ISerializable in Israel - All Comments

re: Ruby User Group: upcoming meeting on Ruby next week

Lorraine — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:27:17 GMT

Keep it cimong, writers, this is good stuff.

re: Misc. Links and odd ends

XPointer — Fri, 19 May 2006 21:03:47 GMT

Couldn't express your words about Total Commander better!

re: Why did 2,000 people leave in the middle of Steve Sinoflsky's Tech-Ed Talk? Not Just Boredom

.net TL — Fri, 19 May 2006 15:09:03 GMT

You just forgot another reason: people where ungry.
As you must notice, not any one arrived until 14:00, but the lunch did. So we had to go search for food..

re: Q&A: Microsoft, UML and Software Factories

Claudio Perrone — Tue, 16 May 2006 17:10:58 GMT

The fundamental problem is that UML is perfectly suitable for documentation but not sufficiently rigorous for code generation.

Most people I know (including me) use UML to sketch models and often annotate extra information using an informal language (i.e. English :-)).
While UML is not necessarily "difficult", trying to use it as a programming language is time consuming simply because the formal notation is not specific enough to describe the domain accurately.

Personally, it didn't take me long to realize that, in order to create models that can be used for code generation, we rather need simple and more focused languages that can easily capture our intentions in a particular domain.

Luis (if you haven’t done it yet) have a look at the soon-to-be-released DSL Tools that Roy refers to (and yes, they are integrated into VS 2005). Admitedly, they are still pretty rough, but my guess is that it won't take long before Microsoft will dominate (also) this space.

re: Q&A: Microsoft, UML and Software Factories

Luis Angel — Tue, 16 May 2006 11:22:54 GMT

I agree that UML is too complicated, and most people, me included, use basically Use Cases, Class and Secuence diagram.

But the question is: is there any good DSL tool out there, integrated with VS.NET 2005? I know that you can use the class diagram designer included in VS.NET, but it's too simple, and there is no secuence diagram equivalent, and they use to be very usefull to describe some middle-complex algorithms).

I think it's not neccesary a XDE equivalent -by the way, XDE is not working now in VS.NET 2005 8·( - but it's neccesary a tool more usefull that this class diagram designer.

Any options?

re: Q&A: Microsoft, UML and Software Factories

Ido Samuelson — Tue, 16 May 2006 10:57:26 GMT

Yep, MS only took the UI part :) symbols and arrows...(and the most used and basic ones) haha

re: Why did 2,000 people leave in the middle of Steve Sinoflsky's Tech-Ed Talk? Not Just Boredom

Eran Kampf — Sun, 14 May 2006 16:45:35 GMT

I dont think it was that bad, but maybe thats because im an Office techie :)

Anyway I agree there should have been less talk and more demos, like on the PDC keynotes where Bill Gates presented the new Office\Vista UI.

And maybe thats the problem... anyone who is even slightly intersted in Office2007 or Vista have probably already seen or heard about the new UI since it made quite a noise over the net in the past few monthes. The TechEd keynotes wasn't really interesting because there was nothing new there...

re: My "Deep Reflection" Talk at TechEd - Slides, Demos and links available.

Kim — Sun, 14 May 2006 11:49:23 GMT

One of the best sessions I attended! Excellent mix of technical content and witty you!

re: Misc. Links and odd ends

Charlie Poole — Thu, 04 May 2006 03:27:44 GMT

NUnit is actually up to 2.2.8 now... the blog entry is a bit old.

re: The "PowerShell" Naming Stupidity

David Taylor — Wed, 03 May 2006 22:50:52 GMT

Me likes it!

re: The "PowerShell" Naming Stupidity

עומר ון קלוטן — Wed, 03 May 2006 21:27:41 GMT

MY thoughts exactly.

re: New Tapuz User Group Meeting in Israel (and is it really needed?)

Roy Osherove — Wed, 03 May 2006 19:44:29 GMT

Justin:
Coming to you would make no sense, as the meeting has already been announced. Would that have changed the fact that the meeting took place? If you were looking for opinions you could have consulted with me or many other people, but you chose not too, which is definitely OK, but expecting me to not write my thoughts on this is not realistic (as long as no one is hurt, that is) - especially since this is a public concept, and not a private one.

re: New Tapuz User Group Meeting in Israel (and is it really needed?)

Justin-Josef Angel [MVP] — Tue, 02 May 2006 13:35:03 GMT

Hey Roy,

We got a simllier question on the Tapuz Forums and i think there are good answers to the questions you just asked:
http://www.tapuz.co.il/tapuzforum/main/Viewmsg.asp?forum=831&msgid=76793955

BTW, a proper forum for this question would have been asking me one-on-one and not publish-first-talk-later.

re: New Tapuz User Group Meeting in Israel (and is it really needed?)

עומר ון קלוטן — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:20:48 GMT

So true.

I wish there was only one user group that would meet every other week or so ( and not on Wednesdays, dammit :/ ) and not so early.

Oh well, I can keep dreaming, I guess.