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A coders editor is his temple. Im a long time TextMate user. It has been my default editor for quite some time now. Everyone I know have…

I’ve met with Ariel and Shy from CodeRadio.co.il to talk about Hadoop technologies. You can go ahead and listen (or download on your iTunes…

I’ve recently started using RVM to manage the Ruby versions and Gem sets of the different projects I’m working on. So, much like showing the…

One fo the most confusing things when working with multiple branches on git is having to remember the branch you’re currently working on…

Its not in iTunes When hearing the news that the Mac AppStore was launched I immediately opened iTunes, but didn’t find it there. I went…

(Originally adapted and updated from Tom Willis’s posts here and here). Also, as commenters suggested, you should take a look at ActiveState…

So it seems the new twitter.com has a “virus” going around. Few minutes ago my twitter stream filled up with strange jQuery calls so I…

I was watching the Apple launch event the other day and I must say I was a bit disappointed. Don’t get me wrong the device is small and…

A Computer That Doesn’t Feel Like A Computer Its not a geek device, its a computing appliance. The iPad is a computer with an iPhone OS. Not…

Google’s App Engine 1.3.0 was released yesterday along with a brand new Blobstore API allowing the storage and serving of files up to 50MB…

I found the following comparison between the iPhone and the Droid ads hilarious. Especially, the following Droid bullets: It is fast and it…

There’s a very interesting blog post over at Raw Thought on the topic of hiring developers. It offers the following insight on hiring: There…

On the past few weeks I’ve been working on a new iPhone app – Fiddme. The process of building our app has been quite an adventure and we’ve…

Jeff Rothschild, Vice President of Technology at Facebook gave a great presentation at UC San Diego on ”High Performance at Massive Scale â…

Last week the NY Times reported that Twitter has raised about $100 million of new funding, making the company’s value to be $1 billion. Just…

I’ve recently answered Predicting missing data values in a database on StackOverflow and thought it deserved a mention on DeveloperZen. One…

6a00d8341c534853ef00e54ff18b618833-150wi I’ve been dealing a lot with Amazon’s AWS platform lately. Mostly doing offline data processing…

Facebook has the second largest installation of Hadoop (a software platform that lets one easily write and run distributed applications that…

Yahoo! is releasing its own distribution of Hadoop: Hadoop is a distributed file system and parallel execution environment that enables its…

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) allows customers build secure, fault-tolerant applications that can scale up and down with…

The basic model for MapReduce derives from the map and reduce concept in functional languages like Lisp. In Lisp, a map takes as input a…

Its a rare occasion that I go out of a restaurant (and I go to many) with an absolute feeling of “WOW!“… This Monday was one of these…

A bunch of interesting/inspiring topics for the weekend… Designing “Big Data” Jeff Veen from Small Batch Inc. gave a 20-minutes talk at the…

I wrote the stocky application more than a year ago as a research project aimed at proving that using WPF we can separate presentation…

In a response to Microsoft watcher Todd Bishop’s post saying Microsoft should buy Twitter, Mary Jo-Foley wrote Microsoft Shouldn’t Buy…

The discussion over Google’s latest move into behavioral ad targeting is all over TechMeme. Basically what this means is that Google will…

I just finished installing Windows 7 Beta on my home machine to find a fish swimming on my desktop: But not just any fish, its a Siamese…

I was very fortunate to get invited to the 2009 DLD Conference as a participant (Thanks to Yossi Vardi!). This was my first time at DLD and…

The Internet is a media platform based on content from traditional media companies (Times Magazine, etc.) as well as content produced by its…

How do you create an internet company\product that can get the attention of more than 100 million unique viewers a month? That’s the tough…

Guy wrote a post about rendering an RSS feed on ASP.NET MVC using custom feed model classes and a view that renders the feed XML. There’s a…

Originally published on Cloud Avenue. About a month ago, Microsoft rolled out its previously announced 3rd wave of Windows Live Services…

It’s the end of the year, and like most bloggers I decided to take a look at my blog’s performance over the last year… My Top Posts…

I’ve encountered this post on my weekend reading -Â 91 Surefire Ways to Become an Event Greater Developer. It contain a comprehensive guide…

If you like the scrolling functionality as implemented in the iPhone (and Zune etc.) you’ll be happy to know its part of the Windows…

(Cross posted from CloudAve) Microsoft announced today its rollout plans for the 3rd wave of Windows Live services. The goal of this latest…

