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2012
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When they tell me I have to use MSBuild to automate our CI Process
When they tell me I have to use MSBuild to automate our CI Process When I see a terminal keyboard junkie doing their thing When we are starting a brand new green field project When they approve the budget for…
2010
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Converting MOD files to quicktime or mpeg for adobe premiere pro
I’ve been Editing lots of videos lately. My company got a video camera: Canon Legria FS200. It saves the movies in a digital format – as MOD files. Unfortunately, Adobe Premiere doesn’t work with these files. I needed…
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Funny Volcanic Ash Tweets
Now that I’m officially stuck in the UK (for ACCU ) until the cloud of ash thinks it’s OK, I’ve gathered some funny tweets from #ashtag: @the_pc_doc: I, for one, welcome our new volcanic overloads. #ashtag @CloudierK:…
2008
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My Son - Itamar the Snake Tamer
He was at the zoo today, and all I got was this scary picture. Good parenting, mom!
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Get me an Unlocked IPhone 3G from Italy or Hong Kong
If you are a reader of this blog and live in Italy (or hong kong) - that means you live in a place where you can get the new iphone 3g with no sim lock . I have some money in my paypal account that I’d love to give you…
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[Off Topic] My Geeky little architect
My kid is a geek at 18 months: and also an amazing architect with a sense of (porcupine) humor:
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Itamar at 1.5
My son, Itamar, is almost a year and a half old. I'm gonna be gone from home for a week, so here are a couple of pictures of him taken yesterday, so you'll all see the cool little dude I'm missing out on:
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Itamar at 1.3 (movie)
It's time to mark my son, Itamar's, one year and 3 months birthday. Here's a little movie to show what my little angel looks like these days:
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Want a Wii? (And learn about Typemock Isolator?)
You can watch our webcast and participate in the raffle between attendees , and get a Wii just for listening (We don't even have one in our own office, so you better really want one if you get it..)
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Looking for a PHP programmer
We need a PHP programmer (remote work is possible) as soon as possible. Close by (Israel) is better, but not a must. If you are one, or know one that needs part time work - send me an email to royo at typemock.com
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Computer Magic
Here's a little trick you can use right now on your fellow developers: Hit Ctrl-Alt-Down Arrow if you're lucky, you'll see magic.
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[very off topic] I can haz a site
On a totally different note, if my blog was designed by an LOL Cat, it would look like this . To make things much nicer, here's how Codebetter.com would look if it was designed by cats LOLCodeBetter . (via TC )
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New Computer Smell
Ah, the smell of a new machine in a new company . Windows XP 64 bit. Quad Core. And windows live writer decides it does not want to install. Turns out, I can just install it on a 32 bit machine, and then copy the…
2007
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Trading Places
You may have heard rumors about me. They're all true, but this one is a new one, and it's true as well. I'll be leaving my place at SELA group on January. It was a great time being there and I learned a lot ,but I feel…
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Google Mail For Domains Premium just got bigger storage
I was just checking my google apps for domains (I use a premium account which gives me 10Gigs of storage) and saw something interesting at the bottom of the page: Coolness.
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10 Great Conference Talk Titles (and one that's just ok)
Shoot me, but I'd like to attend one of these presentations at DevTeach Vancouver this year. If only: one of them was accepted, and I was actually going :(
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Can you spot the Phishing Scam?
I thought I had it beat, but I only got 9 out of 10 in the " recognize the phishing scam " quiz. Interesting! If you don't know what Phishing is, I suggest you take this quiz to find out! [via Amit ]
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iPhone is an Israeli Brand originally
Huh! the iPhone brand was actually invented in Israel . That's interesting to know, in a "we rule" kind of way. Then again, if you look at the original iPhone picture on that page then.. not so much ruling.
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Why I won't be switching to Google RSS Reader
Google Reader is a great RSS reader, in the browser. However, if I try to figure out the ways in which it benefits me than my current reader - Omea , I get quite annoyed with missing functionality in Google Reader: No…
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Pretty amazing demo of 3D sound on your headphones
If haven't heard this yet, you just have to! A friend sent this one to me. Put on your headphones (it's designed especially for that), and listen to true 3D sound as you take your virtual haircut ! Here's another…
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How I stopped kicking myself and started using Google Apps For Domains
It took me long enough, but I think I finally figures out a nice solution for my emailing needs. Up to now I hosted my mail at an exchange hosting company (MyHostedExchange.com) so that I can access it online and…
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How I got over my Ego
A few days ago I got an email from a friend who was watching a talk that I did earlier this year. It had been recorded, and he was anxious to tell me about various notes he wrote during my talk. When he asked if I’d be…
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Building a home media center - Here's my parts list
I'm starting to put together the next version of my home Media Center. If you're living in the U.S the following list may sound a bit of a "that's all"-ish, but consider the following: Electrics in Israel cost mostly as…
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Why the Wii is selling like hotcakes
Scott posted about his Nintendo Wii experience . I believe that the following serves as a MUCH better ad... Video: pub Wii (obviously targeted at the male population)
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Five things you didn't know about me
I've been tagged , so I'll use this as a good chance to talk about my favorite subject - me! Five things you didn't know about me: 1. I used to be a wave surfer between the ages of 12-18, with long hair that was…
2006
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Good Experience: Cool Online Games
Here's a very nice set of online games , hand-picked by web surfers and collected in one site with short explanations. Great for passing the time (especially at work!) [via ThisIsBroken ] One of the coolest ones (though…
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Rest in peace, Doug Reilly
Rest in peace , Doug. Cancer hit close this time, and I hope this is as close as it will ever get. Doug was an MVP and was fighting Cancer. He passed away not long ago.
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Forget Google Hacks, Try Live Hacks
Forget Google Hacks, Try Live Hacks :) Alik is a security guy, and he knows what he's talking about. He has a nice walk through of what hacker could do with the Live Search SDK to find sites with vulnerabilities.…
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What would you write about if you had an anonymous blog?
What would you write about your job if you knew that no one could trace it back to you? I've toyed with that question myself a few times. Boy, the stuff I'd write if I had no accountability over it - could be quite…
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How bad design can scare your children
I forgot how funny ThisIsBroken.Com can be sometimes! From here : Broken : Warning on Hasbro pony toy " Adults take note: Pony comes unassembled in box with head detached. You may wish to not open the box around your…
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MomPC - Creating a parent safe PC
As many techies out there, I’m also the primary technician and support personnel for my parents – mainly, my Mom. Herein lays the problem. My mom is not really a computer whiz. In fact she doesn’t know how to do much…
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Nothing to do with Vista
This is hilarious , and has absolutely nothing to do with Windows Vista. He just goes on and on. Seriously. Listen. (thanks Chris )
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Next generation facial mapping technology
What an absolutely amazing technology this is . "The Times's Sharon Waxman talks with executives from Imagemetrics, a special effects company whose new facial mapping software could change the way movies are made."
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How to get disqualified as an MVP
Jamie Cansdale is not an MVP anymore - his title wasn't renewed this year. "So what" you may think. "Who on earth is Jamie whatever?". Jamie is the guy that created TestDriven.NET (formerly known as "NUnit Addin") - one…
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Top 10 Best Presentations Ever
A friend sent this to me the other day, and I thought it'd be a good link to have here to follow up on every once in a while. Folks, here are two folk's selection of the Top 10 Best Presentations Ever . Steve Jobs…
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Windows Live - porn related? Google thinks so.
That's interesting. Google seems to think that Windows Live Terms Of Service page is related to porno sites. Seriously . [via YNet (Hebrew)]
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Cool ScreenSaver: Electric Sheep
Here's a cool screensaver I've been running for a month or so on my machine, and it is beautiful ! It's the Electric Sheep Screensaver , and it's a bit different from your run of the mill savers: "Electric Sheep is a…
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New Language in Google: 'Elmer Fudd'
Can anyone explain to me why "Elmer Fudd" is a language sitting inside my "Select Google Language" dialog page? Once I select it, sure enough, my searches end up looking like this: (I know who Elmer Fudd is, so don't…
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Nice idea for a shirt
Update : There seems to be a bug in community server - this post should not have ended up on the main feed - it has not tags relating to the main feed whatsoever! This is truly an awesome idea . "After reading about…
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ISerializable mentioned on HanselMinutes
Congratulations to HanselMinutes on 25 shows filled to the brim with excellent content, highly geeky, technical and, yes, not wasting my time! I only wish the show was 1 hour instead of 30 minutes, so that it would fit…
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Moving to FeedBurner
This is an important note: My new RSS feed address from now on is http://feeds.feedburner.com/Iserializable . The original RSS feed will NOT BE UPDATED . So you should change your RSS subscription now. Will redirect to…
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Could JaJah be the next Skype Killer? Almost
If only you were able to initiate calls *without* a real phone, I think it would. To start, www.JaJah.com - an Israeli startup company has had this product for about a year now. What it does is allow you to call free…
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Attack of the high and mighty forum reply (or: can't you just answer a simple question?)
Careful – major rant! I was having a question from one of clients about something they are dealing with. I know the app, I know the design and the problem was something I didn’t know how to solve (technical problem with…
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[Off Topic] Welcome to Pallywood
I normally don't blog politics, but this is too important not to mention. Feel free to skip this post if you're not interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Not to detract anything from what's already a very…
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Fixing "mapi32.dll is an invalid Extended MAPI Library" and "Mail is not installed on your system" on Windows Server 2003 with Exchange
I get these annoying message on w Windows 2003 Server with Exchange Installed, when trying to do mail merge or send do as attachement from within Word: "mapi32.dll is an invalid Extended MAPI Library Mail is not…
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Google Notebook - Would *Kill* RSS Feeds
My Google Notebook is a very cool thing. Now, if it only had RSS feeds and the ability to set a domain... now - you'd have one hack of a blogging engine on your hands, wouldn't you?
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BS Bingo - Making Dull Meetings Fun Again
Oh, this sounds like a fun way to spend at a your weekly meeting with the CEO: Bullshit Bingo . They actually have dedicated sites and cards for this stuff. Testimonials from satisfied "Bullshit Bingo" players: "I had…
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Trend: Who works the hardest and knows the least?
Now here's an interesting thought from Google Trends: Which country outsources the most work in .NET? I'd love to say that Israel is third just because we care so much about technology etc. but I think the Truth may be…
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Can you recommend a good Exchange Hosting service?
It's time for me to upgrade my email hosting. Right now I have an Exchange server running at home which I configured myself (with lots of problems, I might add - I'm not a great exchange admin). Now that I have my new…
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Advertise your Tool/Component/Site on ISerializable.com Blog
Yes, it's shameless. No, it's not as bad as you think. I'm looking to upgrade my cell phone , so it's time to open the floor to advertisers on this blog for a limited amount of time. If you have a cool product or…
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Introvert Speaker == Extrovert Writer?
I'm currently editing the audio bits of an upcoming interview with Esther Derby , who I came to contact with through Johanna Rothman . The interview subject is a different topic than the one in this post though. After…
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Just search for "Roy"
It's official. I'm number 2 when searching "roy" in Google , and Number 7 for the same search in the new MS Live Search . Now the pressure begins! Update : Well, I seem to be bouncing up and down on the main google…
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[OT]Israeli group announces anti-Semitic cartoons contest
I'm not sure what to think of this, and this has nothing to do with technology, but it seems like an interesting response to the "Muhammad cartoon-gate" that's been going on the past few weeks, I think. And it's kinda…
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The future of interaction
absolutley amazing - the future of computer interaction [via here ]
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VB6 Migration pains - captured as a conversation
Scott Swigart , at one of the mailing lists that I frequent, recently wrote one of those "It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad" kind of emails. With permission, I'm quoting parts of it here. If you're a consultant, this…
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Guess that conference
Update: Dale got it in the comments. That's the author guidelines for submitting a research article to the "Agile 2006" conference, no less. It's following IEEE guidelines for submissions. I'll let you ponder the irony…
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FYI: "v7ndotcom elursrebmem"
Now, this is a lovely idea for a contest, not to mention a Google Rank-Tester. Let's just hope no one who works at Google on that algorithm tries to win this.. "Here’s how it works: Savvy SEO people enter this contest…
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Cool Outlook Trick: Sync schedules with multiple computers, without using Exchange
Sahil malik shares some Oulook 2003 Wisdom. The trick: How do you make sure your Outlook at home is not stepping on any of your Work schedule? Here's How . It's not the most usable thing in the world, but it seems to do…
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HanselMinutia
Scott Hansleman Introduces his brand new podcast - " Hanselminutes ". First - what a cool name. In fact, everything about the way this podcast is presented is "cool". I mean, if there ever was someone that made us MS…
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VB.NET 2.0 Vs. C# 2.0: Nice event photo
Ohad has published some of the event photos from the VS Launch event held in Israel last month. Here's one from the session Jackie Goldstein and me did together on new stuff in .NET 2.0 people should know about. Jackie…
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Back, Relaxed and Recharged
Wow! It's been an amazing two weeks at Thailand. The only way to sum up the overall feeling would be this picture of Tal sitting on the beach at the Phi Phi Islands:
2005
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Going to Thailand for a couple of weeks
My wife an I are going on a two week trip to Thailand this Wednesday (2 days from now..ack!). It's a long awaited, and well deserved vacation for the both of us. Our "plan" is pretty agile :) We have a two week…
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Media Center Fix: Multiple Concurrent Logins to Windows
So I can find it later: Concurrent Remote Desktop Sessions in Windows XP SP2
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For the ego trip bag: Google Book Search
Here's another trick for the Ego Trip enhancement bag: Search your name in Google Books . Funnily enough, I was mentioned in one book I didn't even know about, while another book that I *do* know about , is not listed.
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Google Ads Gets Better - Targeted ads for specific sites
Looks like Google has added a new feature to its Google Ads: The ability to let you bid directly on a specific site with your own ad (see my own blog page on the top left - you get a new "advertise on this site" link).…
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[OT] MSDN Wars? Part 1?? The Movie???
I'm not sure what to say when I see something like " MSDN Wars - Part 1 ". Perhaps I shouldn't say anything.. [via msdn webcasts blog ]
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Has Microsoft screwed up with VS 2005, or is it a perception problem? Some thoughts.
