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The Testing Feasibility Matrix
One of the toughest questions in projects that contain legacy code that would like to write unit tests from part of that code (it may need to change) are: “Where should I start?” When one of my clients faced this…
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XP Games links
Some links to various "XP Games" - small games to simulate Agile Development practices and benefits (via the XP Mailing list at Yahoo) The XP Game XP War Some nice games fro developers from Bill Wake Offing the Off-Site…
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[Article] The Test Feasibility Matrix
One of the toughest questions in projects that contain legacy code that would like to write unit tests from part of that code (it may need to change) are: "Where should I start?" When one of my clients faced this…
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[OT] If you can't stand the heat, take your ThinkPad out of the oven
It might be a well designed commercial for an IBM ThinkPad, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. This is one of the reasons I got a ThinkPad : (Translated and paraphrased from Hebrew, but Nice picture int he…
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Resharper 2.0 for VS 2005!
If you're in love with Resharper as I am, you'll be glad to read that the new Resharper 2.0 public access download (beta beta!) is now supported in VS 2005 as well!! and some very cool new features ! (via Peter Provost )
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TDD Workshop tomorrow!
If you'd like to sign up for the free basic Test Driven Development workshop tomorrow, July 18th, there are still a few places left. for more information on this workshop:…
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Selling my soul to AdSense
I'm doing an AdSense experiment on my blog page on the the interview page at Team Agile . We'll see what happens, and if the ads are "good enough" and not too annoying. Let me know what you think! I wonder if putting…
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[OT] What's inside the food we eat?
My wife is doing a paper for university on Morality in business. She's decided to explore the wonderful world of food additives and how they kill us slowly but surely(a lot of them, anyway). One of the articles we…
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Open for work during September(L.A or Bellevue)
It looks like I'll be attending the MVP summit this September, and I'll be looking to do a small time gig (speaking, training, consulting, development) during the week after that, in the hope of making it profitable…
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My contests actually make a difference :)
I'm glad my little Add-in contest helped someone get to Redmond for a tour with their friends :) What other contests would you like to see? Geekiest Joke? Coolest Avalon App? A "Self Documenting Code" contest? "Best…
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[Audio Interview] Steve Cook -Software Factories and Domain Specific Languages
The first of several Interviews I managed to do during TechEd Europe: I chatted with Steve cook for a very interesting hour about his role in the development of UML, the concept behind software factories and domain…
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Important:Need someone to help me with DotNetNuke
I need someone who has good DotNetNuke installation experience - the www.agileisrael.com site keeps falling and This is a community site, so whoever can help is helping a growing community here in Israel. I'm not sure…
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Spell it with Flickr Images!
This is cool ! Spell whatever you want using Flickr Images :) (via the Hebrew YNet blog )
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Geekiest joke ever
This joke courtesy of David Platt : "What do you get when you combine Lee Iaccoca and Dracula?" "Auto-Exec bat"
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Bloggers call to action: Fight comment spammers by moderating comments easily with .TEXT
Right now the best way I have to fight comment spammers is to moderate all comments. That means that automatically, any comment on the blog is not shown unless I specifically allow it to. If you have a .TEXT blog, you…
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Looking for an architect for a medium project
I'm looking for an architect for a 5 week project. Good people are hard to find. Do the math. You don't have to live in Israel to do this. You may need to get on a plane to get there, though.. You need to know .NET and…
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Visual Basic 1.0, all over again
Looks like we're getting back to our roots , people. VB 1 is here to stay! :) Actually, it seems like a pretty nice GUI specification application. I wonder how it will fare in my next agile project.. (via TSS.net )
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Fixing MSDN's bad DPAPI examples (And what's DPAPI anyway?)
DPAPI (Data Protection API) is something that most developers still don't know enough about. The good news is that working with it is much easier with .NET 2.0 and VS 2005, but in the meantime, if you want to work with…
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I might be in L.A in October, and open for consulting/speaking engagements
It looks like I might be in the neighborhood of L.A this October for several weeks. Possible things I'd like to do while there: Speak at a user group or two about Agile/Regex/.NET stuff Consult/Train on Agile/.NET Have…
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Performance vs. Testability and semi-virtual method calls
I won't try to sit here and say that the issue of performance vs. testability can be summed up in one blog post (or a full article for that matter). However, it's an important one and during my consulting gigs I've come…
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Udi Dahan - MVP, finally.
Congratulations to Udi Dahan on getting his Solutions Architect MVP award ! Udi has been speaking at user groups for a long time now and has an interesting blog where he posts his thoughts on architecture and software…
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Upcoming Audio Interviews from TechEd Europe
TechEd Europe is Done. Here's a great summary of some of the sessions and the overall spirit of things. I've been pretty busy networking and getting to know many of the speakers I've always read or heard and wanted to…
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Sessions done at TechEd
I just finished doing all my sessions and chalk talks at TechEd. phew. I didn't imagine it would be so demanding physically (the mileage you walk between sessions is huge!). I've gotten feedback scores on all of them -…
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Another Semi Israeli Blogger
Another semi-Israeli Blogger about .NET out there: Yaniv Pessach .He lives in Redmond. A Microsoftie?
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Some Teched Pics
Some photos from day 1 of TechEd: There are some beanbag places like this - just sit down and wi-fi your way home. Very nice. There are a few dozen PCs like this: Pick up the phone, press a "New Call" button in Outlook…
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TechEd: David Platt on Smart Clients Vs. Browsers
It's the first time I've been to a speaker lounge in TechEd (and 2nd time in TechEd at all, for that matter) and boy there are some interesting people in here. Phone posted later. For now, David Platt about Smart Client…
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Congratulations, Ohad. Twofold!
Congratulations to Ohad on his newborn, shira ! Ohad just got his Security MVP as well, so that's double reason to be glad :)
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Agile Israel News & Updates
If you haven't been to the last Agile Israel meeting in June, here are some things announced there: Fixed meeting date The Agile Israel group has a fixed date each month. The group meets on the fourth Monday of each…
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Rhino.Mocks v. 2.0 Announced. Yes, it's a Mock Object Framework.
Ayende has announced that he's released Rhino.Mocks v. 2.0 : his own version of what he'd like in a Mock Object framework. I haven't yet got a chance to try it out, but it certainly sounds interesting! "Rhino.Mocks is…
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Dictionellisense
OK, never mind. I don't have the time or energy to build this, but maybe one of you can. And earn billions of dollars: Dictionellisense: Type the beginning of a word in Word , press CTRL+SPACE and have a list of words…