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William Safire's Rules for Writers
I found a quite funny tidbit today by reading the weekend papers, where it was translated into Hebrew. The English source is pretty nice as well!: William Safire's Rules for Writers : Remember to never split an…
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How to see the TechEd US sessions online
Here's a simple way to view the recorded sessions from TechEd US from your browser, even if you didn't attend TechEd. Let's say you browse the breakout session catalog and you see an interesting session like : " ARC313…
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Nice PDC Contest Entry from Steve Hebert
Steve Hebert has a very nice contest entry about why he should go to the PDC. Why didn't *I* think of a poem?? :) Update : OK, I just found out that Brenden has a pretty darn innovative PDC post as well. Guess I should…
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The Mock Objects elevator speech
A friend asked me by email the other day :"So why do I need mock objects?" I came up with this in roughly 3 minutes so it's a bit rough, but it'll do to drive the point home, I hope. Note, that this does not really…
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Who's reading me?
I've been getting some referees from this address: http://teams/information services/application support/default.aspx Is this a Microsoft internal address? Who's reading me in there?In fact - who's reading me at all?…
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A [Newer] new way to fight blog trackback spam
" Hi Roy, Just thought that you might be interested to know that I’ve just posted a new trackback spam solution on my blog here: http://briandela.com/blog/archive/2005/06/29/652.aspx This solution will work for any…
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TDD workshop today - CANCELED
I'm sorry to say that the TDD workshop today will be cancelled due to low participation rate – primarily due to the expected traffic gams today . The next one is expected to be at July 18 th . If you'd like to attend…
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The ultimate gamer keyboard?
I don't play much games anymore, but if I did, oh boy. I'd buy this sucker immediately for my upcoming birthday.
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.NET CLR Data counters are wrong - Official
"Original counters (in V1.0 and V1.1) reported wrong numbers in almost all scenarios." http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/changeinfo/Backwards1.1to2.0/default.aspx#00000123 "We’ve created a new set of Performance Counters in…
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Tomorrow on Agile Israel - some very cool talks
Reminder about tomorrow's presentation on Agile Israel: http://www.agileisrael.com/Default.aspx?tabid=60 Please notify us of arrival to [email removed] 18:00-19:15 - Eli Lopian, Amdocs: Helping cause change in a…
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Wanna record a geeky interview at Tech-Ed Europe?
If you're attending Tech-Ed Europe and would be interested in doing anything between a 10-60 minute recorded interview about some interesting facet of technology, or just geeking out in the community lounge with me,…
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TDD Workshop - JUnit basics, open for registration
If you'd like to participate in this you must send an email to [email removed] with your name and contact details. Since we have a limit on the number of people, this is a must to be able to attend. Your name…
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TDD Workshop - NUnit Basics, 5 places left
If you'd like to participate in this you must send an email to [email removed] with your name and contact details. Since we have a limit on the number of people, this is a must to be able to attend. Your name…
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[OT] What are you afraid of?
This is scary. How many phobias(chronic fears) do you think there are? Take a look at the ultimate phobia list and count them. I didn't see a fear of large lists of fears though. Some may sound eerily familiar from work…
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Great article on Reflection and Performance on MSDN Mag
Joel Pobar (master of all things dynamic) wrote a great piece on reflection in this month’s MSDN Mag.. Reflection: Dodge Common Performance Pitfalls to Craft Speedy Applications [via Brad Abrams ] Just skimming this…
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[Tool] Convert NUnit tests to Team System Tests
" Jim Newkirk has released an alpha version of a utility to convert NUnit tests to VSTS tests . What he doesn't mention in the post is that he's using GAT to integrate this conversion functionality into VS05." [via…
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Evil code in disguise
The Underhanded C Contest "..we hereby announce an annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior. In many ways this is the exact opposite of the Obfuscated C Code Contest: in this…
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My Session schedule at Tech-Ed Europe
Here's the list of my upcoming sessions at Tech-Ed Europe. Hope to see as many people from the blogsphere there! Testing, Testing... (CHT019) Date: 7 July 2005 12:00 -13:15 (My Chalk & Talk about Unit Testing at TechEd…
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$50,000 to build a Cool Tool?
hmmm... $50,000. Sounds like fun. Let the thinking game begin. (via Rocky )
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"Visual C# .NET compiler could not be created" - Possible solution?
We started getting this weird exception when trying to build some solution manually: "Project <Name> could not be opened because the Microsoft Visual C# .NET compiler could not be created" It might be one of these…
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Annoying problem (+Solution) of the week: "One or more projects in Solution X needs to be updated to use Crystal Reports 10."
This is weird and annoying: Upon the daily build we started getting this dialog box: "--------------------------- Crystal Reports 10 --------------------------- One or more projects in Solution…
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The Regex Challenge: Blogn' my way to the PDC
Here's my official Blogn' for the PDC entry. I've tried to make it...different. http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/articles/pdc.aspx "I tried to come up with something innovative and fun to deliver my message. Something…
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Blog'n your way to the PDC - A reality in the works
Wanna go to the PDC? For free? If you have a blog or are in the mood to write a little software - you should really really check this out then . All I can say is that very soon you'll see my own entry for this contest.…
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Geeky Podcasts list
Looks like the "Podcasting" craze is upon us. Slowly but surely, small independent audio talk shows are starting to show up on the blogsphere. I'll try to list the ones I know about here, and I welcome your input in the…
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Blogn' my way to the PDC: The Regex Challenge
Yes, me too. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get down to business. I tried to come up with something innovative and fun to deliver my message. Something that I like doing and that I think other people might find…
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ComputerZen: Top 120 cool tools every developer must have
Scott Hanselman has updated is " All time amazing super cool tools list " and its time for all of us to sit back, take a good look and try to lineup what the pros are recommending. You need to be a tool geek to love…
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Impressions from the "Get ready for VS 2005" conference in Israel
MS Israel help 2 free single day conferences today and the day before. Yesterday was all about "Get ready for SQL 2005" and today was mainly for developers and dealt with many topics related to developers with VS.NET…
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June at Agile Israel: Implementing change in an organization + A Bug's Life
The next Agile Israel meeting - More details here Please send an email to [email removed] if you plan to attend so that we know how many people to plan for. Thanks in advance. If you'd like to receive notification…
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Nice Free Stock Photos site
This is a nice site with free stock photos one can download and use in their presentations (needs free registration but comes recommended by many people apprearently..) (via Beyond Bullets )
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New Advanced .NET Debugging Blog
Looks like there's a new hardcore debugging blog in town - from another Israeli blogger, no less - please welcome Eran Sandler's (not related..) Advanced .NET Debugging weblog . This guy is deep into debugging. Half the…