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1st Public Meeting of the IASA Israeli Chapter

2010-03-17T18:10:00Z

The first public meeting of the International Association of Software Architects Israeli Chapter will take place on this Thursday (Tomorrow ) !

The meeting's goal is to introduce IASA and its offerings, and to initiate the Israeli chapter of IASA.

During the meeting we will discuss the objectives and roadmap of the IASA Israeli chapter, and how it can advance the Software Architecture profession in Israel.

Following the introduction we will host an interesting presentation “Architecting for the Cloud” given by Danny Cohen, Architect at Microsoft Israel.

Please note that the given lecture plus IASA future activities are not technology specific related and address both .NET and Java software architects.

When:
March 18th 2010, Thursday, 17:00 – 19:45

Where:
HP Israel, Dafna 9, Raanana
(location map: http://tinyurl.com/HP-iisrael-dafna-raanana )

Register & RSVP:
Please register & RSVP at: http://tinyurl.com/IASA-Israel-1st-meeting-event

For more details, see: http://tinyurl.com/IASA-Israel-Meeting-0310

See you there !

IASA Israel Chapter – First Meeting

2010-02-28T06:29:00Z

In this event we will present IASA, the International Association of Software Architects. We will discuss IASA Israel goals and roadmap. Flowing the introduction we will host an interesting presentation “Architecting for the Cloud” given by Danny Cohen.

The IASA group is not targeted to specific a implementation technology thus registration is opened for .NET & Java software architects.

Please check the Website for more details and a map of the meeting location.

When:
March 18th 2010, Thursday, 17:00 – 19:45

Where:
HP Israel, Dafna 9, Raanana (map)
Parking: at the building’s parking lot.
Please Register & RSVP

Join out LinkedIn group

For More information regarding the first meeting click here

Coke steels Yotvata commercial advertisement !

2010-02-07T22:07:00Z

Coke showed the following commercial advertisement at the super bowl 2010…

Reminds you something ???

Check this…

Visual Studio 2010 RC

2010-02-07T21:47:00Z

Watch out Soma’s blog for an upcoming announcement targeted to MSDN subscribers…

ATL.NET Tools – The Videos

2010-02-03T23:50:00Z

About a week ago I've participated in the first meeting of ALT.NET Tools session in Israel, the session was pure fun, we grouped together a bunch of geeks in one conference room to speak about tooling that can make developer’s live easier.

We had several interesting sessions over the meeting with lots of cool tools… some common ones and some are products of newly startup companies.

By the middle of the meeting we had lots of pizzas in complementary from our host Delver or by its new name Sears Israel. And by the end of the meeting I've handed out several nice prizes to the ones who filled up the feedback forms correctly :-)

Among the prizes your could have find leftovers from Manning’s contribution to the IDCC (Israeli Developer Community Conference)

And an original boxed version of Windows 7 Ultimate x86/x64 DVD that I've received some time ago from Microsoft

I’ve just finished encoding and uploading the ATL.NET Tools sessions and you are welcome to watch them online. Please note that the sessions are in Hebrew.

Opening words by Ken Egosi – the founder of ALT.NET meetings in Israel

Session 1

Balasmiq Mockups – really cool tool for building mockups !

you can also read about it on the latest MSDN Magazine article about UI Mockups

- Create software mockups in minutes
- Collaborate with your team
- Focus on creating your product

Session 2

Log4Net Viewer – Apache Chainsaw – log view aggregator

“Chainsaw v2 is a companion application to Log4j written by members of the Log4j development community. Like a number of Open Source projects, this new version was built upon inspirations, ideas and creations of others. Chainsaw v2 has it's roots from the original Chainsaw utility written by Oliver Burn, and with inspiration from the Log Factor 5 utility contributed by ThoughtWorks Inc.”

Session 3

Sharpkit – forget about javascript…write it in C#

“If you are missing features like auto-complete, XML documentation, syntax verification and refactoring in your JavaScript development, you should give SharpKit a try.

When you work with SharpKit, you write C# instead of JavaScript. This way you don't have to memorize the API - it's always right there at your fingertips”

Session 4

QucikUnit – A supplementary tool for unit testing

“Developers don’t create enough unit tests. QuickUnit can help.

With QuickUnit – novice developers can write quality unit tests quickly without the initial learning curve”

Session 5

TeamCity - Distributed Build Management and Continuous Integration Server

“TeamCity is a continuous integration and build management system. With TeamCity, you can set up a build server within minutes and enjoy out of the box continuous unit testing, code quality analysis, and early reporting on build problems — even without leaving your favorite IDE. TeamCity offers a gentle learning curve, so you can quickly improve your release management practices by gradually adopting its advanced features and capabilities.”

