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The Meta Programming System - The next paradigm?
I don't even know where to begin after reading this very thought provoking article by Sergey Dmitriev , one of the fathers of IntelliJ IDEA (one of my favorite IDEs). The article talks about the "Meta Programming…
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Israel Geek Dinner with Addy Santo - 28.11.04
Finally - a new nerd dinner: (Hint: Register for the Israel Nerd Dinners RSS feed here ) taken from http://nerddinner.com/blogs/israel/archive/2004/11/21/330.aspx : Geek Dinner - 28.11.04 Mark that date! Guest of honor:…
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Live .Net Rocks chat
Since it's stag night here at Osherove mansion, I thought I'd join the live chat on .Net Rocks (which occurs at 2.30 am in Israel. We'll see how that goes. Hopefully Rory won't kick me out of the chat room. After all, I…
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News of the week - Israeli blogger edition
Wow. What a week. I managed to pull off a user group talk at the IVCUG on Wednesday about Custom Attributes and Interception. Let me tell you, if you though the material was hard, try learning it well enough to be able…
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Israeli .Net Deep Dive chat going on right now
In case you were wondering - there is a live chat going on between the upcoming .Net Deep dive speakers and the community: http://www.microsoft.com /israel/communities/chats/dev /chatroom.aspx Feel free to join in and…
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[OT]Productivity and lesson learning, Linux style?
[Warning: the following link is to an article that is _anti-Microsoft_ you've been warned ] This article is a very interesting read . On one hand I feel bad for the dude that fell into the teeth of BSA, and I feel kinda…
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Article: Continuous Database Integration by Peter Hancock
Peter Hancock has written a very interesting and real world article about his way of creating an automated database deployment task. It's not a simple thing, but it's possible with a bit of work. He's using NAnt,…
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Why does the BorCon Israel Registration page have to suck?
Why does a conference such as BorCon Israel have to come up with such a lame ass registration page? I mean, C'mon! The form is actually trying to send email through my email client? What - You can't demonstrate web…
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Simple math with regular expressions?
A friend of mine (Ariel) made the bold claim that it is possible to write a regular expression (in today's languages such as .Net) that checks simple mathematical functions, for example if a number is divisible by 3. I…
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Mitigating malicious plug-ins in your application
Plugins and security - interesting topic. barely touched. Peter shows and explains very nicely the some of the reasons and ways malicious add-ins could tamer with your application, and some very good ways of mitigating…
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What blogs are other people reading?
I think it was a nice guy named Oren who asked me at the recent IVBUG meeting about resources where you could see what other people are subscribing to in their RSS readers. Along comes Scoble (its been months since I've…
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Perspective
Reading pat's blog entry about his wife's passing made me cry. Pat, you don't know me but I know you. I wish you all the best and thank you for writing that wonderful post. You expressed in so many words things that I…
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Smalltalk: Just Try it
Blaine Buxton says just give it a shot : Isn't it time to deal with complexity with a simple and powerful language? Read this article and realize Smalltalk could be used to fix the "complexity" problem by dealing with…
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IntelliJ IDEA keeps getting better
While VS.Net 2005 tries to keep up, IntelliJ IDEA (for Java) continues to improve itself with loads of very cool, very powerful stuff , and be (in my mind) the best IDE on the market today for productivity coding (sadly…
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The Road to Agile: a series of online presentations
There is a series of cool online "webinars" ( online live presentations) at Rally Development: The Road to Agile here's the list of all four presentations. already watched the first one and it was very very interesting.…
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[OT]Geeky political joke
The past few days have proven that "certain death" is just a term. Yasser Arafat is still alive, or isn't he? I guess that gives a new meaning to the term " Non-deterministic finalization " OK. don't shoot the geek for…
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Israeli .Net bloggers worth a read
I have about 30 Israeli bloggers on my RSS reader. less than 10 of thos publish stuff on a regular basis and the others are annoyingly silent. Here is the list of the Isralei .Net bloggers that have updated their blogs…
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IVBUG Celebrates its Seventh Birthday
Happy 7th birthday to the Israeli VB user group and to its creator, Jackie Goldstein ! What a great example of a community. See Jackie's post on the subject for pics n' stuff ..
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Have you been involved in an Agile project in Israel?
In the recent week my company, Magen has begun offering a new line of Training services: Agile and Test Driven Development. I'll spare you the details (If you want more details simply contact me through the contact link…
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The way it ought to be - Microsoft and feedback
This is exactly how it should work: You post feedback on an event you have been to, your blog is read by one of the presenters in that event which then posts on his own weblog on the power of feedback and tells his…
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What's up?
Udi Dahan shows a simple and effective way to make your exception data more readable in the event log. Yeah. It's really simple. Aviv raff is an up and coming Israeli .Net blogger. He's had 6 posts already (which is why…
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I'm Back, A webcast screwup, and my upcoming talk schedule
I'm back baby! That is, I Will slowly start to catch up on everything that I've missed in the past couple of weeks. Larkware.Com is my friend on that task. I FINALLY have some time to start doing all the things I've…
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OK - back for an evening, leaving tomorrow for a week
just so you know - I AM leaving for military service, it was just shortened and I'll be back at the beginning of next month.
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Osherove.Interception 1.04 - Change return values and incoming parameter values at runtime easily
I just love the idea of interception. It lets you do stuff like this: using Osherove . Interception . Framework ; namespace Osherove . Interception . Samples . AutoEncryption { public class CryptTestedClass :…
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See you in three weeks
I'm leaving tomorrow for what looks to be like a 3 week military duty :( See you all when I get back (Hopefully I'll get a vacation somewhere in the middle..). Cheers, Roy.
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'I'm not going to be your monkey'
'I'm not going to be your monkey' , said John Stewart in this movie clip. This link just fell into my lap and its really interesting and hard to watch.
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Solving Team Development with web projects hell
I've been inspired by this article to change the way one of the teams at work has been handling a large solution. We had a big problem with a large solution (over 100 projects) that had many web services and asp.net…
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Best Independent Tech Blog Readers Choice Awards
Hmm. So now there's a contest over the 10 best technical blogs. *whistle* I've already put my 5 recommendations in. you? [via Mike ]
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BlogMatrix: RSS news reader with podcasting reception abilities.
David Janes sends word of his new RSS news reader: BlogMatrix . Here's what the site says. Notice that theres podcasting abilities in it as well. Interesting. ( What is podcasting? ) " BlogMatrix introduces Jäger 1.6…