Mike Gunderloy writes in an article for SearchVB.Com about what he believes is more of a perception problem by developers regarding VS 2005 rather than an actual lower quality in the product. "Every single version of…
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Be an MS Paint MVP
Note: This whole post is under the assumption that this guy is not sarcastic to the point that nobody gets it. Looks like you can get on the MVP program by drawing a nice icon these days. Seriously, this guy just got…
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The unbearable ease of domain names
It's almost ridiculous how easy it's become to get your own domain name. So easy in fact, that when I found out that the business cards I had ordered had my blog address wrong becuase of my own mistake, "ISeria z…
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Problem creating mail enabled Contact on Exchange 2003
I don't usually do this - use the blog as a public forum post, unless I've searched the answer in all the places I know. This one is a favor for a friend I can't seem to get done on my own.My friend is desperately…
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Google AdSense Referral Program Open to the public
Looks like Google AdSense just went another mile further. They now have a referral program. So if people sign up for AdSense through me, I actually get some money for it. All I can say is that so far, AdSense has…
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My blog is not worthless after all
Just so you know: My blog is worth $88,068.24 . How much is your blog worth?
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More popups?
The popups still keep on coming, so I've removed the google ads. If you still see popups, let me know. If you don't, but you used to, let me know to.
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Annoying pop up on this blog? No more, I hope.
I seem to have inadvertently let in a pop up ad into this blog through one of the amazon or google ads. This was unintentional and I'm freaked out that I haven't noticed it. I still haven't, but I've gotten 3 emails…
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When LINQ and Yukon meet
I think the award for "coolest upcoming technology preview" for this year's PDC has to go to the LINQ stuff. That's "Language Integrated Query" if you haven't heard this yet. If I had to sum up the idea behind LINQ in a…
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The new MS 4000 keyboard and a ThinkPad go great together
I just got the new keyboard from Microsoft - the ergo 4000 , and it's pretty cool. The coolest feature for me, forgetting the shortcut keys and all that, is the fact that the keyboard is high enough in the air to…
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Two small irrelevant tips
This is something I didn't find out until a few days ago. What happens when you search for "new York weather" on google? Find out. How do you get rid of the annoying irritating useless "personal tabs" in MSN Messenger ?…
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The DIMES project aims to map the internet - with your help
Update : I've just installed the agent and it is pretty cool. It gives you a visual map of your agent's "traceroute"s based on IP, country or ISP. Simple and lovable. The DIMES project (Distributed Internet MEasurements…
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Can you Digg it? Digg.Com
At first sight, Digg.Com looks like a really interesting site/blog/community information center. Plus, it has info on cool hacking tools and stuff. I am such a L33t h4x0r, ain't I? I can Digg it.
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Installing Exchange overnight, oh my!
Last night spent 6 or so hours installing Microsoft Exchange on our home server, so that I can *finally* be able to synchronize my mail, calendar and tasks through my laptop when I go off to various places. It all…
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[OT] Watch The Anchorman for the commentary
If you have a chance, pick up the DVD for " Anchorman ". Not for the movie, but explicitly for the movie commentary. Just watch it all with commentary on. It is hilarious and unlike any movie commentary you've heard…
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[OT] Evacuating the Gaza strip
On a purely non technical and unrelated note to anything, I'd like to take this moment to talk about how I feel when today Israel is starting to move people outside of their homes from the Gaza strip. I really don't…
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Still alive, in Ireland.
I'm still very much alive, and Ireland is very beautiful. I just can't find any time to blog. Hopefully I'll have something interesting to say in the coming days..
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The solution is out *there*, NOT on in my chat window!
Here's a small hint before you try to "chat" with someone on your MSN Messenger about solving a specific problem in .NET. It will save you (and them) a lot of time in a many cases. It may seem silly, but a lot of people…
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[OT]The Friday Page
Just found " The Friday Page ". Some disturbing stuff in there, but some of it's really funny. View at your own risk..
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[OT] If you can't stand the heat, take your ThinkPad out of the oven
It might be a well designed commercial for an IBM ThinkPad, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. This is one of the reasons I got a ThinkPad : (Translated and paraphrased from Hebrew, but Nice picture int he…
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[OT] What's inside the food we eat?
My wife is doing a paper for university on Morality in business. She's decided to explore the wonderful world of food additives and how they kill us slowly but surely(a lot of them, anyway). One of the articles we…
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Open for work during September(L.A or Bellevue)
It looks like I'll be attending the MVP summit this September, and I'll be looking to do a small time gig (speaking, training, consulting, development) during the week after that, in the hope of making it profitable…
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My contests actually make a difference :)
I'm glad my little Add-in contest helped someone get to Redmond for a tour with their friends :) What other contests would you like to see? Geekiest Joke? Coolest Avalon App? A "Self Documenting Code" contest? "Best…
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Important:Need someone to help me with DotNetNuke
I need someone who has good DotNetNuke installation experience - the www.agileisrael.com site keeps falling and This is a community site, so whoever can help is helping a growing community here in Israel. I'm not sure…
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Spell it with Flickr Images!
This is cool ! Spell whatever you want using Flickr Images :) (via the Hebrew YNet blog )
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Geekiest joke ever
This joke courtesy of David Platt : "What do you get when you combine Lee Iaccoca and Dracula?" "Auto-Exec bat"
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Visual Basic 1.0, all over again
Looks like we're getting back to our roots , people. VB 1 is here to stay! :) Actually, it seems like a pretty nice GUI specification application. I wonder how it will fare in my next agile project.. (via TSS.net )
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I might be in L.A in October, and open for consulting/speaking engagements
It looks like I might be in the neighborhood of L.A this October for several weeks. Possible things I'd like to do while there: Speak at a user group or two about Agile/Regex/.NET stuff Consult/Train on Agile/.NET Have…
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Sessions done at TechEd
I just finished doing all my sessions and chalk talks at TechEd. phew. I didn't imagine it would be so demanding physically (the mileage you walk between sessions is huge!). I've gotten feedback scores on all of them -…
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Congratulations, Ohad. Twofold!
Congratulations to Ohad on his newborn, shira ! Ohad just got his Security MVP as well, so that's double reason to be glad :)
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Dictionellisense
OK, never mind. I don't have the time or energy to build this, but maybe one of you can. And earn billions of dollars: Dictionellisense: Type the beginning of a word in Word , press CTRL+SPACE and have a list of words…
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William Safire's Rules for Writers
I found a quite funny tidbit today by reading the weekend papers, where it was translated into Hebrew. The English source is pretty nice as well!: William Safire's Rules for Writers : Remember to never split an…
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Nice PDC Contest Entry from Steve Hebert
Steve Hebert has a very nice contest entry about why he should go to the PDC. Why didn't *I* think of a poem?? :) Update : OK, I just found out that Brenden has a pretty darn innovative PDC post as well. Guess I should…
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Who's reading me?
I've been getting some referees from this address: http://teams/information services/application support/default.aspx Is this a Microsoft internal address? Who's reading me in there?In fact - who's reading me at all?…
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The ultimate gamer keyboard?
I don't play much games anymore, but if I did, oh boy. I'd buy this sucker immediately for my upcoming birthday.
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[OT] What are you afraid of?
This is scary. How many phobias(chronic fears) do you think there are? Take a look at the ultimate phobia list and count them. I didn't see a fear of large lists of fears though. Some may sound eerily familiar from work…
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Evil code in disguise
The Underhanded C Contest "..we hereby announce an annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior. In many ways this is the exact opposite of the Obfuscated C Code Contest: in this…
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My Session schedule at Tech-Ed Europe
Here's the list of my upcoming sessions at Tech-Ed Europe. Hope to see as many people from the blogsphere there! Testing, Testing... (CHT019) Date: 7 July 2005 12:00 -13:15 (My Chalk & Talk about Unit Testing at TechEd…
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$50,000 to build a Cool Tool?
hmmm... $50,000. Sounds like fun. Let the thinking game begin. (via Rocky )
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Annoying problem (+Solution) of the week: "One or more projects in Solution X needs to be updated to use Crystal Reports 10."
This is weird and annoying: Upon the daily build we started getting this dialog box: "--------------------------- Crystal Reports 10 --------------------------- One or more projects in Solution…
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Nice Handwriting fonts in Hebrew
We were on the lookout for some great Hebrew handwriting fonts so that we could "write" a letter to family in Australia. via Google I stumbled upon this site with a very nice selection of handwriting fonts in Hebrew…
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[OT ]It's Yamaka pattern time!
You knew it was going to happen: There's a special program to design the patterns on a yamaka ("Kippa" in Hebrew). (site is in Hebrew) (via the YNet blogs ) Also, from thr Same site: Haaretz newspaper finally has RSS…
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In search of the perfect programmer's font
Fonts Fonts Fonts! I've always thought that "Courier New" was the new black - the perfect programming font. Yet, I've always had my doubts and have attempted to switch to various other fonts fondly known as "programmer…
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MS Digital City, and a funny amateur video commercial
This Thursday and Friday Microsoft is holding it's " Digital City " conference in Tel Aviv Israel. There are many gadgets and gizmos shown there. I'm also presenting there 3 sessions of 30 minutes (err, same session 3…
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Wanna see something really scary? Watch "The Grudge"
I like scary movies. I've been watching scaries for years and years, since childhood. Gore and terror - the more the better. So when I heard there's a new movie called " The Grudge " which is essentially a Japanese…
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The Regex phrase of death
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. " -Jamie Zawinski, in comp.lang.emacs I swear, if one more person sends me an email, SMS message or…
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[OT] In response to an email spammer/Scammer
Please disregard this post. I just want this guy to get as much spam as possible. johnnykuruma@yahoo.ca and I'll be keeping a list of email spammers on my homepage for various spam robots to find right over here:…
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Google Web Accelerator
OK, has anyone checked out the new Google Web Accelerator application? I guess this NY times is not so off track after all... Gates should get busy quick.
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RSS support from YNet Israel - Finally
Now, when my parents ask me what RSS is, I can just point them to the new set of RSS feeds provided by one of Israel's largest online news sites - YNet (from one of the three major newspapers in Israel). And, FINALLY, a…
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When training classes go horribly wrong
One of the worst things you can experience as an instructor is to teach a class of people who just don't give a damn. This happened to me a few weeks ago. These people were coming in late, (sometimes an hour late!),…
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Using Emacs: A masochist's guide
Using EMacs : The ultimate hacker's text editor. Why on earth does Don Box like this thing? (via Anarchia ) Always did wonder what everyone saw in this thing. I'm a keyboard freak myself but this thing is *daunting*!…
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The spin on passover
I have to say - this is a real new spin on passover :) (the load is worth the wait...) and this is a funny one too (from same site)
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Team Agile is hiring
In the coming days I'll be posting this "officially" on the Team Agile website. I'm looking for good people to hire: Note that all these points refer to different people and positions . You need to live in Israel to…
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[Weird Project of the week] "Parking Spots"
It's the weekend, so guess what? more weird stuff. Just like the Infinite cat project, here comes " Parking Spots " where people show off their toy cars placed in real scenes. It's actually pretty funny if you take the…
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Consolas: Our next programming font?
This is an interesting read . "Beginning in 2006, Microsoft says it will ship with its operating system and other software products six brand new typefaces created especially for extended on-screen reading. " Especially…
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Addictive, hypnotic and simple game
This is something to play at work , if you don't want to work. Can you max my 1718 points? Update - make that 2516, dudes.
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Yahoo 360? *yawn*
So now Yahoo! is making an MSN spaces clone called Yahoo 360 ? And It's invite only Like GMail ? That is so 2004.. ;)
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Movies, The Ruby way
PS And one of the funniest bits I've read all month comes from the Anarchia blog I've talked about earlier Movies, the Ruby way. What do I mean? Here's a short example: The Matrix assert_nil(spoon) Forrest Gump…
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Weird and interesting Blog of the week - Anarchia
By far one of the most "...uh... what?" blogs I've seen that I actually found by a trackback to one of my unit testing blog posts. Worth a look, if only for the seemingly random Bob Dylan and Latin phrases mixed in.…
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Now *that's* how you tell a wedding proposal story!
Rory's getting married . And he describes "the start" of the process in a very "Rory"ish way - I laughed out loud. Congrats!
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Pitfalls to avoid in an authors publishing contract
This is an interesting article found on one of the newsgroups: " What pitfalls do I need to avoid in an authors publishing contract? "
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Scary future ahead?
This is a scary way to order pizza: http://www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php?id=5927 makes you think..
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An old joke with a new ending
Here's a funny joke I just read (you probably know the first half..) It's taken from slahdot, but I found it over on this Hebrew blog "A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled…
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Weird fonts on this blog?
For some reason, my fonts look weird. Perhaps it has to do with me posting from PostXing?
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Software Factories And Regular Expressions
I'm still preparing for my software factories talk tomorrow at the Israel Architects user group. It's amazing the stuff that I dug on this issue. Especially all the (not so)hidden rivalry between MS and IBM over what…
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Desktops with a twist
Wow! Some great looking desktops over here. Thanks to Mike for the link.
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VS 2005 Pricing and Licensing (sucks)
[ Update : You can go vote against this licensing scheme in the Microsoft feedback center, thanks to Jordan T.] It's bad enough that Unit Testing will not be included in all versions of Visual Studio (like Microsoft…
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Funny TechEd video - Scott & Rory
What can I say? This is a funny video. Wish I was there.
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Picking a fight with a book author
Looks like Alex picked a fight with non-other than Francesco Balena, long time coder and regional director, and personally someone who's code and tips I've used as a VB developer for many of my projects. Francesco is…
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The Real Roy
There were a lot of pictures taken at the MVP open days in Prague. You'd think my one and only picture would turn out better than this one .
