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I have a dream: Geek Go-Karting in Israel
Here's a thought. Instead of doing a geek dinner, how about a Geek Go Karting League ?? you need at least 8 people to join in, but we can meet bi-monthly and rip the runways (probably in Natanya, or other places if you…
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HanselMinutes Episode 2 rocks the boat
Scott's first attempt at a podcast (which was not half bad) is now extremely well superseded by his second episode. Quick, to the point tips and tricks and techno babble galore about interesting things - that's what I…
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TestDriven.NET aims to become a commercial product with added features
Is TestDriven.NET , everyone's favorite addin for Unit Testing support in practically all versions of Visual Studio .NET, going to cost money soon? Yes and no. According to the recent post by Jamie Cansdale , he's…
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MS Israel Security Users Group is back in business
The Security User's group at Microsoft Israel has rekindled it's operations, and will have it's re-opening meeting on Feb. 7Th. Here are the details (in Hebrew) PS How's my new picture on the blog main page ?
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Agile Israel: Advanced TDD Workshop is open for registration
Just a reminder : there is no Agile Israel meeting tomorrow due to the meeting we had at the beginning of the month. The next meeting will take place on Feb. 27th. However , I'm pleased to announce the Advanced TDD…
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New audio from Agile Israel is available: Johanna Rothman and more!
I've finally managed to edit and clean up the audio from two sessions we had at Agile Israel . The first one is by Johanna Rothman, and the second one is by Amir Kolsky (in Hebrew). I highly recommend you download them…
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Guess that conference
Update: Dale got it in the comments. That's the author guidelines for submitting a research article to the "Agile 2006" conference, no less. It's following IEEE guidelines for submissions. I'll let you ponder the irony…
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FYI: "v7ndotcom elursrebmem"
Now, this is a lovely idea for a contest, not to mention a Google Rank-Tester. Let's just hope no one who works at Google on that algorithm tries to win this.. "Here’s how it works: Savvy SEO people enter this contest…
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FixIt Reader - Possibly the Adobe Acrobat killer we've been waiting for
I just discovered this cool, free and fast PDF reader, which looks like (finally!) an Adobe Acrobat Reader Killer. Adobe Acrobat has been getting on many people's nerves, with all its plugins, commercials and long load…
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Jeremy Miller: Best and Worst Practices for Mock Objects
Jeremy Miller writes some of his recommendations for best and worst practices for using Mock Objects in your Unit Tests. He makes a lot of sense and I wholeheartedly agree with his conclusions. His writing is clear and…
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Cool Outlook Trick: Sync schedules with multiple computers, without using Exchange
Sahil malik shares some Oulook 2003 Wisdom. The trick: How do you make sure your Outlook at home is not stepping on any of your Work schedule? Here's How . It's not the most usable thing in the world, but it seems to do…
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Cheat Sheets for ASP.NET and Browsers [The Browser Book]
Firoz points to some very nice "cheat sheet" pages for ASP.NET developers located here: JavaScript Cheat Sheet CSS Cheat Sheet HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet MySQL Cheat Sheet They are ready to be printed and…
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A solution for easier ASP.NET Unit and GUI testing?
"Integrating NUnit with Ruby/Watir Unit Tests" "Testing ASP.NET web applications can be a painful process. Wouldn't it be nice to have a unit testing framework that covered both the API and the web UI testing in an…
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This week at the C# Users Group: Windows Communications Foundation (“Indigo”) with Ido Samuelson
Topics : Windows Communications Foundation (“Indigo”) Lecturer : Ido Samuelson, Advantech (Magen) Date: Wednesday, January 18, 17:00 - 20:00 Place: Microsoft Israel Hapnina 2 ( Amdocs Building ) Ground Floor Raanana…
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Code Partitioning - The next big thing in protecting .NET code?
The guys at SecuredDimentions have something new up their sleeve. If you don't know them, it's because they are relatively new on the market. What they've designed is what seems to be a very good way to prevent…
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HanselMinutia
Scott Hansleman Introduces his brand new podcast - " Hanselminutes ". First - what a cool name. In fact, everything about the way this podcast is presented is "cool". I mean, if there ever was someone that made us MS…
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I'll be Available for some short time gigs in the London Area
It looks like there's a big chance I'll get to be in London (and the Cambridge area) during March 19 through March 30. I'll be there as part of the MVP open days forum, and am looking for gigs to do there while I'm in…
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VB.NET 2.0 Vs. C# 2.0: Nice event photo
Ohad has published some of the event photos from the VS Launch event held in Israel last month. Here's one from the session Jackie Goldstein and me did together on new stuff in .NET 2.0 people should know about. Jackie…
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Reminder: Agile Israel Meets *Today*: Refactoring and Mock Objects
I'll remind you that there is an Agile Israel meeting today . The meeting topics are Refactoring and Mock Objects Techniques. More details in this link . You can freely show up, but we start promptly at 18:00. We gather…
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Back, Relaxed and Recharged
Wow! It's been an amazing two weeks at Thailand. The only way to sum up the overall feeling would be this picture of Tal sitting on the beach at the Phi Phi Islands:
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See you in two weeks! (Guess what I'll be reading)
I'm leaving today - see you in two weeks. Here's what I'll be catching up on: so far this is one hell of a book. Agile Software Development by Alistair Cockburn
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New XML Features in VS 2005 and .NET 2.0
I attended a session hosted by Alan Griver a few weeks ago at the Israel C# Users Group (IVCUG). It was a lovely talk, who's first part centered around the new XML features in VS 2005. Amazingly, I don't think I've…
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[Book of the month] Behind Closed Doors : Secrets of Great Management
Behind Closed Doors : Secrets of Great Management (Pragmatic Programmers) Having been reading this book by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby all night and getting about half way, I can say this is one of the best,…
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January 2006 at Agile Israel - Mock Objects & Refactoring
More Info: http://www.agileisrael.com/Default.aspx?tabid=118 When : January 5th, 2006 Gathering at 17:30, we start promptly at 18:00 Part I : Mock Objects - Asher Sterkin Mock Objects are a powerful mechanism for unit…
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Going to Thailand for a couple of weeks
My wife an I are going on a two week trip to Thailand this Wednesday (2 days from now..ack!). It's a long awaited, and well deserved vacation for the both of us. Our "plan" is pretty agile :) We have a two week…
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Fowler's "The New Methodology" - Updated
A couple of years ago I got to read Martin Fowler's fascinating paper on " The New Methodology ". That paper/very short book summarizes the approaches taken by Agile development methodologies, how the came to be, and…
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Video: Johanna Rothman at Agile Israel: Moving Towards Agile Project Management
Ohad Israeli has put a video online from the first part of Johanna Rothman's talk last week at Agile Israel. The talk was about "Moving Towards Agile Project Management". Check it out here .
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3rd Agile Israel TDD workshop registration is now closed
The registration to the 3rd TDD workshop is now closed. We have 12 people willing to learn and have fun on January 8th. If you want to be there next time, be sure to be registered at www.AgileIsrael.com and you'll get…
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NUnit 2.2.4: .NET 2.0 Support, Extensibility Support and new Asserts and Attributes
Got this from Charlie Poole today: We just released NUnit 2.2.4, the first production release of NUnit since 2.2 was released in August 2004. That means it's the release we recommend you use now - as opposed to all the…
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Agile Israel News: RSS Feed and 3rd TDD Workshop are now open!
Today's Agile Israel meeting with Johanna Rothman was a great experience, and I hope to share some photos from it as soon as I get them from Johanna. Audio and Video(Thanks to Ohad ) were recorded, and it won't take…