(Originally posted at Cloud Avenue) This year’s Microsoft Profesional Developers Conference is full of announcements and surprises. The…

(Originally posted at Cloud Avenue) Windows Liveâ„¢Microsoft’s Windows Live ID team just announced their support for OpenID calling it a…

Last month Google released its Chrome browser to the public and as usual it made a lot of PR noise (and a comic book) and got lots of…

The hero of our story is Michael Arrington of TechCrunch. The background for the following discussion is a post made by Dare Obasanjo…

Omer (our gracious host) just announced it on his blog. I’ve never actually attended one of these before (I just happened to be abroad on…

I don’t get it. A bunch of tech ‘elites’ partying out in Cyprus made a funny video and suddenly they’re turned scapegoats for the entire…

Reading Mary Jo Foley’s Microsoft 2.0 it suddenly struck me: Could Microsoft’s next killer OS be SharePoint? Instead of being quite so…

(Originally posted on Cloud Avenue) logo_aws Jeff Barr from Amazon Web Service reports that Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is now…

The season for Flues and Colds is here again and I just had to share this:

Nokia recently announced its new 5800 Xpress Music, or Tube, as an ”iPhone Killer”. Reviewers, however, disagree, mainly on hardware spec…

Cloud Computing is the latest, hottest new buzzword in today’s information technology world. However, and much like other buzzwords such as…

We’re living in an age of technological revolution in the computer and information industry – the age of utility computing. Connected to…

“We need to connect with real people,” Seinfeld says and reminds Gates that “you and I are a little out of it. You’re living in some kind of…

I’ve received a lot of good feedback for my initial post about Chrome comparing its “Microsoft Killer” hype to the GTalk (now mostly defunct…

It seems like Google is making comic books these days. Its also announcing a new browser – Chrome – which we haven’t and know nothing about…

Since my recent move to WordPress I’ve been crawling the web looking for useful WordPress tips and ticks. Below are my essentials for anyone…

Amazon’s shares jumped by more than 9% following Citigroup analysts Mark Mahaney predicting its Kindle to become the “iPod of books”: In a…

Designing for scale is one of the greatest challenges when building when building web applications for the Internet. The huge scale of the…

I’ve been having mixed feeling for quite some time now regarding LINQ. Sure it can make working with data sources a lot easier and it can…

I’ve recently decided to move my blog from dasBlog to WordPress. The reason for this move is mainly because dasBlog really lacked several…

At least if everything goes as planned, your RSS reader should keep on getting regular updates without any work on your part (thanks…

The Short Bio… Eran Kampf draws upon more than 10 years of experience in software research & development has been involved in design and…

MyBlogLog unveiled their new design yesterday: Don’t worry, we still got all the features that you can’t live without; your stats, your…

According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts offices of some of the…

Consider the following (imaginary) conversation: Programmer: What if a user will want the ability to sort the values in the report grid by…

I was checking out my analytics page with Yosi the other day when I noticed this rather disturbing Unique Visitors graph: I’ve been paying…

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Microsoft’s new R&D Center in Israel (ILDC) is going through a lot of recruiting and PR effort. It’s latest PR stunt – The Microsoft Friends…

Dare has written a post that claims there’s an exodus from Google to Microsoft. The post is driven by his own observations and a post…

I was on a phone interview the other day where I was asked for my definition of “Good Code”. The first thought that came to mind was…

On my last day at SAP, two days ago, I had to return to IT the desktop machine I’ve been using for the past 3 years. As I’ve been borrowing…

There’s nothing that pleases me (and I guess, any blog owner) more than getting feedback on my blog. While I do my best to respond to…

Here are my notes from the Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference: Apple is cutting the price of the iPhone to $199 for the 8GB version and…

Twitter is down again. Just ask http://www.istwitterdown.com/ … It’s funny that we’re starting to take this for granted…

There’s a new video testimonial at www.duet.com about Duet implementation in Auckland Regional Council. Check it out at http://www.duet.com…

I put some pictures from the Microsoft Israel R&D Labs launch event yesterday on Flickr… IMG_2263 A detailed even summary and notes will…

I joined SAP more than 3 years ago (on the same day as my 23rd birthday) for a new internal startup (an Emerging Solution as SAP dubs it…

If you thought Guitar Hero was cool…

DisruptivetechnologyThe New York Times features an article entitled “The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits” two days ago…

When I bought the LG L226WTQ Widescreen LCD a while back, I wrote that its fixed height monitor base was a major pitfall. Well, it turned…

