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VS.net Editor team chat when well
Just finished a refreshing chat with the VS editor team. It was really nice. It felt like people were listening. They didn't go got my “Integrate The Regulator into VS 2005” suggestion though. Oh well. They'll get it…
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[Tip] how to get Windows Explorer to "Yes to All" or "No to All":
“Thanks to John Elliot , how to get Windows Explorer to "Yes to All" or "No to All": If you are copying manually in the GUI with a drag and drop or a CTRL+C/CTRL+V then press SHIFT when you click 'Yes/No' the first time…
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Jackie Goldstein is blogging
Looks like I missed out on an important blogging event: Jackie Goldstein has started his own blog here on .net weblogs. For those who don't know - Jackie is a regional director for visual basic in Israel and also runs…
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Some cool refactoring examples, and what seems to be a lovely book
Just found this great set of refactoring patterns with examples . The examples are taken from the book “ Refactoring to patterns “ which seems like its worth a read. There is some stuff there that I did not hear or read…
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NUnit 2.2 beta 3 has been released - and some questions
This just in: NUnit 2.2 beta 3 has been released . It fixes several bugs It is able to run under .net 2.0 beta 1 If you were wondering, yes, I've been raising my suggestions about the rollback and database restore…
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MbUnit 2.17 released - with the cool database attributes I talked about
Peli has released the latest version of MbUnit . It has some really cool additions(click the link to read about them), some of them I helped shape. For example - the Rollback and database restore attributes are in there…
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[CoolTool] BlogWave: Scheduled RSS feed generation and publishing from multiple sources
Addy Santo has just published a first alpha of what seems to be a pretty cool tool: BlogWave . Some very cool screenshots and a download link is included. Here are Addy's words: “ This is an alpha (read: mostly…
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ADO.Net talk went great
Phew! this was an exhausting day! I was feeling pretty sick all through the morning today, but things cleared up a big in the afternoon. I also gave my talk at the C# user group today about ADO.Net . It went pretty…
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More agile development resources and an interesting research in the area
Here's another good place to find presentations and articles related to Agile Development: http://www.rspa.com/reflib/AgileDevelopment.html and here's a great paper about agile development: People Factors in Software…
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Being an INETA speaker?
Hmm. What I would *really* love to do is be an INETA speaker. You get to travel the globe (the closer part of it, anyway) and talk to interesting people about interesting subjects. now - how does one get such a gig?…
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Unit Testing scalability and performance
I had an interesting chat with Clemens today. I told him about the Rollback ability using ES and he totally disagreed with me that its a viable option for testing database usage for several reasons: If you run tests…
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Database Unit Testing issues and solutions: Rollback And RestoreDatabase abilities
Update : Later on, after this article was written, I've created a much more elegant way to have your own [Rollback] attribute without resorting to a whole new binary version of Nunit. In fact, that attribute will work…
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Blogger/geek dinner is canceled for today
Blogger/geek dinner is canceled for today. Too few people are available. :(
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Announcing:Coolest Add-in Contest - Entries available for download
Announcing the Add-in Contest site: http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/default.aspx Site features: Lists all the entries that were eligible to enter the contest, along with a download link and short descriptions. (some…
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Israeli Geek Dinner Tomorrow - at what time?
Geek dinner tomorrow , remember? Now I need you to answer me this: would 19:30 be too early? We're probably talking about El-Gaucho in Tel aviv, like we did last month.
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Omer is doing some serious blogging
Just wanted to give a shout out and “Re-spect!” for Omer Van Kloeten , who, during the past few weeks has been able to come up with some real serious and deep stuff in his weblog. Here's a partial list of the stuff he's…
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Studies in teaching TDD and XP
This site has some interesting papers relating to teaching TDD and Extreme Programming. They list common problems with teaching TDD and XP, how they tried to solve it, and there are also some papers detailing how to do…
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New Israeli Blogger: Ido Tandy
New Israeli blogger: Ido Tandi . Ido works with me at Magen which, with the recent addition of Ido Samuelson to our team - brings the number of Magen Bloggers to a whopping 4. That's 15% of the company blogging. Gotta…
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Setting my priorities straight
Blogging will be a little lighter than usual in the next few weeks I have a life that I have been neglecting a bit and I need to attend to. So - I'll be here.. in spirit. but I'll blog whenever I'll have something…
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XP talk rescheduled - replaced with "ADO.Net Best Practices and advanced Concepts"
The “XP and Agile Concepts” talk I was supposed to give on the 21st of this month has been rescheduled. We're planning to do this talk on a larger scale next month - so don't get too disappointed. Instead - I'll be…
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MBUnit to feature Rollback abilities as well
After my last post about NUnitX I forgot to mention one very cool thing: I've been in touch with Peli - maker of MBUnit (which with a little work can grow to become a mainstream force in the unit testing arena) and…
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Introducing: NUnitX and the Rollback attribute - Seamless database rollback with Nunit
Update : You may be more interested in XTUnit , which was released a bit later on and provides the same abilities, without needing a seperate version of NUnit to run. In fact, it runs on any unit testing framework for…
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An interesting Memory Leak problem.
Udi is having a hard time figuring out a nasty weird memory leak problem . I have no idea what the answer is, but I'm sure one of you smart people out there could chime in. I'd love to see what the answer to this…
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Microsoft is losing the community battle - against itself
in one of my earlier posts, about what a typical user group looks like , Paschal put in this bitter comment: "Roy the problem is that usergroups are not all the same friendly and nice in every country ! In Ireland sadly…
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A simple way to unit-test internal classes
Jamie Cansdale (Of Nunit Add-in fame)has been cool enough to share with me a quick way that allows you to test internal classes in your project without referencing the Nunit framework DLL. it's pretty simple, actually.…
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My feed reader of choice - RSS bandit
Since I was asked this somewhere - I use RSS Bandit as my feed reader. Nice,cool and free.
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What a typical user group looks like
I wanted to share with you what a typical user group meeting looks like. I know that when I decided I wanted to go to a user group meeting I was pretty scared to go on my own. Go figure. My first user group meeting was…
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Announcements: Geek Dinner, TDD workshops and upcoming lectures schedule
Yes I know. been *real* busy. Hope to get back at you soon soon. Meanwhile, some community stuff I've been wanting to do and some stuff I've been asked to do. Also - I wanted to say thanks for the large amount of…
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User group meeting today: Intro to SQL reporting services
See you there ? This month we will focus on the SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services . This is a relatively recent addition to the SQL Server family and is available for free to licensed owners of SQL Server 2000. Our…