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How most developers don't give a damn about productivity
One of the things I couldn't do at my last job was deliver training and consulting on non-Microsoft technology projects. I find myself these days teaching Agile concepts for developers in C/C++, Java and .NET. Each of…
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the CSS maze
I'm sure lots of people would love to hire the web-designer who can write a full graphical maze with only CSS (no JavaScript!) (via LarkWare )
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Met some nice people in Prague
I got to meet some really interesting people while I was in Prague. Take Ernst Kuschke for example. Ernst is from South Africa and he's a C# MVP. He's also an avid fan of Agile development and is in fact practicing it…
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Lesson of the day: don't be a pompous windbag
One of the things that I was totally surprised with when I started working with large organizations as a trainer was that their training staff had different ideas as to what makes for a solid, qualified and standardized…
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Congratulations to Yosi Taguri!
Congratulations to Yosi Taguri on the birth of of your daughter! Many more happy days (and nights) to come :)
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I'm not really here, sorry.
I know. You've missed me like hell. I've been staying along with my wife at a friend's house (they're on a trip and we're house-sitting). The Internet connection there sucks, but that is easily compensated by the fact…
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Pics from my Magen farewell dinner
About two weeks ago, some of the folks from Magen arranged a special farewell dinner for me. It was pretty touching. Here are some photos from that dinner. Thanks you guys! Especially Ohad who's arranged for it all. It…
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Silly bickering
It's amazing sometimes what you get to fight about; things you never thought possible suddenly come true. For example, we now have arguments over which one gets to take the "good" car for various errands. The "good" car…
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I'll be available for consulting in the bay area
<ShamelessPlug> There's a high probability that I'm going to be in the New York City/Bay Area during the month of March (7th-24th). I'll be available for consulting/training regarding Agile Development and .Net…
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Yet another product nowhere near your area
A very cool, slick and easy to use CD/DVD holding and retrieval device, even with a discount for MSDN subscribers is, once again, offered only to customer in the US and Canada. I think that sucks. Especially after…
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Darrell teaches Python
Darrell Norton provides pricelss information , tips and links on where and how you should go about learning Python . This is posted here very much for my own sake, as I start treading this path myself. However, you…
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Team Agile - It's time to start my own business
In 3 days I'll be leaving Magen , the Microsoft Technology center in Israel. I've worked there as a senior consultant for the past year or so. I feel it's time for me to pursue my passion and interest in the past 2…
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What does SQL server SP4 fix?
still in beta, but still interesting. A list of the bugs that are fixed in SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 Beta
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Happy new year
Happy new year, y'all. And on that note - I'd like to make a still non-official declaration: I'll be leaving my current job at Magen in the next two weeks. For what? to where? I'll keep you guessing for a week or so…
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The Regulator featured on Channel 9
Josh Ledgard pinged me to let me know that he showed The Regulator on this Channel 9 video , along with PInvoke.Net , as two samples of community built helpful applications. Coolness! One thing to note is that Josh…
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Learning from Juval Lowy
I've been sitting in Juval Lowy's .Net master class this week (3 more days to go) and I can say a few things about Juval: He is a brilliant systems developer and architect He knows his stuff He does not like…
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Microsoft Vs. PC Technicians
Well well. Microsoft and the BSA are going after hundreds of PC technicians in Israel (Hebrew), suing them for installing illegal windows and Office software for home users for a small price. The PC technicians, in…
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Where should I host my interview with Johanna Rothman?
This weekend I finished editing my interview with Johanna Rothman . I think it turned out pretty cool (if I do say so myself) and Johanna is a great interviewee. I was thinking were should I host this interview, and…
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What I look like (kinda)
This is kinda what I looked like at the .Net deep dive event. Kinda. (Done via the South park Create-a-character page, via Peter Provost ) P.S Flickr rocks ! Looks like I'll be storing my photos there for the near…
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Godwin's Law
I have to say that a discussion about unit testing is the last place I expected this to show up (right after someone mentioned the term " programmer Nazis ": "Godwin's Law States: "As an online discussion grows longer,…
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Chatting with Johanna Rothman
I just finished a wonderful meeting with non other than Johanna Rothman , one of my favorite blog authors, who just happens to be in Israel this week. We talked for about two hours on topics relating to project…
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The Self Project - YAPP (Yet Another Programming Paradigm?)
The Self project seems like a very ambitious idea. Check out this movie to get a nice overview of some of the things this new programming paradigm attempts to achieve. Am I wrong or is this whole thing based on…
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Army Platoon gets an X Box + 30 games, courtesy of MS
Wow. This is a cool thing to do. [ via Bill Evjen ]
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Oracle: Don't hate it just because you don't get it, get it?
I found this somewhat amusing: Alex announces he's adding himself to the "I-Hate-Oracle Club" to which there is a reply in the comments: "if you can't figure the damn thing out, this is no reason to hate it. take women…
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The Gaming industry turns out to be a modern slave market
Reading this makes me glad not to be working in the Gaming software industry . Sure, I've done my share of overtime at startups and such, but no, it was never this bad. Even when it was bad it was never like this. Also…
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MSN Spaces Launches, and so does a new MSN Messenger beta
As I'm sure you'll see 1000 times in the next 24 hours, MSN Spaces has launched (as has a new beta of MSN Messenger ). Dare has some more details, as well as a link to the press release here . [via FurryGoat ] I already…
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Israel .Net Deep Dive lectures feedback
If you attended the .Net Deep Dive event in Israel you might have noticed something - Microsoft didn't really ask you what you thought about the quality of the lectures. As one of the people who actually spoke at the…
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Making your point, Santo style
Addy Santo makes an interesting point in the "what-the-hell-are-we-going-to-do-about-the-main-feed-of-this-site" question. Actually, he makes a point of what not to keep doing.
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Geek Dinner was juust fine...
Last night, as promised, Addy Santo Gave his talk about InfoPath at the . Net Architects users group . I have to say that for a subject which is “not so sexy to begin with” as a colleague of mine said, Addy made for a…
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Overcoming fear: My experiences from the .Net Deep Dive event
[Update: Jackie Goldstein also writes about his experiences from the event (he hosted a session about worst practices in .net). Addy Santo writes more about the event on his blog. So does Moshe Eshel with lots of…
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Not Invented here
"The product of NotInventedHere is ReinventingTheWheel which wheel unfortunately is often square, without spokes, or squeaks like heck. .." "The pattern can also lead to a paradoxical situation. If the pattern is…
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Live .Net Rocks chat
Since it's stag night here at Osherove mansion, I thought I'd join the live chat on .Net Rocks (which occurs at 2.30 am in Israel. We'll see how that goes. Hopefully Rory won't kick me out of the chat room. After all, I…
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[OT]Productivity and lesson learning, Linux style?
[Warning: the following link is to an article that is _anti-Microsoft_ you've been warned ] This article is a very interesting read . On one hand I feel bad for the dude that fell into the teeth of BSA, and I feel kinda…
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Why does the BorCon Israel Registration page have to suck?
Why does a conference such as BorCon Israel have to come up with such a lame ass registration page? I mean, C'mon! The form is actually trying to send email through my email client? What - You can't demonstrate web…
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Perspective
Reading pat's blog entry about his wife's passing made me cry. Pat, you don't know me but I know you. I wish you all the best and thank you for writing that wonderful post. You expressed in so many words things that I…
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[OT]Geeky political joke
The past few days have proven that "certain death" is just a term. Yasser Arafat is still alive, or isn't he? I guess that gives a new meaning to the term " Non-deterministic finalization " OK. don't shoot the geek for…
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IVBUG Celebrates its Seventh Birthday
Happy 7th birthday to the Israeli VB user group and to its creator, Jackie Goldstein ! What a great example of a community. See Jackie's post on the subject for pics n' stuff ..
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I'm Back, A webcast screwup, and my upcoming talk schedule
I'm back baby! That is, I Will slowly start to catch up on everything that I've missed in the past couple of weeks. Larkware.Com is my friend on that task. I FINALLY have some time to start doing all the things I've…
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OK - back for an evening, leaving tomorrow for a week
just so you know - I AM leaving for military service, it was just shortened and I'll be back at the beginning of next month.
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See you in three weeks
I'm leaving tomorrow for what looks to be like a 3 week military duty :( See you all when I get back (Hopefully I'll get a vacation somewhere in the middle..). Cheers, Roy.
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'I'm not going to be your monkey'
'I'm not going to be your monkey' , said John Stewart in this movie clip. This link just fell into my lap and its really interesting and hard to watch.
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Unread Gmail messages through an RSS feed? coolness.
Well, not RSS, but Atom. Same difference. I didn't know this ! Cool! (Now they just need to support RSS as well)
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Sometimes I'm simply frustrated at the qualification game
and that's all I'm gonna say on this matter. (were you lucky to read this post before I changed my mind on it ? don't tell me..)
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The Power of User Groups (and a request to Microsoft Israel)
The Event, The Card, and the amazing disappearing act Almost a year ago, at some random event, (Teched Israel 2004?) Microsoft Israel held a special lunch for user group members and leaders. It was quite nice and all…
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No blogger list on weblogs.asp.net?
So why is the blogger list now removed from the main page of weblogs.asp.net? I liked my name up there, with the number of posts near it... :(
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A new book: Network science, and what SOA has to do with it
I'm almost done with a new book that I got for my birthday - Linked: The New Science of networks By Albert-Laszlo Barabasi This wonderful book actually deals with new facet of science that is just beginning to grow on…
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Back from Croatia but, sadly, not for long
I just got back from Croatia. Croatia is a pretty cool country – lovely beaches as long as the eye can see (no sand though – just rocks and shells) and amazing landscapes on the inside. Think Greece – only less annoying…
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Out of Country - Croatia here we come!
Turns out the Mrs and I are going to Croatia for about a week and a half. Tomorrow. In 5 hours actually. So I'll be out. Meanwhile enjoy our picture at my new (still in building stage) site: www.osherove.com (no content…
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Book library management system - know a good one?
Our company is looking to create a book library for employees to borrow and read books. In the process I'm looking for a book/library management system which is free and is web or windows based with a shared database.…
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Israel Nerd Dinner - coming soon
I've just sent an email to Jim Blizzard, who's opened a new site called Nerd Dinner.com where you can have a blog dedicated to organizing geek dinners in your country/area. Say tuned for the Israel Nerd Dinner site!
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GMane: read mailing lists via news readers
this is a great find via the win-tech off topic mailing list: subscribe to mailing lists - from your newsreader! how? www.gmane.org allows subscribing to a mailing list but instead of getting it by email - you get it…
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Great coders == open source? Hardly
I was reading this article on " Great Hackers " Some of the things he says about hackers ("coders") is true, but a lot of them are skewed toward open source in a way that is not fair and not real world on any way. I was…
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Programs I can't live without
ScottOnWriting asked his blog readers what programs they can't live without. Some great suggestions in there (and i'm not just saying that because The Regulator was mentioned 3 times in the comments ;) ) Here's a…
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A better user group experience is possible, and even expected
This and this is what I'm talking about when I say I want today's Israeli user groups to be better than what they are today. If/When I have my own group I promise to do that and more. Amen.
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Blogger/Geek dinner?
It's been a while. how about another blogger/geek dinner ? say - next Sunday - in a week and a half, in the tel Aviv area.. your thoughts are welcome.
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Gmail Notifier - by Google, finally
Now this is what I've been waiting for - Google has released a Gmail Notifier utility that runs in the system tray. no more running after free obscure apps that don't work. This one if from the monster itself.
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Stuff to do
Some stuff that i really need to do and don't want to forget: New version of the Regulator with cool new syntax editor New version of NunitX - with the latest version of Nunit as a base source and maybe some more…
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A short update and a cool process killing trick
Yes. I am still alive. Meanwhile some things have taken place: 1. I celebrated my 29th birthday. Yey! 2. For my birthday - we got a ThinkPad T41p with 2GB RAM. that should be enough to run those longhorn demos in the…
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Absolute Powerpoint
This is a great article about the power and weakness behind PowerPoint, and how and why it came to be: Absolute Powerpoint
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MSN Web Messenger - cool piece of work
You know what? MSN web messenger is a cool piece of work. You don't have to install MSN messenger to use it almost like in real life. I love such amazing web work that looks like the real thing. Outlook web access 2003…
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.Net Rocks Tablet PC contest
Wanna win a tablet PC (Toshiba M200, actually - which is a mighty machine)? Go and fill out a contest form over at the .Net Rocks show contest page . Don't forget to listen to .Net rocks (although this is not required…
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Congrats to Rory
Rory Blyth has taken the plunge and is now a Microsoft Employee. That's pretty cool. Guess I won't have to invite him to the next summit ;) (You knew that one was coming, right??)
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Not the PhD type, I guess
I consider myself as someone who finds interest in many wonderful things. Sort of a “Bring it on” kinda guy when it relates to knowledge about pretty much anything technological. But rest assured - I will never ever…
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VS.net Editor team chat when well
Just finished a refreshing chat with the VS editor team. It was really nice. It felt like people were listening. They didn't go got my “Integrate The Regulator into VS 2005” suggestion though. Oh well. They'll get it…
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Being an INETA speaker?
Hmm. What I would *really* love to do is be an INETA speaker. You get to travel the globe (the closer part of it, anyway) and talk to interesting people about interesting subjects. now - how does one get such a gig?…
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Israeli Geek Dinner Tomorrow - at what time?
Geek dinner tomorrow , remember? Now I need you to answer me this: would 19:30 be too early? We're probably talking about El-Gaucho in Tel aviv, like we did last month.
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Microsoft is losing the community battle - against itself
in one of my earlier posts, about what a typical user group looks like , Paschal put in this bitter comment: "Roy the problem is that usergroups are not all the same friendly and nice in every country ! In Ireland sadly…
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What a typical user group looks like
I wanted to share with you what a typical user group meeting looks like. I know that when I decided I wanted to go to a user group meeting I was pretty scared to go on my own. Go figure. My first user group meeting was…
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The Broken - somewhat interesting "hacker" video show
A friend pointed me to http://www.thebroken.org/ . two dudes - doing a video show, and they talk about hacking, social engineering and interview Kevin Mitnick. In episode one the demonstrate how they do WarDriving and…
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Israeli Geek Dinners have their own site now
GeekDinner.com was already takesn, but still... It gave me the idea to do a Geek Dinner site here. So, I'm proud to host the first Blogger\Geek Dinner over at : http://dev.magen.com/Geeks This should be the site for…
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Reminder: Israeli Blogger\Geek Dinner this thursday evening
This is your friendly reminder: Geek Dinner this thursday, 21:00, Tel Aviv: El-Gaucho (kosher) Sounds ok to you?
