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The blog, page 59
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Code DOM articles galore
Omer has posted a set of articles regarding the Code DOM (the set of classes that allow you to dynamically write and generate code on the fly using the .Net framework for the .Net framework) Some good stuff in there. I…
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Microsoft Research Academic Days in Israel
“It'a hapenning in Israel, next week. I will be giving a talk (pure philosophical one) on Indigo. If you are somehow connected to the academic world, you are welcome to join . the price is 200 nis which are almost 50$…
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Regulator Gift Certificates
[Note: shameless plug ahead] Speaking of presents, one of the things I changed in The Regulator 2.0 was the “Donate” link. It used to point to a Paypal account, but it seems that PayPal sucks when you're overseas. No…
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My Passover Present
Joy. I got for Passover (a.k.a The Jewish Christmas) from my boss a webcam. It's the third one we got. Luckily, it came with an exchange coupon, and behold, the coupon was just right for me to replace it with a CD/MP3…
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The day after
Well, it's the morning of the day after. Everyone talked a lot and I think I personally have learned a lot. lots of stuff has been hitting the fan, which is not what I wanted. I did want a conversation to start, not all…
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DotNet vs. Smalltalk
This is an interesting read. (via Cincom) here's the end of it: “Microsoft, are you listening? I am making a concerted effort here to give up my Smalltalk bigotry and you guys aren't helping! What ever happened to…
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Non MVPs at the MVP summit - looks bad, smells bad
Update: Hi this is roy from the year 2013. The post below was written in 2004. I was a DICK back then, it seems. so I apologize. I am keeping this up here so people can see that everyone can be a dick sometimes, and it…
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The Regulator 2.0 is out
It's just a beta , and most of the documentation will only be available on the wiki in the coming future, but: -added: installer -added: generate C# or vb.net code from regex(via tools menu) -added: regex Analyzer.…
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CodeDOM adventures and oddities
Omer posts some interesting bits on using the CodeDOM code generator , including some tricks. One important thing to know is how the code generator will generate string declarations. Omer discovers that you can't make…
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My phone manners need work
Tal says I'm impossible to talk to on the phone when I'm at work. She's right, of course. I'm always sounding either condesending, impatient or bored. I really need to work on it. Sorry honey. (of course, instead of…
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Good AppDomain FAQ
Yeah, lots of hype in the air today. But, more important stuff first. AppDomain FAQ seems to be a good resource. (via yves ) As For channel 9 ? I have a whole post lined up but it'll have to wait for tomorrow.
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Windows Media Player problem? here's a very good FAQ page
Bleh . I'm trying to watch an all important streaming video of some really important things (no, not that), and windows media player 9 only plays audio and no video. Coolness. Always wanted to know what its like to be…
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Sample chapter from "The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language" available
For those of you who've been considering buying my book but just want to make sure that it's worth whatever they're charging for it these days, Addison-Wesley (my publishers) has provided a sample chapter online in PDF…
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The next Regulator is gonna rock (with your help)
I've been getting a lot of requests for new features in The Regulator . Some people want it to be able to compile the regex to an assembly, some want it to be able to do a examine-o-matic in the style of Regex Workbench…
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MSDN Subscriber Downloads gets an RSS feed
Good news for MSDN subscribers : be notified of new downloads available from MSDN Subscriber Downloads via this RSS feed . [via Signs on the sand ]
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Shmarya joins the fray
Another Israeli Blogger joins the fray. This time it's Shmarya . He decided to host the blog on his own server (using .TEXT) though, rather than join the mass media frenzy that is weblogs.asp.net lately.
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Another book of the month, and what's up with ApplicationException?
OK. I have to admit that this book was a very close second to my Book of the month: .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 , by Brad Abrams . I really like this quote from Brad about the book: I tried…
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Book of the month for April
Book of the month: Test Driven Development in Microsoft .Net From the reactions I'm starting to get from people this book is a winner. Highly recommended.
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From Java Generics to questioning assumptions
[ Small update : all occurences of “loose“ have been replaced by the word “dynamic“, due to an explicit request . So there. Can anyone explain the difference?] Bruce Eckel is Over it . Actually, he's over the fact that…
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Small, Spiffy, Freeware utilities
Some pretty useful freeware tools,applets and... stuff here . (via Kent ) SlickRun does look pretty cool and simple.
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A .Net LDAP library + article
Oh, this should come in handy in one of my upcoming things, I think: Novell has a .Net C# LDAP library with an article that explains how to do the important stuff with it. I still can't find the download link for said…
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True Binary Serialization and Compression of Datasets
Scott Galloway points, in the a comment to this post, to an article that explains how to do binary serialization and compression of Datasets , which can come in handy when you're looking for something like that..
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DPack: Free enhancement Add-ins to VS.NET IDE
Includes Delphi keyboard mapping scheme, Code Browser add-in, Code Navigator add-in, and numbered bookmarks. Other features coming soon! http://www.usysware. com/dpack.htm [via Adam Anderson ] The Code browser is just…
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MVP Summit pointers, and a shout out to James Robertson
How cool is this? My blog was mentioned by James Robertson (The Robert Scoble of Smalltalk?) in his talk about blogs and RSS. Thanks James. I'll be sure to mention you whenever my next user group talk becomes a reality.…
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Is TextAmerica good enough for a desktop contest?
I'm still looking for a good place to host my desktop screen shots contest. TextAmerica looks pretty cool, except you can only view the pictures up to a certain size (which is problematic when trying to determine…
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Israel slowly discovers RSS
This is very cool. One of the biggest news sites in Israel - YNet , has published a big news article covering the benefits of RSS and XML. All I can say is finally!. Ironically, this same site, has a community…
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Looking for a good Knowledge base management solution
There's a lot of knowledge hosted on our servers. documents, articles, links. you know how it goes. We want to index it and create a search able knowledge base with links to all the files,ability to add files easily and…
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"Database Access with Visual Basic .NET" is the book chapter I was pointing to
Heh. Turns out that last book chapter that I pointed to was from a book written by Jackie Goldstein and Jeffrey P. McManus. It's a small world. Jackie it the VB regional director for Israel and also heads the VB/VB.Net…
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VS.Net Database Projects - learn to use them (Sample chapter included)
I just got acquainted with the Database Project in VS.Net. Very cool. This sample chapter gives a very nice intro on the Hows and Whys of it(PDF). I'll be adding this to my current project shortly. Some of the main…
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Scripting .Net on MSDN-AA
My Scripting in .Net article just got published on MSDN-AA . I need to find time to write more articles....