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MIX 10 – First Day As I wrote earlier this week I’m attending the MIX conference at Las Vegas. This is a summary of the first day I had in the conference. The day started with a keynote session by Scott Guthrie . The keynotes included information about Silverlight 4 , Windows Phone 7 and more. Lots of cool demos and exciting news for web developers. After the keynote I went to the Building Offline/Cache mode web Apps using Sync Framework session with Mike Clark . The news here are the OData-Sync...
MIX10 – Here I Come I’m flying today to attend MIX10 conference in Las Vegas. This will be my first MIX and my first visit to Las Vegas so I’m very excited. I’m attending this conference with four other colleagues from Sela Group . I’ll try to keep you updated with things that happen in the conference so expect for more posts this week. If you are also attending the conference and want to meet me there you can contact me through the blog. Have a nice week!
Closing Another Year Another year of writing is over. A lot has happened in my life during the last year. Here are some highlights: I have a new baby boy at home :-) I received a MVP award from Microsoft. I started to work in a new company – Sela Group . And many more. Few Stats About my Blog Subscribed readers by Feedburner : ~350 (first year – ~115). Total blog posts: 219 (first year – 113). Total comments: 421 (first year – 216). Total trackbacks and pingbacks: 368 (first year – 81). Google...
Father for the Second Time This is not my usual technical blog posts. Somebody asked me today where I’ve been in the last two weeks. The answer is in the title :-) My wife gave birth to my second child, Eyal, almost two weeks ago. I took a small vacation in order to help my wife in the first days of the maternity leave. I will return blogging in the near future. Stay tuned!
Microsoft MVP Award Today I’ve started a new journey. I have the honor to be awarded Microsoft MVP . My old journey started over two years ago when my former manager in SRL Group, Maor David , convinced me to open a Blog in the Microsoft Israeli blogs system . Opening the blog was the first step toward this day which I got the mail indicating that I was awarded Microsoft MVP . I want to thank the following people that helped me on the way to this achievement: First of all to Maor my mentor...
Do We Need Design Patterns? In the previous week I have been asked “do we really need design patterns when we write code?”. Since one of the first things that I wrote in my blog was a design patterns series you probably would think that I answered SURE! or other absolute answer. That isn’t the case. The question was raised since I saw that a developer tried to enforce a design pattern (abstract factory) that wasn’t needed in some place in the code. What I really believe in is that design patterns...
Management From Hell This post is a result of a conversation I had with my wife. My wife is also in the Hi-Tech world and she is a senior Java developer (yes computers runs in the family ;-)). Last week we talked about what is going on in the project that she is assigned to and I couldn’t believe what I’m hearing. Apparently, the managers there just lost their mind… Sentences like: “I don’t want/care about quality code I want to see that you work a lot of hours” “Do you have a family? kids...
If it is Working Don’t Touch it? Occasionally I hear this sentence from here and there. Every time I hear it I get angry again. IMHO, when someone says that sentence it’s probably indicating that there is a lot of pain coming at us in the future. When I always hear that sentence? When there is a spaghetti code that nobody knows how to deal with (because the code is so tangled). When the developer is lazy and don’t want to change something that is working even though it is badly written. When there...
Where I’ve been in the Last Weeks If you are reading my blog you could see that I haven’t written posts for a while. In the last weeks I’ve been busy a lot with family issues, I took a one week vacation and also I have started a new project in a very big commercial company. In the future I’ll write more about the things I do there and about other stuff. See you around.
Disabled my Contact Form Since yesterday my blog is under a spam attack! I got more than 100 garbage mails through my contact form so I disabled it for a while. I’ll enable it in the near future after I’ll see that the attack is over…
Starting a New Journey As I wrote in a previous post , I left SRL Group, the company I worked for in the last two and a half years. Next week I’m starting a new journey as a senior consultant and .Net instructor in E4D Solutions company. E4D Solutions company specializes in providing training services, consulting and developing in Microsoft technologies, products and tools. Every end is a new beginning…
Who Develop the Developers? Sometimes I find myself wondering about the title’s question. During the years that I’m developing software I found out that this question isn’t trivial but holds a very simple answer - you should . When I was a junior developer, my team leader gave me three books and said that my first mission is to read these books and then after three weeks he’ll give me my first assignment. As you expect, I read the books and got my first assignment. But something was missing. I didn...
Looking for New Opportunities Today it’s not going to be my ordinary published posts. I quit my job at SRL Group. I’m not going to write the reasons for such a dramatic decision, but I can tell that I made it even though a financial crisis is occurring and I don’t have any alternative currently. I want to thank the following people for being there in good times and bad times: Maor David , Ran Wahle , Yaron Shkop , Yael Cohen , David Halimi , Rivka Gugig , Alon Moshe , Tal Tzur , Leon Langleyben and...
My Blog is One Year Old A year has past since I have started blogging and a lot has happened since then. Few of these things were: I was chosen to be MSDN Pulse blogger of the month on April. Four articles I wrote were published as article of the day in the official site of ASP.NET . Five articles I wrote were part of the .NET Zone's Top 10 Articles of 2008 . I published an article about DI on the Hebrew MSDN site. And more. Few Stats About my Blog Subscribed readers by Feedburner : ~115. Total...
My Current Learning List of Technologies In the last few days I have started to learn few old/new technologies that I think you should consider learning in the near future as well (if you didn’t learn them before). The technologies: ASP.NET MVC Framework – the new framework that leverage the MVC pattern for ASP.NET. The technology is a must learn technology for every .NET web developer in my opinion. Learning the framework will give you a new choice for implementing web applications with MVC pattern...
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