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Learning from mistakes: the Don Quixote pattern
Experience is built on mistakes. in the near future I'll try to describes some of the biggest mistakes I've made during my (short)career and the lessons that I learned from them. In this post I'll tell you about one of…
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Using SOA on existing N-tier applications
Udi Dahan writes very eloquently and shows a simple implementation example using Service Oriented Architecture. While I agree with the main theme, I can't help but wonder, What happens when you need to introduce the SOA…
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The RSA encryption algorithm - step by step
This very cool site shows you, step by step, how the RSA encryption algorithm works. While I've read about the algorithm, it's great to see such a simple example that explains so much so easily. (link via Michael )
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MS Word for OS-X: Nostalgia edition
"Well, we now know that MS engineers know that OS X is Unix. The trouble is, they seem to have used a really old Unix reference manual when they built Word for OS X - Arcterex noticed that Word on OS X enforces a 31…
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Three free recipes from "ADO.NET Cookbook"
[ .NetWire :] " O'Reilly's recently released ADO.NET Cookbook contains over 150 solutions and best practices for everyday dilemmas. This week, we're excerpting three recipes from the book that show how to asynchronously…
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Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness
Speaking of bad designs (well, I'm sure somewhere in the world someone just mentioned it): Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness [via This is broken ]
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Unit testing resources
AndrewSeven asks if I know any more links to unit testing stuff, especially NunitASP. While I don't have necessarily have links about NUnitASP, here are some more resources: Darrell's Test Driven Link'o rama The XP…
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Clover and unit test patterns
2 unit testing ilnks, both from James Avery : Clover for .NET (Alpha) - Clover is a tool that tests your unit tests, reporting on things like how well your code is covered by your unit tests. Advanced Unit Test, Part V…
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From VB6 to VB.Net - important webcasts
Quoting Duncan MacKenzie A series of 15 webcasts & lab exercises for the VB6 programmer... (see the full list here) MSDN Webcast: Program Execution in the 21st Century - Level 200 2/3/2004 1:00 PM - 2/3/2004 2:30 PM…
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X# video snagged my MS
This guy somehow found a video demonstrating x# (from MS research). However, the video was supposed to be only internal but somehow got leaked. So MS (actually the speaker in the video, Chris Lovett) asked him politely…
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Code Complete 2. Good, but not a silver bullet
Oh goodie!, Code Complete 2 is on the horizon(via Shawn ). While many consider this book to be the "bible of coding", I can't help but feel overwhelmed by such a response. I read it, it is definitely good and has great…
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Sam Gentile on Test Driven Development
Just started listening to Sam Gentile on the .Net Rocks show , and he's talking about exactly what's the main thing in my .net life right now: doing test driven development. Very cool and very interesting. Although slow…
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Are you in Israel and reading this?
Yosi is conducting a small test . If you're in Israel and reading this, go post a comment on his post or on this post. Let's see how many we can gather , shall we?
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Share your RSS subscriptions with the world
If you haven't checked it out yet, you should really take a look at http://feeds.scripting.com/rankings Basically it's a site that allows you to upload your OPML file and share it with others. The link here shows the…
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What Good is the Bill of Rights?
This is scary . I'm sure almost every country in the world (including Israel) does this though. And there are things we will never know, or find out. [via Have Browser, will travel ]
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Service announcement: Source code for MSDN articles now available
The source code for my MSDN articles was missing on all of them. This has been fixed. So if you wanted to download the code, now you can :)
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Boosting productivity
> largest discrepancy in productivity between the worst and > best developer in a single organization is 28 to 1 Only 28:1? Note to self: must slack off more, thereby boosting the relative productivity of my cow-orkers…
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[Tool] Easier log parsing with Log Parser
Speaking of parsing log files , There's a little known tool called LogParser , and it's from the Microsoft IIS team. This very powerful parser can easily parse various kinds of log files and you can actually query…
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Iranian Journalist Credits Blogs for Playing Key Role in His Release From Prison.
This is pretty darn cool. [via Dan Gillmor ]
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New MSDN article: Turn Your Log Files into Searchable Data Using Regex and the XML Classes
Thanks to Kent , another article of mine has just been published on MSDN: Turn Your Log Files into Searchable Data Using Regex and the XML Classes This is one of my favorites, as it shows a real life example of…
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Weekend thoughts and ramblings
Ah, it's the weekend again. Let's see. What shall I do? Um, read blogs, write blogs, read code,write code, I'm also thinking of a new article, about DB unit testing. But mainly,I'm really going to miss my wife. I love…
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Shame on me
A few months ago , I posted a short blurb about the a paragraph from [ Mystic Microsoft - chapter 11 ], a book by Kraig Brockschmidt, who is also known as the guy who wrote " Inside OLE ". The blurb took a single remark…
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IntelliJ IDEA blows my mind again
Ah. Version 4 . And it even has Edit and Continue . How about that? Are you listening, Microsoft? this is the IDE I wish VS.Net could be one day. Please, learn as much as you can from the features of this amazing IDE…
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Weekend reading: Acm Turing Award Lectures : The First Twenty Years, 1966 to 1985
Ah. This is my idea of good literature: Acm Turing Award Lectures : The First Twenty Years , 1966 to 1985 I have a feeling that 50% of it will be waaay over my level, but I browsed through it and was able to spot some…
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Debugging Unit tests using the VS.net debugger
[ Update : Bah ! how silly am I? Turns out you can do the same thing I outline here only much much easier using the amazing NUnit-Addin. It has a "Test with Debugger" command that allows you to do just what I explain…
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Common rants and misconceptions
Tell me if you've heard this before: "The company I work for Is too cheap to buy me..." a bigger computer screen a better mouse A better keyboard A better dev machine\More RAM\CPU A ticket to the PDC\DevDays\programming…
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The FxCop Blog
Oh cool. The FxCop people now have a blog: The FxCop weblog here on .Net weblogs. " Our goal is a single URL where we serve up tips and information about the FxCop tool and relay answers to some of the more common and…
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The Regulator Wiki
I've decided to create a Wiki site for The Regulator . Since I can't find the time to create all the documentation myself, I thought if I make this a public thing then people who use this tool can put their knowledge on…
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SOA reading list
Great. Now I have a whole lot of reading to do on SOA , courtesy of Darrell .