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Enterprise Library 1.0 released!
Enterprise Library is out. Let the blogging madness begin. What is it? It's the next, better version of the Microsoft Application Blocks you've seen until today. With a few changes: It's a suite of 7 built in , new and…
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Is CodeBetter.Com to become the new .NETWeblogs?
Darrell Norton is one of the founders of the newly created CodeBetter.Com - a blogging community for better coders and developers. That also means that Darrell's most excellent blog has moved here . So, is…
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Silly bickering
It's amazing sometimes what you get to fight about; things you never thought possible suddenly come true. For example, we now have arguments over which one gets to take the "good" car for various errands. The "good" car…
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Agile Israel user group changes location to SELA
The First Agile user group meeting will be held this Monday, the 31st, not at Magen, but at the SELA University in Tel Aviv. Here's a link to exact arrival instructions: http://www.selayouniversity.co.il/Pages/Map.asp…
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SharpDevelop develops NUnit integration
Oh this is cool. SharpDevelop , the open source .NET editor, has built in NUnit integration. I'm still not sure what that really means, but I intend to find out. Hopefully it will be just like the JUnit integration…
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JetBrains .NET Profiler
Welcome to JetBrains .NET Profiler Early Access Program (EAP) ! - Looks like the JetBrains folks are cooking up another utility. Open beta, so go download if you're interested. (via Matt Berther ) [via Larkware ]
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XP Discussion: Invest in the design of the system every day
I just had to quote Kent Beck over at the XPBookDiscussionGroup list: " Invest in the design of the system every day . Strive to make the design of the system an excellent fit for the needs of the system that day. When…
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A new face lift for AxTools CodeSmart
One of my all time favorite addins for VS.NET/VB6 just got another face-lift(I especially like the C++ additions): We are pleased to announce that we have just released CodeSMART 2005 for VS.NET. Packed with many…
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How to register for .NET user groups in Israel
I recently got a few emails from people in Israel that wanted to know how they can be notified in advance on various user group meetings. *finally* an easy answer :) To get notified every time the Visual C# user group…
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Agile content for the Winter 2004 issue of Methods & Tools
Winter 2004 issue's content: * Agile Multidisciplinary Teamwork by Gautam Gosh * Adaptive Project Management Using Scrum by Craig Murphy * Delivering Real Business Value Using FDD by Grant Cause Methods & Tools is a…
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The Quality Pledge
"I just received this in email: Pledge Our company is completely and absolutely committed to quality. * * Except on time-critical projects and during adverse cash-flow situations. When else would you need to be…
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New stuff on Team Agile: XtUnit and Interception block with basic documentation
Update: Fixed broken links (21-6-06) I just finished adding a new downloads section to the Team Agile website . In the process, I've revamped some of the downloads I've made available to date with some documentation and…
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Reminder: .Net astronauts user group meeting today
Reminder: .Net Architects (" Astronauts "? :-) user group meeting today !
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About architecture and astronauts
I really like what Joel writes about Architecture Astronauts (thanks for sending, Alex K.!). Sometimes it does feel that way. "When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers…
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[Interview] Juval Lowy on great architects and project management
Summary Roy Talks with Juval Lowy, the principal of IDesign and one of the industry's leading software architects. The topics include: Project management and the IDesign process, staged delivery and what's missing in…
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MVP.Xml library released
" On behalf of the Mvp.Xml Project 's team I'm glad to announce release v1.0 of the Mvp.Xml library . Mvp.Xml project is developed by Microsoft MVPs in XML technologies and XML Web Services worldwide. It is aimed at…
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[Interview] Natty Gur - Organizational Enterprise Architecture
Download the Mp3 file here (note: this specific interview was conducted in Hebrew) "Summary Roy Talks with Natty Gur - An independent software consultant specializing in Enterprise architecture - in the organizational…
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Help the Tsunami Victims of Banda Aceh - Buy an hour of Top-Notch Consulting
" It looks like Scott was the first to blog this... A bunch of us, championed by Julia Lerman and Stephen Forte are going to auction an hour each of our consulting time to benefit the Tsunami victims of Banda Aceh . ALL…
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Data Binding with .Net 2.0 : upcoming coolness
Brian Noyes posts a little nugget on Data Binding with .Net 2.0 from his upcoming book. Generics are indeed very cool.
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Announcing: First Agile Israel user group meeting this month!
I think its about time to do something about that Agile user group I talked so much about. So. The first meeting of the Agile Israel user group will be held on January 31st, Monday at 18:00 at Magen . Co-managing the…
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Wanted: Great questions for an interview with Juval Lowy
I'll be doing an online interview using Skype tomorrow with Juval Lowy . It's really hard to ask good questions at such interview. I mean - where do you start? So, I need your help. What are the top 3 questions I should…
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I'll be available for consulting in the bay area
<ShamelessPlug> There's a high probability that I'm going to be in the New York City/Bay Area during the month of March (7th-24th). I'll be available for consulting/training regarding Agile Development and .Net…
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"Buy first, ask questions later"
Jeff likes RegexBuddy , and I'd like to believe it's that good. I'd like to try it out. Unfortunately, their web page says the following: " There is no free evaluation version of RegexBuddy. You can safely buy…
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The role of helper frameworks in your tests
As you create tests for a system that gets bigger and bigger, so do the tests become bigger and more complex. One of the problems that start to occur is that you test code starts getting riddled with various…
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Get an MSN alert whenever this blog updates
I just added an alerts service to my blog after reading about it on Kevin Harder's blog. Supposedly, you should now be able to receive an alert on you MSN IM whenever my blog updates. That's pretty cool, and is an…
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Israel C# User Group: How to write your own object relational mapping
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 17:00 - 20:00 Place: Microsoft Israel Hapnina 2 ( Amdocs Building ) Ground Floor Raanana +972 (9) 762-5100 Parking is available at the Kurkar parking lot. Proceed straight past the traffic…
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Yet another product nowhere near your area
A very cool, slick and easy to use CD/DVD holding and retrieval device, even with a discount for MSDN subscribers is, once again, offered only to customer in the US and Canada. I think that sucks. Especially after…
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SQL Injection Attacks by Example
This nice article details a step by step approach of what the author needed to do to try and hack some intranet site (by request). It then details all the mitigation steps needed to make sure something like that can…
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.Net Architects user group - Architectural tools - dynamic modeling, code generation and IDE integration
Greetings .NET architect (in Israel)! You are welcome to attend our next meeting to be held on Sunday, January 23rd . Our next presentation focuses on introducing new concepts and tools to turn good system architecture…
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Why Word hates you
Now I know why sometimes Word hates me: "So, we had a problem, and it had a deceptively simple solution. This is exactly the kind of problem Word’s Auto Formatter was designed to solve. The fancy name for Word’s Auto…