When asked about Microsoft last week at the GarageGeeks event, Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, answered that “Microsoft has a monopoly on…

It seems like Microsoft and Yahoo! are talking again to such an extent that is was either required, or in Microsoft’s interest to release…

Smart Address BookFrom Plaxo’s Personal Card: Today is a big day for us at Plaxo, as our partnership with Comcast was just announced. Plaxo…

Microsoft Research’s WorldWide Telescope, otherwise known as “the thing that made Robert Scoble cry” has been publicly launched today…

Apparently without updating my blog about my return some people think I’m still having fun at Thailand’s sunny beaches… So, I’m Back! In…

I’ve had an amazing time at TechEd Eilat. Probably the best time from all the TechEds I’ve been to so far… Now its finally time for some…

Watch this post for broadcasts from TechEd:

Well it has been it’s been an amazing (and long) day spent mainly on networking – I’ve met a lot of people with whom I’ve only interacted…

Its been a hectic day so far… I’m currently sitting at the .NET 3.5 and beyond Killer Features lecture so I finally have some time to write…

On the previous post in this series we looked into the DataModel component in our architecture in detail and defined an abstract DataModel…

In the first post in the series I gave an overview of the pattern we’ll be using. This post will go deeper into the DataModel, as defined in…

WPF, Microsoft’s not-so-new-anymore UI technology offers new capabilities allowing both developers and designers to work together to achieve…

Microsoft finally opened up the Meetings application for TechEd at http://www.face2facemeeting.com/teched/ So, if you want to meet up and…

I wanted to build a screen saver and came across Karen’s template which is made for Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 3.0. Since I’m on Visual…

I was at the Ra’anana park this morning for the Robots Exhibition from the students of Aviv Highschool. I was hoping to for some Robot Wars…

About half a year ago, just before my lengthy travels to Bangalore and Seattle I came to the conclusion that its about time to take my…

Windows Live FolderShare, one of my favorite online services that let me sync certain folders across all my machines, launched a new team…

TechCrunch and Macworld were live blogging from the Apple iPhone Software Roadmap event at the Apple campus at Cupertino. Below are the main…

This is absolutely awesome: I should get a wiimote….

From the guys at Common Craft: Via Craig’s…

Nokia just announced its intentions on bringing Microsoft’s Silverlight to its mobile phones: *Nokia to bring Microsoft Silverlight powered…

Someone just showed me this video. I’m speechless…

I’ve been invited by Microsoft to TechEd Eilat 2008 as a blogger – a very awesome surprise and a vote of appreciation from the guys at…

Just noticed via Microsoft PressPass: Microsoft Executives to Make Significant Company Announcement. They’ve got Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie…

My Moo MiniCards finally arrived! The Moo MiniCards are like a ‘hip’ little full color business cards that can also teach us a lesson in…

My friend Eran from Kampyle invited me to be the first to try out and review their new service, now in private beta stages. The company…

If you haven’t heard of Modu by now you’ve probably been living under a rock for the last couple of weeks. The company who’s product has…

Some first thoughts about the implications of Microsoft taking over Yahoo: Microsoft’s Vista Gadgets suck. Yahoo has it going pretty well…

There has been a lot of rumors and Dennis Howlett just broke the news on ZDnet. It’s also on FT now… It’s interesting that I got the news…

After ~3 weeks of waiting for the replacement power adapter from Microsoft I finally got the package today and was able to hook my Xbox in…

Tal just triggered a burst of nostalgia when he posted a link to Day of the Tentacle’s, my all-time favorite game, intros. If you haven’t…

I’ve been using Twitter quite extensively lately and I received some feedback (from my Facebook friend. my Twitter is automatically…

Facebook is releasing a JavaScript library allowing Facebook applications to be embedded in any web-site – not just inside Facebook. This…

Now that’s pretty cool… A .NET port of the Quake 3 Arena source code.

