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Announcing: The Regulator Logo Contest
All details on this and more that you wanted to know: /logocontest Feel creative? Got Illustrator or Photoshop? Feel like donating back to the community? Wanna free cool .NET component? If you answered "yes", read on.…
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Agile Israel May meeting summary
We had a fun time at the last Agile Israel meeting. (FYI - slides are already online for download , audio coming soon). Two things bothered me a bit: We had the stroke of luck to be side by side with conference about…
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Oracle Tools for VS.NET
Seems like this is worth a look if you're doing any work in oracle. tightly integrated "Add-in" for Visual Studio .NET that brings the power of the Oracle Database to .NET developers! Use the Oracle Explorer to browse…
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Ajax.NET - I'm impressed!
I am totally impressed with Ajax.NET . And I'm not even a web programmer at heart :) If you're doing ASP.NET development and find you need to do a lot of rich UI with various asynchronous things going on - this should…
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Not Dead
Yes, I know, I stopped writing. Lack of time. Too much things to do. Good trouble. In the next few days I'll have more time. so I'll get back to it. Anyone interested in making the new logo for the next version of The…
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June at IVBUG
June on the Israel VB User Group (IVBUG), run by Jackie : This month, instead of focusing on the future , we will spend our time looking at building our current applications (with a little bit of looking to the future).…
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May at Agile Israel: Legacy Code Testing and MSF Agile
The May meeting of Agile Israel will be as scheduled, although the topics have changed a bit. for a link with full information on the meeting and arrival instructions, go here:…
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[OT] In response to an email spammer/Scammer
Please disregard this post. I just want this guy to get as much spam as possible. [email removed] and I'll be keeping a list of email spammers on my homepage for various spam robots to find right over here:…
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[CoolTool] ASP.NET Development Helper
If you're an ASP.NET developer - this tool should save you many hours of debugging and configuration testing. A LOT. It's a browser helper object for IE that shows you lots of interesting stuff about your ASP.NET page.…
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UISafeInvoker: Making UI Thread safe methods - a little more easily
Update : See at the end of this post for an important issue you need to know about if you're going to use this solution. Here's something I've been using in my programs lately. I've been pretty darn annoyed with the…
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Jackie Goldstein Rocks
Looks like Jackie Goldstein has beat me to being the first Israeli on .NET rocks . His show will air on the 30th of this month. Jackie is the founder of IVBUG - the largest and oldest user group in Israel which deals…
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Yoel Arnon - MSMQ Guru
Last week I attended a presentation at the Visual C# user group in Israel. The topic was MSMQ use for connecting applications. The presentations was given by Yoel Arnon - who was part of the original team that…
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[Article]Simplify Data Layer Unit Testing using Enterprise Services
My first MSDN Magazine article is (finally!) up: Simplify Data Layer Unit Testing using Enterprise Services "Despite all the hype surrounding unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) many developers don't see them…
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Google Web Accelerator
OK, has anyone checked out the new Google Web Accelerator application? I guess this NY times is not so off track after all... Gates should get busy quick.
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RSS support from YNet Israel - Finally
Now, when my parents ask me what RSS is, I can just point them to the new set of RSS feeds provided by one of Israel's largest online news sites - YNet (from one of the three major newspapers in Israel). And, FINALLY, a…
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When training classes go horribly wrong
One of the worst things you can experience as an instructor is to teach a class of people who just don't give a damn. This happened to me a few weeks ago. These people were coming in late, (sometimes an hour late!),…
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Regulator 2005 & GUI threads goo- news on both?
I've kept mostly quiet for the past N weeks because of holidays+illness. It gave me time to geek out and start working on a fresh new version of The Regulator (aptly dubbed "Regulator 2005"). Boy am I a happy camper.…
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What does SOA really mean? One big hype machine
Clemens Vasters, at an unusual leap of humility, declares something which to me is one of the biggest "DUH"s of the past year: Service Oriented Architecture is just one big hype machine , it talks about connecting…
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What does Indigo really mean?
Nice writing by Rocky Lhotka here about what Indigo really means, and why all the hype surrounding it might be meaningless until we start using it for bigger and better things. Very interesting way of putting things in…
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2 exciting announcements from yours truly
I'm thrilled to tell the world that my first ever article on MSDN Magazine is going to be published this June, which deals with Database Unit Testing techniques, based on the work I've done so far on this issue. Still…
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Using Emacs: A masochist's guide
Using EMacs : The ultimate hacker's text editor. Why on earth does Don Box like this thing? (via Anarchia ) Always did wonder what everyone saw in this thing. I'm a keyboard freak myself but this thing is *daunting*!…
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[Word Shortcut of the day] ALT-F3: Quick Auto Text
Just found this nice shortcut in Word: Alt+F3: create auto-text entry. Just select the text and press Alt F3 and you can save the text for future use.. almost like Code Snippets :)
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The spin on passover
I have to say - this is a real new spin on passover :) (the load is worth the wait...) and this is a funny one too (from same site)
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Team Agile is hiring
In the coming days I'll be posting this "officially" on the Team Agile website. I'm looking for good people to hire: Note that all these points refer to different people and positions . You need to live in Israel to…
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[CoolTool] SWExplorerAutomation: Automate web GUI unit testing for IE
Got this in the email a week or two ago: Hello Roy, Have you seen SWExplorerAutomation ( http://home.comcast.net/~furmana/SWIEAutomation.htm ). It allows to create an object model for any Web application developed with…
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[Weird Project of the week] "Parking Spots"
It's the weekend, so guess what? more weird stuff. Just like the Infinite cat project, here comes " Parking Spots " where people show off their toy cars placed in real scenes. It's actually pretty funny if you take the…
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Consolas: Our next programming font?
This is an interesting read . "Beginning in 2006, Microsoft says it will ship with its operating system and other software products six brand new typefaces created especially for extended on-screen reading. " Especially…
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Addictive, hypnotic and simple game
This is something to play at work , if you don't want to work. Can you max my 1718 points? Update - make that 2516, dudes.
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Yahoo 360? *yawn*
So now Yahoo! is making an MSN spaces clone called Yahoo 360 ? And It's invite only Like GMail ? That is so 2004.. ;)
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[Book of the month] Working effectively with legacy code
[Note: You can find more books I found very helpful or interesting here ] It's been a while, but I have a new favorite book - Working effectively with legacy code If your company or team is trying or going to try to…