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10 Hacker tricks to exploit SQL Server Systems + free chapter on reverse engineering
Reminder to self: Check this out: 10 Hacker tricks to exploit SQL Server Systems there's also a link to this sample chapter from the excellent book Exploiting Software: How to Break Code by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw,…
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The Official Israel Video Blog
This is interesting. Israel is now officially one of the first countries in the world to have its own official video-blog . The pickings are pretty slim right now, but here's to hoping it gets lots of juicy content real…
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I've been DNR'ed
I got an anonymous tip today at IVCUG, that my name has come up at one of the last .NET Rocks Shows. I looked it up, and indeed, it's mentioned in the last two minutes of Mark Dunne's InfoPath related show on DNR . Mark…
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[OT]Israeli group announces anti-Semitic cartoons contest
I'm not sure what to think of this, and this has nothing to do with technology, but it seems like an interesting response to the "Muhammad cartoon-gate" that's been going on the past few weeks, I think. And it's kinda…
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Catch me at the Architects User Group: Partially Connected Smart Clients Architecture
This is one area where I see lots of frustration around, and justly. There's a lot of knowledge still missing about design guidelines, architecture and such. The reason its missing is because there is so much stuff out…
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Catch me at IVCUG this week: TDD with VS 2005, and designing for testability
I'll be speaking this coming Wednesday at the Israeli Visual C# Users group on the following topics. See you there! (If you want to know of future Visual C# meetings send an email to Moshe Raab and tell him. It's free…
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The future of interaction
absolutley amazing - the future of computer interaction [via here ]
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VB6 Migration pains - captured as a conversation
Scott Swigart , at one of the mailing lists that I frequent, recently wrote one of those "It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad" kind of emails. With permission, I'm quoting parts of it here. If you're a consultant, this…
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Ask The Pros - Keyboard Shortcut Junkies (and some extra shortcuts from me)
Jim Holmes has the latest batch of "Ask The Pros", this time on Keyboard Shortcuts . If you haven't been using the keyboard much inside Visual Studio, you could do well by taking a look at the article. Oh, and two…
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SqlAssist is to VS SQL text as CodeSmart is to VB 6 code - Wonderful
Wow, what a cool addin for VS 2005 to add Intellisense to your SQL queries! Check out SqlAssist [via Hannes ] Best of all - it's in beta testing and is free to download! some of the coolest features: Intellisense for…
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Google upgrades to "BigDaddy"
Weird headline, huh? Google is doing a major upgrade to their search data centers. during this upgrade, you can check out how the new data center acts and behaves (code named "BigDaddy") through several IP addresses.In…
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Would you like to write an article for MSDN Magazine?
Ever wanted to write an article for MSDN Magazine? It's easier than you thought! Stephen Toub , one of the editors, tells you how to submit an article .
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Need an online version of Word or Excel? Try Writely and iRows.
Ever wondered what an online version of Word might looks like? Try Writely . How about Excel? Well, the (Israeli) folks who brought you the coolest online calculator , now bring you iRows . I'm impressed.
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.NET Profiler for the compact framework, anyone?
Someone asked me the oter day about a good profiler for the .NET compact framework. Since I'm not all that into mobile development (yet!) I thought maybe you, kind reader, could help. So, What do you recommend my friend…
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February at Agile Israel: The FIT Testing Framework
[we currently have 240 members registered with the group(!). If you want to join (it's free!) just go to www.Agileisrael.com and press the register link] The next Agile Israel meeting will take place on the 27th of this…
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FIX: error message while rebuilding a solution and trying to view a Windows Form in Design view (VS 2005)
"One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your project, while others may require code changes. TypeLoad failure. Unable to load one…
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ASP.NET Team in Israel, Teched Israel sessions, and is an evangelist "marketing"?
"At one point someone said that "Yosi Taguri might have been a technical person BUT now he is MARKETING" at some other point someone else said "Because he is MARKETING he no longer blogs". so this post is just to say 1…
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Simeon says I don't listen to what my interviewee has to say. Is he right?
Simeon has some harsh bits to say about my interview style with Kent Beck . "...The best example is when Kent had to answer "Moo" due to the question been overly complex and not making sense. Another example was when…
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.NET 2.0 certification study group in Israel? Your choice.
Justin Angel is in the process of creating a "study group" for the new Microsoft .NET 2.0 certifications. If you're interested, head on over to his post (in Hebrew) and post a comment. The more reactions he gets, the…
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Amazoner and iTunes
Looks like Dave Burke took my Amazoner application to search and link to Amazon books online, and modded it to help him put his iTunes Library online. He has some nice things to say about my code, but that's just…
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VMware Server to become a *free* product
"Anyhow, here's the deal: as of Monday, VMware is releasing the beta version of a new product, VMware Server, which is the successor to their existing VMware GSX Server product. VMware Server will be a free product for…
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HanselMinutes on CI tools, and a free EBook on Agile Skills
The new Hanselminutes is all about Continuous Integration tools. Should be worth a listen! Also, via David Hayden , I stumbled upon this freely downloadable EBook (though you can also buy it at Amazon in Print) called…
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Read HackNot
A small reminder to self (and all of you) read all the archives of HackNot . This person writes brilliantly (not that I subscribe to all his views, but the argument should be fun!)
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Finally a "stable enough" build of Resharper 2.0 Alpha?
"I'm not uninstalling this one. 215 is "good enough" right now to boost my productivity. 2.0 has NUnit test-running capability through a UI widget, but I find that I still prefer the crude text output of TestDriven.Net…
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[Audio Interview] Johanna Rothman - Secrets of great management
Got something important to say? If you feel you have something important to share with the community, something you're an expert at, and feel that everyone can learn a thing or two from you, read this , and maybe we'll…
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Why Reboot? This software will help with the answer.
Why Reboot? - Nifty little application that displays the pending file operations on your computer, so you know just why it's demanding a reboot after a software install. [via Larkware ] Nice!
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[Audio Interview] Kent Beck - An Agile conversation (First Iteration)
Got something important to say? If you feel you have something important to share with the community, something you're an expert at, and feel that everyone can learn a thing or two from you, read this , and maybe we'll…
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Database Rollback with FIT tests: A nice adaptation
Tim Gifford liked my solution to Handling Database rollback issues with nit/Integration tests. So he found a way to integrate that method into Fit/Fitness - What'sw Fit ? an acceptance tool which should be more well…
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Bugs and Missing Features with Team System Unit Testing: Part I
Here are a couple more examples on the immaturity of the current Team System Unit Testing in "Quality Tools" . Both of these were submitted to the product feedback center, which, unfortunately, only seems to have been…
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My Sessions at DevDays Belgium
I'll be speaking at Microsoft DevDays in Belgium taking place March 7-8. I hope to see you there! The sessions I'll be doing are: Best Practices: Designing for Testability: Putting quality first in the real world March…