Sunday, September 25, 2011

Learn iPhone Programming in a weekend! (15-16 Oct 2011; Singapore)

Want to learn iPhone programming but can't spare the time during the weekdays? No worries, I am running a weekend class on the 15-16 Oct 2011 (Sat-Sun). All you need is your passion (and your Mac) and you will be off to developing your first iPhone app by the end of the first day! And get a free copy of my book - Beginning iOS 4 Application Development (Wrox).

Course Fee
S$997 (nett)

Course Venue
229 Mountbatten Road
#02-41 Mountbatten Square
Singapore 398007
Time: 9am to 5pm

Download course brochure and application form it here.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Displaying Status Bar Notifications in Android

Developers of Android are no doubt familiar with the Toast class, which displays a little pop-up containing whatever message you want to display to the user.

However, the Toast pop-up will automatically dismiss itself after a while, making it useful as a tool to provide timely feedback to the user (such as informing the user that a file has been saved successfully), but not a really good tool to use for some asynchronous action (such as telling the user that an incoming SMS message has arrived). For the latter, you can make use of the Status Bar Notification feature of Android, which displays a persistent notification on the status bar of your Android device. This notification can be dismissed when the user has read it, and thus this makes it a good tool for delivering notifications to the users to respond at their convenience.

In this article, I shall walk you through the steps to creating status bar notifications for your Android application.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Updated Course Brochures and Outlines!

I have uploaded the latest course brochure and outlines for all the various courses. Download it here.

Here is a summary of the upcoming courses:

iPhone and iPad Programming

1-Day Objective-C Programming Course - S$499
10 Oct 2011 (Singapore)

2-Day Foundation of iPhone Programming Course - S$997
11-12 Oct 2011 (Singapore)

2-Day Advanced iOS Programming Course - S$997
13-14 Oct 2011 (Singapore)


Android Programming

2-day Foundation of Android Programming Course - S$997
17-18 Oct 2011 (Singapore)

2-Day Advanced Android Programming Course (New!) - S$997
19-20 Oct 2011 (Singapore)

Course Venue
229 Mountbatten Road
#02-41 Mountbatten Square
Singapore 398007
Time: 9am to 5pm

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Android Course Schedules in Oct 2011 (Singapore)

Backed by popular demand, here is the schedule for the two Android courses for the month of Oct:

2-day Foundation of Android Programming Course - S$997
17-18 Oct 2011 (Singapore)

2-Day Advanced Android Programming Course (New!) - S$997
19-20 Oct 2011 (Singapore)

Register now by emailing me at weimenglee@learn2develop.net. Check out the course outlines at: http://weimenglee.blogspot.com/p/android-development-training.html

Course Venue
229 Mountbatten Road
#02-41 Mountbatten Square
Singapore 398007
Time: 9am to 5pm

iOS Course Schedules in Oct 2011 (Singapore)

Here is the schedule for the various iOS Courses in Oct 2011:

1-Day Objective-C Programming Course - S$499
10 Oct 2011 (Singapore)

2-Day Foundation of iPhone Programming Course - S$997
11-12 Oct 2011 (Singapore)

2-Day Advanced iOS Programming Course - S$997
13-14 Oct 2011 (Singapore)

Register now by emailing me at weimenglee@learn2develop.net. Check out the course outlines at: http://weimenglee.blogspot.com/p/ios-development-training.html

Course Venue
229 Mountbatten Road
#02-41 Mountbatten Square
Singapore 398007
Time: 9am to 5pm

Class Photo of Foundation of iPhone Programming -13-14 Sep 2011

All my iOS courses are now fully updated to Xcode 4.1. Here is the class photo for this week's Foundation of iPhone Programming class. Can't wait for iOS 5.0 and Xcode 4.2!

Monday, September 12, 2011

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Another Android app developed by my Android Course participant published on the Android Market!

Here is another Android App developed by one of my course participants at the Fort Gordon's first Android class. Awesome!

CacheNav is a GPS application that will track your current location as well as plot a point in one of five different coordinate formats (Degrees/Minutes/Seconds, Degrees/Decimal Minutes, Decimal Degrees, UTM, and MGRS). Once you have plotted a point, the distance to your plotted destination is displayed (in meters) at the bottom of the screen. In addition, there are also two map views: Satellite View and Street View.

If you are low on space, this app also has the ability to be stored on an SD Card.

This app is perfect for Geocaching or Land Navigation. Buy it here!

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

MobileTeach is coming to Vancouver this fall...12 - 17 Dec 2011


MobileTeach is a spinoff of DevTeach and I am proud to announce that I will be running for them a series of workshops on the iOS and the Android this fall.

The event is divided into 3 classes:
* 2-days Foundation of iPhone Programming
* 2-days Advanced iOS Programming
* 2-days Android Programming

You can register for each course separately or for all courses for a special price. Register before 1 November to enjoy the early bird rate!

Friday, September 02, 2011

Using your Borders Gift Card (Singapore) to offset against my courses

Recently, it was reported in the Singapore papers that due to the closure of Borders at Wheelock place, customers could no longer use its previously issued gift cards to make purchases at other branches. While this is a very disappointing news to a lot of customers, I have decided to follow the spirit of German Airline Lufthansa, who has very generously offered to let customers offset their air tickets value using their existing gift card.

As a book lover myself, I visit book stores regularly, especially Borders. I had been going there since I was a student, and had many fond memories. The smell and feel of books, and the aroma of coffee that fills the store has become a part of many peoples' lives.

Hence, I would like to offer existing Borders gift card holders to offset the fees for my courses using their existing Borders gift card. Every customer can offset a maximum of S$50 for any courses that they sign up. At this moment, here are the courses scheduled to run in Sep and Oct 2011:

September 2011
* 12 Sep 2011 - Objective-C Programming - S$499
* 13-14 Sep 2011 - Foundation of iPhone Programming - S$997
* 15-16 Sep 2011 - Advanced iOS Programming - S$997
* 19-20 Sep 2011 - Android Programming - S$997

October 2011
* 3 Oct 2011 - Objective-C Programming - S$499
* 4-5 Oct 2011 - Foundation of iPhone Programming - S$997

Details
* All courses will be held at Mountbatten Square, Singapore.
* Attendees have to bring their own notebook computers
* Training time: 9am to 5pm.

For enquiries, please call (65) 9-692-4065.