I’ve been receiving messages about Apple (AAPL) from friends for about an hour now. Apple is free falling by -28.67 (-18.42%) right now on…

I found out about this cool new text-to-speech service from Jeff’s blog. It’s called Odiogo and it converts the text I write on my blog into…

An excellent video explaining the concept of Data Portability to non techies: DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix from…

1899_jango logo A friend sent me to a new internet radio site – www.jango.com. Basically, it lets you create different internet radio…

I’ve already written my thoughts about the disruption of Apple TV coupled with the iTunes Movie Rental. That being said I decided to back…

I’ve been playing around with creating a Facebook Fan Page for my blog – http://www.facebook.com/pages/DeveloperZencom/10649455588 It…

Apple’s shares have been declining by more than 10% for the past two days – ever since the Macworld 2008 keynotes. Apparently, Steve’s…

MacWorld 2008 will open this afternoon (Tuesday, 9 a.m. PST) with the much anticipated Steve Jobs keynotes. I’m anxiously waiting to see…

I have a short introduction to Powershell presentation at SAP today and to make things interesting I made the presentation slides using a…

When I came to the office today I had a package waiting on my desk with its content marked as “crystal cube”. I was surprised to open it and…

Some games are timeless. Street Fighters is one of these games. I can probably dub it as my favorite game as a kid, spending hours at the…

I’ve mentioned before my Google Reader Links Blog. I can easily share links from blogs I read on Google Reader instead of filling my blog…

I just like this cute new “Get a Mac” ad. In case you wonder, its done using stop motion animation by LAIKA/house…

Robert Scoble started a debate over the weekend when he wrote that enterprise software isn’t sexy. I guess Scoble struck a nerve as his post…

The Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) conference was hosted at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond over three days during November 200…

Well, Bill Gates doesn’t think so… Fake Steve Ballmer has something to say about that too (you though only Steve deserves a fake?) What do…

CNet revealed that Windows XP SP3 has twice the performance of Windows Vista, even with its SP1 bits. Microsoft’s response: Microsoft admits…

Silverlight is pretty cool for doing interactive web apps. I think they concentrated on Video too much on version one and I would have…

Following a Nintendo DS port and various PDA ports, ScummVM now has an iPhone port too… While it was announced on the ScummVM website, its…

Scott Guthrie just published a comprehensive post detailing Microsoft’s .NET web products roadmap. To sum up the release schedule: .NET…

Last weekend (following this post) I drove to the great falls area to get some of that Twin Peaks atmosphere. It just so happens that I went…

Mass Effect, a new RPG developed by BioWare and published by Microsoft Games , was released to store in the US today. “Mass Effect” combines…

I read Dror’s post and decided to compare the search for the 2nd Developers Academy in both Google and Live.com. I searched for the term…

Here are the instructions to follow before you install Visual Studio 2008 RTM: Go to the Control Panel and launch Add/Remove Programs Remove…

I’m currently uninstalling the beta bits from my machine in order to install the RTM version of Visual Studio 2008. My experience with this…

“… There are many stories in Twin Peaks–some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are…

Apple’s public relations tendency to bully journalists and bloggers is nothing new but a recent post on Valleywag shows a rare view on…

I wish I had a PhD in guitar acoustics like Dr Mark Lewney…

I just had to share today’s Dilbert: dilbert2007113333116 (I think Mordac works at our IT organization… 😉 )

The following Microsoft Sync commercial is just inspiring: Now if my car can do it why can’t my Media Player? What about Media Center…

UntitledIn the Seattle area on November 29 and looking for something to do? Why not join a Silverlight workshop at Microsoft Redmond? On…

Yes, that’s not a typo. I really did mean lunch…

Microsoft formally launched the second generation of its Windows Live Services yesterday. From the blog posts and articles I’ve read about…

A new site dedicated to the launch events of Windows 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 has been unveiled at http://www…

Yesterday saw the release of the new MAME 0.120, the Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator. If you’re using Windows, you’ll find MAME32, the Windows…

Guitar Hero is a major hit here in the US and I just don’t get it… Guitar-Hero-III-1[1]> The 3rd game in the series was just lunched a few…

I just got this great video (via Facebook):

It has been a scary afternoon at the Microsoft Redmond offices when hordes of spiders and the undead took over the floors… Halloween…

Google just announced that MySpace and Six Apart will join its OpenSocial initiative together with Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi…

I’ve been working here at Redmond for a little over a week now. I’m already fully merchandised with Microsoft office products (notebooks…

The Israel Web Tour is the first Internet competition organized to bring 15 Israeli startups to Silicon Valley. CEO’s of the chosen…

I just refuse to add all these idiotic Facebook apps…

I’m moving to Seattle for a couple of months to work with the team at Redmond on Duet related topics. I’ve already taken care of most of…

I just came across this sick demo from SAP TechEd demo jam:

About a week ago, after a brief conversation about it with Dror I’ve set to convert my old machine to be a Home Theater PC. I really wanted…

