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2010
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TechEd Israel 2010 may only accept speakers from sponsors
UPDATE: Microsoft reps and other sources have notified me that whatever plans they had for only sponsored speakers, are canceled. they will be accepting non sponsored speakers as well. A month or so ago, Microsoft…
2009
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Daily news blogs about .NET and related creatures
A friend asked me how I know about so many things that happen in the .NET sphere. the answer is very very simple. All you have to do is follow a few blogs on a daily basis, and you’ll have access to a whole world of new…
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ALT.NET Israel – Meeting II 2d and 3rd of April
YOU CAN NOW REGISTER HERE I’ll just repost this in Hebrew: בשעה טובה ומוצלחת אני שמח לבשר על כנס alt.net israel השני מיקום הכנס : כמו בפעם שעברה, יתקיים הכנס בבית קבוצת סלע בבני ברק, ליד קניון אילון. תודה לאנשי קבוצת…
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We need a new slogan
We’ve been debating this one internally for two weeks now. So I voted that we take this out to the community. Hopefully, you won’t make me look like an Idiot to my boss for suggesting it.. We need your help finding a…
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Are courses\consultants a waste of money?
People will pay you to learn – no matter what you do in your developer life, people will pay you to constantly learn. It doesn’t matter if you’re a developer, team lead, manager, consultant, speaker, IT Guy or anything…
2007
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CodeBetter without the Bellware - Good or Evil?
I thought this was quite funny. Scott Bellware managed to piss someone (Scott K)off so much with his posts , that they went ahead and created a yahoo pipe that shows the CodeBetter.Com RSS feed with Scott Bellware's…
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Free MS Press books for a 5 minute screencast
Justin Angel is giving away free MS Press books as part of a 5 minute developer screencast competition he's judging in, along with Guy Burstein and Oren Eini (Ayende) . I'd say that's pretty cool! Submission phase seems…
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Ask An ASP.NET Expert Live
If you're interested in having a live chat with some experts on .NET. here's your chance (right now as I'm posting it's starting in about an hour) Ask An ASP.NET Expert Live The Strong Coders Community will be hosting…
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Danko On Agile and the Agile Israel Community
It was lovely watching Danko (Danny Kovatch) speak at the ALM user group this evening. Danko talked about Scrum, planning, teams and managing requirements. He kept the audience wanting more and had great funny movies to…
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Introducing Agile Israel Community and blogs site
I'm happy to introduce the Agile Israel Community site. It has blogs, forums, files and more. The site is located at : www.Agileisrael.org . It will also contain group meeting announcements, agile development news,…
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Israeli .NET Bloggers Update
There are several .NET related Israeli bloggers out there who provide good content but sometimes get missed from people's RSS readers for lack of.. well, knowledge that these blogs exist. Some of them I come accross…
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Real time data on your blog pages visitors
I really like http://whos.amung.us It shows real time data on who's on your site\blog right now by simply using a little gif file on each page (in the blog template, for example. here are the real time stats for my…
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CodeBetter.Com to win best community award
If there was one, that is. I didn't say it earlier, but I want to extend a big big thanks to the folks over at CodeBetter.Com . They literally chipped in and helped finance bringing the Israeli gang over to Canada for…
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Impressions from DevTeach - Wow!
I've my my share of rest from DevTeach , and now, as I prepare for next week (going to Edmonton and Winnipeg for user group talks), I have some time to reflect about the past week, and tell you some of my thoughts about…
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Feedback on the Israel Microsoft Developer Academy?
