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Reminder: Agile Israel meets today!
Reminder: Agile Israel meets TODAY with Johanna Rothman . More info here (including how to get there). It'd be great if you sent me an email ( [email removed] ) telling me you're coming but you can just as easily…
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[Slides and code] VS Launch Israel: .NET 2.0 Things You Need To Know
You can download the code demos and presentations from my talk with Jackie Goldstein at the VS Launch in Israel about .NET 2.0 things you need to know. Jackie played the part of the VB Fanatic, while I played th part of…
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[Article] Unit Testing Tips - Write Maintainable Unit Tests That Will Save You Time And Tears
My latest MSDN Magazine article titled " Unit Testing Tips - Write Maintainable Unit Tests That Will Save You Time And Tears " is out in the online January Issue here. It's based on real issues, guidelines I've…
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Team Agile is looking for a TDD/Unit Testing Expert
Team Agile is looking for a Unit testing/Test Driven development expert in C++/Java · Expertise in Test-Driven Development of projects employing C++ and/or Java · Knowledge of Unit-test development and tools for unit…
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Media Center Fix: Multiple Concurrent Logins to Windows
So I can find it later: Concurrent Remote Desktop Sessions in Windows XP SP2
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Nice audio recordings about (Agile) management practices
From Johanna Rothman : The Orasi folks have posted my fall webinars, both the audio and PDF presentation. If you missed What Makes a Great Product Manager? Managing the Project Portfolio Delivering the Right Product on…
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Johanna at Agile Israel topic is set: Moving Towards Agile Project Management
Just an FYI: We finally have a session topic set for Johanna Rothman's visit to Agile Israel. It's Moving Towards Agile Project Management .
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Special Agile Israel Meeting with Johanna Rothman: Moving Towards Agile Project Management
I'm happy to announce that Agile Israel will host Johanna Rothman at an upcoming special meeting of the group. The meeting will take place next week, on December 15th (Thursday), at the Microsoft Offices in Ra'anana.…
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December at IVBUG: Xml Editing and Debugging + LINQ
Here's the email I got from Jackie , head of the Israel VB User Group on the upcoming meeting. --- This month I was able to arrange for a special speaker from Microsoft in Redmond . Yair Alan Griver is the Group Manager…
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[Review] JustCode! Universal 1.0 - Productivity Addin for VS 2005 and a0023
Let’s face it. JetBrains , the company who created Resharper for Visual Studio 2003, set a standard for refactoring and “quick-fix” addins which has the whole “productivity addins” industry taking notes. Their two…
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Raise your hand if you want an interview with Jamie Cansdale (the NUnit Addin guy)
OK, Andrew started it, so raise your hand if you want Jamie Cansdale , the guy who created TestDriven.NET (one of the coolest addins out there), to be interviewed by me for my interview series . He's a little shy, and…
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FinalBuilder 4.0 is out - Lightweight, Scalable Build Managment Tool
The good people at VSoft have done it again. FinalBuilder 4.0 is out and running , and I couldn't be happier advertising for it on this blog. One of the best products I've used for build management, and it gets better…
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A Better XML Visualizer
Here's another cool visualizer for your use. It's a better XML Visualizer than the one currently in the VS IDE, written by Howard van Rooijen .
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Ask The Pros: Debugging Tips
The latest round of VisualStudioHacks.Com 's "Ask The Pros" article is out, and this time it's about debugging . While I did contribute my own tips into the mix, I was pleasantly surprised how much new information I…
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Agile Israel meets today! The Planning Game
Update : Meeting went great! Amir is certainly a good speaker and kept people awake until 21:00. Now *that's* saying something... Expect audio and slides as soon as humanly possible on the site. Don't forget: Agile…
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Nice article on ordering code construction tasks by Jeremy Miller
Jeremy Miller has some sound advice and an interesting read on the order of code construction (a nice "Where should I start building my project, and how do I continue to implement the various pieces of the…
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For the ego trip bag: Google Book Search
Here's another trick for the Ego Trip enhancement bag: Search your name in Google Books . Funnily enough, I was mentioned in one book I didn't even know about, while another book that I *do* know about , is not listed.
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Announcing Regex Kit: Regular Expression Visualizers for VS 2005
I've been hibernating with everything relating to regular expressions for quite sometime now. I'm still working on the Regulator 3.0 (built on .NET 2.0), but for now, I thought I'd release these: Regex Debug Visualizers…
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SQL 2005 management studio lacks.. lots of stuff.
Looks like the SQL 2005 Management Studio needs some work too these days. Just a quick heads up. I can't say my experiences with it are much different, unfortunately.
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Google Ads Gets Better - Targeted ads for specific sites
Looks like Google has added a new feature to its Google Ads: The ability to let you bid directly on a specific site with your own ad (see my own blog page on the top left - you get a new "advertise on this site" link).…
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Test-First vs. Implementation-First : What Microsoft really meant
The following diagram is borrowed from Scott Dockendorf's blog , where he explains an article he's written about unit testing with VS 2005 (a different article than the one posted on MSDN). It explains clearly the…
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[OT] MSDN Wars? Part 1?? The Movie???
I'm not sure what to say when I see something like " MSDN Wars - Part 1 ". Perhaps I shouldn't say anything.. [via msdn webcasts blog ]
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Father of Rational Unified Process Goes to Redmond
This is pretty big. "Microsoft has tapped Ivar Jacobson, known as one of the fathers of the popular Rational Unified Process (RUP), to lead an effort to deliver a lightweight unified process to the Microsoft Solutions…
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Has Microsoft screwed up with VS 2005, or is it a perception problem? Some thoughts.
Mike Gunderloy writes in an article for SearchVB.Com about what he believes is more of a perception problem by developers regarding VS 2005 rather than an actual lower quality in the product. "Every single version of…
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Slides from my talk on Guidance Automation Kit are available
A little late, but still. Here are the slides from the Guidance Automation Toolkit talk I did at the .NET Architects User group last month. I also talked about LINQ, which you can download the slides for here .
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Webcast: Agile and eXtreme Programming from patterns & practices (Level 200)
this next web cast may be interesting: Hopefully this will hold better insight than MSDN's little fiasco on Test Driven Development. "Agile and eXtreme Programming from patterns & practices (Level 200) (Level 200)"…
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Microsoft fails miserably to explain or promote Test Driven Development in Team System
Update : Looks like they're working on fixing it as we speak. Update 2 : It's now obsolete. Going to the link provides and empty article. Microsoft publishes it's own version of Guidelines for Test-Driven Development…
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QA Podcast: The Journey From Business Needs to Test and User Acceptance
Got this in the emails, and it sounds itneresting: "Hi Roy, Just a quick note to say that I thought you might be interested in this recent podcast we completed, entitled "The Journey From Business Needs to Test and User…
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Experiment: Free advertising on this blog
Update : Already got two- . 1 to go... Let's make this more interesting. If you submit an ad without the offer code (not free), I'll get rid of the Google ads today and your ad stays on top for the duration requested (1…
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Taken the MS Israel Speaker Challenge? Omer did.
Good luck to Omer . He's taken the MS Israel " Looking for a speaker " (registration seems to be closed by now) challenge and is waiting for any results. From the technical side, I *know* he knows his stuff. On the…