I’ve recently decided to replace my old home PC with a new monstrous gaming PC. When I first sat down and defined what I want from this new…

Modern data visualization is like a form of art. The recent Overview of Modern Data Visualization article at Smashing Magazine is a must…

I’m doing a 1 hour Introduction to LINQ session at SAP tomorrow. Below is a link to the presentations and I’d be happy to hear comments…

When BNSF decided to replace its aging legacy systems, two software companies naturally came to mind. At the end of the decision process…

Check out the following code snippet: Comments (7) imported from www.ekampf.com/blog/: Sunday, September 02, 2007 9:46:22 AM (GMT Daylight…

>Ayelet’s question got me thinking about all the mediums I’m using to socialize and share information online. When I read the post only…

I have two monitors. I want to open two PowerPoint presentation, place each one on a different screen and then easily edit and copy paste…

Ayelet asks Which Is Your Favorite Social Network and Why? I think a more interesting question is to which suck social networks site people…

IMG_0845I’m finally back from my last (work) trip to Bangalore, India. I’ve had a great time on my 3 weeks trip and hopefully I’ll be…

There have been a bunch of “What I’m doing to become a better developer” posts on the blogsphere lately. Looking at all these posts it…

I didn’t go to the GarageGeeks party. I had a university class to attend to… My friends went to the party and hooked up with some guys from…

It seems like its that time of the year again. We’re finalizing the next Duet release (1.5) and I’m traveling to Banglore to support the…

Binding to Outlook item (Mail, Task, Contact, etc.) is one of the main features that differentiates Duet’s user experience from other OBA…

The Singleton implementation in the snippet I posted works fine as a lazy, thread-safe Singleton as it ensures only one thread can create…

On February 27th 2008 it would be 26 years to my own “launch”. I’m truelly honored that Microsoft decided to commemorate this date by…

iphone2[1]Got to love this “Will it blend” videos series… So what do you think? How about an iPhone smoothy? 😉 http://www.willitblend.com…

I decided to start a new column gathering all sorts of “what’s wrong with this code?” snippets. Why? Its fun. Its good for interview…

Came across this cool XBAP by Denis Dolfus:

Saw the news on Ian’s blog. Microsoft launched their Duet partners page. Check it out…

The Duet applications are built using metadata definitions that are interpreted during runtime and drive the different application’s…

There are only a few active Duet bloggers out there but it seems that I’m the only one blogging from the dev team. Sadly, so far I haven’t…

Although it has been practically dead for a long time, I’ve recently decided to resurect my open-source C# math library. Up until yesterday…

It’s a big-ass table! 🙂 Didn’t take long for someone to make a parody of the Microsoft Surface ad…

Josh Smith ahs written a nuch of very comprehensive overview posts on WPF topics: Overview of routed events in WPF Overview of dependency…

Just came across this new WPF\Silverlight site – nibbles: snack tutorials for hungry designers. As described on the site: As the name…

Software Patents is a controvertial subjects. It has been the subject of an intense debate on the past few decades, so intense that it even…

Paul Graham, founder of Y-Combinator, declares Microsoft is dead (also translated to Hebrew at Ynet) While this is certainly an eye…

A lot of developers are mistaking XAML to be an exclusively WPF technology. The truth is, that as it’s name (Extensible Application Markup…

Two engineers from Microsoft Switzerland, Ronnie Saurenmann and Ruihua Jin, have put together this 90-page hands-on lab that takes you…

According to Mary Jo Foley at ZDnet, Microsoft preps a Windows-based kitchen client: Among the features Microsoft is planning to make part…

One of the developers in our team recently encountered a problem of getting the display name of the current user. The .NET framework…

It seems there’s a lot of new stuff about Acropolis from TechEd: Acropolis documentation is now online Forums Blogs Acropolis Team Blog…

The video and audio recordings and the slides from the event are now availble at http://www.sap.com/community/int/webcast/200704Sapphire_US…

Ian Tien, a senior product manager at Microsoft, opened a new blog about Duet titled “Unofficial Blog on Duet, Microsoft and SAP”. Check it…

I just got my Popfly invitation and created my first mashup – a Carousel displaying photos from my Flickr account (here’s a preview…

We’re hiring a new architect for the Duet Enablement Group. Duet is a groundbraking collaboration between SAP and Microsoft designed to…

