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[Off Topic] Welcome to Pallywood
I normally don't blog politics, but this is too important not to mention. Feel free to skip this post if you're not interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Not to detract anything from what's already a very…
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Control Google Maps by Tilting your ThinkPad
" Another day, another hack . Here's a demo that controls Google Maps using ThinkPad Hard Drive Active Protection sensor. You tilt your ThinkPad and Google Maps roll over. Pretty cool." Oh, this is very very cool!…
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CodeRush 2.0 First Impressions - A Nice Surprise
Through Kim's blog , I've found out that CodeRush and Refactor 2.0 have finally been released. You can catch the scoop and the immediate download links on the CodeRush blog (as well as some installation notes here). But…
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[Cool Tool] CodeSmart 2007 for VB6 - The Killer Addin for VB6
The guys at AxTools are at it again, with CodeSmart 2007 for VB6 . If you still do VB6 development (and I know plenty of places that still do (mostly because they have no choice), this is the tool you'd want to get. The…
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[Cool Tool]Unlocker : Unlock Files/Folders without going nuts
Jean Paul Boodhoo has a nice tidbit about a new free tool called Unlocker that helps detect and actually unlock "locked" files in Windows. You know, those ones that seem to be held by some unknown entity on your…
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Favorite Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
Jon Galloway has some cool shortcuts for windows , some of which I hadn't considered before: The System Tray (oops, I mean Notification Tray) is a bit tough to get to if you don't know the trick, and it seems like…
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Mapping CLR, Winfx and .NET Framework 3.0 upcoming versions
The announcement of .NET Framework 3.0 previously dubbed WinFX is definitely confusing. Microsoft is trying to plug some of the holes but isn't doing so well, which is why you'll start seeing all these random blog posts…
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Interface Naming - Anything But Java's Standard, Please
Jeremy dislikes Interface names that being with 'I' ("ISerializable"..). Len Holgate disagrees with him , but likes to name his classes in a "verb-noun" fasion ("IManageUsers"). Personally, I'd much rather have "I" for…
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June @ Agile Israel (Feature Driven Development, Design For Testability)
After a long time with no meetings at Agile Israel, I’d like to invite you to our next meeting which will take place on the 29 th of June (Thursday) at Microsoft Israel . As always, it is completely free to attend, so…
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Fixing "mapi32.dll is an invalid Extended MAPI Library" and "Mail is not installed on your system" on Windows Server 2003 with Exchange
I get these annoying message on w Windows 2003 Server with Exchange Installed, when trying to do mail merge or send do as attachement from within Word: "mapi32.dll is an invalid Extended MAPI Library Mail is not…
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[Cool Tool] ASP.NET Enterprise Manager on Steroids: Ajax, Multiple DB types, And open source!
What would the ASP.NET Enterprise Manager look like with Ajax Support? The VisualWebGui guys have a clue. They built a new one from scratch with their cool technology for making web from winforms, and they even made it…
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Architecting in an Agile World - My ArcCast with Ron Jabobs in online
My ArcCast with Ron Jacobs, Recorded at TechEd Israel, is now online! It was really fun sitting there in front of a crowd and just talking with Ron. I broke my teeth a little speaking english, but it feels OK, listening…
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Resharper Vs. Refactor! and CodeRush - Let the games begin.
It feels like the VS.NET Add-in wars are coming this way again, and I'm glad. Here's what DevExpress had to say on this unofficial blog post : "Just as a taster, how about these: Refactor! Pro 2.0 has more than twice as…
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Got an MSBuild-SikdeKick wish? Post it on Matan's blog!
Matan Holtzer is one of the guys behind the new MSBuild SideKick , which is essentialy a visual editor for editing MSBuild and Team Build files instead of editing raw XML (and a tool like this comes out only now??). His…
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News: TestDriven, SideKick, Expression Evaluators and Security to boot
I've gathered some interesting links posted only yesterday, so I don't forget (and neither should you). Jamie has a couple of posts related to TestDriven.NET you should be aware of TestDriven problem with Building…
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Review: Shell MegaPack - Windows Explorer GUI Replacement Controls
This week I’m happy to put up an ad and review for Shell MegaPack by SSWare . I’ve used parts of Shell MegaPack by SSWare in a couple of small projects I did(Windows Forms), and was wonderfully surprised to find their…
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Google Notebook - Would *Kill* RSS Feeds
My Google Notebook is a very cool thing. Now, if it only had RSS feeds and the ability to set a domain... now - you'd have one hack of a blogging engine on your hands, wouldn't you?
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[Cool Tool] Free Intellisense for SQL Query Analyzer!
Thank you Red-Gate ! Their "Intellisense for Query Analyzer" is free for download until September 1st! "No time-bombs, no restrictions" This is a must have cool tool. Mucho Appreciato! [via ScottGu]
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Steve Kelly on Software Factories: "It's worth the effort"
The saga continues as Steve Kelly , from MetaCase, sent me an email, from which I'll quote the chunks relevant to the earlier Software Factories Discussion ( here and here ) on this blog. He also has his own blog post…
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Review - Automise: Automise almost anything
This week, I'm happy to review and advertise Automise , from the makers of FinalBuilder. As a .NET developer, I’ve always thought that FinalBuilder was a fine product. In fact, it’s one of my favorites and I recommend…
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.NETWeblogs upgraded - finally.
Weblogs.asp.net has upgraded to the next version of Community Server. Finally! Thanks for all your hard work guys. Ads on blogs One of the upcoming changes to weblogs.asp.net will be that there will be ads on the blogs…
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My RSS at FeedBurner
If you have a spare moment, change you feed subscription for this blog to : http://feeds.feedburner.com/Iserializable Using FeedBurner I can get better statistics on how many readers I actually have, and can make a feed…
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YubNub - Command Line for Web Browsing
If you're a command line freak like I am (or like Scott is), maybe, just maybe, this YubNub site is for you. It's essentially a "command line" gadget for web browsing, that help create and run short commands instead of…
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Two Powerful Generic Collections And Algorithms Libraries
Two very good resource links that Oren pointed out to in at the end of his presentation about advanced use of Generics and Delegates are two powerful Generic Collection Frameworks: PowerCollections (by Wintellect, free…
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CLR Generics Vs. C++ Templates - some good links
An interesting question in last night's talk triggered lost links I had about an interesting subject: What are the main differences between CLR Generics and C++ Templates? Here are some good links:…
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Oren Ellenbogen rocked last night about Generics, Delegates and Anonymous Methods.
Update : His slides and demos are posted here . Last night was a very good meeting of the C#/C++ users group . Oren Ellenbogen spoke about Advanced usage of Generics, delegates and anonymous methods to a crowd who…
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HL7 Software Factory Project is a success in progress, says MS Architect Mauro Regio
I got a response in my comments to my post about Software Factories perhaps being too complicated to be used in the real world. It was from Mauro Regio , one of the initiators of the HL7 project mentioned in that post.…
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TheServerSide.NET - The .NET Equivalent of SlashDot?
I am totally starting to respect TheServerSide.NET . Not only do they have some fabulous content up there, but now they've made the mistake of publishing my post on Agile Vs. Formal Methodologies a couple days ago, and…
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SQLOne - SQL Converter for many DB Dialects?
SQLOne looks like a good idea: " SQLOne Console 3.0 - Automatic SQL conversion utility to translate SQL queries between the dialects used by Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Informix, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and pure ANSI…
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Blog related mobile software(asked for)+ Weirdest windows mobile feature ever
I've finally gotten my precious PDA-Phone and... What do you guys recommend in ways of a blog reading software and blog writing software? It needs to support Windows Mobile 5.0 and the blog posting app should support…