There's quite a lot of feedback going on about last week's Microsoft Developer Academy in Israel both from the presenters and from the comments on their blog posts. Tapuz Forum Omer Shahar Gvirtz (the 14 year old…
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Catch me speaking at DevTeach
I will be speaking at the upcoming DevTeach conference in Canada this upcoming May. It's my first time to DevTeach and even to Canada for that matter. Exciting! The talks I'll be giving at DevTeach are : Continuous…
2006
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MVPs Week - Full week of hardcore training from Experts4D
Great news for the Israeli Dev Crowd! I've known Ohad Israeli for more than a couple of years now - we met when I worked at Magen as a consultant. He's a great guy with great knowledge and abilities. Now Ohad is partner…
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Final updates on Israeli Blogger Dinner on Monday
Omer has an update on the the Blogger Dinner this coming Monday ( read it all here in Hebrew) : Monday 21:00 Papagayo (Azriely center Tel Aviv - Kosher) 10-15 people are coming! I'm defiantly there! Yosi - hope I'll see…
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MSDN Premium auction for Africa
If you're an MVP who got the "MSDN Card Giveaway" thing early this year but had no idea how to give it out, Jamie Cansdale has a great idea that might actually help people who really could use some help. "I'm thinking…
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Influence the next Microsoft Israel Conference
If you're in Israel, here's your chance to help shape the face of the next developer Conference Microsoft Israel is hosting in January. Just go to Yosi Taguri's Blog and add your comments/wishes on what you'd like to…
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This week at the C# User group - Hardcore ASP.NET 2.0 [Dan Amiga]
I'll be hosting the meeting of the Israel Visual C#/C++ User's group this week due to scheduling problems on part of the original hosts of the group, Shai Bar Lev and Moshe Raab. So what's the meeting about? Read the…
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.NETWeblogs upgraded - finally.
Weblogs.asp.net has upgraded to the next version of Community Server. Finally! Thanks for all your hard work guys. Ads on blogs One of the upcoming changes to weblogs.asp.net will be that there will be ads on the blogs…
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Oren Ellenbogen rocked last night about Generics, Delegates and Anonymous Methods.
Update : His slides and demos are posted here . Last night was a very good meeting of the C#/C++ users group . Oren Ellenbogen spoke about Advanced usage of Generics, delegates and anonymous methods to a crowd who…
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The Good and Bad in Tech-Ed Israel 2006
This Year’s Tech-Ed Israel has been very good in many many ways . There were some glitches and mistakes, but overall I’d like to give props to Microsoft Israel for putting together a very good conference. Here are some…
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Port 25: Microsoft Open Source Software Lab's "Channel 9"?
"Port 25 is open. The people, insights, and analysis from the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab. Send us your feedback and ideas. We want to hear from you. http://port25.technet.com/ " Looks interesting!
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Upgrading weblogs.asp.net from a slow and painful death
Omer writes eloquently about the slow death of weblogs.asp.net: "Time passed and as it did, more and more weblogs went the way of weblogs and were never again posted to, while other writers kept theirs alive by the…
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The Tech-Ed Israel Blog needs some *buzz*
Tech-Ed Israel has a blog . Its run mostly by Lior Tzoref, and tries to put a face on the whole organization of Tech-Ed. Personally, I like the idea. But there are several facets that should be implemented before…
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New Israeli MVPs Announced
"Six new Microsoft MVP titles had been given to community contributers from Israel today : Amihai Levin – SQL Server MVP Guy Teverovsky – Directory Services MVP Eyal Vardi – Visual Developer – VSTO MVP Erez Keler –…
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Why Word Verification Isn't The Answer
I know that human user verification systems in blogs are there for a reason, but we really need to come up with a better plan. Here's what I got on blogger today trying to post a comment: That would definitely stop any…
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Weblogs.asp.net Community Server 2.0 upgrade sorely missed!
