on timing for either though.
Google's official description of the app is as follows:

Date 25.07.2011-27.07.2011
Place: Kiev
Cost  6 700 UAH

Description

Educational course of the development of corporation applications . Includes detailed description of  concrete typical solutions. Each solution includes information about the area of use and main aspects of realization  .
The examples of source code on Java and C# are examined

Date: 5 — 13 September

Place: Kiev, Radischeva street 10/14, BC «Irva», building B, second floor

Cost:  5 250 UAH.

Couch : Yakovenko Viacheslav

Duration: 28 hours

Spring — is lightweight framework with open source, development of which has started in February 2003. Now Spring is enough popular open-source project which covers a number of aspects, such as JavaEE, as well as Java SE developments. Spring Framework is famous for the source of features, which are needed for the effective development of complicated business applications outside of heavy program models. Sprig Framework can be considered like collection of small frameworks in framework, the majority of which can work independently from each other. However they provides a great functionality during their combined use. Abstract classes, factories and bins developed in a such a way so the programmer will need to add only business logic, and that is all. 

If it seems as if Twitter has a large application eco-system, that's because... well, it does. So large, in fact, that the company has just announced its one millionth registered application.

According to Twitter, more than $500 million has been invested in Twitter apps since December 2010, with more than a billion dollars being paid out in acquisitions. The 1,000,000 app number is up from just 150,000 apps a year ago, with that growth spike best demonstrated by the statistic that a new Twitter-related app is registered with the company every 1.5 seconds.

With this kind of growth around Twitter apps, it's no wonder that the micro-blogging company launched its own Developer Site yesterday, complete with new app manager, developer blog and discussion forum.

Date: 11-14 July 2011
Place: Kiev

Target Audience

The target audience of this course are the specialists who have began working on the development of Lotus Domino applications and who need to acquire basic skills to develop and modify applications, Lotus Domino Designer 8 working with a database

Date: July 6, 2011
Place: Lviv

Questions for discussion:
- Why do we need to write programs for Facebook?
- What do you need to successfully write applications?
- What are the basic principles of operation of applications for Facebook?