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New Language in Google: 'Elmer Fudd'
Can anyone explain to me why "Elmer Fudd" is a language sitting inside my "Select Google Language" dialog page? Once I select it, sure enough, my searches end up looking like this: (I know who Elmer Fudd is, so don't…
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Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows - Updated
It's back, and it's bigger than ever, tighter around the edges, and storms into your hard drive faster than you can say "RegEdit". It's Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows If…
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Unit Testing Pros And Cons
" Unit Testing is teh suck " - this post, and some of the comments to it, represent just about every conceivable FUD (fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) about Unit Testing and Test Driven development I've heard, so I'd urge you…
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16 Features in Resharper Every Developer Needs To Learn
Jeffery has a nice list of the features in Resharper he uses most often in his daily coding. The list has screenshots and shortcut descriptions, so it's a good cheat sheet for anyone wanting to get into Resharper fast…
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Who vs. Who in the Middle East? A Visual Map
Update : Again, There seems to be a bug in community server - this post should not have ended up on the main feed - it has not tags relating to the main feed whatsoever! I'm not a political blogger, but just In case you…
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Nice idea for a shirt
Update : There seems to be a bug in community server - this post should not have ended up on the main feed - it has not tags relating to the main feed whatsoever! This is truly an awesome idea . "After reading about…
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Simple designs through Test Driven Development
Scott Bellware keeps on wowing me with his elegant way of putting ideas into words, sentences and paragraphs. If you are into Test Driven Development, you should be reading his blog . In one of his latest posts he talks…
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Zune - The Hebrew Perspective
I'm not sure how much the marketing people at Microsoft are aware of this, but " Zune " - their new portable player, has a very "naughty" meaning in Hebrew. How Naughty? Let's just say that if I were to use it in a…
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The Art Of Unit Testing - Starting out My First Book
I'm happy to announce my new Book Project : "The Art Of Unit Testing". The book will use examples in .NET, but it should be general enough so that any java or C++ developer should be able to read it and learn things.…
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It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Stand-up Meetings
Martin Fowler (a.k.a "The GoF dude") (I messed up and confused Martin as one of the authors. I tend to do that a lot - think that Martin has done lots and lots of things.. thanks for the comments.) points to an…
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Cool Tool: Direct Access - Keyboard macros everywhere
Direct Access seems like a nice little utility I could use in my day to day work: from LarkWare : "Here's how it works. You define "actions" within the direct access interface. An action can be opening a Web site,…
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Free E-Book: Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL
One of the books I mention in my Amazon Wish List is Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) . A few days ago I got an email from Steven Gravitz telling…
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Nice Threading in .NET 2.0 E-Book and online reference
Update : Here's a little article that shows locking with Blocking Queues (an idea I refer to at the bottom of the article) I recently found this great online E-Book about Threading in .NET (also applies to .NET 2.0!),…
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Speaker Idol @ TechEd: Developers
Got this in the email - thought some of you might be interested! Speaker Idol @ Tech·Ed: Developers 7 - 10 November, Barcelona, Spain Take to the Speaker Idol stage, demonstrate your exceptional presentation skills and…
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SharpRobo - Winform UI Unit Testing made easier?
Hmm. SharpRobo seems like something that might *start* to satisfy those who just can't do without UI Testing and have been looking for a way to do it from within their unit test frameworks (such as NUnit or FIT):…
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Two cool utils: InstallPad and Live Writer
Two things are on my plate today (small as they may be..) Live Writer is my new blog post writer, and it's pretty cool (via Scott ). Main reasons: It has spell checking built in, and it posts nicely into Community…
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Regulazy 1.01 is available for download
There’s a new version out for The Regulazy, which you can grab here . Update : 30 minutes after the last update, I uploaded a newer version (1.011) which fixes a crash with some HTML Partsing inputs. You can simply…
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2 Day Architecture & SOA Course - Sound Interesting?
If you're in Israel, Udi Dahan , Israel's own Software Simplist, is holding a 2 day Architecture and SOA course. Some of the stuff he's covering sounds interesting. Even if it's something I've heard before, It's always…
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Spam Comments - The new enemy
If you've been trying to post comments on this blog and haven't seen them published - my apologies. for the past few weeks there's been an uproar of spam comments - close to a hundred a day now - which prevents me from…
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Sanjay's cool tools
So I don't forget, Sanjay's cool tools category has lots of, well, cool tools I need to check out when I have time.
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Online Database Schema Samples Library
This is so I don't forget. Scott Guthrie posted about a site that has pre-bui;t schema examples of common database scenarios. In short - it lets you see what a "standard" database for an application related to a…
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First Technical Steps to managing your own business
Before you leave your current job to become independent, consider the following: 1. Don’t leave before you have a website 2. Don’t leave before you have an “official” email address 3. Don’t leave before you have a…
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How to setup your own online business - The Geek's guide
Every once in a while I come across someone who asks me various technical stuff about my business like how I manage my email, where do I host my site etc. So I wrote up a short article that might help future readers…
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Hibernate may violate "Object model mapping and runtime engine" patent
" Red Hat will face a patent infringement lawsuit this week over whether Hibernate, which it inherited from JBoss violates ORM patents held by FireStar Software. FireStar alleges that Hibernate violates U.S. patent…
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ISerializable mentioned on HanselMinutes
Congratulations to HanselMinutes on 25 shows filled to the brim with excellent content, highly geeky, technical and, yes, not wasting my time! I only wish the show was 1 hour instead of 30 minutes, so that it would fit…
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Moving to FeedBurner
This is an important note: My new RSS feed address from now on is http://feeds.feedburner.com/Iserializable . The original RSS feed will NOT BE UPDATED . So you should change your RSS subscription now. Will redirect to…
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How do you avoid bugs in your unit tests?
Oren tries to answer from difficult questions about TDD. One of them is related to how you'd make sure that your tests don't have bugs in them - which is a very important aspect of trust-worthy tests : One of the best…
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Microsoft's SharePoint treats FireFox as 2nd class citizen
Looks like the next version of SharePoint won't support FireFox fully. as Jeff mentiones : "Every time Microsoft is doing something cool (like Xbox 360 or Visual Studio Express), they do something that's crap like this"…
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Oren is grokking Test Driven Development
Oren Ellenbogen is having various learning experiences from our last session together (I'm coaching him on Test Driven Development as part of my work ). He's writes in a clear way about his thoughts and perceptions…
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Regulazy Facts
Over 700 downloads in the past 7 days since the announcement . Over 250 Unit Tests that run in under 3 seconds together(not for the UI, but for all the logic) Next iteration release: August 10th. 1 major bug - reported…