Speaking of CodeBetter.com - they have a wonderful new look both on the blogs and on the main page ! They recently upgraded to Community Server 2.0 and it seems like a wonderful idea. Which makes me wonder: When is…
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Code from DevDays Belgium available: Design for Testability & Smart Client Offline Caching and Synchronization
I had a good time at DevDays Belgium and would love to go back there again sometime in the future. I just hope the crowd enjoyed my sessions. In any case, I'm making available the demo code from two of my presentations…
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Tech-Ed Israel 2006 Dev Track list
The Dev track for Teched Israel 2006 is almost final, and Yosi Taguri has all the gory details . Lots of outside speakers this year! Browse and comment , or just check out what you'll be going to on the company's dime..…
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The Official Israel Video Blog
This is interesting. Israel is now officially one of the first countries in the world to have its own official video-blog . The pickings are pretty slim right now, but here's to hoping it gets lots of juicy content real…
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Catch me at the Architects User Group: Partially Connected Smart Clients Architecture
This is one area where I see lots of frustration around, and justly. There's a lot of knowledge still missing about design guidelines, architecture and such. The reason its missing is because there is so much stuff out…
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Catch me at IVCUG this week: TDD with VS 2005, and designing for testability
I'll be speaking this coming Wednesday at the Israeli Visual C# Users group on the following topics. See you there! (If you want to know of future Visual C# meetings send an email to Moshe Raab and tell him. It's free…
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I have a dream: Geek Go-Karting in Israel
Here's a thought. Instead of doing a geek dinner, how about a Geek Go Karting League ?? you need at least 8 people to join in, but we can meet bi-monthly and rip the runways (probably in Natanya, or other places if you…
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MS Israel Security Users Group is back in business
The Security User's group at Microsoft Israel has rekindled it's operations, and will have it's re-opening meeting on Feb. 7Th. Here are the details (in Hebrew) PS How's my new picture on the blog main page ?
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New audio from Agile Israel is available: Johanna Rothman and more!
I've finally managed to edit and clean up the audio from two sessions we had at Agile Israel . The first one is by Johanna Rothman, and the second one is by Amir Kolsky (in Hebrew). I highly recommend you download them…
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This week at the C# Users Group: Windows Communications Foundation (“Indigo”) with Ido Samuelson
Topics : Windows Communications Foundation (“Indigo”) Lecturer : Ido Samuelson, Advantech (Magen) Date: Wednesday, January 18, 17:00 - 20:00 Place: Microsoft Israel Hapnina 2 ( Amdocs Building ) Ground Floor Raanana…
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I'll be Available for some short time gigs in the London Area
It looks like there's a big chance I'll get to be in London (and the Cambridge area) during March 19 through March 30. I'll be there as part of the MVP open days forum, and am looking for gigs to do there while I'm in…
2005
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January 2006 at Agile Israel - Mock Objects & Refactoring
More Info: http://www.agileisrael.com/Default.aspx?tabid=118 When : January 5th, 2006 Gathering at 17:30, we start promptly at 18:00 Part I : Mock Objects - Asher Sterkin Mock Objects are a powerful mechanism for unit…
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Special Agile Israel Meeting with Johanna Rothman: Moving Towards Agile Project Management
I'm happy to announce that Agile Israel will host Johanna Rothman at an upcoming special meeting of the group. The meeting will take place next week, on December 15th (Thursday), at the Microsoft Offices in Ra'anana.…
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December at IVBUG: Xml Editing and Debugging + LINQ
Here's the email I got from Jackie , head of the Israel VB User Group on the upcoming meeting. --- This month I was able to arrange for a special speaker from Microsoft in Redmond . Yair Alan Griver is the Group Manager…
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Raise your hand if you want an interview with Jamie Cansdale (the NUnit Addin guy)
OK, Andrew started it, so raise your hand if you want Jamie Cansdale , the guy who created TestDriven.NET (one of the coolest addins out there), to be interviewed by me for my interview series . He's a little shy, and…
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Agile Israel meets today! The Planning Game
Update : Meeting went great! Amir is certainly a good speaker and kept people awake until 21:00. Now *that's* saying something... Expect audio and slides as soon as humanly possible on the site. Don't forget: Agile…
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Taken the MS Israel Speaker Challenge? Omer did.
