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BS Bingo - Making Dull Meetings Fun Again
Oh, this sounds like a fun way to spend at a your weekly meeting with the CEO: Bullshit Bingo . They actually have dedicated sites and cards for this stuff. Testimonials from satisfied "Bullshit Bingo" players: "I had…
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Cool Freeware: Visual Task Tips
This little freeware program looks nice! Thanks for the hint, Ido . I think I'll install this today.
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Are Software Factories too complicated to be used in the real world?
Continuing this thought , one of the more interesting answers that came up at teh TechEd Architecture panel by Guy Ron is that the Software Factories initiative is most likely to fail from the evidence thus far. He…
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Q&A: Microsoft, UML and Software Factories
Q: Software Factories and UML Has Microsoft Abandoned UML? Is the Domain Specific Language path so different than UML? Can they be combined? From what I’ve seen so far, and from talks I had with various people (…
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Q&A: Agile Vs. Formal Methodologies
This is an answer to questions posted here . You can read more answers from that link. Agile Vs. Formal Methodologies Is "Agile" just another trend that is slowly turning into a more accepted and practiced methodology?…
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Tech-Ed Panel Q&A: Architecture in the Real World - Questions
During TechEd Israel last week, I've also had the privilege to take part in an Architect's panel that took place on the third day (and was largely ignored by the general population, perhaps because there was a Clemens…
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Review: SmartInspect - Logging for .NET, Java and Delphi
This week I’ve decided to promote the Ad for Gurock Software’s SmartInspect on my blog's front page. In this fair review you’ll read why. The idea behind SmartInspect is to give you rich tracing abilities from multiple…
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The Good and Bad in Tech-Ed Israel 2006
This Year’s Tech-Ed Israel has been very good in many many ways . There were some glitches and mistakes, but overall I’d like to give props to Microsoft Israel for putting together a very good conference. Here are some…
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Trend: Who works the hardest and knows the least?
Now here's an interesting thought from Google Trends: Which country outsources the most work in .NET? I'd love to say that Israel is third just because we care so much about technology etc. but I think the Truth may be…
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Small Tip: Getting the name of the current or calling method at runtime for debugging
Here's a simple little trick that you can use when using Debug Mode(though it does have its overhead, so turn it off when you don't need it). You know how you write those nasty trace messages that say "I'm…
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Why did 2,000 people leave during Steve Sinoflsky's Tech-Ed Talk? Not Just Boredom
On the first day of Tech-Ed, on the assembly Talk (the one that takes two and a half hours), Steven Sinofsky, the new manager of the windows division, went up on the podium to talk. He was on after a couple of short…
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My "Deep Reflection" Talk at TechEd - Slides, Demos and links available.
Update : Oren has a more technical scoop of my Talk and the WinFX Talk he attended on Day 1. He gave us both a 9 out of 10, which I'd say is a pretty remarkable first day at TechEd :) BTW, Oren will be speaking at the…
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Linux's Random Number Generator - Not That Great?
Benny Pinkas of the Haifa University in Israel ( http://www.pinkas.net/ ), claims that after reverse engineering the Linux Kern's Random Number Generator, he was able to come to some alarming conclusions. Mainly, that…
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Broken Download Links Fixed! XtUnit and EventsVerifier
There are some broken links hidden in my blogs from the past year - mainly because I was changing hosts, domains, etc.. So here I am, rectifying that situation now: EventsVerifier class : Helps write unit tests that…
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Introducing The Retro Encabulator
Here's what you look like to your parents when you explain to them why your new laptop was worth $2,500: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5125780462773187994&q=rockwell I swear, it's sad as it is funny.
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The "PowerShell" Naming Stupidity
" PowerShell " ?What a stupid name for a product known as " Monad "! Sounds like one of the things I'd download at TuCows for $15, doesn't it? Cross Posted from Blogs.Microsoft.Co.Il/Blogs/Royo
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Misc. Links and odd ends
Scott is so totally wrong - it hurts to read. He thinks FAR and xplorer 2 are the best explorer replacements ever, but personally I think once he tries Total Commander , he'll never go back (the UI looks like an oldie,…
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Review: {SmartAssembly}- Assembly Improvement and Protection Tool
I'm very happy to introduce {SmartAssembly} as part of my official blog's " Ads I stand Behind " advertising. I chose to advertise { SmartAssembly} after taking a long look at the application, and realizing that it is…
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Can you recommend a good Exchange Hosting service?
It's time for me to upgrade my email hosting. Right now I have an Exchange server running at home which I configured myself (with lots of problems, I might add - I'm not a great exchange admin). Now that I have my new…
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Persistore - Interesting attempt at a .NET Persistence Engine? You decide.
Just got this email from Hugh Moran of MoranTex about a new beat of a product they are testing out to help with persisting things and getting them out (think NHibernate ) only this technology is based on Memory Mapped…
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Debugger Visualizer for MethodInfo, DynamicMethod, and MethodBase available for download
When I was preparing (still am) for my TechEd talk about Reflection 2.0, one of the coolest things I found was this nice DynamicMethod visualizer posted as a code sample. Taking apart the code for this project was a…
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Advertise your Tool/Component/Site on ISerializable.com Blog
Yes, it's shameless. No, it's not as bad as you think. I'm looking to upgrade my cell phone , so it's time to open the floor to advertisers on this blog for a limited amount of time. If you have a cool product or…
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My Tech-Ed Talk: Deep Reflection - What's new & Hot in Reflection 2.0
My upcoming Tech-Ed Talk in Israel will be all about what’s new and Cool in .NET 2.0 Reflection. Over the coming weeks until TechEd, I’ll supply links and information detailing the stuff I’ll be talking about. For the…
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New Tapuz User Group Meeting in Israel (and is it really needed?)
Looks like there's another .NET user group being born in Israel these days - The Tapuz .NET Prgramming Forum User Group . (click the link for the official announcement and instructions on how to get there). Heck, I'd…
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Ordering English Programming Books from Israel - Nice comparison of options
Update: Links fixed. It's was very late, sorry! Justin , a new MVP, blogs in the new Microsoft Israeli Blogs site (Hebrew and English Mixed) about a pricing comparison he made when deciding to purchase some books he…
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Partial Classes - Add to your Unit Testing Bag of Tricks
Ralf has a nice tidbit about how .NET 2.0 Partial Classes can help you with writing unit tests for methods on classes that are otherwise harder to get to. It's a nice trick to add to the trick bag, though I'd argue that…
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CreateObject on remote server in .NET
In VB6 you could easily create a COM+/MTS object on a specific server by using CreateObject(progId, serverName). Corrado Cavalli, an MVP, just pointed this snippet showing how one would do the equivelant of that in…
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May at the Israel C# user group: Advanced Use of Delegates and Generics
Earlier this month, My friend Oren Ellenbogen contacted me saying he'd like to do a talk in one of the upcoming user groups here in Israel about .NET about the advanced used of delegates and generics in .NET…
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Hacking Microsoft Money to import my own bank's data + Fix for hidden money transactions
If you've never used Microsoft Money, you can simply move on to other posts.. One of the things I've done lately is try to use Microsoft-Money to manage my business and home finances. It's quite a lovely program,…
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Port 25: Microsoft Open Source Software Lab's "Channel 9"?
"Port 25 is open. The people, insights, and analysis from the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab. Send us your feedback and ideas. We want to hear from you. http://port25.technet.com/ " Looks interesting!