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When Regular Expressions Attack
It's not that I'm BAD at regular expressions, I just learn enough to get me by when I need them. I'm nothing like Darren, who decided to do something like this : While reading the VB Language Spec today I decided to…
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[Cool tool] SQLCheck - FREE SQL server performance monitor/screen saver
via Stefano , Very nice: SQLcheck is an interesting (and FREE) Performance Monitor for SQL Server. With this tool, you can investigates, organizes and explains critical information about your server’s hardware,…
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Very good contest news, and an apology to Mark Miller
Oh this is going to be good. I already have collected prizes for my upcoming contest. Let me just say that first place gets over 300$ worth of goodies . sounds cool already? I'm still looking for more prizes/swag (this…
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A Biztalk 2004 riddle - Catching an exception from a web service
So here's what my friend is trying to do: He has a web service which is throwing and exception, hard coded, so that we can test if BizTalk gets it. The exception was thrown either as a Soap Exception or as a regular…
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More Israeli bloggers!
Slowly but surely, more and more Israeli folk are starting to open a .Net blog. My Israeli .Net blogger list on my blog home page is getting bigger and bigger. Just the other day I added Guy Sofer's blog to the list and…
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Another day, another contest. Wanna help?
I'm thinking of doing another contest, something in the likes of the Desktop Screenshot contest that was held here last year(and sadly, all the shots were taken down). Do you know people who know people who can give…
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I think I found my book of the month
Looks like we have a winner for my next book of the month... Test Driven Development in Microsoft .Net by James W. Newkirk and Alexei A. Vorontsov That is, I'm planning to buy it. It seems to have lots of stuff I've…
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Low defect rates are not a myth
Pretty amazing that some of the companies that are using XP practices to the bone are getting bug rates as low as a single defect a year , during 1-2 weeks release cycles.don't you think?
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Troubled comments in XML documents
Note to self: a comment in an XML file must not contain string of this nature: '-------------' , or the XML file won't load into an XML Document object. Took me long enough to figure it out though... thanks Ohad.
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VS-Styler :Toggle and save your VS.Net font and color settings instantly
Jason Olson went ahead and ran with my idea of an IDE add-in that saved your font configuration to pass around, and made it much much better . I'll let him tell about it: Well, VSStyler is now ready for download. It is…
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A cool Selection Expansion macro
David Scott decided he would really really like a feature that CodeRush has - Selection Expansion , where if you press a shortcut, the selection of text in the IDE expands into the next bigger logical block (”Single…
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Israel .Net Architects user group meeting today :Service Oriented Architecture
The .Net Architects user group is meeting today (the 28th). The meeting will be about SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and the speaker will be Udi Dahan . Hope to see you there! I know some people from Megen are…
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Very good intro article to Test Driven Development, but lots more needed
Just discovered this very good article that explains what Test Driven Development is all about and gives a good first glimpse and overview, including simple exercises to try yourself, on the whole matter. Very good read…
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The problem with Multi-Cast Delegates
Here’s a very interesting situation you can get yourself into when working with delegates: you have a delegate that returns a result. You use this delegate as part of your calculation. What happens when you have…
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Delegates & Events - A short Q&A
The other day I gave a presentation about Delegates & events to folks who were new to C#. I dawned on me that in fact, this subject is kind of confusing, and several questions arose from this presentation. Disclaimer :…
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SQL Server 2000 replication white paper
This white paper is especially helpful for users who are new to SQL Server 2000 replication. Instead of providing answers to the most common replication errors, this white paper: Introduces important replication…
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The Regulator moves to SourceForge, slowly but surely
Speaking of pissing me off , I uploaded The Regulator to SourceForge , and will, in the coming days be doing an effort to put up some kind of real page in there. Or maybe I should just point to my home machine again?…
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How CodeRush pissed me off
CodeRush . What can I say? I may be a little less on the objective side, having used CodeSmart for the past several years, but any tool that claims they are the only tool to have a “code templates“ feature , either is…
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New look for Technorati
Oooh. Technorati got a new slick look: www.technorati.com Very nice. Maybe now they'll also be a little more stable?
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GotDotNet is friggin broken
What the hell is wrong with GotDotNet? My Regulator workspace is breaking for some reason! bleh :( Any got any data on this?
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Download Slides & code from my Regex and Plugins presentation
Download it all from this location . Note: 380k, but a pretty slow download (it's my home machine and my upload rate is.. less than good). As a basis for my Regex presentation, I used this presentation by Steve Heckler…
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Article: Troubleshooting Stored Procedure Recompilation
Josh posted about recompilation problems he had when using #temp tables in his sprocs. He then got a great comment from Roman referring to this article : Troubleshooting Stored Procedure Recompilation One more little…
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Stupid Query Analyzer tricks - a working analog clock
yep. Some people have too much time on their hands
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Please rewind
Sure, this picture looks innocent enough, until you realize this was found on a DVD movie !
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Test Driven Development enters mainstream following MSDN Magazine article
Now, that MSDN Magazine itself has a full article proclaiming that Test-driven development (TDD) should be on every developer's radar screen , I can certainly say It's about friggin' time this became mainstream…
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Searching Borland and MS newsgroups even if your firewall won't let you use a newsreader.
Huh. Already found something useful at Falafel Blogs: If you're like me and working at a client site that does not allow access to news readers from behind their firewall, you should take a look at:…
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Falafel Bloggers?
As an Israeli, this appeals to me, although I have no idea what these guys have to do with this food product: Falafel Software and get this, they have Falafel Bloggers , only they call it “ Flogging ” instead of…
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Is sharing information in a blog wrong for your company? An ethical dilemma
Guy is a new blogger, and he just posted a very deep and complex question : “I think most of us sign a confidential agreement before we start to work for our employer,in which we are obligated to keep any knowledge…