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Israelis at Redmond
Looks like I've found another Ex-Israeli-turned-Redmond . I wonder just how many of those reside within Redmond. Why do I look for them? I think it's about Camaraderie in a way, or maybe just to see more proof and know…
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Some GMail tips
I don't normally suggest ways to “cheat” a system, but some people seem to really want some more extra GMail invites to share with stuff that matters to them. So here's the deal: You finally got invited to GMail. You…
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Meet me and Ohad at Computex?
Ohad and me are going over to the Computex conference . If you're there too feel free to call me up at 064-655388 at we'll get together to browse the displays as what will be known as “The Geeky Bunch”.
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[ot] Devil Duckie
No - I do not have better things to spend my money on. I want this: can you guess yet? it's the USB Devil Duckie Drive , of course. “ Once you reach your destination, plug in your Devil Duckie Drive and put him to work.…
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Tech-Ed Swag? In Israel? What's that?
One of the things that were supposed to be at Tech-Ed Israel was a handout of some nice DVDs and CDs with cool source and software to play with (much like at any other given Tech-Ed around the world. Well, Microsoft…
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Convincing Management to buy books
Johanna Rothman gives a very interesting take on how to convince your manager to buy books . If you don't know who she is, she's a world class consultant who's also been doing lectures here in Israel at SELA university…
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[ot] Piano is love
I've discovered the joy of the piano. I've always been musically incllined. I played the drums as a kid (I bet some of my old neighbours still remember it “affectionately”...), learn the flute (though I recall nothing),…
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Moving from a green screen is hard
James points to a discussion of the hard transition Data Entry folk do when moving from a “Green Screen” application onto a GUI based app (web/win). I totally agree. The issue actually dawned on me a couple of weeks…
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A GMail alternative, today
GMail is annoying. In fact, it is very annoying. the “Wer'e cool” bunch have decided to “test” the service, and everyone is clamoring for a GMail account. Well, guess what Google? I just found a service which features:…
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"Pen And Paper" interviews
[ Update : just wanted to say that there is a lot I don't agree with in Ido's post. Some of the things he lists there are quite legitimate in my view. I wrote this post beccause it reminded me of some stuff *I* displike…
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2nd Israeli Blogger dinner is a go!
2nd Blogger Dinner Are you an Israeli Blogger or developer? do you read weblogs about .Net? Omer has been kind enough to remind me that we still have not had a proper blogger dinner. So how does this tuesday sound? we…
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I'm on Skype
Well, I bought myself a pair of headphones with a mic attached, and installed Skype. I feel chatty, so if you feel like it, and see me online, Skype me (surprisingly, my user name is royosherove). If you've talked to me…
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[ot] Hebrew blogging attempt
This blog will be a small attempt to write in hebrew. ???? ?????. ?????? ?????? ????? ???.
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Bad interviews are your best friend
Recently a frined who was looking for a dev job approached me before an important interview. He said one thing that I just had to share. he said “They're going to test me on my knowledge, what if I don't know the…
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Worst UI ever?
oh. my. god. I downloaded and installed this just so that I could believe what I had seen, and yes. it was very real. I couldn't stop looking at it. It was like watching an accident. You just can't look awaym no matter…
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In search of Bingo
I was just taking a look at the sneak peek video that Carl And Rory have released on to the the world from Tech-Ed. The first thing I noticed is that the video quality is very good. The second thing is that Rory is…
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I've been contacted...
I always thought I was a pretty regular guy, You know - get up, go to work, come home, watch TV dude. But lately I've been getting contacted by all sorts of very high ranking people. And by high ranking I mean really…
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Typical Norway Scenario
OSLO (Reuters) - One of the Nordic region's biggest power stations shut Friday to let an expert tune a grand piano for a concert undisturbed by the hum of huge hydroelectric generators. "When you put a big piano in…
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[OT] Why you should never put your picture on the Internet
[Update: thanks to SecretGeek for giving an alternative link BTW: looks like I shouldn't have posted *my* picture either :) ] Until I get my act back together and return to “normal” programming, here's another thing…
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ok, I get it
Heh. Scott says that some people in Tech-Ed are now wearing shirts saying “Rory was invited”. Made me laugh out loud (though not in a evil “MUHahaha” laugh, sorry).
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The daily WTF
This site is starting a funny little trend: The Daily WTF speaking about annoying development stuff. He also encourages that you send your own WTFs over through a contact form on the site and he'll blog them. (via Matt…
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If you're a developer in Norway, Mercatus is hiring
Mercatus , the company I was working with for two months in the last winter, is looking for good people. They're located in Norway, (Flore) and are doing .Net web based projects there. I'm writing about this because…
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Comment spam wave
I'm getting comment spam (about 50 in the past two hours or so), and for some reason .Text won't let me disable my comments. Already mailed Scott about it but thought maybe anyone had a quick fix for this?
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My secret agenda
This is to all you folks who think my blog posts that “complain“ about stuff have an agenda behind them for getting more hits or any other thing. I'm an opinionated guy, if you have not noticed by now. I say what I…
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Still no internet connection at home
I'm still working in a connectionless environment from home. I really don't like my phone company. Should be fixed in the next few days though. In the mean time all my sites are down, including The Regulator homepage.…
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Moving this Friday - posting will stop for a few days
Posting will be sort of non existent in the coming days. We're moving into a new place which will be reflected in lack of Internet connectability for a while. As I write this, They've already moved the air conditioner…
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Post-TechEd-Israel-Dinner and a little about Indigo
The night after Tech-Ed Israel, Yosi Taguri arranged for a small dinner with a few MVPs and friends. Among the guests were Dino Esposito , Shy Cohen - PM on the Indigo team, and Hans Verbeek - Tech evangelist for SQL…
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A new low in television reached
eek! American Television is reaching new amazing lows . (via Bill ) ” In a unique television event, Barbara Walters documents a young birth mother's journey as she selects who, among five anxious couples vying for a…
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Tech-Ed Israel Blogger/Nerd Dinner anyone?
I'll be at Tech-Ed Israel in Eilat next week and was thinking, assuming there are enough of you there, to arrange for a special blogger/nerd dinner along with Dino Esposito on one of the evenings. Leave a comment if you…
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Unblocking an attachment blocked by outlook
[Update: Jose pointed me to the outlook Add-In I was talking about. Thanks!] So what do you do whaen you recieve a file attachement that oulook so cleverly blocked? Simply click “forward” on the mesage and the…
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Less is more, but more is more
Here's a cool sentence I heard on “Frasier”, which, ironically, applies to the software industry as well: “If less is more, just think mow much more “more” will be”
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Smalltalk glasses
I read James Robertson's SmallTalk blog . I don't know why really (except that he has sometimes funny and interesting off topic posts). I don't write in SmallTalk (although I've tried it acouple of times). Maybe it's…
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My big, fat, photoblog cat
Got bored. Started a photoblog . Here's my big fat Israeli cat. Oh, yeah. This post is a little off topic.
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What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?
The Add-In contest is really picking up steam . The prizes rock, and hopefully we'll all be getting some cool entries that we can all benefit from. However, I got a good suggestion from Eric Brunsen: “How about adding a…
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Taiwan is closer than I thought
The past week has be *tough*. We found on on Sunday that my wife needs to leave for Taipei,Taiwan on Monday . That's right, the day after that. So, we were all busy and anxious to get all packing. Her job is sending her…
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Simple and addicting game
This game is simple and really addicting: Can you seperate the blue from the red?
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The art of folding
Oh. and speaking of an amazing video, I really need to learn how to fold my shirts . Sounds boring, but just watch the video.
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Getting creative with the windows sound recorder
This is simply too cool. (turn your speakers on)
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Problems downloading The Regulator?
I've had one report of someone not being able to download the latest version of The Regulator from sourceforge. It puts out a “file not found“ message for some reason. I just tried it myself and it seems to work great.…
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When friends show off
Addy is showing off his desktop space. Heh. I like this comment on that picture: “Pull down the matrix poster. That's so five years ago. “ He also links to some words of wisdom on the recent past . Gawd , that is one…
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When links attack
Chris Fralic sends us a pointer to the Product Quick Links page of the Five Star Billiards, Inc. website. This page lists hundreds of products in no discernable order. It should definitely not be called the "Quick…
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Regulator Gift Certificates
[Note: shameless plug ahead] Speaking of presents, one of the things I changed in The Regulator 2.0 was the “Donate” link. It used to point to a Paypal account, but it seems that PayPal sucks when you're overseas. No…
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My Passover Present
Joy. I got for Passover (a.k.a The Jewish Christmas) from my boss a webcam. It's the third one we got. Luckily, it came with an exchange coupon, and behold, the coupon was just right for me to replace it with a CD/MP3…
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Non MVPs at the MVP summit - looks bad, smells bad
Update: Hi this is roy from the year 2013. The post below was written in 2004. I was a DICK back then, it seems. so I apologize. I am keeping this up here so people can see that everyone can be a dick sometimes, and it…
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My phone manners need work
Tal says I'm impossible to talk to on the phone when I'm at work. She's right, of course. I'm always sounding either condesending, impatient or bored. I really need to work on it. Sorry honey. (of course, instead of…
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Windows Media Player problem? here's a very good FAQ page
Bleh . I'm trying to watch an all important streaming video of some really important things (no, not that), and windows media player 9 only plays audio and no video. Coolness. Always wanted to know what its like to be…
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MVP Summit pointers, and a shout out to James Robertson
How cool is this? My blog was mentioned by James Robertson (The Robert Scoble of Smalltalk?) in his talk about blogs and RSS. Thanks James. I'll be sure to mention you whenever my next user group talk becomes a reality.…
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Another day, another contest. Wanna help?
I'm thinking of doing another contest, something in the likes of the Desktop Screenshot contest that was held here last year(and sadly, all the shots were taken down). Do you know people who know people who can give…
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New look for Technorati
Oooh. Technorati got a new slick look: www.technorati.com Very nice. Maybe now they'll also be a little more stable?
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Stupid Query Analyzer tricks - a working analog clock
yep. Some people have too much time on their hands
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Please rewind
Sure, this picture looks innocent enough, until you realize this was found on a DVD movie !
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Falafel Bloggers?
As an Israeli, this appeals to me, although I have no idea what these guys have to do with this food product: Falafel Software and get this, they have Falafel Bloggers , only they call it “ Flogging ” instead of…
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Real Geeks
I love how Matt Warren describes the hunger for code. I feel it too. But I could never write it out as good as he just did . Still, Here;s a very cool comment on that post that I had to post: Denise Reis Oh yes, I knew…
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Me? rip to shreds?
Carl thinks I'm going to rip him to shreds for telling people to inherit a Customer object from a Person object :) ok, the link didn't stick for some reason. Let's try again!…
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[Book] Coder To Developer
I got the chance to review some of the chapters from Mike Gunderloy 's upcoming book , about to hit the stores anytime now: Coder To Developer . It looks to be a great book for those of us who want to take the leap from…
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When you're new...
Rory talks about starting out when nobody knows you (or it's the other way around) at a new place. I know his feelings. Doing 2 months in Norway was much like that... only imagine that everyone at the party is as quiet…
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IrfanVIew - simpler, faster, and FREE
Scoble recommends ACDsee to view your digital pictures, and I partially agree. I used it for a long time, but then.. somehow, it got big, and clumsy and heavy and bloated. Guess what? I use IrfanView now. It's free, and…
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1001 posts
Huh. Didn't even notice, but my last post was my 1000 post! Who knew? Thanks for the tip, Udi .
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MSDN Connected in Israel? hopefully.
Hmm. this MSDN Connection program sounds good. I hear it might be coming to Israel real soon. Though I have to say, if someone does reach the “dedicated member” status, most of the things you get there, you probably…
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Happy Birthday (or: throwing your wife from an airplane for good causes)
'twas a good weekend start, and one day still left! Thursday night (official work week end, Friday we don't work, but Sunday we do) Tal and me went to a dance club (TLV if you know it) and partied like it was 1999.…
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Thanks for the System.Web.Mail FAQ, Dave
I just wanted to take the stage to thank Dave Wanta for putting up the site “ System.Web.Mail FAQ ”. It just saved me from some really obscure problem. Dave also has many other very helpful endeavors and is seriously…
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.Net Rocks bullet points
Just a few quick notes about .Net rocks . The show with Brian Noyes (3 shows ago) was one of the best rundowns on Smart Clients (auto deployed) applications I've heard. Highly recommended. Still have not listened to the…
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A Power-Point mystery
Here's one for Raymond Chen , since he likes to dig into these things. Why the hell is the “continue from current slide” button in PowerPoint so darn small and unreachable? Many a times have I seen the poor presenter…
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Weekend off
ok. I'll get back to blogging after this weekend. Tal's birthday is upon us and we are going for a weekend in the south of israel. Happy birthday honey. I love you.
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We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source
While I didn't take the time to go and download the leaked MSFT source code, it's enlightening to read this review about the quality of the source here. They review the code in depth for various scales, including…
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Community application blocks revisited - with a twist
A few days a go I had a very interesting chat with Ron “ build your own application blocks ” Jacobs (just kidding). The conversation was so interesting because Ron managed to explain to me something that was not obvious…
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Book of the month
New book of the month for this blog: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Get this book if you are an experienced developer and have been fighting with designing applications from the ground up, including…
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Small Israeli DevDays rants
Here's a small rant: Why didn't we get all this cool stuff in the Israeli DevDays conference? Especially I don't get why we didn't get Whidbey preview edition (and I heard a rumor that we should have gotten it but it…
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MVP Recommendation: James Crowley
For what it's worth, I'd like to take this stage and recommend someone who I think is worthy of an MVP title. Have you ever been to DeveloperFusion.Com ? It's a site dedicated to tutorials and information about…
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New Israeli User Group: Agile Development. What do you think?
