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The blog has moved

After posting for couple of years to this great community it is the time for me to move to my own platform and domain. The new blog can be found here http://www.irefactor.net and the RSS feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/irefactor The already subscribed readers will be redirected automatically to the new feed. I was privileged to have all this platform community users as the readers of my blog!
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Management Tips - A Hebrew Podcast on Management and Leadership

As promised , today we (Lior Cohen and I) have announced our new podcast in Hebrew on Management and Leadership . In this podcast we will try to provide tips, tools and best practices from our experience as well as from the experience of other prominent leaders in the Israeli work space. I believe there are many tales about managers and management. Without going into too much details, we believe that management is a skill you need to grow slowly and gradually (the same way as you grow your technology...
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New web site for the Israeli Software Craftsmanship Group

A new web site that summarizes all the events of the Israeli Software Craftsmanship Group (#SCISR) can be found here: http://bit.ly/scisr (or http://israel.softwarecraftsmanship.org ). The site contains an information about upcoming events (home) and an option to register to them. In addition the site summarizes (events tab) all the major events we had and includes all the materials, like slides and recordings, from the meetings. Your are welcome to register to the events RSS (also please check our...

Giving a talk on Fostering Software Craftsmanship (Building Successful Teams)

I will be giving a talk on Fostering Software Craftsmanship (Building Successful Teams) on May the 7th at the Hub Tel - Aviv . During the last years I've been asked several times on the topics of the talk. Since the session is usually about an hour and so, needless to say that I am only scratching the surface. There is definitely more into that. I only provoke initial thoughts on our profession both from a personal and a team view perspectives. I will be more than pleaced if you continue to be...

Two Code Retreats & 10th Software Craftsmanship Meeting with Corey Haines

I am very happy to announce a few very interesting events, coming at the end of this month: Code Retreat with Corey Haines: Corey Haines is a Journeyman who went for an year of pair-programming tour. Corey is highly involved with the Software Craftsmanship movement and is a frequent speaker on various conferences on the matters of code quality, skills and professionalism. We will host 2 code retreats events on January the 25th and January the 26th (These are the same events, so please register only...

Good Values Pay Off

To simply put, we have been acquired! For the past couple of years we have been working hard to enhance our technological solutions, the de facto: scalable, near exact match, visual search engine. Using this visual search engine as a backbone, allowed us to envision and to develop many of our great products. Not surprisingly, PicScout not only became the market leader in the image copyright solutions, but also provided unique solutions in the terms of crediting every image on the web. On a personal...
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What should I learn in my CS degree?

My strongest believe is that everyone who devotes his life to Software Engineering, should have a CS degree. Why? Well, it's a different question, so I would postpone my answer for now. Instead, in the following post I would like to emphasize the subjects (and hence the tools) one should acquire during his studies. These tools are essential in creating a "shared" language between us the engineers. These tools are essential in being the solid ground of our day to day architectural and...
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Seventh Software Craftsmanship Meeting

I am very excited to announce the 7th SCIL meetup. How to utilize efficiently Programming Languages? Lectures: -Dynamic languages seem to be more concise and less verbose than their Static counterparts. However, using Dynamic languages efficiently requires a different approach. During the first part of our meeting Reuven Lerner will demonstrate the differences between Dynamic and Static languages and present t he right approaches to utilize the full power of a Dynamic language. -While general purpose...

One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Lately I had a lot of thoughts about how to introduce a change within an organization. For a while now I am giving some talks about leading a software development team, focusing each time on a different facet, such as: Quality, Architecture, Recruitment Process and etc... (I have combined some of those thoughts into a short lecture, which I entitled Fostering Software Craftsmanship (Building Successful Teams) and it is given as a part of the IL Tech Talks ). But here is a phenomena , I encounter...
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I am guest of Microsoft at Tech-Ed 2010 Eilat

I was announced that I was selected to be a guest of Micorosft at Tech-Ed 2010 (Eilat) as 1 of the 10 bloggers of the community. Cool!!! Thanks a lot guys :)!!!
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Mentorship \ Apprenticeship Program

In the previous post I wrote that as part of our next Software Craftsmanship meetup I will establish and start the enrollment process for a Mentorship \ Apprenticeship Program. Since then I received quite a few emails and questions regarding the program and decided to summarize the answers in a Q&A form. What does the Mentorship (Apprenticeship) program stand for? How does the Mentorship (Apprenticeship) program work? How a Mentee finds/chooses a Mentor? What is the Mentor's responsibility...

The Importance of Mentorship

It's hard to become a professional. It's even harder to become a professional Software Engineer . Last week, during a small management conference I bumped into an old friend of mine, who I didn't see for a couple of years. Being a leader of a software engineering group, he was frustrated and worried: "I have a group of 20 people, working hard to meet harsh deadlines. The project has just started, but most of the software engineers are already not pleased. There are junior developers...

A Round Table

Here is an interesting thing about Partnership and Shared Ownership . Once creating such an atmosphere within your team (company) you are on the road to success . Everybody works together in order to accomplish the shared targets: Product Managers, Engineering, QA, Market Managers and etc... Usually, small teams and small companies are characterized by the "Partnership and Shared Ownership" DNA. But when they grow, rest assure that slowly but surely the Partnership and the Shared Ownership...
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Architecture Case Study

On Monday 28.06.2010 I am going to give a lecture about Scalable Architecture and present a case study. Among others, I will cover the following subjects: Distributed Agents, Caching Layers, noSQL (MongoDB) and Map-Reduce. You are most than welcome to participate. Details: Date: 28.06.2010 Time: 14:30 - 16:30 Location: Sun Offices, Hamanofim 9, 8th Floor, Hertzelia
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First Meeting of the "Software Craftsmanship in Israel" Group

I am pleased to announce that we are planning to have our fist “Software Craftsmanship in Israel” group meeting on Wednesday, May 26th . Who should attend? Everybody who cares about Software Development as a Professional . You are welcome to pass this announcement onto anyone you think may be interested . Does the meeting require any knowledge of a specific technology? NO. NONE. ZIPPO. The sole purpose of “Software Craftsmanship” is to improve our skills in Software Engineering and Development and...
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