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2013

2007

  • Hire me for a day: Two Opportunities

    I'm looking for consulting or course gigs in two places so I can get where I want to go. If you're interested in me working with you for a day or two, drop me a line to my contact form . Opportunity #1: Austin, Texas,…

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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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  • New Job - Looking for New People!

    It's been a while since I last wrote, but things are a bit.. hectic. Itamar (our new child!) is amazingly beautiful, but I don't recall ever being as tired as I am these days. waiting for the 3 months mark :) In any…

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  • Baby Osherove - Born 28-12-06

    It's been an amazing last week here for my little family. We could not have gotten a better present for the new year. My wife and I welcomed a new member to our family, who is not named yet. He weighs 4 Kg. :) We've…

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2006

2004

  • Review - JetBrains Resharper

    Product : Resharper Version 1.02 (note: version 1.03 has just been released) Company : JetBrains Price : 99$ per license A while ago I my wife was taking Java lessons as part of her Bsc degree. I was helping her out…

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  • BackgroundWorker implementation -in C#

    BackgroundWorker class – built using instructions from this fine article by Juval . using System ; using System . ComponentModel ; namespace Unique . Shavit . UI { #region BackgroundWorker public class BackgroundWorker…

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  • Make your .Net application support scripting - a practical approach

    Summary Adding scripting support to your application is one of the most valuable things you can do for your client, letting them add value to your software, and keep it current over time with little or no overhead from…

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  • Learning from mistakes: the Don Quixote pattern

    Experience is built on mistakes. in the near future I'll try to describes some of the biggest mistakes I've made during my (short)career and the lessons that I learned from them. In this post I'll tell you about one of…

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2003

  • An optimizing experience

    We recently encountered the task of optimizing a stored procedure that was taking very long to perform its business. It wasn’t that complicated but it was operating on a large table (350,000 records). The table has…

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  • Easy Proxy handling through the ProxyFactory and ProxyInfo classes

    Here’s a simple and easy class that will ease the pain of configuring a Proxy Connection in your applications. The way you’d use it is like so: ProxyInfo pi = new ProxyInfo(); pi . OverrideDefaultProxy =…

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  • My favorites in OPML

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <opml xmlns:xsd=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema " xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance "> <head> <title>Generated by SharpReader -…

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  • Announcing: .Net Desktops Contest

    OK. Here's a cool idea. A " Coolest Desktop " gallery. Whoever wants, sends me a screenshot of their desktop ,either at home or at work, in a zip file, to GuiMan@bigfoot.com - make sure its a jpg or gif, not a bmp -put…

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  • .Net Debugging Resources

    Note: If you think something is missing don't hesitate and drop a comment. Articles: Debugging Articles on MSDN Debugging in Visual Basic .NET Ten Steps to Successful Debugging (in ASP.NET) How to debug script in Visual…

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  • My Bookshelf

    Books I want//Book of the month : .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library, 1/e Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET Writing Secure Code,…

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