Session 6

MongoDB - Combining the best features of document databases, key-value stores, and RDBMSes

“MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. Written in C++, MongoDB features:

- Document-oriented storage (the simplicity and power of JSON-like data schemas)
- Dynamic queries
- Full index support, extending to inner-objects and embedded arrays
- Query profiling
- Fast, in-place updates
- Efficient storage of binary data large objects (e.g. photos and videos)
- Replication and fail-over support
- Auto-sharding for cloud-level scalability
- MapReduce for complex aggregation
- Commercial Support, Hosting, and Consulting”

E-Mail Storm flooding Hewlett-Packard

2010-01-04T16:51:00Z

What is an E-mail storm ?

From Wikipedia:

An e-mail storm is a sudden spike of Reply All messages on an email distribution list, usually caused by a controversial or misdirected message. Such storms start when multiple members of the distribution list reply to the entire list at the same time in response instigating message. Other members soon respond, usually adding vitriol to the discussion, asking to be removed from the list, or pleading for the cessation of messages. If enough members reply to these unwanted messages this triggers a chain reaction of email messages. The sheer load of traffic generated by these storms can render the email servers inoperative, similar to a DDoS attack.

On the 31/12/2009 10:20 the following email was send by someone in HP, his/her mistake was that it was sent to the wrong address, the email was sent to an exchange discussion list which hold all the employees who has remote access to the company – yes all the employees who has remote access to HP and you can start counting them…

In response to this email hundreds if not more emails were sent back using Replay-To-All asking to be removed from the DL as people were/are flooded with emails – anyone who responded responded back to the DL itself and by that sending email again to company wide.

One email was hilarious, someone decided to send to the DL an email asking ppl to take an outlook training over the internal portal hoping that ppl will learn NOT to press Replay-To-All

This led to a line of even more hilarious emails as some employees answered to the DL that they are not using outlook and they are using linux systems and as such what will be with their bonus, do they need to take the training or not ? :-)

I’ve noticed several emails requesting ppl to stop sending emails but the flood is keep on coming…

If you look at Wikipedia again for former incidents:

On October 14, 1997, a Microsoft employee noticed that they were on an as-yet unknown email distribution list 'Bedlam DL3', and emailed the list asking to be removed. This list contained approximately a quarter of the company's employees, 13,000 email addresses. Other users replied to the list with similar requests and still others responded with pleas to stop replying to the list. A Microsoft employee estimates that 15 million emails were sent, using 195 GB of bandwidth.
On October 3, 2007, an email storm was generated at the US Department of Homeland Security, causing more than 2.2 million messages to be sent, and exposing the names of hundreds of security professionals.
State Department employees were warned they could face disciplinary action for taking part in a massive email storm that "nearly knocked out one of the State Department's main electronic communications systems."

It really makes you think of what can a simple mistake of an employee can cause to a company…

Beware of whom you send you email to, choose you DL wisely and please please please think for a min before hitting the Replay-To-All.

Note: A much better was it to replay to all while putting the DL in the bcc field… this way if someone do use Replay-To-All he needs to specifically enter the DL name again

Ness Tziona Usergroup 1 Year Birthday Party

2009-11-23T06:49:23Z

Last Wednesday we celebrated a year of community work with the Ness Tziona Usergroup !

The meeting which included a lecture by Pavel about What’s new in C# 4.0 & Visual Studio 2010 grouped together more than 100 attendees who enjoyed a great lecture, 2 cakes, lots of pizza slices, balloon and a handful of books that were given over the presentation.

C-Ya on our next meeting.

Ohad.

Explanation of Raid levels

2009-11-23T06:20:27Z

While reordering some of my old hard drives I found this Image which I do not recall did where I get it from… It is funny little one explaining the basics about Raid levels.

Enjoy :-)

Silverlight 4 Training @ CH9

2009-11-19T06:16:00Z

Channel 9 just published a Silverlight 4 Training which includes hands-on-labs, a video and a whitepaper designed to help you learn about the new features in Silverlight 4 !

The training is focused on three major areas:

Enabling Business Application Development

Empowering Richer Experiences

Moving Beyond the Browser

Silverlight 4 now includes cool features like Printing, WebCam and Microphone support, custom right-click, rich text, HTML support and access to local files with trusted applications.

Check it out over here

Microsoft PDC 09 – The Videos

2009-11-19T06:00:00Z

PDC videos are starting to show up… keep an eye on http://microsoftpdc.com/Videos

The quality of the videos type WMVHIGH is very good although the files might consume large amount of storage for ones who will try to download them all.

Let the HOME PDC BEGIN !

Any chance to send home PDC attendees also a new tablet ?

