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Community News
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…
2007
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VS 2008 Install & Crash Reports
Update : Looks like it was a bad behaving version of Visual SVN that caused the crash. Thanks for the update, JP! I think I'm going to stay with my VS 2008 Beta Install for now. Sorry JP , it's this kind of thing that…
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[Songs] Every Build You Break, Reflection
This guy just posted a youtube video with the song I did from my session on continuous Integration during Teched Barcelona. I wrote a song (along with Sting and the Police) called "Every Build You Break". Here's the…
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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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Things I learned at JAOO 2007
Martin Fowler may be one of the great minds of our engineering age, but his accent sounds a lot like MR. Bean. He's also not a great social figure and also sems to speak when spoken to. Eccentric. Robert C. Martin is a…
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The Art Of Unit Testing - Available to Purchase Online Now
I'm happy to announce that you can now purchase my book The Art Of Unit Testing through the Manning Early Access Program. Currently, the first five chapters are available, but when you purchase the MEAP version you get…
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Upcoming Talks Update: August 2007
It's going to be a busy end of year. I have the following talks in the following conferences: ALT.NET Open Space Conference It's open space, not prescheduled talks, but I have some ideas + a guitar JAOO, Denmark Testing…
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ALT.NET Conference is open for registration
The ALT.NET Open Space Conference is now open for registration , so you should register yourself (free) as soon as possible, only 100 people can fit in.. the rest get into a waiting list. I'll personally be there, and…
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Video: In memory of David Boschmans
A little while ago I wrote about the passing away of David Boschmans , whom I got to meet during TechEd and DevDays. There is a Flickr photo group of David's photos and I thought I'd create a little montage of the…
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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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David Boschmans - You will be missed
David Boschmans passed away last week. I personally knew him from two conferences I spoke at, TechEd Europe and DevDays Belgium. David was a great guy, and great to work with. He was the one who'd arrange for stuff to…
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Introducing CommunityHacker.Com : Tips on Building online communities and blogs
It seems that these days I've been doing a lot around community rather than just plain coding or managing teams. I'm even helping a company create its own community and things seem to be going well. Combine that with…
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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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Agile Israel Conference 2007 - Call For Speakers
This is a public call for speakers for the first Agile Conference in Israel - Agile Israel 2007. We don't have a site yet, but the current date for the conference is (mark your calendars): December 16 2007. The…
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Looking for open source contributors to my projects
I've been thinking a lot about doing some active open source development, mainly sharing and getting contributions on my various code and tools from people in the community, and providing them as full open sourced…
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Blow to open source on VS.NET: VSIP License forbids Open Source
Microsoft - why can't you feel his pain ? "For those of you not in the know (AKA, everybody) they recently switched back to the old distribution EULA, which essentially says, 'sorry, no open source' among other inane…
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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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Leaving for Developer Days 2007 in Belgium - Geek Dinner Anyone?
In less than 12 hours I'll be sitting on a plane heading for Belgium. I'll be speaking at the upcoming Developer & IT Pro Days 2007 7 conference in Ghent, starting on the 28-29. The subjects I'll be covering: Regular…
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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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Vote for the top talks to see at the upcoming MS Israeli Conference
Yosi Taguri is holding a little survey about the upcoming big Microsoft Developer Conference in Israel on January 31. You can rank the top five talks you'd be interested in (it's in Hebrew) going to. I'm giving two…
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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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Israeli Blogger Dinner Next Week
Omer took it upon himself to organize a blogger Dinner here in Israel. so write this down: November 20 (next week, Monday), 21:00 - somewhere Kosher. I am totally there! Details to be found on Omer's blog (write…
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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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My sessions at TechEd Europe 2006
here's the current list of sessions I'll be doing at Tech Ed Europe: Developers: (Note: the Test Driven Development Chalk & Talk is in the morning after the Tech Ed Party - if you're there - you're hardcore :) ) ARC207…
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Neglecting Israeli MVPS, and INETA MEA is worthless
Israeli MVPs are being neglected If you're a Microsoft MVP, and are not from the United States, you probably have your own MVP Lead in your country, taking care of business. Israel had one until a couple months ago or…
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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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Speaker Idol @ TechEd: Developers
Got this in the email - thought some of you might be interested! Speaker Idol @ Tech·Ed: Developers 7 - 10 November, Barcelona, Spain Take to the Speaker Idol stage, demonstrate your exceptional presentation skills and…
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Regulazy 1.01 is available for download
There’s a new version out for The Regulazy, which you can grab here . Update : 30 minutes after the last update, I uploaded a newer version (1.011) which fixes a crash with some HTML Partsing inputs. You can simply…
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Microsoft's SharePoint treats FireFox as 2nd class citizen
Looks like the next version of SharePoint won't support FireFox fully. as Jeff mentiones : "Every time Microsoft is doing something cool (like Xbox 360 or Visual Studio Express), they do something that's crap like this"…
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Microsoft Acquires Winternals (a.k.a SysInternals) Software
This is *huge* news. Microsoft Acquires Winternals Software Company appoints operating systems kernel expert Mark Russinovich as technical fellow. If you don't know how valuable SysInternals tools are - it's time to…
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Does your desktop look cool/geeky these days? You could win some prizes.
There are some seriously cool desktops being posted over at Http://desktops.osherove.com How about you get over there and submit your cool, amazingly geeky desktop?
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See you at Tech-Ed Europe!
The guys at Tech-Ed Europe are very impressive when it comes to managing the show. As early as now they have a speaker site up with a complete speaker application online that helps manage the massive amounts of data…
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Some updates about the desktop screenshot contest
Some updates about the desktop screenshot contest : You can now simply send an email with your screenshot without having to register on the site We have judges! Mike Gunderloy Scott Hanselman Carl Franklin Yours truly…
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Geek Desktop Contest Announced
It's time for another Geek Desktop Contest (last one was 3 years ago!). Just head on over to http://Desktops.Osherove.com , register, and upload a screenshot of your desktop. Contest closes on august 31st 2006, and the…
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More Interesting Podcasts about technology
After my post about QAPodcast.com and other podcasts (which actually isn't that great after listening to a couple of shows, sorry), I got some nice referrals to other podcasts in the comments. Here they are: Brian…
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Introducing Regulazy: Point & Click Regular Expression
Regulazy is an attempt to build a small “Expert System” for creating .NET Regular Expressions. It lets the user create an expression based on a real life example of text they would like to parse. As the user interacts…
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Four cool books to give away at today's C# user group
If you're planning on showing up today to the Israeli C# User Group meeting (Wednesday) be prepared for a great raffle I'm planning in the end. I try to make it a habit to bring along cool books to presentations I host.…