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Book of the month
New book of the month for this blog: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Get this book if you are an experienced developer and have been fighting with designing applications from the ground up, including…
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[Article] Make your .Net application support scripting - the practical way
It was one of those nights. I had a small idea I decided to test, and *BAM* a flood of ideas started. And the end of the night I had this article sitting in my lap and I thought I'd share it with you: Make your .Net…
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Make your .Net application support scripting - a practical approach
Summary Adding scripting support to your application is one of the most valuable things you can do for your client, letting them add value to your software, and keep it current over time with little or no overhead from…
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Small Israeli DevDays rants
Here's a small rant: Why didn't we get all this cool stuff in the Israeli DevDays conference? Especially I don't get why we didn't get Whidbey preview edition (and I heard a rumor that we should have gotten it but it…
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"How do I open a weblog here?"
I've had a couple of friends ask me how they can open a weblog here on .NetWeblogs. They both are .Net developers and one of them(on my suggestion) tried to contact ScottW directly to ask for a blog but no answer.…
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[Tool] The long awaited Resharper - is VB.Net left behind again?
I've raved about IntelliJ IDEA before and I still hold that this is the best usability oriented editor I've seen anywhere. Now, the same folks who brought you this IDE have created an add-in for VS.Net that will…
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Accumulated links
I've had some stuff accumulated on my aggregator so I thought I'd dump most of it together for a good reference later. First of all, I've switched to RSS Bandit . The new version rocks and is much more stable. It still…
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[Tool] Cool Font\Colors add-in for VS.NET
Jason Olson took my font settings\Colors settings add-in for visual studio idea, and ran with it. He came up with a pretty cool little add-in , much more “scalable” than mine. Sounds perfect for presentations. Coolness…
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MVP Recommendation: James Crowley
For what it's worth, I'd like to take this stage and recommend someone who I think is worthy of an MVP title. Have you ever been to DeveloperFusion.Com ? It's a site dedicated to tutorials and information about…
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New Israeli User Group: Agile Development. What do you think?
I was chatting with Udi Dahan the other day at the user group (as a side note, the user groups are a great place to get to know people, hear some ideas and a great way to find out all the stuff you've been missing…
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[Tool] QuickJump - very nice and simple VS.Net add-in
( http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/quickjump_net.asp ). With this little tool involved, you can click Alt+G and get a window showing all of the members in the current class. Type a few letters to filter the list, and…
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Watch me speak at IVCUG: Regex and Plugins
If you're in Israel, mark your calendars. I'll be speaking at the Israel Visual C# user group on march 17th. Part I: Introduction to regular expressions with a practical example I'll introduce the power of the Regex ,…
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There was an earthquake?
Apparently, while I was sleeping this morning, Israel experienced an earthquake (5 on the Richter scale). no casualties, but suddenly all the media and the government are all “We don't have any emergency plans! what…
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2 new articles
Steve Maine just got his first MSDNAA article published: Introduction to Anonymous Methods and Higher-Order Procedures in C# In other news, MSDNAA was cool enough to re-publish one of my old articles: Winforms Data…
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Community Application Blocks? nah
Ron Jacobs , the guy in charge, among others, on the MS application blocks, proposes that the community will now be responsible for creating new application blocks, under the leadership of MS devs. While in theory this…
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1 year of blogging
Tomorrow will mark the 1 year anniversary of this weblog.Who knew.. A year ago I was hating my job, feeling misused and basically waiting for something to come along. It didn't come, so I had to bring it myself. This…
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Israel User Group news
Don't say I didn't tell you, Omer :) the .Net web user group will be meeting on the 11th of this month, just one day after DevDays. Here's the meeting details If you wanna see all the user groups in Israel: here's the…
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Setting the record straight on MVP newsgroups
OK. Just to set the record straight and to finish this latest circle concerning the private MVP newsgroups . On the following topics, here's my current stand: MVP private newsgroups This was apparently a…
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Doing Test Driven Development with no DLLs
Doing test driven development often(well, practically always) entails testing against a class library in your tests. It's just the easiest way to test functionality of objects (you need to reference those objects…
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Lessons learned from IVBUG
The last IVBUG meeting was about the subject of caching and the Caching Application Block , and was hosted by non other than our very own Software Simplist, Udi Dahan . Here's the presentation. Udi is a very eloquent…
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MyDoom (A,B) Worm Removal Tool for Windows XP and Windows 2000
Stay safe, but if you find yourself in deep sh*t already: MyDoom (A,B) Worm Removal Tool for Windows XP and Windows 2000
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In local news...
In local news, these misc items happened: Dino Esposito found my article helpful. Yes, it seems like a suck up, but you'll have to get over yourselves. I'm honored. Michal Blaha has built what looks to be a better and…
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The Best Unit Test framework in town
In the last IVBUG meeting I ran into the guy who created what he called “ The Best Unit Test framework in town ”. His name is Bnaya and he is one cool dude who is excited about technology in the way that I recognize in…
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Mortal sin #2: Information hoarding
So this is something I don't really get. If you are an MVP, you get access to discussions that the common folks don't have access to. Is it just me or is this situation twisted? The whole point about these discussion…
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.Net Rocks live - review
The first live .Net Rocks show was aired last week. And it was a hit. This is by far one of the most interesting and lively shows that have come out of the DNR hall of fame. Rory's debut Rory is an intelligent, funny…
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Pasting nicely formatted code into your blog
BTW, I was asked how I put the code so nicely formatted on my blog. Here are the steps: Write the code in vs.net Paste it into a new word document Save the document as an html(filtered) (or .Text will have trouble with…
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Mortal coding sin: programming in your mother tongue
If there's one nasty coding habit that gets me riled up every time it has to be coding with non English words. This probably won't mean much to the English speaking crowd, but here in Israel, and in other non English…
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Sign of life
No. I'm not dead. I was just taking a few days off to spend some quality time with my wife. Expect to see some more posts in the very near future about: .Net Rocks live The IVBUG caching lecture The best Unit testing…
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Leaving Norway
That's it. In a few moments I'll be shutting down this machine that I've had for two months. A short while after that it will be wiped and reformatted for use by someone else. It's always kinda sad to close your machine…
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My article on Microsoft.com!
Quick, before it disappears! My Log file to XML article is appearing on www.microsoft.com ! (Thanks for the tip, Darren )