I was chatting with Udi Dahan the other day at the user group (as a side note, the user groups are a great place to get to know people, hear some ideas and a great way to find out all the stuff you've been missing…
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Community Application Blocks? nah
Ron Jacobs , the guy in charge, among others, on the MS application blocks, proposes that the community will now be responsible for creating new application blocks, under the leadership of MS devs. While in theory this…
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1 year of blogging
Tomorrow will mark the 1 year anniversary of this weblog.Who knew.. A year ago I was hating my job, feeling misused and basically waiting for something to come along. It didn't come, so I had to bring it myself. This…
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Israel User Group news
Don't say I didn't tell you, Omer :) the .Net web user group will be meeting on the 11th of this month, just one day after DevDays. Here's the meeting details If you wanna see all the user groups in Israel: here's the…
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Setting the record straight on MVP newsgroups
OK. Just to set the record straight and to finish this latest circle concerning the private MVP newsgroups . On the following topics, here's my current stand: MVP private newsgroups This was apparently a…
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Lessons learned from IVBUG
The last IVBUG meeting was about the subject of caching and the Caching Application Block , and was hosted by non other than our very own Software Simplist, Udi Dahan . Here's the presentation. Udi is a very eloquent…
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MyDoom (A,B) Worm Removal Tool for Windows XP and Windows 2000
Stay safe, but if you find yourself in deep sh*t already: MyDoom (A,B) Worm Removal Tool for Windows XP and Windows 2000
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In local news...
In local news, these misc items happened: Dino Esposito found my article helpful. Yes, it seems like a suck up, but you'll have to get over yourselves. I'm honored. Michal Blaha has built what looks to be a better and…
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Mortal sin #2: Information hoarding
So this is something I don't really get. If you are an MVP, you get access to discussions that the common folks don't have access to. Is it just me or is this situation twisted? The whole point about these discussion…
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Mortal coding sin: programming in your mother tongue
If there's one nasty coding habit that gets me riled up every time it has to be coding with non English words. This probably won't mean much to the English speaking crowd, but here in Israel, and in other non English…
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Sign of life
No. I'm not dead. I was just taking a few days off to spend some quality time with my wife. Expect to see some more posts in the very near future about: .Net Rocks live The IVBUG caching lecture The best Unit testing…
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Leaving Norway
That's it. In a few moments I'll be shutting down this machine that I've had for two months. A short while after that it will be wiped and reformatted for use by someone else. It's always kinda sad to close your machine…
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Fried eye anyone?
Ouch! Sean Gerety talks about his eye operation and it reads like a Steven King novel. Very graphic. I was catching myself mumbling out loud "holy crap" at some point. Anyway, if you ever wondered what it feels like to…
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I'm available again
It's that time again. At the end of next week I will be finishing up my work in Norway and will be coming back to Israel. That means I'll be available for job offers . If you are in Israel or abroad and would like to…
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Intellij IDEA version 4.0 release candidate 1
oh oh, Intellij IDEA version 4.0 release candidate 1 is out and ready for download (free registration). I liked it so much I'm going to download and play with it even though I don't do anymore Java.. That's usability…
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Nice PDC logo
Heh.A little late but still- I really liked this logo on Adam Kinney's blog :
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Should I get a laptop or a tablet?
I've been considering purchasing a laptop for presentations and offshore development use. But lately, I've been considering purchasing a Tablet PC instead. But I don't know. Are tablets suitable enough for dev work? I'd…
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.Net Rocks?
It's not fair to critique a free show, but, I really have to. It's all out of love though. Hey, I love Microsoft technologies, but is it just me or was the show sounding like an orgy of ass kissing from both sides to…
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[OT]Subscription honors
Isn't this cool? Ron Jefferies subscribes to my Blog . Hey Ron :) I'm honored. Of course, I'm honored that anyone even reads it at all...
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The RSA encryption algorithm - step by step
This very cool site shows you, step by step, how the RSA encryption algorithm works. While I've read about the algorithm, it's great to see such a simple example that explains so much so easily. (link via Michael )
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MS Word for OS-X: Nostalgia edition
"Well, we now know that MS engineers know that OS X is Unix. The trouble is, they seem to have used a really old Unix reference manual when they built Word for OS X - Arcterex noticed that Word on OS X enforces a 31…
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X# video snagged my MS
This guy somehow found a video demonstrating x# (from MS research). However, the video was supposed to be only internal but somehow got leaked. So MS (actually the speaker in the video, Chris Lovett) asked him politely…
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Are you in Israel and reading this?
Yosi is conducting a small test . If you're in Israel and reading this, go post a comment on his post or on this post. Let's see how many we can gather , shall we?
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Boosting productivity
> largest discrepancy in productivity between the worst and > best developer in a single organization is 28 to 1 Only 28:1? Note to self: must slack off more, thereby boosting the relative productivity of my cow-orkers…
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Weekend thoughts and ramblings
Ah, it's the weekend again. Let's see. What shall I do? Um, read blogs, write blogs, read code,write code, I'm also thinking of a new article, about DB unit testing. But mainly,I'm really going to miss my wife. I love…
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Shame on me
A few months ago , I posted a short blurb about the a paragraph from [ Mystic Microsoft - chapter 11 ], a book by Kraig Brockschmidt, who is also known as the guy who wrote " Inside OLE ". The blurb took a single remark…
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Weekend reading: Acm Turing Award Lectures : The First Twenty Years, 1966 to 1985
Ah. This is my idea of good literature: Acm Turing Award Lectures : The First Twenty Years , 1966 to 1985 I have a feeling that 50% of it will be waaay over my level, but I browsed through it and was able to spot some…
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Common rants and misconceptions
Tell me if you've heard this before: "The company I work for Is too cheap to buy me..." a bigger computer screen a better mouse A better keyboard A better dev machine\More RAM\CPU A ticket to the PDC\DevDays\programming…
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Small cool news
Ah. Some interesting days have just passed. I'll blog later about what I've been going through. But today I discovered two cool things: Thanks to Kent , My Author Page on MSDN is ready . Ain't that a classy picture (my…
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Disappointed with RSS Bandit
I didn't expect for this to happen. RSS Bandit just gave me a huge disappointment. I really thought this was it , that it works OK now, but I was wrong. Out of about 150 feeds, RSS Bandit can't parse 22 of them. And not…
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Good design is easily recognizable. Everywhere.
Good design does not have to come from software to be acknowledged. Here's a good example: [via Edward Tufte ]
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Moving to RSS Bandit: A simple review
RSS Bandit is my new RSS aggregator.Yep. I just downloaded the latest build and decided that I'm gonna stick with it. I love sharpreader , but there's just too many features missing from it to me. What I like about RSS…
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Another one bites the bullet: Santo has left the building
My good friend Addy Santo just blogged about himself taking the red pill . " Finally " is all I can really say. This guy has " Redmond " tattooed on his butt, figuratively speaking, and It's about time MS faced up to…
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[OT] This year in pictures
Wow. This is the most beautiful set of pictures I've seen in quite a while: The Year in pictures (via my darling wife who I miss so much it hurts as the year comes to a close here in Norway)
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[OT] cool ad
Now this is a cool funny and true ad for a men's magazine: (and here are 9 more ads you won't see in the USA ) (via eclecticism )
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Losing a customer
It's always interesting (as in watching a car crash) to see how a company easily loses a customer. This time it's Numega.
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How low can you go? Iran rejects Israel's help with earthquake
Gotta love the Iranian goverment: "Jahanbakhsh Khanjani, a spokesman for Iran's Interior Ministry, said Saturday that Iran would accept aid from all countries of the world, aside from Israel . The announcement followed…
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The Internet explorer security bug everyone should know about
Luke Hutterman shows just how easy and evil it is to exploit this bug in Internet Explorer and take details from unsuspecting users with a click of a mouse. This scam makes you "update your paypal account details" but…
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Help the Iran Quake victims
I can't explain why I have not blogged about this before, but if you can help in any way to the Iran quake victims, please do . In the link you will find ways to send donations.
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This coffin has performed an illegal action and will be terminated
That's just what I need: a coffin powered by a PC to change the epitaph dynamically. Can there be more jokes running in my head at the same time?
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New year's resolution: lowering the noise on the main feed (excluding this post :) )
Now that Scott has implemented a feature in .Text that allows one to decide whether a particular post will be aggregated to the main feed or not, I'll be trying to take advantage of this and "filter" my off topic…
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Holiday greetings, Gunderloy style
In light of the coming holidays, I'd like to grit you all with my favorite holiday greeting yet, courtesy of Mike Gunderloy : " Happy whatever to those of you who celebrate something . " and in that cheerful holiday…
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About the new .Netweblogs features
I'd like to thank Scott for the new features in .Text, some very cool things in there. Thanks. I can understand the grouping thing of MS/Non-Ms employees, but I don't necessarily agree with it. This feature allows…
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A developer's nightmare
If you think you are screwed over with the job you are currently doing, think again. Now thank the sweet lord that you don't have to reverse engineer 300 pages of bad C++ code into... COBOL .
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Promising Outlook
Scott Hanselman sends word of a cool new research into email conversations
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Service announcement: Feedable and Regulator live again, and Norway tips
Ah. My home machine is back up meaning Feedable is live again and so is The Regulator site. For some odd reason, the only person in the world who can not access these sites is little ol' me from Norway. Ah well, as long…
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Service announcement:Still alive, but server is down
Sorry I've been "weak" on the updating. I'm in Norway for the past two weeks or so and it's an amazing experience. However, I am left with little time to blog. Hopefully that will change soon. ttyl, Roy. P.S: My Home…
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[Tool] Object Model Generator
Omer has released a preview version of a tool called “ Object Model Generator ”. His words: “The tool is currently in Preview Version (which is sort of a beta version), and features the following: Typed Elements (incl.…
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Good advice for presentations, scholarly and otherwise
A helpful essay by William Germano, "The Scholarly Lecture: How to Stand and Deliver," from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i14/14b01501.htm -- Edward Tufte , November 27, 2003
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Another one bites the pill
My friend and .Net guru Yosi Taguri decided it has been long enough and took the red pill . No, he's not going to Redmond (yet) but he's going to be a .Net evangelist/expert here in Microsoft Israel. How cool is that?…
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I need to learn how to write a review
This is the funniest game review I have ever read . Rory should really be doing something else with his life instead of wasting his writing on on us geeks, although I'm not sure how I would react to his disappearing…
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[OT] make them sing it!
Oh this is very very cool. http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p1/src/sing/default.asp
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What is Proximity inter-communication
I find “ Paper prototyping “ a good technique. For some odd reason, it also bugs me that people sell a book that talks about how to draw dialogs on paper and move them around. Therefore, I've created an introduction to…
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GDN Release download stats
I do wish it would be possible to see how many downloads a gotdotnet workspace release has gotten. Any chance of that? hm? Microsoft?
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Nevertheless
I applied for this open position at Microsoft. You might want to try yourself. [via Wine Thirty ]
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I'm going on a two month gig to Norway
I finally have some good news to show for all the crap I've been through: In about a week I'll be taking off from Israel and landing in this beautiful place in Norway where I'll be doing a 1-2 months consulting gig on a…
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The Letter I should have written back
Now, why didn't I ever write such a letter in my quest for a new job? (link via Hhiring Technical People )
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The Regulator gets its first "real" review
The Regulator just got a great review over at ADTMag.com by Mike Gunderloy . How cool is this? I'm totally flattered.
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Thanks for your help
Thanks for all the great feedback on my “Renaming The Regulator” dilemma. It seems that most of you actually like the current name, so who am I to argue with success? Thanks. And please post comments suggestions of…
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Help me rename The Regulator
I'm thinking that “ The regulator ” is not catchy enough. I'm looking to rename it. Got any suggestions? I really like: Regexor Regex Commander but so far these are the best I could come up with. Care to help me and win…
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Technical writing - The complete idiot's guide
Leon Bambrick was probably in a really good mood, because he read my previous rant about how hard it is to write technical help docs and decided he would write a short guide in the comments to that post. It turned out…
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The predictable history of a programmer (reloaded)
How many of us can say these things on their own "about" page? Probably most , with minor modification. I suggest a global "About me" page, something like the following: The history of : _________________ _______…
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Web Designer/Graphic Artist/Receptionist
It really hurts when you're reading the paper and find a job listing such as this: Web Designer/Graphic Artist/Receptionist [Name removed to protect the idiotic] has an exciting opportunity in the south Charlotte, NC…
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Writing help is... challenging
God I hate writing help files. I'll never be able to be a technical writer. How do those people do it? There are actually technical writing sites that are devoted to the love of the profession. I seriously admire these…
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Israel .Net user group meeting today - Advanced debugging techniques
Where: Microsoft offices, ra'anana (near amdocs) Gathering at 17:00 Starting at 17:45 Topic: Advanced debugging techniques Debug symbols Production Debugging Opening up Microsoft’s source code Known Problems Tips and…
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Creative writing technique
Johanna Rothman keeps two blogs that I know of: Managing Product Development and Hiring Technical People . Both are excellent blogs that talk about totally different facets of our technology world. Today I read a post…
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Multiple==Good
Darrel Norton decided he wants to test for himself (and his team) whether doing multiple monitor setups was better for productivity. He came out with a whopping “yes”. God I wish I could be in a position to do the same…
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You can subscribe to this weblog - here's how
It occurred to me that some of the folks who read this weblog have no idea that they don't have to remember to open a browser in order to check if I've added new content. You can actually subscribe to this weblog by…
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Jumping into newsgroups
I've decided to try and get in on the newsgroup bandwagon. Mostly, I'll be lurking and throwing my 0.02$ around these groups: (all start with “Microsoft.Public.Dotnet“) Framework Framework.adonet Framework.windowsforms…
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Please, NO SPOILERS
Um.. can everyone PLEASE not post Matrix revolutions spoilers on the main .net weblogs feed? Thanks.
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See you at the Israel VB user group today
Microsoft Israel 2 Hapnina St, Raanana (09) 7625-100 Floor 0 , Dekel Room It is the new building across from Amdocs. After the first traffic circle, there is an area for parking on the right. 17:30 - 18:00 Assembly…
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12 hours or so to go
and you'll get to see the wonder that is the new version of The Regulator ! BUAHahaha...(evil genius is just not right for me, is it?)
