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Natty Gur on Enterprise Architecture
Natty Gur has been blog-busy lately. His blog is a great start if you want to understand what Enterprise architecture means (not enterprise application, but from an organizational point of view). He's also contemplating…
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Do you have a pre-built version of Mock++ handy?
It's weird, but I can't find any pre-built version of the latest Mock++ (Mockpp) framework for C++. Since I'm not a C++ guru, I can't seem to be able to built it alone. If you yourself have done it or know of anyone…
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Solving Binary serialization versioning conflicts
My friend, Jonathan Einav (His blog is, sadly, empty for now) just sent me this by email. It's a solution to a versioning problem he encountered, which he has made public for the community. This is a a nice approach to…
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[Cool Tools] Code metrics, dependencies and more metrics
Ohad is much a tool freak like me, only less in the IDE space. He just posted a very useful blurb about some tools a lot of projects could use. Do you find yourself asking the following questions ? – Which code most…
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Deep Indigo, Clemens style
Clemens is doing a great blog series on an introduction to Indigo . I should read it.
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Updater is the new DCOM
I know I've been somewhat "Agile-Focused" these past few months. I almost feel bad for all those people who read my blog for cool technical stuff. I've become a bore on non-agile stuff, haven't I? Well, that's how I…
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Another one gets test-infected
Chris McKenzie's blog has a post about his first experience with Test Driven Development on an existing ASP>NET project. I suggest you go read it , because when was the last time you have uttered the sentence: "I am so…
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Agile Israel next meeting infromation and other important news
If you arn't registered on the new Agile Israel mailing list - I just sent out this important letter to the list. If you'd like me to add your email to the list, send me an email to [email removed]. Hi…
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Met some nice people in Prague
I got to meet some really interesting people while I was in Prague. Take Ernst Kuschke for example. Ernst is from South Africa and he's a C# MVP. He's also an avid fan of Agile development and is in fact practicing it…
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The new Larkware.com
It looks like one of my favorite sites - Larkware.com has taken on a new initiative - write more, and also get some real money for it. Here's the blurb from the brand new spiffy home page : "...As many of you know, I've…
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Response to the test generation "bug" I posted about
After I've written about the broken feature in the VS 2005 Testing features in regards to code generation and refactoring, the developer of that feature at Microsoft, Ryan Milligan, put the following comment on the…
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How big organizations (surprisingly) always advocated test driven development
Large organizations have to deal a lot with process. They have to or nothing would get done. On the other hand, too much process can halt an organization from going anywhere. That's why trying to implement Agile methods…
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Test Driven Development proves useful at Microsoft
One of the coolest things I got to find out today from the PM of the MSBuild product, Kieran Mockford, is that development on the next version of MSBuild has been done using Test Driven Development. Yep, Write a test…
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Lesson of the day: don't be a pompous windbag
One of the things that I was totally surprised with when I started working with large organizations as a trainer was that their training staff had different ideas as to what makes for a solid, qualified and standardized…
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TDD and test generation in VS 2005 can be annoying and tricky if you don't watch out
- VS 2005 is cool. You get great Intellisense and there's a even a nice refactoring that lets you create method stubs when you write code that uses a method that does not exists. - VS 2005 also has a great feature for…
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CxxTest for C++ - easier unit testing?
CxxTest for C++ seems like a nice way to write unit tests in C++. It uses Perl to generate Cpp files from regular classes and then you compile those into unit tests and run them. this intermediate step saves you lots of…
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IVBUG: Multithreaded UIs with VB.NET
Udi will be giving a talk at the upcoming IVBUG meeting about multi threaded UIs with VB.NET. Check out his description of it.
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[CoolTool] WinDirStat
WinDirStat is cool, free and just saved me 6 Gigs of HD space. It also uses the now famous "TreeMap" visualization scheme to show you how your disk looks logically.
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Israel .NET architects user group: Patterns, practices and online resources for architects
Greetings .NET architect! You are welcome to attend our next meeting to be held on Sunday, February 27th . Our next presentation is based on my request to have a Microsoft official present the various resources that are…
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Agile Israel news and updates
Looks like I got into terms with Microsoft on hosting the Agile Israel user group on a monthly basis at the Microsoft Center in Ra'anana. The next meeting is now being scheduled for the 23rd of March. I'm trying to see…
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Congratulations to Yosi Taguri!
Congratulations to Yosi Taguri on the birth of of your daughter! Many more happy days (and nights) to come :)
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Employing TDD and unit testing with Waterfall methodologies
One of the things I've encountered lately is large organizations (1000's of developers) trying to get "Agile" while still trying to retain some sort of sanity in the ranks. I do believe that such moves should be made…
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I'm not really here, sorry.
I know. You've missed me like hell. I've been staying along with my wife at a friend's house (they're on a trip and we're house-sitting). The Internet connection there sucks, but that is easily compensated by the fact…
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Pics from my Magen farewell dinner
About two weeks ago, some of the folks from Magen arranged a special farewell dinner for me. It was pretty touching. Here are some photos from that dinner. Thanks you guys! Especially Ohad who's arranged for it all. It…
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IVBUG meeting this week: New Features and Changes in ASP.NET 2.0
"Continuing in our series of presentations on some of the new tools and technologies that are part of the VS 2005 releases due to arrive in the coming year, Noam King, CTO of Sela University, will take us through the…
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1st Agile Israel group meeting went great!
The first Agile Israel meeting took place yesterday, and it was pretty darn good! Show-up: 32 people out of a 42 registered crowd. In the pictures you can see the room we had at SELA and Udi talking to the group. What…
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Launcher: Clean auto-deployment and auto-updating code from Franklins.Net
" So I was not satisfied with all of the options for auto-deploying .NET apps in version 1.1, and rather than waiting for ClickOnce, which only works in v2.0 anyway, I sat down and designed and developed a simple and…
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[OT] Infinite Cat
Silly as it may seem, I was laughing out loud to myself while browsing this site . Yes. It's the Infinite cat project . Got it through Rory through Richard . The idea is as simple as it is hypnotic. Some guy took a…
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Debugging VB6 binaries in Visual Studio .NET
Rob Gruen has a excellent post on how to debug your VB6 code in Visual Studio .NET without the need to have the VB6 IDE open. [via Marty ]
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How to schedule an online meeting between totally different time zones
So what do you do when you want to setup an online meeting with a person on another part of the world? Scheduling sucks. I just found this little gem: It's the online meeting planner . It lets you enter 2 or more places…