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Why you want to be a part of Alt.Net Israel
09 August 08 08:05 AM | urig | 4 comment(s)
I was fortunate today to take part in the first Alt.Net "unconference" to be held in Israel and let me tell you - it was an awesome experience! The concept of Alt.Net is that a group of .net enthusiasts get together and organize a conference by themselves for themselves to discuss .net, its past, present and future. Simply put, the audience organizes and gives the talks. Here's a more profound explanation: http://davybrion.com/blog/2008/08/altnet-what-does-it-mean/ The first Alt.Net...
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How to make IIS 7.0 catch on?
07 April 08 12:56 PM | urig | with no comments
Having attended Leon Langleiben's 11:00 talk on IIS 7.0 for developers, I can't help but wonder why the adoption rate for the new technology is so low. Depsite the impressive and extensible new pipeline, despite that it's modular, despite the powerful and easy configuration of it (that can be even shared across machines now), IIS 7.0 is hardly anywhere to be found in production environments. It's understandable that upgrading from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0 is a daunting prospect. When I...
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Getting Ready for Tech-Ed Israel 2008
29 March 08 09:32 PM | urig | with no comments
I too will be attending this year's Tech-Ed Israel 2008 in Eilat event, courtesy of Microsoft Israel. Yes, I too am one of the lucky ones whose stay at the convention is covered by Microsoft Israel and I'd like to take the opportunity to thank them - Thanks Microsoft Israel! In the spirit of Amit Cohen-Berezin's Get Ready for Tech Ed 2008 post, here's how I am setting up for blogging the event. I will be schlepping around: My beloved (even if a bit malfunctioning) Dell D620 wide 14"...
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Microsoft Secure Content Distribution (MSCD) is off the face of the Earth
15 December 07 07:48 PM | urig | with no comments
I've finally been overtaken by the urge to experience Visual Studio 2008, most for the benefit of experimenting with the upcoming ASP.net MVC framework which gets me very very excited these days. Sadly, as most of you know, the download is in the 3 to GB range and FireFox's built-in download manager is (surprisingly) not up to the task. I remembered that someone mentioned something about a new P2P downloading tool from Microsoft that was the fastest and surest way of downloading large files...
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Microsoft Israel Bloggers' Dinner #5
28 November 07 08:33 PM | urig | 2 comment(s)
Just wanted to say a quick but hearty thank you to Omer Van Kloeten for having organized the fifth Bloggers Dinner. It took place yesterday at "Ad HaEtzem" restaurant in Airport City, Israel and was a fantastic experience. This was my first attendance at a Bloggers Dinner and I believe it was also the largest in the series of events arranged by Omer so far. A small note on "Ad HaEtzem" at Airport City. The restaurant was a bit tricky to find for me. I actually spent 15 minutes...
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Microblogging Dump from Developer Academy II
27 November 07 03:20 PM | urig | 2 comment(s)
I'm having a good time in Microsoft Israel' Developer Academy II. Currently listening to Ohad Israeli starting to go over my head with concepts like "aspects" and products like PostSharp in his "Mastering Infrastructure Development" lecture. Fascinating stuff. For those of you unable to follow my microblogging updates on facebook , here's a dump of all of them up until now, in descending chronological order: Uri is concerned over the overhead incurred by Policy Injection...
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Some pictures from the Microsoft Israel Developer Academy II event
27 November 07 12:05 PM | urig | with no comments
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Developer Academy II is on
27 November 07 08:37 AM | urig | with no comments
Microsoft Israel's Developer Academy II event is just starting off at Airport City's Avenue convention center. There are a lot of people here already - almost an hour before the first lecture is set to begin. There's a lot of mingling going on upstairs, plus free drinks and snacks, but I am lurking down below at the nearly deserted bloggers' corner at level -1. Wi-fi access, btw, is free for everyone from anywhere in the venue and I'd like to personally thank the organizers for...
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How I will be liveblogging from Developer Academy II
26 November 07 03:18 PM | urig | with no comments
I will be using my "facebook status" to liveblog the Microsoft Israel's Developer Academy II event tomorrow. It's practically the same as microblogging (see twitter.com ) except all sentences will begin with "uri is..." which is an amusing constraint. The "microposts" will not be posted here in my blog for two reasons: I can't find a proper way to sync. from facebook to the Community Server here. I don't want to overcrowd microsoft.co.il's feeds by...
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Liveblogging from Develper Academy II II
26 November 07 01:23 PM | urig | with no comments
Shahar Gvirtz has just posted an update that the first 200 bloggers to ask for it at tomorrow's Developer Academy II event will receive free access to wi-fi for purposes of liveblogging the event. This is wonderful news. Thanks go to Shahar for the update and to the organizers of tomorrow's event for their kindness and quick response. See you all tomorrow at the Dev Ac! Uri
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NOT Liveblogging from Develper Academy II
25 November 07 11:40 AM | urig | 4 comment(s)
Guy Kolbis has informed me that wi-fi will only be available at the bloggers' corner of the Developer Academy II event. Thanks Guy. Sadly, that means I will not be liveblogging the event. I wanted to share my insights and the new knowledge I acquire at the event in real time from my actual seat at the lectures. I thought of using my facebook status line as mini-blog, a la twitter . Unless I miraculously get my hands on a cellular modem, that's not going to happen. Too bad wi-fi access does...
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Liveblogging from Develper Academy II
24 November 07 07:37 PM | urig | 2 comment(s)
I will be attending Microsoft Israel's Developer Academy II event at Airport City, Israel this Tuesday (27/11/2007). Throughout the day I will be attending at least 5 of the lectures (haven't finalized which yet) and I will be liveblogging both here and via my facebook profile . You're invited to keep track of my progress through the day and if you're there, you're welcome to (physically!) poke me face to face :) It's a great opportunity to bridge the gap between virtual and...
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World's Biggest Task Manager!
29 July 07 12:00 PM | urig | 3 comment(s)
digg_url = 'http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/urig/archive/2007/07/29/World_2700_s-Biggest-Task-Manager_2100_.aspx'; Taken this Friday at Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Center shopping mall:
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Microsoft Surface - A Multi-Touch Screen to hit the market soon?
31 May 07 02:12 PM | urig | with no comments
Kudos to liorz for beating me to it (link to post in Hebrew). Veteran readers of Tidbits might recall my fascination with the "Multi-Touch Screen" technology developed by Jeff Han of NYU and how it might revolutionize the way we interact with our computers. Microsoft Surface promises to be a commercial implementation of a Multi-Touch Screen that will hit the market this winter (according to their PR site). See Bill introduce the product at the Wall Street Journal's D conference : It's very surprising...
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FIX: Google Toolbar resets/breaks/messes up IE7 toolbars
11 April 07 02:43 PM | urig | with no comments
Ever since I've upgraded from IE6 to IE7, I've noticed that whenever I reopen my Internet Explorer, all my toolbars get messed up. It's as if they are reset to the original "factory" setting, regardless of how carefully I've tweaked them before previously closing IE7. Clearly something was wrong, but to my surprise the fault lay not with "Evil Microsoft" but with the "Benevolent Google"'s beloved Google Toolbar (!). I've learned here that the Google Toolbar uses some evil voodoo ("hijacks ITBarLayout...
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