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Single user source code control - a must!
Eric explains why it's a good idea to use source control even when working all alone on a project. I completely agree. If you are NOT using any kind of source control (and you should at least be using SourceSafe on a…
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A horrible discovery
I made a horrible discovery today. SharpReader takes nearly 100MB of RAM when it's open (i have 250-300 feeds). No wonder my machine crawls when I try to friggin' compile something in VS.Net! So, I made a tough…
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Nice Blog.
Yes, I agree . Rory runs a great Blog ! Wish I could write like that. It makes me feel like I haven't written anything really personal in a while. I think I was: Too consumed by projects and other stuff I was afraid…
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A dream come true.. almost
I always knew my blog will get to places. Now it's gotten me into the USA. Well, sort of. People have been dreaming about me , you see. I'm so flattered that I think I'll start to dream about them back. My only wish is…
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Waiting for the Next RSS Bandit
Dare Says that all the features people want from SharpReader are already present in RSS Bandit . I agree. RSS Bandit , feature wise, is a much richer application. It's pretty weird to say this, but I really want to use…
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Regulator Coming along nicely
Regulator is about to pass the 1,200 downloads mark (in 5 days). How cool is that? I've got an update coming. It will now support web searching through a Proxy, which , as I understand, was a small headache for some…
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Got Proxy? Help me test The Regulator
One of the requests for The Regulator was that the web search will be able to use Proxy settings. While I've added the feature, I have no way to test it. So.. if you're not in the PDC and are behind a proxy and would…
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New skin and new book recommendation
Just thought I'd see how my blog looks with a different skin. I like it. I'll keep it. Also thought it's about time I update my favorite/most wanted book recommendation. So, I put the new link up on the blog. This time…
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Leaving for PDC post hailstorm
Looks like we're in the midst of a “Leaving for PDC” posts hailstorm. I suspect this will get worse as time goes by, as we'll start getting a “Just saw X, and it's cool”, and “Meet me by building 101B at 12:00” posts.…
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And a few lessons from JBuilder
A few more features besides these come to mind when I think of other IDE’s I’ve used in the past that gave me the “ooh” factor. One of the more prominent ones is JBuilder 7.0 (That’s the version I played with). Several…
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A few lessons from IntelliJ IDEA
My wife is currently taking Java classes as part of her curriculum at the university. I've played with Java a couple of times in the past, but because I never got a real chance of “working” with it, it never really grew…
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[Rant] Horrible two weeks
Well, I can safely say that these past 2 weeks sucked BIG time. Our only car broke down, requiring about 1,500$ worth of repairs and 3 days in the shop - leaving me no option but to cancel two important job interviews.…
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Microsoft PDC 2003 Sessions RSS feed? Oh yeah!
I'm gonna be really really subscribed to this feed . Hopefully, they'll have the sense to put in ppt links inside the posts as well.
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Describing and evaluating API usability at Microsoft
BradA (wouldn't it be cool to just write “Brabrams“?:) posts about Describing and evaluating API usability at Microsoft . It's a power point presentation that describes just what you should be thinking about when…
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A big bug in Google
Seth Finkelstein has made a startling discovery, backed with lots of evidence : when a spam result comes up in a search, Google not only blocks the spam, but every result after it. This means that for searches where…
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.Net Blogging MVP - a myth?
So here's a tough question. despite the fear of sounding too full of myself (which I notably am), is it remotely possible to receive an MVP award on blogging? Is there any chance that if I do this long enough and hard…
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Geek marriage - Episode I
Oh yeah. My wife and I are real geeks(even though she won't admit it for a loong time). The other day we had a discussion about washing the dishes. I found out that she had a totally different way of washing the dishes…
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More on .Net Rocks
Speaking of .Net Rocks , Mark Dunn, one of the anchors, commented on the last show they made (in the tavern): Hi Roy, We've had several folks comment on the sound quality. In response, Carl has reworked that file.…
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Scoble on .Net Rocks? Give me a break..
OK. Is it just me or does it sound really ridiculous that Scoble is being interviewed for the NET Rocks show ? I mean, How is Scoble related to .Net development, other that the fact that he knows people who do it? Oh,…
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Funny [ot] post
Although waaay of topic, this is truly one of the funniest posts I've ever read. :)
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Another day, another bombing
Nothing like waking up from a Saturday noon nap and finding out there's been another terrorist bombing. But don't worry ,this is Israel. We're used to it. The suicide bomber went into a restaurant in Haifa city - one of…
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Skype Rocks!
I just realized something - Skype totally and utterly rocks! It would be really cool to get to talk with some of the people I've been IM'ing with for the past few months. So if you'd like to voice me, feel free. My User…
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Two good blogs: Hiring Technical People, Managing Product Development
I just found out about these two magnificent blogs, and I highly recommend both of them to everyone. Both are from the same source: Managing Product Development Blog Hiring Technical People Blog (recommended for job…
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Congratulations Robert!
Every once in while we all get to have our “Special Day” where everything is just handy dandy, and all our hard work comes back to haunt us in a good way. Such is today for Robert McLaws . He's full of announcements:…
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Win A Free pass to the PDC!
Yup - Wintellect is giving away a free pass. You'll have to pay all other associated costs of the trip. But this is huge! You guys rock. (hooray Sara!!!!!) http://www.wintellect.com/special/pdc.aspx [ Julie Lerman ] Oh…
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Google Frequent Searchers tool
“ Do you search with Google a hundred times a day? Do you reach for Google before the phonebook, the dictionary or the newspaper? Do you think, just maybe, you're a Google frequent searcher? Now you can know for sure.…
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PDC hype is really really really annoying!
“I am very excited about the upcoming PDC, but I can't reveal to you a lot that I already know until PDC actually starts. “ [ .NET Undocumented ] Well, G-wiz, Thanks for sharing that! You know, I'm getting sick and…
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Google Code Jam 2003
Google, which previously sponsored the 2002 Google Programming Contest , 2003 Google US Puzzle Championship , CodeCon 2003 is now sponsoring something new: Google Code Jam 2003 Do you have exceptional programming…
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Pay for my PDC?
“ D ave Bettin , one of the best developers I've ever worked with really wants to go to the PDC - he's asking for some help ...” “...If you can, please donate a few bucks to his PDC fund [via paypal]...” [ Philip Rieck…
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Nothing like the smell of new books!
Just ordered 3 books from Amazon : How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers COM+ and the Battle for the Middle Tier Test Driven…
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Some stuff
Joel spolsky tells us how he designed his dream office . I'm not crazy about the colors, but he details some very important points to look out for when designing office space, especially if you want people to be able to…
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The perfect birthday gift
Can I have this for my birthday? it's a P4 3,8 Ghz and it's only 7,800$. (link via Chris )
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PDC hype and real actions
With all the PDC hype going about, instead of just cheerleading, why havn't we seen some contest or giveaway of free tickets to the PDC? wouldn't that be cool, Scoble ?
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Installation woes and SqlJunkies
Nothing beats waiting 2 hours for you vs.Net installation to complete just to discover there was an “Insert disc 1” prompt hidden behind all the other windows that you didn't notice! BTW, I just subscribed to SqlJunkies…
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Google search by location
Google Labs has released Search by Location . Enter some search terms and an address, city, or zip code and Google will return a bunch of results which contain nearby addresses and plot them on a map. You may recall…
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Cool cases
Huh. And you though your machine looked somewhat cool? Take a look at some of these .
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Where did the desktops disappear?
I can't bloody believe it. For some reason, all the desktop screenshots on the desktop gallery are gone! Now why the hell did that happen?
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Looking for a reporting solution for .Net
We're currently looking for a good Reports generator for .Net. Crystal sucks payment wise, and I know ActiveReports is good, but does anyone know another one? Support for hebrew is NOT a requirement in this case. Just…
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Making a decision in 4 seconds (or: How to know what you *really* want to do)
Need to decide between two things and it's really hard to make the decision? Here's a quick way to understand what you really really want to choose: Take a coin to flip Decide in advance which side represents each…
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XP is still widely unknown black magic
XP always interested me. I always wanted to try out real-world live XP style development but never really got the chance. The problem is, at least in Israel, most people don't even know what this acronym means, let…
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Interesting research
aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses…
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Happy Anniversary, honey. I love you.
This weekend my wife Tal and I are celebrating our 2 year anniversary. Honey , I love you with all my heart. I want to live with you for the rest of my life. Keep that amazing smile you always have, and may all our…
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Geeky lectures - part III
In the ongoing geeky lectures saga, Dumky says: I have aggregated a bunch of similar links a couple of weeks back. http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000099.html
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More geeky streaming lectures
After I posted about the NerdTV , another gem occurred on my path. In a comment to that post, Michael Favro wrote: “Then you'll love the Multi-University/Research Laboratory Seminar Series at…
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Google likes me
Heh. I rule Google :) http://www.google.com/search?hl=&cat=&meta=&q=ISerializable (And Matt Berther is on my tracks...)
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Pair Programming Q&A
Jonathan links to a good Q&A about pair programming, which I have always wanted to try and implement “for real”. Never got the chance though. ps. Is it just me or is the main feed broken?
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NerdTV
There's nothing like a good techie streamed presentation to get me going in the late hours of the night. Yes.My name is Roy and I'm a geek. And this looks to be one of my favorite sites in the near future: University of…
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Why people are not into RSS readers
Don Browning Answers to a post by Robert Scoble about the amount of bloggers at MS: “Well Robert, over here at Turner (BTW, don't know if I've ever said it publicly but I work for Turner Broadcasting ), we have 3…
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The OLE syndrom
So wrote the Inside OLE guru: “.. I considered all of this utter nonsense. [†] I had no use for adoration, admiration, and obeisance. Flattery was useless, and I certainly didn’t want to shoulder the responsibility of…
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Usability vs. Beauty
Mickey Williams takes me to task on Usability vs. Beauty . I disagree, but understand his point. I think more beautiful designs are simply more usable. Why? Because they are more pleasing to use. [ Robert Scoble ]…
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Pics from the new office
Although I recently switched jobs, I never really blogged about it. I'll make up for it a little now with a few pics from the new digs. These are *really* new digs mind you. In fact, I came in two weeks before the whole…
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The Hyperlinked Organization
A post on the Xtreme Programming mailing list pointed to this article: The Hyperlinked Organization (David Weinberger) It's a wonderful read. Here's a quote: .. Increasingly, a useful expert is not someone with…
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Congratulations Lior!
Lior Rozner is getting married today! Woohoo! Congratulations Lior, I wish you everything you'll ever want or need :)
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RLRT htpd tscdrb gntst
This is a true matrix fan. And he shows us how to get at the latest hidden matrix trailer.
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Communication is key
“ ...Also, I've recently started to try to really concentrate on what my friends and family are saying when they start conversations with me while I'm working. (Previously I would continue working, giving a grunt now…
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GSM decrypted
Looks like our people in the israel Technion institute found a way to decrypt the GSM network stream , allowing them to listen in on about 850 million people's conversations. How scary is that?
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A better disposable email
“ I am Jack's single serve email address .” [via HDConsultants ] This disposable email is even better than mailinator , because it actually forwards email to your real address, but you get to say when the fake email…
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Make the "Beziers" screen saver look good
Here's a simple way to create a nice looking screen saver from one of the screen savers your machine is already equipped with (Beziers). Open the “screen saver properties” dialog Select “ Beziers “ Click “ Settings “…
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A good introduction to IT blogging and blogs in general
For a while now I've been looking for a way to introduce people(mainly other developers) to weblogging and RSS feeds, but could not find a good intro that “gets” it. Now I think I've come across just that: Blogs:…
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Book: Windows Forms Programming in C#
Chris Sells : “ My WinForms book for C# programmers should be on the shelves today. I've set up the site where you can download the source and report problems. The VB.NET version should be out at the PDC. Enjoy. ”…
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Writing a product review
Mike has more writer's advice. This time about writing a product review . “ Today I want to talk a bit about writing product reviews. Having spent quite a while as the Product Editor for MCP Magazine , this is an area…
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I've been slacking off
Yeah. I do need to get more serious about wrting to the blog. Lately I feel I've been mostly “hanging on” rather than charging forward with the tech vengeance I had. I've been so tied up with the new job, that I can't…
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A 'softie at a linux show
Josh Ledgard from MS talks about the impressions of a 'softie in a linux show . Some very interesting comments, and at least one surprising anacdote.. Some of the more intersting parts:: “Listening (and Responding) to…
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A .Net weblogger business card?
Would it be too “out there” if I were to create business cards saying : Roy Osherove Catch me at ISerializable.com this way I can hand it over to people I meet in user groups and stuff. I think it makes an impression,…
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Main feed for blogs.gotdotnet.com, please!
Steve strikes a chord when he says “ Main feed for blogs.gotdotnet.com, please! “.
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Ed has left the building
Ed Kaim: “ I've decided to take some time off from blogging ”. This sucks. Ed has been one of my favorites for a long time, with great stories and good inside scoops on what it like “out there”. Too bad.
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No smiling! We're Canadian
I just had to post this . Sorry :) “ The new measure took effect on Aug. 15, but there is a smile amnesty for the next two months to accommodate those who have already filed happy-looking photos or have not heard of the…
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Advice for article writers - part II
Mike Gunderloy has put together part II of his advice for newbie article writers . A must read if you have ever wanted to publish an article and didn't know where to start.
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Mike is handing out free advice. Grab it.
As someone who is just beginning as an article writer I'm not going to miss the chance and read some tips from people with much much more experience .
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MSN Messenger upgrade blocks Trillian
This totally sucks . Instead of doing that, why don't MS do what Trillian did ,and allow us all to use the same client for multiple networks?
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Was that a shout out?
Is it just me, or did Israel's very own Yosi Taguri manage to sneak in his name into the shoutouts of this week's .Net Rocks show ? Coolness. Israel is definitely on the map now ;)
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Screensaver from hell
You might want to think twice before installing this screensaver on a friends computer.
