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Unit Testing in Whidbey - some pointers for improvement
Jim Newkirk - apparently the guy in charge of all the Unit Testing stuff in VS Team System, and the guy who co-wrote Nunit , shows us a new object in the Unit Testing Framework of VSTS(Team system) - PrivateObject . The…
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Unit Testing should be in all VS 2005 Versions
Unit Testing support should be included with all versions of Visual Studio 2005 and not just with Team System. If you agree, please spread this around and remember to Comment/TrackBack Peter Provost's origianl post .
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Convincing Management to buy books
Johanna Rothman gives a very interesting take on how to convince your manager to buy books . If you don't know who she is, she's a world class consultant who's also been doing lectures here in Israel at SELA university…
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Writing a VS.Net Add-in, ugh
I've been dabbling a bit with the notion of creating a Regulator Add-in for VS.Net. Still not sure what exactly it will feature - got any suggestions? Anyway - I don't have much experience with writing Add-ins for…
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[ot] Piano is love
I've discovered the joy of the piano. I've always been musically incllined. I played the drums as a kid (I bet some of my old neighbours still remember it “affectionately”...), learn the flute (though I recall nothing),…
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[New Blog] Sa'ar Carmi
Yep. that's #4 in the last few days. What's going on? Welcome Saar Carmi to the blogsphere. I know Sa'ar a little and it looks like we're in for a very technical blog. Congrats!
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[New blog] He Who Can Not Be Googled
“Oddly enough, my parents named me Or Ron, with complete disregard to my seemingly promising future in the software industry and to the advent of the Internet search engines. Having a first name that also serves as a…
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Moving from a green screen is hard
James points to a discussion of the hard transition Data Entry folk do when moving from a “Green Screen” application onto a GUI based app (web/win). I totally agree. The issue actually dawned on me a couple of weeks…
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Add Support for "Set" Collections to .NET
One of the missing collection classes in .Net is one that's not as often used, but when you need it, boy, it's really missing, is the Set . You know - Set theory (”Group Theory”) and all, including Intesect, join and so…
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A GMail alternative, today
GMail is annoying. In fact, it is very annoying. the “Wer'e cool” bunch have decided to “test” the service, and everyone is clamoring for a GMail account. Well, guess what Google? I just found a service which features:…
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"Pen And Paper" interviews
[ Update : just wanted to say that there is a lot I don't agree with in Ido's post. Some of the things he lists there are quite legitimate in my view. I wrote this post beccause it reminded me of some stuff *I* displike…
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And *another* blogger: Alon Fleiss
Yes, another blogger joins the sphere: This time it is no other than Alon Fleiss . Many Israeli devs know Alon from his many years of teaching experience in the field. Heck, even my wife studied at some of his classes…
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Another Israeli .Net Blogger: Ohad Israeli
Ohad Israeli, my co-worker and .Net guru , has just joined the blogging scene . Expect lots of cool and interesting stuff about low level internals and high level architecture posts. This guy is good.
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Israeli Blogger Dinner re-scheduled (yes, again)
Due to popular demand, I rescheduled the dinner again. Please mark your calendars people! Thursday, June 24, 21:00 2nd Israeli Blogger dinner. no excuses! 2nd Blogger Dinner Are you an Israeli Blogger or developer? do…
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[Problem and solution] Right-to-left menus get scrambled when form is maximized
Lots of weird things happen when you try to develop a right-to-left internationalized software package. For example, You *think* your menus on the main form are fine, in a right-to-left state, but when you *maximize*…
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Hebrew .Net weblogs now available!
One big concern I hear from people I meet is that they really want to have a weblog, but they want to write in hebrew, not in english, simply because they can express themselves better in their mother tounge. That was a…
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Test Driven Development webcast
Reminder to self: watch the on demand online webcast: Test Driven Development With James Newkirk
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Israeli Blogger Dinner postponed
Sorry. There's just too much to do :( But! Thursday, July 1st, 21:00 2nd Israeli Blogger dinner. no excuses! 2nd Blogger Dinner Are you an Israeli Blogger or developer? do you read weblogs about .Net? Omer has been kind…
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Method PageRank for Reflector
Just beautiful. Peli is creating an add-in to Reflector that simulates PageRank on methods - giving you the most called methods at the highest rank, allowing you to realize what you should be testing first in an…
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2nd Israeli Blogger dinner is a go!
2nd Blogger Dinner Are you an Israeli Blogger or developer? do you read weblogs about .Net? Omer has been kind enough to remind me that we still have not had a proper blogger dinner. So how does this tuesday sound? we…
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I'm on Skype
Well, I bought myself a pair of headphones with a mic attached, and installed Skype. I feel chatty, so if you feel like it, and see me online, Skype me (surprisingly, my user name is royosherove). If you've talked to me…
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VB is rubbish? rubbish.
Bob powell writes a scathing post about how VB is rubbish . I have to say, as a Mort myself, some of what he says is true, and has been said before, but some of it is just total miundestanding of the reasons for the…
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Wintellect Web-exclusive articles
From Dino's blog , it looks like the guys at Wintellect have started their own set of exclusive articles publishing from employees.There is a very good starting set over there already. Now, if they'd only publish an RSS…
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New ASP.NET Issue Tracker Starter Kit
There's a new ASP.NET Community starter kit : Issue Tracker (via Early Adopter ). This joins in nicely to something I've been wanting to blog about: there's a real lack of good free issue tracking software. I asked…
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[ot] Hebrew blogging attempt
This blog will be a small attempt to write in hebrew. ???? ?????. ?????? ?????? ????? ???.
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When people don't want to do pair programming
At one of the projects I had a chance to manage, I had to teach an entire teams (3 people) how to do pair programming. I didn't call it “Pair programming” though, as that would have brought on the FUDs, but I just made…
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Solving weird problems, and making others solve them as well
Scott blogs about a weird problem he had with ASP.Net, and then asks “Could this be a good problem solver question for an interview?” Certainly, some people would take days to solve this problem. Personally I think I…
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Planning a daily, automatic build
One of the tasks I'm facing at a project these days is coming up with a automatic build configuration for the project. the idea is having a “daily build” for an existing project which comprises of roughly 110 sub…
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Bad interviews are your best friend
Recently a frined who was looking for a dev job approached me before an important interview. He said one thing that I just had to share. he said “They're going to test me on my knowledge, what if I don't know the…