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Notes from my .NET Rocks show on Regex
Notes from my .NET Rocks show : I say waaay to many "uh"s and "you know"s and "for example" One big mistake in the Regex tutorial : i said "." means "zero or more of something" but it's actually " * ". Note about the…
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Using TypeMock vs. Design for testability
Eli Lopian, the Israeli guy who is now running TypeMock - one of the most powerful Mocking frameworks out there for.NET developers, opened a blog . I personally know the guy and he is a brilliant coder and architect -…
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U2U refuses to work with Israelis due to ' War crimes and apartheid' in Israel
[Update: be sure to read the comments as well -they contain more interesting opinions] Here's a story that made me angry. It involves a Belgian company called U2U . A company that I personally got to meet some of its…
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Must watch: Working with Sysinternals tools at DnrTV
Speaking of DnrTV, you really have to watch the show where Scott Hanselman shows off how to use various tools from SysInternals . These tools could seriously save you hours of work, sweat, tears, blood and ink, and they…
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.NET Rocks: Regular Expressions with Roy Osherove
My .NET Rocks Interview about Regular Expressions in now officially online and I am excited! I'll have a good listen at my walk tonight, so if you get to listen to it first, your comments are welcome on this post. I'd…
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Problem: Underlying HTML from a selection inside WebBrowser Control produces different HTML than the original page
here's a problem I've been trying to deal with: the WebBrowser control in .NET 2.0 Winforms. I'm trying to get the selected text's underlying HTML representation, and it works, kind of. IHTMLDocument2 doc2 =…
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Enter the Larkware Contest
If you haven't already entered, you should join the larkware 1,000 contest . It's pretty darn easy to join, and the prizes are awesome. In fact, I'll be joining my self by posting a link to a useful site. here's how you…
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The future of unit testing tools - MbUnit, NUnit, NMock and FIT
After I posted that I still recommend NUnit over MbUnit , and reading Andrew's response regarding how it's unlikely that MbUnit will freeze anytime soon, I started thinking some more. What if MbUnit keeps going and…
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TorPark - New anonymous, secure, free, USB-Key friendly browser
There's a new "Secure" browser out there, based on Firefox, called TorPark . "TorPark is a program which allows you to surf the Internet anonymously. Download Torpark and put it on a USB Flash keychain. Plug it into any…
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How Telerik won a blogger's heart - attention and openness
If you develop 3rd party controls for .NET Development, you should be taking notes Telerik's attention to customers - here's the full story . Chris complained about his overall problems with 3rd party controls, and…
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Continuous integration with Team System and Team Foundation Server
Team foundation server is a monster . Seriously, it's so big and heavy, that trying to do something as simple as adding custom actions to a build process, reading the documentation and googling on how to achieve this is…
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Faster builds of web projects with VS 2005
This goes out to all the folks who tell me that ever since they switched to VS 2005 - the time it takes to build their solution is very very long when talking about web projects. Stop blaming Resharper, folks. Here's…
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Setting up a technical blog online - some options
In the last few weeks I've been asked by several would-be bloggers here in Israel how they can start their own blog. Should they use custom blog software? what sites can they register to, how one goes about registering…
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MbUnit vs. NUnit Vs. Team System Unit Testing - Choosing a unit test framework
Update : There's a new Unit test framework called XUnit.NET. More info here. MbUnit is gaining some momentum as one of the nicest unit testing frameworks for .NET out there. I just came out as an RC2 release with many…
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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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Blogging about embedded software development
Beniot Asks " Am I alone ?" when it comes to Blogging about Embedded Software development. He's talking about hard core low level programming with C and C++ and Assembly and what not, not about the .NET Compact…
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Test Driven Development Related Podcasts and a few other comments
It's been an Test-Driven few weeks in the .NET podcasting scene. If you're into it, here are some audio shows that should help you learn a little bit about this world. Hanselminutes has a couple of shows on the scene.…
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XP Simulation Blog
Here's a blog from someone who is simulating an XP project from start to finish. I find that the test naming are less than perfect, but I should read more before commenting on the real "meat". So far it seems to be…
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Never-locked systems and the interesting case of the sales person
Here's something you don't consider as a software developer: the way your users behave to make things easier for them : I was going with a a friend yesterday into a cell phone store (he had a problem with his phone).…
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White Text/Blue Background - Missing from Word 2007?
I am shocked and amazed. They actually removed it? If anyone can tell me where I can find the "white text on blue background" viewing option in Word 2007 - please do, but I fear the answer will be "it's not there…
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BetaMarker.com - Early adopters welcome
This site was just launched , and I got an email from a friend who is connected to the site owners. Sounds like it might have some appeal to us early adopters: Beta Marker . I'm thinking -- del.icio.for early adopters:…
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Regulazy 1.02 is out and about
There's a new monthly version (1.02) out of Regulazy. You can grab it over here . (if the link is broken try http://tools.osherove.com/ ) Regulazy is a visual Regex Creation tool for beginners. It contains an easy…
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TypeMock Bundled Up with TestDriven.NET
Looks like TestDriven.NET can now be purchased as a bundle package with TypeMock . Here is the announcement . Both of these products rock, though I suspect using the latter is a task most developers won't find…
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How to create your own Auto Login Remote Desktop Application
Speaking of Multiple Remote Desktops - it's not really that hard to build such an application. Microsoft had a "Microsoft RDP Client Control" ActiveX control that you can use in your apps. I've even went ahead and…
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Cool Tool: vRD - Multiple Remote Desktops in one program
If you do a lot of administration on remote machines concurrently, you might know that there are some programs out there that allow you to control multiple remote desktops under the same window. One of the best free…
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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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Neglecting Israeli MVPS, and INETA MEA is worthless
Israeli MVPs are being neglected If you're a Microsoft MVP, and are not from the United States, you probably have your own MVP Lead in your country, taking care of business. Israel had one until a couple months ago or…
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Influence the next Microsoft Israel Conference
If you're in Israel, here's your chance to help shape the face of the next developer Conference Microsoft Israel is hosting in January. Just go to Yosi Taguri's Blog and add your comments/wishes on what you'd like to…
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Video: Designing For Testability
You can now download my presentation video from DevDays Belgium Entitled "Designing For Testability" from last year. Stuff I cover in this talk: Basic design principles that help make sure your code will be testable…
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Need help spreading a technical video via Bittorrnet
Update : fixed the link to the torrent file. you can try and use it now: http://files.osherove.com/torrents/DEVDEV_Designing_for_Testablity_Roy_Osherove.wmv.torrent I have the video of my " Designing For Testability "…