Today at Sapphire SAP & Microsoft announced the extended roadmap for Duet 2.0 and Duet 3.0. The key messages of this roadmap are: Microsoft…

Shai Agassi, former SAP executive, shares details from the keynotes presentation he was supposed to give in SAPPHIRE. It also turns out…

Stefan Schwing posted 2 new blog posts that describe how to track the process of a leave request and report creation throughout the Duet…

In Beijing this morning, Bill Gates announced Microsoft’s plans to offer a package of Windows, Office and other software for $3 to…

Google is just another big (Evil?) cooperate entity like the rest of them. Check out this post from the founders of Dodgeball that was…

Dial-in numbers and passcodes for company meetings are just one example of what is now available on Google thanks to the Search Google…

Microsoft recently replaced the “WPF/E” codename with the name “Silverlight”. I don’t get it… It sounds like the opposite to me… While…

The Windows Media Player team announced a new plugin that enabled watching Windows Media Player content on Firefox: Have you been itching to…

Microsoft used the National Association of Broadcasters conference this week to announce the new name for WPF/E – Silverlight. I know there…

Fresh off the press – we recently launched the new Duet community page on SDN at http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/duet (or expand the…

C# PM Luke Hoban has posted a simple C# Ray Tracer code that utilizes the new C# 3.0 language capabilities. On the same note, you can also…

The ScobleShow has done a very good video demo of Thirteen23’s amazing WPF apps: These guys are doing some pretty awesome WPF stuff…

Via BoindBoing…

One of the things you rarely get to see, unless you’re working in the games industry, are design documents for commercial games. Of course…

Another SAP Award Behind the sheeps… 🙂 Technorati Tags: SAP, Innovation

Microsoft’s Duet online reference site went online at the following address: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/duet/FX101686211033.aspx Also…

I’m currently reading Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die which is a fascinating book exploring why certain ideas thrive…

The new release of Yahoo’s widget engine is finally here. One of the cool new features is the side dock panel (wtach out Vista SideBar…

The guys at Microsoft sent us this video about a year ago. Now its on YouTube so I can share: What would happen at Microsoft if we could…

Want to develop your own Wiimote enabled demo? Here’s the library you need – http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/hardware/article.aspx…

I just read on Thomas’s blog about what the guys at Colgate Palmolive where doing with their SAP software and the Wii remote: “Using our…

WPF/E is near completion. But is it going to end with that? I’m sure that implementing WPF/E for multiple platform also involve some sort…

Scott’s latest post reminded me that I have a Google GuestMap too. So go sign in to my GuestMap and let me know who you are (and where you…

Too much interesting stuff to go over, too little time. The following books are piled up on my desk. Some partially read, some not, but…

I came across these two posts: .NET – A Love Story .NET Love Story Continues… I heard people in love do crazy things but… Technorati : .NET

From Microsoft-Watch: A verdict had been expected today in the prosecution that started on Jan. 9. The piracy case drew national headlines…

http://www.dontclick.it/ is a very interesting project that was introduces the concept of an interactive interface operated by a mouse…

I read via vnunet that Sweden is opening an official embassy on SecondLife: Sweden has established a virtual embassy in the Second Life…

Tim Sneath is doing a series about great WPF applications. Check out his blog… >

Just came across Mike Harsh’s blog where he published some cool WPF/E applications. One of which is the WPF/E Pad which is a WPF/E based…

Thomas Lebrun has posted 9 WPF controls up on codeplex: CheckedComboBox, CheckedListBox, CollapsiblePanel, ComboBoxFontSelection…

TheServerSide.Net has published a very comprehensive LINQ\C# Learning Guide. Technorati : .NET, C#, LINQ

Windows Vista has been on the market for roughly two week now. Here’s a roundup of some of the major developments (and other interesting…

Bill Gates walked off, on-camera, after the interview with John Stewart on the Daily Show. Some funny takes about this: And another one…

Chris Shipley captures the meaning behind all the recent technology changes. AJAX, Wikis, Vista (and WPF) etc. are all part of a deeper…

Denis over at DevComponents finally broke the silence about the WPF-Ribbon. There is a private beta which you can sign up for… “Wpf-Ribbonâ…

Bill Gates already wasn’t a fan of Apple’s commercials, so I wonder what he’ll think about the the latest installment where Apple makes fun…

Nathan Dunlap just pointed out that Windows XP users can use Windows Update now to get .Net 3.0 installed. Technorati : .NET, .Net 3.…