Good luck to Omer . He's taken the MS Israel " Looking for a speaker " (registration seems to be closed by now) challenge and is waiting for any results. From the technical side, I *know* he knows his stuff. On the…
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Slides Available for my talks on C# 2.0, LINQ, Agile Methodologies and TDD Best Practices
Here are the slides for the IVCUG Talk I did last week. The slide topics were "What's new and cool in C# 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005" and "Language Integrated Query".…
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November at Agile Israel - The XP Planning Game
The next meeting will be held on the 28th of this Month, Monday. For session and speaker details go the the event page . This month's meeting will be dedicated to "The Planning Game", held by Amir Kolsky. In the first…
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A little DotNetWebloggers uproar
Update : Alex Lowe of Telligent posts the following in response: "I've created a forum that will make it easy for us (Telligent) to share information and solicit feedback from the bloggers here at weblogs.asp.net.…
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Wanna be a Microsoft Israel Presenter?
Microsoft Israel is looking for "star quality" presenters on Microsoft content. Basically, if you can muster up a 15 min. technical presentation in front of some of Microsoft's finest in Israel and are found to have…
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September at Agile Israel - Why Agile, and lessons learned from implementing SCRUM
The next meeting will be held on the 26th of this Month, Monday. For session and speaker details go the the event page . The first part of this month's meeting will be dedicated to a session we never got to finish at…
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Agile conference coming to Israel - Your input is required.
I'm in the process of trying to implement an Agile Conference here in Israel somewhere in the first half of next year. The plan is to have a two day event with talks and workshops from well known international speakers…
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Had fun speaking at INDA (Ireland .NET user group)
I'd like to thank Paschal for arranging my speaking at the INDA users group in Ireland last Friday. It was really a great bunch of people and I was pretty excited (and tired from a full week f training I've done just…
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Announcing a New Larkware Contest
It's time for a new contest , and I'm one of the judges. "As you undoubtedly know by now, the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is scheduled for the week of November 7. That's just…
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TDD Workshop tomorrow!
If you'd like to sign up for the free basic Test Driven Development workshop tomorrow, July 18th, there are still a few places left. for more information on this workshop:…
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Udi Dahan - MVP, finally.
Congratulations to Udi Dahan on getting his Solutions Architect MVP award ! Udi has been speaking at user groups for a long time now and has an interesting blog where he posts his thoughts on architecture and software…
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Upcoming Audio Interviews from TechEd Europe
TechEd Europe is Done. Here's a great summary of some of the sessions and the overall spirit of things. I've been pretty busy networking and getting to know many of the speakers I've always read or heard and wanted to…
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Agile Israel News & Updates
If you haven't been to the last Agile Israel meeting in June, here are some things announced there: Fixed meeting date The Agile Israel group has a fixed date each month. The group meets on the fourth Monday of each…
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TDD workshop today - CANCELED
I'm sorry to say that the TDD workshop today will be cancelled due to low participation rate – primarily due to the expected traffic gams today . The next one is expected to be at July 18 th . If you'd like to attend…
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Wanna record a geeky interview at Tech-Ed Europe?
