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UDPixel - repairs Dead Pixel on TFT Screens
This program helps to locate and fix LCD screens dead pixels. You can fix the stuck pixels by calling them to do rapid changes. You need to run this program for a couple of hours. There is no warranty on the result, but…
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Remote Pair Programming with collaborative text editors
Pair Programming when working with remote teams is somewhat of a problem, until you start counting in the fact that Collaborative Text Editing between remote location is supported in some text editors as a primary…
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The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities - By DonationCoder.Com
The guys over at DonationCoder.com are doing a great job of keeping the spirit of "I'm a geek who loves to hoard and try every kind of software that ever existed, hopefully free" alive. As one of those "I'm a geek who…
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Writing A book Is Like Developing Software
I'm in the process of writing my upcoming book: The Art Of Unit Testing , and it's proving to be a big challenge. Bigger than I imagined. ( Here's the first sample chapter - PDF ) Book == Software Development. The…
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Test Reviews Vs. Code Reviews - Some Helpful Tips
One of the things that I like to show people during my TDD courses, is how much easier it is to do a test review rather than a simple code review. A code review is like literally debugging the code with your eyes,…
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Adobe uses Agile Development Successfully to build Photoshop CS3 product
What if you read a news story that the new Adobe CS3 product was developed using Agile Development Techniques? Here it is . A notable quote (my highlighting for interesting points): " Did it change the way you put out…
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JUnit 4 feels like NUnit with attribute-like syntax
I'm doing Test-Driven-Development with Java course, after having not done one for a long time, and I was browsing through my samples and online to see if anything interesting in JUnit land has happened since last time.…
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Code Generation using LINQ Expression Trees and .NET 3.0
via this thread on theServerSide I found this very interesting blog which talks a lot about C# 3.0 news features, including deep hacks and tricks using LINQ and Expression trees in .NET 3.0. For example, he shows how to…
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Testable Designs - Round 2: Tooling, Design Smells and Bad Analogies
Eli Lopian , the guy who runs TypeMock.NET (An amazing Mocking product, BTW - a bit too powerful for it's own good, perhaps) and myself share what seem to be conflicting views on how "Testable" object Oriented…
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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 you should think about TOOP- Testable Object Oriented Programming
Update: Mark has a point - Using "TOOP" and "TOOD" are catchier acronyms - I've changed them accordingly. I think it's time that Object Oriented Design\Programming got a little face lift. We live in interesting times,…
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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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FxCop is heading in the wrong direction - No testability whatsoever
If you don't know what FxCop is, go look . You'll like it. In response to my release of FxCopUnit which allows an easier experience testing out FxCop custom rules, David Kean of the FxCop blog posted his thoughts on the…
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Introducing FxCopUnit - A framework for integrated FxCop rule testing
This post is a continuation of my Quest to test FxCop rules. The previous one was about writing pure unit tests for FxCop rules . This one is about writing Integration tests with a new framework I’ve developed called…
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Writing real unit tests for your custom FxCop rules
Update : You might also be interested in FxCopUnit for FxCop Integration testing. It’s possible to create elegant small tests which require little to no configuration whatsoever that test out your custom rule’s ability…
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Blogger Dinner This Wednesday
Oh, Israeli Blogger Dinner this Wednesday - I'm totally there! If you intend to arrive leave a comment on Omer's Post here .
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Naresh Jain - Great Agile Blog
I've found this great Agile Related blog by Naresh Jain. Naresh works for ThoughtWorks (These guys just keep getting better and better people!) and has lots of information and knowledge about Agile Development…
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NDepend 2.0 - Beast, not Beauty
NDepend 2.0 just came out , and it *looks* to be a really awesome tool for understanding your's architecture and status, especially dependencies between components, in a visual way. But from the demos on the site, it…
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Nice Israeli Blog from the Agile\Java World
Guy Nirpaz is VP R&D of GigaSpaces from Israel. He's a strong Agile proponent, and runs an interesting blog with an Agile slant, talking about Java Development, his open source projects, and how they are successfully…
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Feedback on the Israel Microsoft Developer Academy?
There's quite a lot of feedback going on about last week's Microsoft Developer Academy in Israel both from the presenters and from the comments on their blog posts. Tapuz Forum Omer Shahar Gvirtz (the 14 year old…
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Slides for Agile Concepts and Continuous Integration
If you're attending my talks today at the Microsoft Developer Academy in Israel, here are the latest versions of my slides for your downloading pleasure: Introduction to Agile Development Concepts Continuous Integration…
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Keyboard shortcuts posters and introducing Enso Launcher
Rob posted about a whole bunch of keyboard shortcuts posters for Visual Studio. As a keyboard junkie I agree that you should *know* this. One amazingly cool tool I've found to help me with my keyboard addiction is Enso…
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Prepare sourcesafe for the daylight time change in the U.S
Act now or forever be blamed for screwing up Via Richard Berg: The rules for U.S. daylight savings time are changing in 2007 . SourceSafe cares about time zones, so you should too. Complete details are in KB article…
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Catch me speaking at DevTeach
I will be speaking at the upcoming DevTeach conference in Canada this upcoming May. It's my first time to DevTeach and even to Canada for that matter. Exciting! The talks I'll be giving at DevTeach are : Continuous…
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Cheat Sheets for ASP.NET, Regex, Mock Objects and more
Ah, I love cheat sheets! You can hang them up on a wall, and then look at them when you need to remember how to do something. Looks like there is some very thorough cheat sheets for regular expressions over here .(via…
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How to save a streaming MSDN Showtime video locally
Update : Daniel has graciously supplied a very easy solution to this problem: Using the VLC player to download and transcode the stream into a file on the local system. Very easy indeed! See the 2nd and 3rd comments on…
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Using TFS Integrator to manage complex project dependencies
One of the clients I went to today had an interesting dilemma relating to managing references in source control between projects. Their situation is not unlike many other companies: they have an infrastructure team that…
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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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Shell MegaPack version 8.0 is out
The guys over at Sky Software have updated the latest version of Shell MegaPack to v 8.0 . It's an impressive product that I've reviewed before as part of my "advertising I stand behind" campaign, and now I'm happy to…
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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…