I accidental came across the link to http://www.codeoasis.com/ when it was displayed as part of a blogger’s description in bloggers wepart…

There have been two, oddly related, news items regarding software piracy the past couple of days. The first, reported today by Bloomberg…

Via TechCrunch: When famous computer scientist Jim Gray went missing a few days ago, the coast guard launched a large scale search that…

Kind of suprising, but it turns out that some of the pictures in Vista’s wallpapers bundle were selected from Flickr. Long writes about the…

If you’re interested in SAP you should probably check out this post listing out the SAP bloggers out there… Technorati : bpx blogger, sap…

WPF didn’t ship with a DataGrid control in .NET Framework 3.0. The guys at Xceed Software recognized that and have now released an…

Tim Sneath blogged about a new WPF Wiki which just went live… It is over at Channel9 at http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/WPF…

Steve Fox, editor in chief at InfoWorld wrote an editorial about how enterprise software should become more consumer oriented and take…

Channel 10 (Israel) just showed Nimrod Harel’s magic show where a guy apparently caught a bullet shot at him by some model with his teeth…

SAP! That’s right… Check out the first look on SAP’s widget development environment here: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub…

Apple’s share fell as much as -7.53% on the past 5 days. In fact, when looking at the share’s graph from the past month you can clearly see…

Saturday Night Live did an iPhone parody: Technorati : Apple, SNL, iPhone

Stefan Schwing, an SAP RIG specialist, has written a very comprehensive post on the Duet client-side components installation. Check it out…

Quite expectedly, when the MacWorld distortion field fades away we find out the real facts that aren’t on Jobs’s keynotes. According to…

It’s always funny to see this kind of unwanted critical error windows. Especially when its Bill Gates presenting or, as in this case, on a…

Like it or not, the porn industry has been an early adopter of new media technologies and a major factor in deciding the future mainstream…

Seeing the amount of media attention apple gets, I couldn’t help but wondering what is it exactly that makes Apple’s launch so exciting. Is…

Another hilarious CES\iPhone comedy video… Wait for the punch line at the end… Technorati : CES, Colbert, Comedy, Humor, iPhone

There has been a lot of tagging around the blogsphere lately and I’m glad it didn’t skip me (because it means someone actually reads this…

Its been quite around here for a while but now I’m back! India was great, California and New York were awesome and now I’m back at Israel…

Technorati : Apple, iPhone

This is awsom! The guys at WPF3D released an open source library (availble on codeplex) that allows you to take regular 2D control and move…

42 top SAP developers from all over the world met this weekend at the SAP Lab in Palo Alto Silicon Valley to compete in the SAP Developer…

After a hectic, being stuck at Mumbai for a day, I came back to Israel a day later than I planned on Saturday. Flying El-Al proved, again…

After a long week working at Bangalore we decided see the Taj Mahal on our weekend. We took a 2 days trip through Delhi and Agra and got to…

There’s a huge interest in widgets latelly. But are regular widgets (or Gadgets) we use at home the same as ones we would use at our…

200 team members 200,000 users in 3 months more than 20$ Duet Check out the new press release from Microsoft TechEd Barcelona at http://www…

I’m currently at the Bombay domestic airport after a (very) long flight from Tel-Aviv. I’ll be working with the Duet team at Bangalore for…

The following video on YouTube shows the concept for Longhorn as it was presented on 2003. How much of that really got to Windows Vista?

The .NET Framework 3.0 has officially been released! You can download the .NET Framework 3.0 components here: .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime…

Here is an interesting list of 30 Lessons From an Early-Stage Startup. I fond the following gem kinda funny: 4. Do understand that brilliant…

I’ve been trying to find a decent source control system to use for some time now without real success. I used to have only one machine, with…

From http://www.projectglidepath.net/ : The release of Windows Vista is creating a new wave of demand for applications. Combining the…

Ms Dewey is a promotional, Flash driven, search engine from Microsoft. The guys at channel9 seems to like it… Microsoft hired this actress…

What did we learn from Windows Vista? MJF sits down with Jim Allchin to find out and we get a very open, honest and frank insight in to the…

The Vista Shell Blog publishes a list of keyboard shortcuts for Vista. Roman published a very comprehensive list of WPF bloggers…

I tossed up this XAML button style over the weekend (OrangeGelButton.xaml (6.78 KB)):

Robby Ingebretsen (ex-MS WPF PM) from notstatic.com released his new XAML editor today – Kazaml. Unlike XAMLPad which, other than…

