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ALT.NET Israel II happens TODAY
Just a quick reminder: ALT.NET Israel II is happening TODAY at 18:30 at SELA. Register on the facebook page , and more details (without needing facebook) here .
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Geeky T-Shirt ideas
Here are a couple of Conference T-Shirt ideas I had that I wanted to make: “Legalize unit testing” “I broke the build” “I Mock You” “I’m Mocking this” “I do B(eer)D(riven)D(evelopment)” “I fail first” “I fail early and…
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Test Review #3 – Unity
Watch previous videos: Test Review #1 – NerdDinner Test Review #2 – ASP.NET MVC //TestReviewUnity.mp4 In this video I go over the tests for Microsoft Unity Application Block. Overall the quality of the tests in Unity is…
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Test Review #2 – ASP.NET MVC Unit Tests
See other reviews: Review #1: NerdDinner Here’s the second video review of Unit Tests. This is another one written by Microsoft – ASP.NET MVC ( source ). First, it’s important to state how surprised I was by the high…
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Test Review #1 - NerdDinner
I’ve decided to start doing some test reviews of tests that I see in the wild. I figured it’s the best way to show people what I mean when I say they do not have readable, maintainable or trustworthy tests. The first…
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ALT.NET Israel – Meeting II 2d and 3rd of April
YOU CAN NOW REGISTER HERE I’ll just repost this in Hebrew: בשעה טובה ומוצלחת אני שמח לבשר על כנס alt.net israel השני מיקום הכנס : כמו בפעם שעברה, יתקיים הכנס בבית קבוצת סלע בבני ברק, ליד קניון אילון. תודה לאנשי קבוצת…
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API design values and decision matrix
We’ve come to a nice way of deciding upon features in the Isolator API. This is what happens when your end product is an API for programmers. First, we realized that we must argue about it . For each type of new feature…
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Art of unit Testing goes to print in April
The book of never ending production is now actually near the end. the projected print date of “Art Of Unit Testing” is now April 30 and I’m happy to see the Amazon page for the book already has one review of the early…
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Creativity Cards in software
I fully agree that software is a very creative profession. Sometimes the creativity lies in creating things, sometimes it’s about taking things apart to understand them, or restructure them, and sometimes it’s just…
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Code Formatter plugin for live writer - updated
Looks like the Code Formatter plugin for Live Writer has been updated. Gonna give it a try.
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Happy Purim
the second purim holiday with my little family was awesome. Just wanted you to know that. (yes, that’s a real snake)
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premature-bloggization
twitter totally killed my blogging drive. It's like a premature-bloggization enducer trying to get back on the horse..
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What Isolation\Mocking and unit testing framework are you using?
It’s time to re-examine where things stand in our little niche. This should be interesting, if enough people answer – so please answer (you need flash). Embedded Flash media from the original post is no longer playable.…
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We need a new slogan
We’ve been debating this one internally for two weeks now. So I voted that we take this out to the community. Hopefully, you won’t make me look like an Idiot to my boss for suggesting it.. We need your help finding a…
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Password protected RSS? Help needed
A free license of NHibernate goes to the first one who can give me a good *hosted* solution for password-protected RSS feeds and blogs. I’ve been looking everywhere, but was not able to get an PASS protected RSS feed…
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True Learning – not comfortable, easy or safe
People seem to have a problem with me “changing lanes”. But that’s the way I learn things. If I totally disagree with something, I accept the fact that I may be doing so because of fear and misunderstanding. The best…
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Are courses\consultants a waste of money?
People will pay you to learn – no matter what you do in your developer life, people will pay you to constantly learn. It doesn’t matter if you’re a developer, team lead, manager, consultant, speaker, IT Guy or anything…
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Alt.Heros – Shanselman, benscheirman
In case you didn’t realize this, whoever Scott Hanselman’s manager is = you should give Scott a raise. He just made ALT.NET fun for people 6000 miles away using Kyte.com, a laptop and a buggy camera. Thanks for being an…
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What are YOU going to do about it?
At one of the jobs I was working at years back, I was a pretty successful developer. it was a startup and I was having fun. Near the end of its life though, things started falling apart and everyone had to contribute to…
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read them all
I should read all of these
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Method_Missing: Cool Uses
I wrote the other day that I’ve added that ability to use a Method_Missing method in VB. I was also able to get something similar in C# 4 using dynamic types but people keep asking me “why is it useful?” I thought long…
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Awsome idea: TeamCity.CodeBetter.com
The CodeBetter.com guys stepped up and created TeamCity.CodeBetter.com. open source Continuous Integration hosting using TeamCity (which we use internally). Way to go!
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Adding Method-Missing support to VB.NET using CTru and Typemock Open-AOP
I am finding cooler and cooler stuff to achieve using the CThru Engine. A few hours ago I suddenly thought : “CThru intercepts all calls in the system. what happens if they are calls to methods that don’t exist?”…
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Introducing SilverUnit
SilverUnit is a new open source Unit Testing framework for SilverLight ( true unit testing, not the Integration style, browser-backed, Async-driven C#-only-friendly, monster of a Test Framework from Microsoft). All the…
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How we do TDD – Talk today
Our fabulous developers Doron Peretz and Dror Helper are giving a presentation on TDD on the 22-Feb-09 (that’s today) at the Israeli .Net Architect user group. That's this Sunday! These most awesome professional people…
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Looking for an Agile developer, again!
We’re hiring . That’s right. you heard me. In the midst of all this trouble, we’re looking for one great developer that can join our team at Typemock. First, you have to live in Israel. How to submit your CV If you’re…
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Unit Testing in VB.NET – with Typemock Isolator (with a free license offer)
A move I’ve been pushing for a while now has finally come through today – Helping to bring unit testing into VB.NET. This is something I strongly believe in: VB has been kind of left behind with the range of latest…
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[Political] The truth about the Palestinian loss of land 1946 to 2000
Update 2: Other sources talking about what is wrong with this map: solomonia.com , giyus.org , Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic , Dvar Dea , zionism-israel.com and frontpagemag.com . also here . ( update : I added some…
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The morning brew
FYI, the morning brew is one of the link blogs that I read on a daily basis too. Thanks for the work! I find that it is a good place to find out what’s going on in the .NET and ALT.NET scene these days.
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Unit Testing in silverlight land with Typemock Isolator
I’ve been asked quite a lot recently whether one can write unit tests and isolate logical code that runs inside a silverlight application. Up until today my initial answer was ‘no’ because silverlight runs under…