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In my last post (which was way too long ago), I've wrote what is my ideal workplace. After a while I found it! After a series of interviews I was hired by Sears Israel as a software developer for Sears Social . Sears Social is a new social experience which creates a new shopping experience using your social connections. After only a couple of months, I have to tell you – I made the right choice. This place is amazing! Great professional people, Agile practices and great atmosphere. It was pretty...
In a month I will be leaving my current position in my company. After six and so years it is time to move on. In the last couple of months I've been thinking about where I would like to work – what is the ideal workplace for me? Experienced and talented people from whom I can learn An interesting an compelling product – I think it is very important to believe I what you do. Agile environment, a team and management which believes in the agile process A place where I can have fun doing what I love...
My computer is set to use automatic updates from Windows Update. So when SP1 for Windows 7 came out, I didn't even think about installing it… Windows Update will take care of it for me. But sadly I was mistaking. After two months I realized that the service pack had not been installed. So I downloaded the service pack from Microsoft Download Center , and tried to install it. But I got an error: "the update is not applicable to your computer". Googling around, I found that I needed some...
I'm using live writer since it's beta releases. I currently write in two blogs – technical blog – in English, and a cooking blog in Hebrew. One of the biggest pains in WLW was that the spell check dictionary was installed according to the installed language of Windows Live Essentials. That means that if you downloaded the English version of WLW, you had only the English dictionary. A problem for someone that writes in different languages. Today I found the solution to this problem, which...
Lately I notice that every time I insert a DoK or a disk, the AutoPlay/autorun doesn't appear. I also notice that when I click on the disk drive in My Computer window, I will get directed to the explorer view of the disk and the autorun doesn't engaged. It is especially annoying when I insert a disk for some installation and I have to search for the setup.exe file… After googling for a while I found this article: Fix Windows 7 AutoPlay Dialog Box Missing or Not Appear, Display and Pop Up...
About two months ago, we upgraded our projects to Visual Studio 2010. Since then the developers started to complain that the performance of the IDE has degraded in comparison to VS2008. From build times that doubled to stalling in the editor when you code. Other teams in our department started to complain as well. So we started to find the problem. We investigated three direction: Solution maintenance Visual studio Hardware Solution maintenance: This is a key issue. In my previous experience...
You’ve upgraded your project to Visual Studio 2010 and .Net framework 4. Good for you! But when you checked in the projects and the build in TeamCity starts to run – alas – Build failed! In order to run an upgraded project in VS2010 follow these steps: Make sure your TeamCity server can run VS2010 solutions (version 5 and up of TC). Install Visual Studio 2010 and .Net framework 4 on your server. If your project is a web project which uses Web Deployment Project, install web deployment project for...
In one bright day, our integration tests in the build server started to fail randomly. Each test that failed showed this message: ORA-02049: timeout: distributed transaction waiting for lock These were integration tests on our database (Oracle database). Each of these tests had opened a distributed transaction and rolled it back to prevent changes in the database (Using the System.Transactions.TransactionScope). Each time we ran them, different tests had failed. The strangest thing was that newer...
Since windows 7 was released I couldn’t wait to install it on my computer. I have suffered with vista since it came out, and I wanted to get rid of it ASAP. So, I’ve installed it on my main computer (which is one year old) and I’m enjoying using it every day. About two months ago I also bought a netbook – Asus Eee 1005HA. It is very portable and a joy to use. But it had XP installed. So I missed the good things, I had on my main computer with Vista – Especially the search in the start menu… Last...