בעל הבית השתגע – Acer Aspite 1420P

2009-11-18T19:44:00Z

בכנס Microsoft PDC בלוס אנג’לס חילקו לכל המשתתפים Tablet PC של ACER בעל המפרט הבא:

Operating system

•Genuine Windows^® 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Platform

•Intel^® Core^™2 Duo U2300 processor

•Mobile Intel^® GS45 Express Chipset

System memory

•Dual-Channel SDRAM support

•2GB of DDR3 1066 MHz memory, upgradeable to 8 GB using two soDIMM modules

Display

•11.6" HD 1366 x 768

•Convertible multi-touch display

Graphics

•Mobile Intel^® GS45 Express Chipset

Communication

•Integrated Acer Crystal Eye webcam

•WWAN: UMTS/HSPA at 850/900/1900/2100 MHz and quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

•WLAN: Intel^® WiFi Link 1000

•WPAN: Bluetooth^® 2.1+Enhanced Data Rate (EDR)

•LAN: Gigabit Ethernet; Wake-on-LAN ready

Audio

•Optimized 2nd Generation Dolby^®Sound Room^®audio enhancement

•High-definition audio support

•S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) support for digital speakers

•MS-Sound compatible

•Built-in microphone

Storage subsystem

•2.5" 250GB hard disk drive

•Multi-in-1 card reader

Privacy control

•BIOS user, supervisor, HDD passwords

•Kensington lock slot

Dimensions and weight

•285 (W) 208.9 (D) 28.5/34.5 (H) mm (11.22 x 8.22 x 1.12/1.36 inches)

•1.72 kg (3.79 lbs.) (non-3G SKU)

Power subsystem

•ACPI 3.0

•62.16 W 5600 mAh

•3-pin 30 W AC adapter

Special keys and controls

•84-/85-/88-key keyboard

•Multi-gesture touchpad pointing device

I/O interface

•Multi-in-1 card reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)

•USB 2.0 port

•HDMI^™ port with HDCP support

•External display (VGA) port

•Headphones/speaker/line-out jack with S/PDIF support

•Microphone-in jack

•Ethernet (RJ-45) port

•DC-in jack for AC adapter

Environment

•Temperature:

•Operating: 5 °C to 35 °C

•Non-operating: -20 °C to 65 °C

•Humidity (non-condensing):

•Operating: 20% to 80%

•Non-operating: 20% to 80%

למה בדיוק לא נסעתי השנה ???

Ray speaks live from PDC 09 Conf @ LA

2009-11-17T16:45:20Z

Cool ! – live streaming !

http://microsoftpdc.com/

PDC 09 Keynotes live from LA (Broadcasting NOW !)

2009-11-17T16:24:00Z

Microsoft PDC 09 keynotes start broadcasting from LA in 8min from now !

Watch them over here

Whats new in CSharp 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010

2009-11-17T09:14:00Z

The Ness Tziona Usergroup is celebrating 1 year of work on Wednesday the 18th !

During the upcoming meeting we will have a session with Pavel about what is new in C# 4.0 ad Visual Studio 2010 – this session will be similar to the session that was delivered in Microsoft some time ago with some tweaks here and there, the session will also include a birthday party to group with lots of surprises.

You are not required to bring a present in order to take a part in the birthday part :-)

You are welcome to register over here

כנס מיקרוסופט על היעילות החדשה בנמל תל אביב

2009-11-03T22:05:11Z

בהמשך לפוסטים של גדי בנושא הכנס להלן החויה שלי מהכנס. (פוסט1 פוסט2 פוסט3)

יצאתי מהבית בסביבות 7:30 (הבית בשוהם… לייד נתב”ג) ושמתי פעמי את נמל ת”א לכנס שאמור היה להתחיל ב-9:00. לאחר 69 דקות של נסיעה מצאתי את עצמי מרחק של 15 קמ מנקודת ההתחלה קרי במחלף גנות.

זו היתה נקודת ההחלטה בה החלטתי שהספיקו לי הפקקים להיום ופניתי דרומה לכיוון העבודה כאשר כולי תקווה כי אצליח לראות את שידור הכנס באינטרנט (הרי היתה הבטחה שכזו באתר)

ובכן חברים, אנו אולי מתקרבים ל-2010 אך איכות השידות קרי Streaming היתה קרובה יותר לשנות ה-80 המוקדמות קרי ריצוד תמונות לא מסונכרנות אשר לעיתים רבות פשוט פסקו מלהגיע במילים אחרות “אכזבה טוטאלית” – לא ניתן היה לראות ולעיתים לא לשמוע את מליאת הפתיחה ! – וכן יש לי קו שמוריד ב-15 מגה בייט לשניה בעבודה כך שהבעיה לא היתה ברוחב הפס שלי.

חבל, זו היתה הזדמנות נהדרת לנצל את פלאי הטכנולוגיה ולהעביר באמת כנס בזמן אמת לצופים מרחוק אשר נשברו מפאת הפקקים האיומים שיום גשם מסכן אחד יוצר בארצנו הקטנטונת.