If you're attending Tech-Ed Europe and would be interested in doing anything between a 10-60 minute recorded interview about some interesting facet of technology, or just geeking out in the community lounge with me,…
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Blog'n your way to the PDC - A reality in the works
Wanna go to the PDC? For free? If you have a blog or are in the mood to write a little software - you should really really check this out then . All I can say is that very soon you'll see my own entry for this contest.…
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Impressions from the "Get ready for VS 2005" conference in Israel
MS Israel help 2 free single day conferences today and the day before. Yesterday was all about "Get ready for SQL 2005" and today was mainly for developers and dealt with many topics related to developers with VS.NET…
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June at Agile Israel: Implementing change in an organization + A Bug's Life
The next Agile Israel meeting - More details here Please send an email to Yes@AgileIsrael.com if you plan to attend so that we know how many people to plan for. Thanks in advance. If you'd like to receive notification…
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[Audio Interview] Brian Noyes: Deep .NET Q&A
Brian Noyes -Getting Technical about .NET (April 25, 2005) What would you do if you had an experienced architect and consultant sitting right next to you? You'd start asking him all kinds of questions that have been…
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Israel C# user group: Instrumentation in Windows Operating Systems
Lecturer : Gad J. Meir , Idag , Ltd. Date: Wednesday, June 15, 17:00 - 20:00 Place: Microsoft Israel , IVCUG Hapnina 2 ( Amdocs Building ) Ground Floor Raanana +972 (9) 762-5100 Parking available at the Kurkar parking…
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Agile Israel news and updates
I'm continuing to work on the Agile Israel site. This is what I have so far . You've got a page for each meeting with downloadable goods and also links to slides and audio bits from the talks. My first reaction is…
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LinMagazine: Hebrew blogs about technology and development
I just discovered LinMagazine - an Israeli (Hebrew Speaking) magazine with online blogs and RSS feeds. It looks to be mainly for Linux lovers, but I do find a nice amount of posts to be interesting there. A lot of the…
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VB user group meeting this week: Diving into ADO.NET 2.0 and VS 2005 Data features
Here's the email I got from Jackie regarding thie month's (week's!) VB user group meeting: "This month we will take a look at the two sides of Data Access in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. I'll be giving the 2…
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Catch me at one of these upcoming user group events this month
If you want to meet me in person (or just listen to an interesting lecture you can catch me at these upcoming events: 16th of this month - C++/C# user group I'll be speaking at the C# user group about C# best practices…
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Agile Israel next meeting infromation and other important news
If you arn't registered on the new Agile Israel mailing list - I just sent out this important letter to the list. If you'd like me to add your email to the list, send me an email to AddMe at AgileIsrael dot com. Hi…
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IVBUG: Multithreaded UIs with VB.NET
Udi will be giving a talk at the upcoming IVBUG meeting about multi threaded UIs with VB.NET. Check out his description of it.
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Israel .NET architects user group: Patterns, practices and online resources for architects
Greetings .NET architect! You are welcome to attend our next meeting to be held on Sunday, February 27th . Our next presentation is based on my request to have a Microsoft official present the various resources that are…
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Agile Israel news and updates
Looks like I got into terms with Microsoft on hosting the Agile Israel user group on a monthly basis at the Microsoft Center in Ra'anana. The next meeting is now being scheduled for the 23rd of March. I'm trying to see…
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1st Agile Israel group meeting went great!
The first Agile Israel meeting took place yesterday, and it was pretty darn good! Show-up: 32 people out of a 42 registered crowd. In the pictures you can see the room we had at SELA and Udi talking to the group. What…
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Is CodeBetter.Com to become the new .NETWeblogs?
Darrell Norton is one of the founders of the newly created CodeBetter.Com - a blogging community for better coders and developers. That also means that Darrell's most excellent blog has moved here . So, is…
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Agile Israel user group changes location to SELA
The First Agile user group meeting will be held this Monday, the 31st, not at Magen, but at the SELA University in Tel Aviv. Here's a link to exact arrival instructions: http://www.selayouniversity.co.il/Pages/Map.asp…
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How to register for .NET user groups in Israel
I recently got a few emails from people in Israel that wanted to know how they can be notified in advance on various user group meetings. *finally* an easy answer :) To get notified every time the Visual C# user group…
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Reminder: .Net astronauts user group meeting today
Reminder: .Net Architects (" Astronauts "? :-) user group meeting today !
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Help the Tsunami Victims of Banda Aceh - Buy an hour of Top-Notch Consulting
" It looks like Scott was the first to blog this... A bunch of us, championed by Julia Lerman and Stephen Forte are going to auction an hour each of our consulting time to benefit the Tsunami victims of Banda Aceh . ALL…
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Announcing: First Agile Israel user group meeting this month!
I think its about time to do something about that Agile user group I talked so much about. So. The first meeting of the Agile Israel user group will be held on January 31st, Monday at 18:00 at Magen . Co-managing the…