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I give up - Career Calculus
OK! I'll link to it too. It's too damn good to be passed over (even if half the world had already blogged about it). Career Calculus - Ever wonder why you haven't gotten that promotion you wanted? Why you aren't doing…
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Commandments for a publishable article
I was having a chat with Lauri Travis, one of the editors of MSDNAA . Lauri has been reading some of the blogs here, and was glad to find lots of great .Net content in this little community. In our chat, I suggested…
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Google minus weblogs
“ Wonder what Google will be like with blogs filtered? Have a look . You'll need an API Key (details within). Let me know what you think! “ [ BlogWise ]
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Google binding
Addy sent me this: "Hey dude, do a search on google for " winforms data binding "...
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Nemo bedroom
This is how I want our kids bedroom to look like (scroll down to “The four walls” header).
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Idiomatic domains
Marc Fest has a list of a thousand domain names that no one has taken yet. some of them seem pretty cool. Apparently he did it using a small program he wrote. What's missing? The program code itself would be cool to…
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Hard disk Space Managers
Oh, and John Tobler points out some very cool Hard disk space managers . What can I say - I'm a gadget freak!
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Google Calc
Yeah, the Google toolbar is out and final , BUT . Did you know that you can use google as your calculator as well? Just search google for “ 4 * 5 ” :)
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AppSight on eWeek
Our company just made eWeek . It's all about the .NET features that our main product - AppSight BlackBox will support. Less on the technical side, but still very cool stuff and I'm very proud to be a part of it.
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OurNotepad
Marc fest recently contacted me to respond to one of my past posts regarding Chris Pirillo . After that he mentioned the new project he's working on: Our Notepad.com . “ If you want to you can also mention my latest…
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Can I please have my keyboard and mouse talking to my Win2k3 server?
Well, this certainly is not what I expected. For my coming birthday, my wife bought me two cool gadgets: the Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical mouse, and the MS Natural multimedia keyboard . Very cool. One little…
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Short and sweet - I'm back
Got back from Crete, Greece a couple of hours ago It was a-m-a-z-i-n-g My skin is peeling and itchy from sun burn As folks were saying, it was a much needed time away from the computer It's a real downer coming back :(…
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Count anything in your open Word document
I'm using the Word 2003 beta, so I'm not sure if this applies to older versions. Ever wanted to know how many words, lines, paragraphs or even characters you have in your open Word document? Easy. Select…
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Out on vacation
I'll be on vacation in Greece, starting tomorrow(the 31st) up until august 7th. Me and the Mrs. are out for a full week of sea and sun, and I'll even make an effort of doing all this without a computer * shudder *. I'll…
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As years go by
Now, this is amazing: http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html “[Starting from 1976] On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment,…
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Nice quote
"They say that money is the root of all evil. No it's not. Lack of money is the root of all evil." -- Gene Simmons, KISS
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Framework Compatibility Graphics initiative
Looks like Robert is on the right track with his Framework Compatibility Graphics initiative . I think we'll all need this in the near future. I know I'd love to go to a download site and see, by the download link, an…
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What's up with BlogShares?
What's up with BlogShares ? My status has not been updated since March 13th, and I fear that this is just a symptom of a dying site. Anyone know anything about that?
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Geekier than thou
My wife and I are going on vacation in a few days. We still have not decided where, but it will probably be either Greece or Turkey. We'll be there at least 5 nights, during which, somewhat like Joi , I will forbid…
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The Imposter Syndrome: Feeling Like A Fraud
I can't say these words any better: "My shameful secret is out: I cannot write. I have been sitting for two hours now, my pen idling over my page. My mind is barren of fresh ideas, my thoughts are cranky and resistant.…
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Expand the desktops gallery
Hey, now that the .Net Desktops contest is over, you can now continue to submit your desktop to the . Net gallery .
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MSDN VB blog section
" Duncan points out the new blogs section he's setup and what do you know...there I am! :) Thanks, Duncan! " [ Erik Porter ] Wow. I'm there too! Totally flattered :) Thanks!
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Faster typing achieved slowly
My touch typing abilities have been improving for the past few days. The hardest part seems to be typing out actual code. typing all those exclamation points and semicolons is pretty rough to place your fingers on, but…
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Do what you love
" In 1960, a researcher interviewed 1500 business-school students and classified them in two categories: those who were in it for the money (1245 of them ) and those who were going to use the degree to do something they…
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Must-have books for my new job
My new job asked me to give a list of books that I think would be needed, so I made this one: (note: some books are not here because they already have them) Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime…
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A chat with scoble
Robert Scoble tried to IM me the other day. I wasn’t at my computer, so all I saw when I returned to the machine a few hours later was “ If you’re around, ping me ”. My gut feeling told me that this had something to do…
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Touch typing hell
I'm starting to try and learn touch typing again, and it's pretty damn hard. I'm actually doing it right now and it's horrible! and the teaching program is sooo boring! I'm a pretty fast typist, when I look at the…
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Vs.Net for presentations
Scott Hanselman points to a macro that should be useful for code presenters that allows chaning the font size in VS.NET to the appropriate presentation size. Cool. Another way to do this is by calling your VS.Net…
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PDC pricing continued
Scoble explains why the PDC costs so much, and adds to the reasons that make the PDC a cool event. I’ll just comment on the pricing, as I admit I totally wanna be there myself. And meet all the cool people. The pricing.…
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Death to the double-click (a lesson in design)
Why do today's mice still have "Double Click" functionality? In terms of interaction design - its one of the worst forms of design ever created; You have one button which does different things at different…
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Cheer up Jeff. You can get the job you want
Sometimes life just throws one surprise at you after another, and sometimes these are not good surprises either. While I celebrated my new job, Jeff Julian discovered today that he'd been sacked , along with 15 other…
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The PDC is missing its target audience
Can anyone please enlighten me as to why the PDC costs so much(2000$ and upwards)? Let's take a look at their website and try to understand: ---------------------SNIP--------------------- Be one of the first to look…
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Geek encounters
Yesterday, after work, I got the chance to meet up with Yosi & Lior and see where they work(at SPL ). Later we grabbed our cars and headed out for a small dinner(I still can’t eat anything even now, and its already noon…
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Microsoft does, but can do even more
I was glad to see that Paul Vick read what I wrote (but answered on a different subject). It feels good to know that the right people are reading what you are saying. Paul - if youre reading this - I love what you did…
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Smile! You're on candid camera!
By the way, tonight's lecture was taken in Microsoft's offices in Kfar-Saba. Did you know that they tape all the lectures there on video ? ut not in a mounted - middle of the room camera. nope. It's like the ones used…
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IDE enhancements - conclusion?
In my last post, I named a few enhancements I’d like to see added to C#’s IDE. I then asked, for each of these, why was it not sensible to add them, or why do they not exist in the first place. I’ve gotten plenty of…
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Am I the stereotypical VB programmer?
Oisin responds to my requests regarding VS.Net IDE enhancements : "Roy, if there ever was a stereotypical VB programmer to be singled out as an example, it would be you. Absolutely no understanding of why things aren't…
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Passport identity change
I had to change my Passport ID today, because it was an iname.com ID, and that is manages by Mail.com , which totally sucks. Their server is slower than my grandmother's turtle(and he's cripple). Speaking of slow - the…
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There goes an hour or two
So much for a productive day. My work machine's hard disk failed, appearently during the weekend, so I get to work, and I find a nice black screen with nothing but a "Disk Read Error" message. Ugh. Why does that even…
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How's this for less eye strain
I was fiddling with the color settings for visual studio, and was trying to get a less eye-straining environment for coding in. Turns out I made the perfect settings.. if I were a black ops agent or something...
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I’ve just learned that a friend of mine is looking for a job.
I’ve just learned that a very good friend of mine is looking for a job. If you’re looking for a Graphics artist/Web designer / Flash wizard and you’re based in the London area, you should seriously consider checking him…
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About maintainable code
I'm currently into documenting my source code and creating infrastructure documents. It's amazing how important these things are, I'd say it's inversely related to how boring they are to do J . One of the most important…
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Cool Lecture!
Wow. Today's User Group meeting was one of the best I've ever attended. The session was about UI design guidlines and how people percieve things. I'll write more about it tomorrow, but for now I'll just say that if you…
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VB User Group meeting Tonight, Hope to See You There
IVBUG moved to a new location Microsoft Israel 2 Hapnina St, Raanana (09) 7625-100 Floor 0 , Dekel Room It is the new building across from Amdocs. After the first traffic circle, there is an area for parking on the…
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What's Up With That?
What's up with people mass mailing recipes of salad dressings and coockies to all their internet lists? I swear that the next time I get a salad recipe from 3 different sources I'll... I'll... What's up with windows…
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User Interface Design For Programmers
Just discovered this gem on Joel's site: User Interface Design For Programmers It's a full book, and its very very good an entertaining. Recommended!
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Chris Sells talks about Learning to Learn
Chris Sells talks about Learning to Learn [via scoble ] Totally interesting.
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Wasted Years
Oh boy. This funny article brought back a lot of memories. I remember once receiving some legacy VB code, and trying to figure out what the hell was happening. It was a nightmare. 3 or four modules containing huge…
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User Groups
If you're in Israel, there's the IVBUG meeting tommorow. Also, on the 9th, the Web developers .Net group meets and there's supposed to be some real interesting stuff going on there. Yosi wrote about that as well. Ever…
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Still Alive
Just wanted to say that I'm still alive, but I am in the middle of so much "stuff" right now, I can hardly find any time to blog about stuff. Hopefully in a few days the situation will settle down a bit and I can…
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.Net Rocks Rocks, INETA, and Starting A User Group
> Boy. I have to say, the last .Net Rocks show totally rocked . Julie - you were great There was so much talk going on about all the user groups around the world, and all the cool speakers, it re-sparked my old flame -…
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Stop The Silliness
Sure, I could write a long post regarding Eric's post about the future. I could even make it really deep and insightful , so Scoble will link to me. But I won't. I find it very hard to get real interested in this issue,…
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Book Gripes, Safari Bookshelf, And a .Net Desktops Prize
One of the biggest(and most common) mistakes a tech book publisher can make is not knowing to quit while your ahead. Much like bad movie sequels, You'll often see a good book followed by a bunch of totally redundant…
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SQL Server is Missing NextVal Functionality
I really like working with SQL server, but there is one feature that's missing that I can;t understand why: Sequences. In ORACLE, I could do a "Table.NextVal" to get the value of the next insert unique ID. In SQL Server…
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About Interfaces
Duncan writes about punitive UI, and I totally agree. I've always been a big fan of Design and interaction. Tha's why some things just toally annoy me that other people don't even notice: Why should I have to press a…
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More About Desktops
We're starting to get some real content into the desktops gallery . If you'd like to add your own desktop, see the guide . I really like how it's turning out. Looking at all these really gives you a feel for the…
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"How Do I Get There From Here?"
In a comment to one of my posts I got this: " I'm a poor college student living in the middle of nowhere... I know a bit of Java, a lot of HTML, and I've got the gist of XML... I was wondering, what should I focus on if…
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My Baby Hits The Road Tomorrow
Just wanted to brag a little - Tommorow I'm releasing an alpha version of our companie's latest tracing software.I built this thing entrely myself. It's mostly built using VB6, with the the remoting extentions built…
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Late In The Evening
It's all quiet now. Everyone has left work and went home. When all the busy sounds of the day disappear, this is when I feel most comfortable. I find I get the most work done after 5PM. We're at the 11 th floor,…
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Family Vs. Technology
Scoble writes about the daily struggle between family and technology. I totally understand and share a lot of what he's going through. Sometimes we all need to face the mirror and say to ourselves " OK. Just turn off…
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Coolest Birthday Ever
" To celebrate the night before your birthday I re-installed my windows box, played with Norton Ghost to keep my pristine and newly installed system safe, and discovered the joy of a system that has a hard drive that…
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BillG Joke
Here's a good one I heared: Bill Gates goes fishing. Suddently he notices he catches somehting. When he rolls in his catch, he sees a gold fish on the hook. The fish suddenly opens its mouth and says " Hey bill, how…
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Women Rule
In Respose to Julie's post about women in tech, I must say that in Israel, I think the situation is better, although not by much. I think about 30% or a bit more of the software developers I know are women. I (again!)…
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Joseph Has a Point
OK, I think Joseph Cooney has a point on my last post.. Everyone should be able to participate, so from now on, everyone can send me their desktop screenshot. See this post for details.
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Disappointment
OK. I'm totally disappointed . I've recieved almost no screenshots of desktops.How busy are you guys? So, I'll urge again, and if in the next 24 hours I don't get a meaningful amount, this won't really be a contest…
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Announcing: .Net Desktops Contest
OK. Here's a cool idea. A " Coolest Desktop " contest. Whoever wants, sends me a screenshot of their desktop ,either at home or at work, in a zip file, to Royo At PolyInformation Dot Com - make sure its a jpg or gif,…
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The Google King
Heh. You know you've made it when you come up first in google for searching DB_SEC_E_AUTH_FAILED Yey!
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Cool Photo Hosting
Just discovered pnavy.com . They let you host your own photo gallery(or weblog, or even a full community website) for free. Its all based on open-source too. Coolness. Here's mine . Nothing much there yet, but I'll up…
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Phew... Free Time, At Last.
Just a couple of quick words: * My mom told me she's reading my blog now(Hi Mom!). isn't that cool? She claims its the only way she knows when I go to sleep at night... you know you've made it when your mom reads you…
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IVBUG meeting went well
Went to my user group meeting today. Was kinda funny. We had no electricity for some reason, so the group leader decided to take us all out and have a “Help” session, in which everyone with a problem raises it to the…
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Overworked
If you're wondering why I'm being so skimpy on the posts lately(all 3 of you), its because I'm going through a pretty rough week - A tight schedule, some very long Job interviews and coding challenges , and lack of…
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In-Your-Face
" I'm sitting here in a basement room in the Hyatt Recency right now listening to the inimitable Don Box talk about _______ and ________ (can't tell you about them yet...wait about 6 months. In a nutshell, we're making…
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Medieval Times
Is it just me, or does every developer sometimes feel like life is passing by and you aren’t doing a damn thing to do something useful about it Is it just me, or does every developer sometimes feel like life is passing…
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I'm a Configuration Manager... I Think.
