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David Boschmans - You will be missed
David Boschmans passed away last week. I personally knew him from two conferences I spoke at, TechEd Europe and DevDays Belgium. David was a great guy, and great to work with. He was the one who'd arrange for stuff to…
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GeekCon and the Noknok project
I'll be taking part at the upcoming GeekCon (here's a list of current projects that will be built there). It's my first time there. It takes place over two days, at the wingate institute. the idea is to work,…
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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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Source control hosting heats up: Dynamsoft introduces SourceAnywhere
It's usually aimed at the open source crowed with sites like Assembla , SourceForge and others, but now it seems that a new player is in town. Can they make it where others don't charge anything? Kevin Gao from…
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Speaking at: Agile Development Practices Conference
I'll be speaking at the upcoming Better Software Agile Development Practices Conference Taking place December 3-6 in Orlando, FL this year. I'll be speaking about: Design for Testability Database Unit Testing (Half day…
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August 2007 @ Agile Israel
It's my pleasure to re-announce the Agile Israel user group. See the full announcement (with maps) over here on the agile news blog . When? August 29, 2007, 18:00- 21:00 Where? Ohel Shem Ramat Gan, Eshkol Hapais ( more…
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Behave# enables Behavior Driven Testing, raises some interesting questions
Update: More on BDD and Behave# from AgileJoe here . AgileJoe pinged me with an email about Behave#, a Behavior-Driven-Development verification API (think NUnit syntax with a more real-world feel of behavior…
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ClassTester - Test automatically all the stuff you don't bother testing with hand written tests
A dude named Josh sent me an email about a Class Tester he's developed, available here . The idea is to take care of all the things I usually avoid writing unit tests for because it takes too much effort for too little…
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Slashdotted, I Mean, StumbledUpon
Ah, nothing like being Slashdotted (or, should I say, StumbledUpon) to make your day a little bit better. I've already written about it on my community related blog, so I won't repeat. More info here .
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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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ALT.NET Conference Announced
Scott Bellware recently announced the ALT.NET Conference , which he's organizing.( What's ALT.NET? ) When? October 5-7, 2007 Where? Austin, Texas (that's all I know for now) The conference will run in the open spaces…
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If you make it in this game, you could be a good developer
Here's a game that totally feels like software development. Can you tell why? Play Triangles
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Visual Web GUI Helps me Write in Winform and run as ASP.NET
If you know me well enough you'll know that I'm not a big fan of website development. I just hate the idea that you need to learn about 17 different languages and paradigms to be able to show a simple progress bar when…
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Hotfix request Web Submission form could be a life saver
If Stefano is right , than this form by Microsoft should save plenty of time for people who just need the damn hotfix, yesterday . Microsoft Hotfix request Web Submission form (Request, get hotfix link direct by email…
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Essential Software to Install on a new computer
Update : Be sure to check out the comments on this post as well. Some good recommendations there (aside from the regular "just use linux" trolls) I recently got a new laptop. here's what I installed in the first couple…
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Introducing CommunityHacker.Com : Tips on Building online communities and blogs
It seems that these days I've been doing a lot around community rather than just plain coding or managing teams. I'm even helping a company create its own community and things seem to be going well. Combine that with…
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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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Test Driven Development Public Course is open
I'm happy to announce a public course about Test Driven Development in .NET, being run by Oren Ellenbogen , a personal TDD student of mine who's become quite a master on his own when it comes to TDD and unit testing…
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Video Hosting Services: How TechSmith could lose a potential customer
I'm setting up a client with some blogging abilities and screencast abilities, and I've hit a an unexpected snag: I can't find a good video hosting service. By video hosting service I mean I need: Ability to save high…
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Watching your computer breath using FileSystemWatcher
Breath is the only word that came to mind to describe the regular second to second operations your computer does just to keep itself in the current state while preparing for the next states (in terms of temporary files,…
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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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Wanted: C++ Trainers for Test Driven Development
You don't have to be a TDD guru to be considered, but you should have the passion to learn what TDD is, besides being a very good C++ developer and living in Israel. Good presentation skills are also nice to have. (we…
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Danko On Agile and the Agile Israel Community
It was lovely watching Danko (Danny Kovatch) speak at the ALM user group this evening. Danko talked about Scrum, planning, teams and managing requirements. He kept the audience wanting more and had great funny movies to…
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Introducing Agile Israel Community and blogs site
I'm happy to introduce the Agile Israel Community site. It has blogs, forums, files and more. The site is located at : www.Agileisrael.org . It will also contain group meeting announcements, agile development news,…
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Wanna work at TypeMock?
The TypeMock crew is looking for new people to join the team. Here's Eli's blog post about it. I'd say if you're a .NET or C++ developer who knows what unit testing is and what mock objects are, and are pretty darn good…
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Israeli .NET Bloggers Update
There are several .NET related Israeli bloggers out there who provide good content but sometimes get missed from people's RSS readers for lack of.. well, knowledge that these blogs exist. Some of them I come accross…
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Ubuntu's #1 bug report
Ubuntu's #1 bug report is funny and interesting, in that if it's a joke, it's a cool community. If it's for real, it's an even cooler community. Read some comments while you're there. [via Yosi ]
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Implementing Unit Test MetaData using XtUnit custom attributes
Regarding my last post on xml comments used inside a unit test Here's how you can implement the same "metadata on a test" equivalent using XtUnit custom attributes (note that you need to inhering from a custom class for…
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Unit Test Tip: Encode test data as part of your test xml comments
What a cool idea, and simple too. You can encode various test data as XML comments on your test, and then use them in your test by parsing the XML file generated by the compiler. More details here . Lars Thurop wrote…