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The blog, page 30
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Upgrading weblogs.asp.net from a slow and painful death
Omer writes eloquently about the slow death of weblogs.asp.net: "Time passed and as it did, more and more weblogs went the way of weblogs and were never again posted to, while other writers kept theirs alive by the…
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"Cool Commands" for VS 2005 is a free and useful little Add-in!
If you're using VS 2005 I highly recommend downloading and installing the nice "Cool Commands" addin, which you can learn about and download here . It adds some really handy right click menus to VS including (my…
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Solving those nasty "Out Of Memory" problems
This came up on the win-tech-off-topic mailing list the other day and I'm writing it down here so that I can explorer it further later on. I'm interested because I like to run *lots and lots* of programs at the same…
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Photos and Slides from Agile Israel March Meeting Birthday Maddness!
Wow , What a great Agile Israel Meeting we had this week! You can read all about it on our new site at www.AgileIsrael.com where you will also find the latest slides, and soon also the audio recording from the meeting.…
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The Tech-Ed Israel Blog needs some *buzz*
Tech-Ed Israel has a blog . Its run mostly by Lior Tzoref, and tries to put a face on the whole organization of Tech-Ed. Personally, I like the idea. But there are several facets that should be implemented before…
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New Israeli MVPs Announced
"Six new Microsoft MVP titles had been given to community contributers from Israel today : Amihai Levin – SQL Server MVP Guy Teverovsky – Directory Services MVP Eyal Vardi – Visual Developer – VSTO MVP Erez Keler –…
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Special Agile Israel Meeting Today!
Reminder: Agile Israel meets Today. Gathering at 17:30, we start at 18:00 . Arrival instructions and more at our temporary site: www.AgileIsrael.com This is a special celebration for one year so I plan to raffle off…
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Microsoft's Journal for architects
Beat Schwagler and Ingo Rammer spent a few days here in Israel this week, doing both a full day architect's seminar and Beat also spoke at the Architects User Group. One of the interesting points to mention really had…
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Why Word Verification Isn't The Answer
I know that human user verification systems in blogs are there for a reason, but we really need to come up with a better plan. Here's what I got on blogger today trying to post a comment: That would definitely stop any…
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Introvert Speaker == Extrovert Writer?
I'm currently editing the audio bits of an upcoming interview with Esther Derby , who I came to contact with through Johanna Rothman . The interview subject is a different topic than the one in this post though. After…
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Udi Dahan on ...SOA!
"I'm really beginning to like this podcasting thing. Check out my conversation with Wally about SOA basics . " [Udi Dahan sees the light] BTW, Wally mentions in the podcast that Udi is working with Jimmy Nilsson on a…
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Weblogs.asp.net Community Server 2.0 upgrade sorely missed!
Speaking of CodeBetter.com - they have a wonderful new look both on the blogs and on the main page ! They recently upgraded to Community Server 2.0 and it seems like a wonderful idea. Which makes me wonder: When is…
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Some goodness from CodeBetter.Com
Scott Bellware has some useful Unit Testing Code Snippets for VS 2005 here . Cool! Jeremy Miller has a series of laws for TDD . All sounds advice from what I've read so far. You should read him. Oh, and read my latest…
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Windows Complication Foundation
I just thought of this term, and it may be the biggest problem developers will face with Vista and the whole WinFX stuff. this includes (but not limited to) Windows Presentation Foundation Windows Communication…
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Achieving And Recognizing Testable Software Designs – Part I
Roy Osherove Principal, Team Agile www.TeamAgile.com blog: www.ISerializable.com Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at a Microsoft Dev/IT Pro Days conference in Belgium. I was approached by the organizers…
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Roy Osherove Principal, Team Agile www.TeamAgile.com blog: www.ISerializable.com Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at a Microsoft Dev/IT Pro Days conference in Belgium. I was approached by the organizers…
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[Article] Achieving And Recognizing Testable Software Designs – Part I
Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at a Microsoft Dev/IT Pro Days conference in Belgium . I was approached by the organizers asking if I would want to do a session on “Designing for testability”, as part of…
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Nice Google Desktop Trick
Here's something I just discovered. If you installed *the latest version* of the Google Desktop Search, Hit "Ctrl" twice now. Update : Apparently this does not come in all versions of the Google desktop. So here's what…
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Code from DevDays Belgium available: Design for Testability & Smart Client Offline Caching and Synchronization
I had a good time at DevDays Belgium and would love to go back there again sometime in the future. I just hope the crowd enjoyed my sessions. In any case, I'm making available the demo code from two of my presentations…
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March at Agile Israel - Great presentations & The group's first birthday
Our upcoming March meeting of Agile Israel will be a special one. not only do we have a great set of presentations to dish out, we'll also be celebrating the group's first birthday! We'll have a cake, pizzas, and raffle…
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Just search for "Roy"
It's official. I'm number 2 when searching "roy" in Google , and Number 7 for the same search in the new MS Live Search . Now the pressure begins! Update : Well, I seem to be bouncing up and down on the main google…
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When *not* to use Invirtus VM Optimizer (Hint: with differencing disks!) + different space-saver way
When RTFM is not enough It was a fun experience downloading Invrituse's VM-Compacting solution , installing it, running it for a couple of hours on one of my VPC images, wait quite a bit, and only then realizing that…
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The Next Regex Regulator
It hasn't left my mind! Here's a preview of the current build. I'll make it downloadable when it becomes a little more usable than its current state.
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The 3 ways to create a Thread-Safe GUI with .NET 2.0, with one clear winner.
With .NET 2.0 and with the new "anonymous delegates" feature in C#, doing multi threaded responsive GUIs is now easier. In fact, you get multiple choices on how to accomplish this task. But which choice is the best? and…
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The Reanimator - Visualize How the Regex Engine Works
If you're into Regular Expressions, check out the Reanimator . It provides a visual graphs of how the match was performed. "The regular expression is compiled into a nondeterministic finite-state automaton (the first…
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Tech-Ed Israel 2006 Dev Track list
The Dev track for Teched Israel 2006 is almost final, and Yosi Taguri has all the gory details . Lots of outside speakers this year! Browse and comment , or just check out what you'll be going to on the company's dime..…
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Possible Fix: Queuing service is not available - 0xc00E000B - Reinstall Message Queuing
Note to self (and anyone else who listens): If you're using MSMQ on your back end, and suddenly, without any reason, you start getting an error like this in your event log: "An unexpected error was returned by the…
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One more DevDays Talk: Introduction to Agile Methodologies and Concepts
Looks like I'll be doing a third talk at the upcoming DevDays in Belgium . I'm taking the place of Rafal Lukawiecki, who couldn't make it in time, and will be talking about a topic near and dear to my heart. You guessed…
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Microsoft releases cross-site-scripting prevention helper library
Looks like Microsoft has released a special library to help ASP.NET developers protect their applications from Cross-Site-Scripting attacks (a.k.a "xss").
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KeePass + FolderShare = Store your passwords securely and share them at the same time
I've been using KeePass for the past month or so and I love it. It stored all my passwords in encrypted form and I use FolderShare to automatically synchronize my passwords with all my machines. I only need to remember…