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Picasa "Hello" is cool + a nice tip about using Hello
I you haven't tried " Hello " from Picasa, you should seriously give it a try. It's a way to share pictures and chat with your friends at the same time. Sounds lame but it's actually pretty nice. You can also blog…
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Can you Digg it? Digg.Com
At first sight, Digg.Com looks like a really interesting site/blog/community information center. Plus, it has info on cool hacking tools and stuff. I am such a L33t h4x0r, ain't I? I can Digg it.
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Tips for a successful MSMQ-enabled application
For the past few weeks I've been deep down inside a client's project. It's a large distributed application and one of the features I was working on made me realize just how little I've gotten the chance to use MSMQ in…
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PDC Blogging Contest is over - I lost to a cooool entry!
Looks like the PDC blogging contest is over and my poor entry lost to something which was definitely very cool . Congratulations Bonk ! You deserve it :) Totally cool animated movie there!
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.NET Architecture clinic with Juval Lowy this week at Israel (free)
The August IVBUG meeting will be on Wednesday August 24 . This is so that we can take advantage of Juval Lowy being in Israel that week and agreeing to speak to us. It will be a combined meeting together with the C#…
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Rally Software are doing it right
Rally Software are an Agile development-related company. Personally, I think someone over there "gets" how the web works, and how the Agile world and the blogsphere world work, and they combine the knowledge with some…
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Cool Tip: Show a vertical rule after 80 chars in VS.NET
I have no idea why this is not actually an editor option built in, but still, nice to know it's *possible*. I got this nice tip from a guy named Herfried K. Wagner (MVP) "Once upon a time I asked if it was possible to…
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[Audio Interview] Ingo Rammer and Christian Weyer On Distributed Applications Architecture And Practices
I chatted with Ingo Rammer and Christian Weyer of the ThinkTecture team shortly after both of them had finished doing their talks about Distributed architectures at TechEd Europe. The interviews starts with Christian…
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Sherpa: Another Code/Layer/Application Generator
I'm not much of a fan of various "Application Generators" software, but Sherpa seems to be an interesting find. It's allows full application generation but with inherent extensibility (by changing templates, XSLT and…
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Installing Exchange overnight, oh my!
Last night spent 6 or so hours installing Microsoft Exchange on our home server, so that I can *finally* be able to synchronize my mail, calendar and tasks through my laptop when I go off to various places. It all…
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[OT] Watch The Anchorman for the commentary
If you have a chance, pick up the DVD for " Anchorman ". Not for the movie, but explicitly for the movie commentary. Just watch it all with commentary on. It is hilarious and unlike any movie commentary you've heard…
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Two interesting Israeli .NET related blogs
Some technical news from the wild wild middle east: My ex-colleague, Shahar Nechmad, has finally opened a blog of his own dealing with Windows Vista, Indigo and various .NET things. He's the friend I was asking about a…
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[OT] Evacuating the Gaza strip
On a purely non technical and unrelated note to anything, I'd like to take this moment to talk about how I feel when today Israel is starting to move people outside of their homes from the Gaza strip. I really don't…
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Video of my "Intro to Agile Development" talk at INDA is online
Paschal has posted online Part I of my Talk at the INDA group . It's roughly 3/4 of my full "Into to Agile development" talk and Parts II and III (Unit Testing Best Practices) will be posted later on, in audio format as…
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NUnitASP Architecture walkthrough video from Jim Shore
Jim Shore , one of the Agile folks out there, has created a nice animated video using Camtasia that talks about how the NUnitASP Architecture works. It's not really for those without any NUnitASP experience but it's…
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Easy tip to speed up your Virtual PC
Here's a great way to easily speed up your Virtual PC performance: Filter the process name from your anti virus scanner's real time monitoring. Since I have ETRUST antivirus installed, I simply double click on the icon…
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Had fun speaking at INDA (Ireland .NET user group)
I'd like to thank Paschal for arranging my speaking at the INDA users group in Ireland last Friday. It was really a great bunch of people and I was pretty excited (and tired from a full week f training I've done just…
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Small Domain Specific Language for the GoF Design patterns
I've met some very nice people while I was at Ireland, some of them MVPs and quite brilliant (and good drinkers!) Take for example, Eamon O'Tuathail , who created a small Domain Specific Language for some of the most…
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Announcing a New Larkware Contest
It's time for a new contest , and I'm one of the judges. "As you undoubtedly know by now, the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is scheduled for the week of November 7. That's just…
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Still alive, in Ireland.
I'm still very much alive, and Ireland is very beautiful. I just can't find any time to blog. Hopefully I'll have something interesting to say in the coming days..
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What blog community site do you recommend for a new .NET blogger?
I have a very knowledgeable friend who would like to start a blog about topics such as Windows Vista and VS 2005. He asked me where he should open his blog. I didn't have a good answer. So, what blog community site…
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.Math - Open Source math expression compiler in C#
Welcome to .Math, the Open Source expression compiler for the .NET platform written entirely in C#. Offering speed through compilation of expressions, the library allows for variable handling, an entire function library…
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Nice article: Agile Top-Down
"There's a recent thread on the Scrum list about how an executive or highly-placed manager could get Agile going. I've been one of those guys, and I know a bit about Agile, and here's how I'd proceed. First, focus…
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Unit test readability should not come in place of maintainability - they go hand in hand
Brian Button writes this post about a best practice he believes in when writing unit tests. The main idea in that post is that when you use Setup and TearDown methods in your tests, you're essentially separating parts…
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[Audio Interview] Randy Miller on MSF Agile and software modeling techniques
I chatted with Randy Miller , the guy who practically wrote MSF, for a very interesting half hour (due to technical difficulties we had to stop early). The interview revolves around MSF- the Microsoft Solution Framework…
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The solution is out *there*, NOT on in my chat window!
Here's a small hint before you try to "chat" with someone on your MSN Messenger about solving a specific problem in .NET. It will save you (and them) a lot of time in a many cases. It may seem silly, but a lot of people…
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Unit Testing Best Practices and guidelines
Someone asked me about this the other day - there are currently no concrete set of guidelines for unit testing best practices (not talking about HOW-TOs, but about HOW_NOT_TOs). So it occurred to me that I've been…
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[OT]The Friday Page
Just found " The Friday Page ". Some disturbing stuff in there, but some of it's really funny. View at your own risk..