My company is now trying to employ a major shift in our working process. One of the new roles that were introduced in this process is " The person who makes sure that no double-coding takes place among separate projects…
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About "Personal" Blogging
Scoble writes about repressing his writing urges in the face of corporate assimilation (How's that for a headline?). I must say that, although much differently then Scoble, I feel the same way about writing to my weblog…
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Rent My ... What??
What the hell..?? Am I mistaken or is that Chris Pirillo?? That's the most innovative money making scheme I've see so far (Although a blonde cheer leader could probably do even better..;)
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404 Hall of Fame
Have you ever thought of giving your 404 (Page not Foud) page a different theme? browse the 404 hall of fame for some neat ideas.. I liked this one and this one :)
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Donny Mack Reveals Hidden Developer Secrets
" Posted By: Donny Mack on 5/29/2003 6:58:00 AM Ok, we just launched (finally) version 3.0 of dotnetjunkies. It is past 5am my time, and I've found lots of buts, but screw it - we're beta testing this baby live. Ok, off…
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About Knowledge Blocks
I don't know about you, but whenever I see a technology book lying in front of me, I feel, well, almost like butterflies are playing soccer in my stomach. Really! This may turn out the geekiest post I've written so far,…
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About Blogging Etiquette and Inline Product Promotions
Last night I got a comment on one of my posts . My post basically pointed to a rant by Joel on Software about prototyping habits, and also points out the book he recommends. Here is the comment I got: " Richard Posted @…
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PeopleWare
I've been reading Demarco and Lister's PeopleWare again. It awes me every time I read it, the amount of insight in this book. Reading it 3 years ago totally changed my point of view on a lot of things, and I never…
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UML Tutorial
A friend asked for a good UML tutorial for beginners, so I pointed him to this one .
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Work, work, work....
Sorry I've been out for a few days, but work duties call, and I must finish a small project. Nevertheless, I'm working on an article concerning building applications that support custom plugins. Of course, you'll be the…
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Random Thought
"If the people in the matrix live in the future, and they have all this technology to plug in to the matrix, why do they still have to plug in those cables into the back of their heads? don't they have wireless…
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The Right People For The Right Job
I recently met with a friend of mine, also a programmer. After sharing the usual “war stories” he mentioned some things about his project manager/Team Leader that made us both go into a long conversation about IT roles…
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Assorted News
Comparison Tool : Beyond Compare is the comparison tool I've used. Araxis Merge 2001 is light years behind in functionality (Although has better UI) Matrix Invitations : If you still haven’t gotten those Matrix…
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The Star Wars - Kid Gets An Upgrade
Guilty about laughing at a geeky teenager whose private video has been downloaded millions of times off the Net, a pair of webloggers is raising money for the young man they call the 'Star Wars Kid.' By Leander Kahney.…
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About Productivity
Although I've been working for quite some time now as a developer, with several companies and developer teams, I am still amazed at how un-productive some developers can be. As a developer, I always feel I need to know…
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When Blogs Go Commercial
Hmm.. Reading through Chris Pirillo's Brain-Trust initiative I must say - This is a pretty smart idea! However, one thing I don't understand: Here's one of the testimonials from that page: "Just wanted to let you know…
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Please don't spoil it for us
Guys. Please don't post any spoilers about the new Matrix. It just ruins it for the rest of us who get to see it only on the 22'nd :( Once you post these things, I just can't help but reading them... c'mon. There's…
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About Design
Alan Cooper says (Among others) that good GUI design is not necessarily referring to software. A good design shows in usability and practicality. For example, Here's an alarm clock similar to the alarm clock we have…
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Expression Boy
Following the footsteps of DataGrid Girl, should I call myself " Regex Roy "..? ;) P.S Speaking of Trillian, here's my ICQ - 1782510 (If I seem offline, tell me. I've been having some problems with this lately..)
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Spammer Tactics
A thought provoking and kinda scary post about Spam and Anti-Spam tactics and the brilliance of SpamBayes Addin for outlook and how its tactics compare with SpamAssassin. Very good stuff. One example of a deceptive spam…
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Blindfolded
Here's something I couldn't figure out: Did you know that Regedit has a "Favories" menu? Yes. That good ol' (hateful, conniving) regedit we all "love". I only realized this a few days ago, thanks to a comment from David…
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Windows Longhorn 3D UI - short videos
Here are some short media clips (.rm) showing the Windows Longhorn 3D UI in action. Cool stuff, though I don't know why I would still use notepad than... Thanks to Scoble for the link
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Scoble About MS Interviews
It's always a good idea to read Scoble Once a day. You nenver know what might happen... . In this post he talks about how he relaxed before his own interview , plus some helpful tips. This is just the state of mind I'm…
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I'm Available
OK. I've decided to make myself available to job offers. Here's your chance to grab me while I'm still young and underpaid... ;)
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Why Good Design Comes from Bad Design
Found a very nice piece: Why Good Design Comes from Bad Design By Scott Berkun . Good stuff.
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Mind Rates
Duncan Replies to my post about Chris Pirillo: " I need some work done, whether that is easy or hard for the person I hire isn't relevant... and if they answer my question too quickly that certainly shouldn't be a…
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InnovaSys SmartTasks Beta Download Available
I requested and got permission to post the following beta material. Being a fond user of some of their other products, I'm posting this. You are all welcome to download and try it out. have fun :) From what I've tried…
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Retro Games
Here's a retro: Tech TV's "The Screen Savers" have a list of their f avorite Graphically challenged games . Some good ones there, but i especially liked this [text based] one: " The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The…
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How I Learn New Technologies
As the years go by, I seem to understand better and better how my learning process works. When it comes to new technology, I seem to be a “ circle thinker ”. When I try to learn something, I do it in stages. I don’t…
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How To Lose Your Job (Unless you are Don)
Don points to the Microsoft Reaserch Downloads site . Now here's a place to spend a week or two....
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Writing Articles Is Hard!
I'm currently in the process of trying to write an article to be posted on my blog. Its on a bigger scale than the others I already have posted before, and I must admint it's a bigger task than I imagined. One of the…
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Blog Junkie
How's this for a blog junkie's start page? He also has an interesting blog . Another thing : This guy gives a very good example of how to expose your portfolio to potential employers . Here . Very slick.
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What's On My Bookshelf
I always like to see what other people are reading so I'll share my own list. I'm probably missing a few, but I'll update as needed. I'll also put this on my "about" zone as a story. .Net Advanced .Net Remoting ASP.NET…
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The Unofficial "Mort" Logo Is Available
OK. It might be ugly, but here is my logo for being a "Mort": . I've put it in my "News" category. If you think you can do better at the graphics side, send it to me and I'll change it. It is linked to a story that…
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Serious Hotmail Vulnerability: Easily Reset Anyone's Password
If you havn't heard yet, A 'bug' was discovered in Microsoft's Hotmail service which would basically allow you, using a simple typing of a URL to your explorer bar, to reset the password of any HotMail User you'd like.…
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Geeky .NET Desktop Wallpapers
Let everyone know what a geek you are. http://www.irritatedvowel.com/Wallpaper/Thumbnails.aspx?Category=57ff92e3-b57d-438a-b3ba-1d9d2fe5ec66 [via James Avery ]
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A Solid Text Editor
After playing with it myself a bit, this text editor seems to have everything I ever wanted in a text editor (And some stuff I didn't think I needed, but did!) including all the keyboard junkie options I dig. Everything…
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Chris Pirillo Sells His Mind
Chris Pirillo annonced he will now charge you for his tech expertise in answering tech support questions . Since Chris is quite the Tech guru on such a vast number of subjects I can definitely see that happening, but…
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KlipFolio
This has a high 'cool' potential Even more so when you consider it has its own RSS/RDF Feed plugin available. (Thanks Scoble )
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Free Book: Software Testing and Internationalization
"Dear colleague, LISA, in collaboration with Lemoine International has made "Software Testing and Internationalization" by Galileo Computing freely available for download. This book will transform how you view testing…
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Gotta Love BlogShares FAQ
I like the idea of BlogShares . I'm even listed. But you gotta love their FAQ : " 1. Isn't this just a popularity contest where the people with the popular blogs win? No answer has been given to this question. 2. What…
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Nice [Off Topic] Article
Neo's just an early adopter . I wonder if he's tried out Windows Server 2003 yet. [Posted By Robert McLaws ]
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VS.Net Tips & Tricks Category Is Up
OK. I just put up a post category for "VS.Net Tips & Tricks" so you keyboard junkies out there can save yourself some time looking. Here's the door . Contributions are more then welcome.
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MSDN staff
" Matt Powell is the lead Content Strategist for the MSDN XML Web Services Developer Center . Besides writing numerous articles for MSDN, various magazines, and co-authoring Running Microsoft Internet Information Server…
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OneNote Is Cool But...
I've been trying out OneNote (And the whole Office 2003 Packge for that matter) for the last couple of days. It's cool. It's Hip. It.... can't share notes with outlook. The only way to do this is by enailing the notes…
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What Am I Missing?
Is it just me , or does the Windows Media Player 9 Fun Pack not install on windows server 2003 claiming it "Requires Windows XP" to install??
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The Mouse I Want(And So Will You)
This looks cool and I want one. [via Craig ] This is one of the coolest things i have ever seen!!! Take a look: [From the site:] The iGesture Pad is an ultra-thin, large-area, superduper touchpad that is both mouse and…
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I Couldn't Help Myself
A 'bit' off topic, but I could not help myself : Here's the SellsBrothers team looking more natural. Beaverton, OR Saturday, April 12, 2003 [via Chris Sells ] I see now why he has been assimilated : You don't let go of…
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How to Pass A Microsoft Interview - SDE/T Edition
I was going through Chris Sell's Posts about Microsoft interviews and was amazed at the amount of interest these have generated. Quite frankly, I was intrigued as well. I do wonder what its like - being there. Those…
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Build Your Own Research Library with Office 2003 and the Google Web Service API
"An article just popped up on the main msdn page, "Build Your Own Research Library with Office 2003 and the Google Web Service API" . The Office beta gets more interesting every day . Basically, its possible to consume…
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Kudos for Scott
Kudos for Scott for all the wonderful new additions to the site. The new Post Editor is real slick (no more scrolling for formatting - woohoo!) The new MetaWeblog feature is pretty darn cool (I know, I know - i use way…
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Testing from w.blogger
Hmm - I like w.blogger - it's pretty cool. Can;t seem to get the Category thing working though.. any thoughts?
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MetaWebLog API rules
Coolness!! i like blogging from newzcrawler! -- Composed with Newz Crawler 1.4 http://www.newzcrawler.com/
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How to convert your Windows Server 2003 to a...
This Page has a very complete guide on tweaking Windows Server 2003 into excactly what you want it to be. Very nice! Thanks to Marc LaFleur for this link.
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Not Your Father's Peer Review
Tomorrow we're reviewing our progress with Bill Gates in what's known (and feared/dreaded by some) as a 'BillG Review'. A BillG review usually consists of 2 hours with the top executives from various teams, e.g.…
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Windows Server 2003 Editions Compared
This Page contains a very good table of differences between Windows 2003 Server editions. Very nice! I was wondering about some of this stuff.. Thanks to Early&Adopter for the link.
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Document: Threats and Countermeasures for Windows Server 2003
Microsoft just release a killer doc on Threats and Countermeasures for Windows Server 2003 . [via Early&Adopter ]
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Envy - Cursed be thy name!
Is it okay to envy Chris Sells on his post ? It should be. Would anyone not want to work for a company that cherishes its employees as much as MSFT? Hell - I'd work there as QA just to get started (Although i hear…
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Windows Server 2003 Rocks
I've installed on my new machine Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. It totally rocks. The interface is great and it runs faster then XP! I can't seem to get my Direct3D on the dxdiag console to work though...(so…
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Where was I?
OK. Havn't been here a while due to some pressure at work. Hopefully i'll have more time now.
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Accented Blogging
I was having this thought as i was going through some blog. As I was reading it, in my head i kept picturing the guy that was writing this, speaking out the words i was reading. He Had an amarican accent. Actually,…
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Mean Machine
It's been a couple of days without blogging. I got my new machine into the house and was waaay to busy at work to install everything properly and moving stuff from the old machine. It's a beauty : 2.2 AMD Athelon XP…
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Categories
OK. I've decided to create categories for my posts. Hopefully this should help out abit in ScottW's Great cause to help bring down the Noise Ratio. I'll probably play around with the categoy names for a while and add…
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Need a bigger wallet (+stuffing)
Man,I need more money. My wish list is just gettting bigger and bigger! Any more suggestions to it will be welcome!
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Enter the Matrix
Check out the review and the making of the Matrix Reloaded Special effects. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/matrix2_pr.html
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DNWL future continued
Scott cleared up some stuff about his last post regarding the future of DNWL. I agree with everything he says in there. I still think you should read my worries and considerations in an earlier post here . As before - I…
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Tech Interview Puzzle Solutions
Ever had technical interview for a job and you were asked to solve a puzzle or write an algorithm? Did you fail? Here's a cool site with answers to the most common tech interview questions - contributed by the public.…
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.NetWeblogs home page ratings
Scott also wonders why the main RSS feed gets less ratings then some other blogs. I think if you make each blog template have a link to the main .NetWeblogs page (somewhere in the top left..?) it would be a big help.…
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The Future of .NetWeblogs
Scott Posts a big dilemma about the future eco-system of .NetWeblogs. Here's what i think. The Editor idea sounds good . I'd register for the feed if it dealt solely with specifit .Net News. In fact, count me in as a…
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Developer Dawg
Woohoo ! Can you say "I Ported from VB6 to VB.Net And All I Got Was This Lousy Poster" ? p.s I'm kidding . it's not at all lousy. I'm proud( in a very geeky sort of way)
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Bloody cool: Share Keyboard/Mouse between computers
Synergy -- Share Keyboard/Mouse between computers [Cool Tools] - Posted @ 12:39 pm : PermLink Synergy (GPL) With synergy, all the computers on your desktop form a single virtual screen. You use the mouse and keyboard of…