No - I do not have better things to spend my money on. I want this: can you guess yet? it's the USB Devil Duckie Drive, of course. “Once you reach your destination, plug in your Devil Duckie Drive and put him to work. His expressive (and often hypnotic) eyes will blink as he reads and writes your data. “ (thanks for the tip, Avner)

Juval wrote a very cool article(registration required) about implementing the BackGroundWorker component found in VS.Net 2005 in C# today. Just for the heck of it (and because I needed to), I implemented this component (the article only shows some of the code needed to make this work). You can get the source code here. If you don't know...

One of the things I needed to do at an MDI application I was involved with was the ability to only load a specific form once, and make sure it does not load again. That form could not be modal, but could only have one instance running inside the MDI parent.  I came up with a rather elegant solution, if I do say so myself :) (Of course what...

Just in case you were wondering - there is no IVCUG meeting today. I just called Shai Bar lev and he informed me of this.

Looks like there's new Israeli .Net user group being formed?

Ack! Another Israeli .Net Blogger: Leon. It seems “our” plot to take over the world has now moved into phase two - taking over the blogsphere.

One of the things that were supposed to be at Tech-Ed Israel was a handout of some nice DVDs and CDs with cool source and software to play with (much like at any other given Tech-Ed around the world.  Well, Microsoft Israel screwed up and no-one got anything (There was some glitch or something..?), except a nice back-pack and a bunch of...

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 whole idea behind the object is that you can Test Private methods inside your tested class. So what happens is that when...

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.

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 about product development and project management. We've also met her for a Blogger dinner some time ago, it was...

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 vs.net so I happily started one project. Boy - it should not be this hard. Even trying to do something as simple as creating a...

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), I've been playing classical guitar for the past 7 years (no notes, just hearing and mimicing) and I've always...

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!  

“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 Boolean operator, has doomed me to a life devoid of ego-surfing. No matter how much material is credited to me on the web,...

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 ago. I was talking to a friend who works at aviation. In one of our chats he complained that “Now they're making...