Last Friday I logged off my messenger account and I never managed to sign back in again.My Windows Live Messenger simply refused to sign-in…

Ted Patrick defines Web 2.0 and makes some pretty valid points about what users should expect in future applications. Some info from…

I found a new WPF blog by Pavan Podila’s. Pavan does some really cool stuff with WPF and has some great examples on his blog. Especially…

Even though the NY Times Reader application is very cool, I think there are better ways to reach to the hearts of the people and sell them…

I recently had to give an overview presentation of Microsoft’s new .NET 3.0 technologies at work. Since I don’t like writing or giving long…

I recently received this question from a reader: Hi Eran, for Duet the following main components are needed: Duet server and Add-On server…

Next on the line are the planned value packs… Technorati : Duet, MSFT, Mendocino, Microsoft, SAP, sap blogger

Microsoft released training material, which usually costs money, for free. Check these 3 out: Clinic 5135 : Introduction to Developing with…

I really got annoyed today by the fact that I could not perform a simple task of setting the Icon property of my WPF window from codebehind…

Ron Garret wrote an interesting post about the top 10 geek business myths. Since I’ve started my new career as a venture capitalist I have…

Here is a set of flash demos covering Duet 1.0 functionality as well as what is planned for Duet’s first value pack. Technorati : Duet, MSFT…

Viva Windows-Now blogs… Technorati : Vista, Windows Del.icio.us : Vista, Windows Ice Rocket : Vista, Windows

Thats the 2nd “Orcas” CTP this month. This one, dubbed “The September CTP” is only available as a Virtual PC Image and seems to integrate a…

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid21_gci1209903,00.html This quiz is designed to provide a quick reality check of your…

I just came across this post by Seema Ramchandani, a WPF PM, saying that WPF will not have hardware acceleration for layered windows on…

I have been playing a lot with WPF ever since the RC1 release and I simply love it. Eyecandy user experience is finally easy to create…

Microsoft Downloads page was just updated with the new Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Development Tools for .NET Framework 3.…

Another release candidate is just out Microsoft’s door. This one pairs up nicely with RC1 of the .NET 3.0 Framework. From the MSDN Download…

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly known as WinFX) RC1 is now available here. Technorati : .NET, .NET 3.0, Microsoft, WinFX Del.icio.us…

My boss brought this can of softdrink back from his recent visit to Redmond. Apperantly this is some sort of internal Vista PR as the can…

Its already all over the news, Microsoft is releasing an express edition of its XNA toolkit targeted at the hobbyist game developers. Here…

I just downloaded and installed the new Windows Live Writer. One important thing to note about Windows Live Writer (and Zoundry as well) is…

Dennis Moore, who is the general manager of emerging solutions at SAP, was interviews by internetnews.com about Duet. Read the interview…

Jeff Nolan just posted that he switched to chocolate and on the same note I just switch my LG U8120 for brand new Nokia’s 6280. When 3rd…

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has started rolling out a $36.5 million SAP AG software installation that will include the much-touted…

There’s an interesting discussion on John Battelle’s blog about the amount the different software companies spend on research and…

Here’s a code snippet for a thread-safe (synchronized) StringDictionary class: class SyncStringDictionary : StringDictionary { ///

I decided to move my entire photos archive to Flickr so I got a pro account account and started uploading. After almost 3 days of…

I just got a new project created on CodePlex.com for Sharp3D.Math. I’ll be moving all the Sharp3D.Math sources and files to that workspace…

Switched hosts and changed the domain DNS settings. Currently everything is back working… I’m going to do some redesigning of the blog and…

Krugle, an open source code search engine, quietly launched its public beta this week. Technorati : Krugle, Search Del.icio.us : Krugle…

Here is what Duet 1.0 enables for organizations. Enjoy! Technorati : Duet, Mendocino, Microsoft, SAP Del.icio.us : Duet, Mendocino…

After three weeks of working with the Windows Presentation Foundation, designer Lee Brimelow offers his thoughts on how that tool compares…

I am collecting questions for a Duet technical Q&A post. I know there are lots of unanswered technical questions about Duet out there so if…

In a very expected moved, WinFX was rebranded as .NET Framework 3.0. The change in name will not affect the technologies delivered as part…

Just saw that MSDN has a new wiki site on this announcement over at Microsoft’s MSDN blogs. “Today, I am pleased to announce the…

We’ve seen many new technologies at Microsoft’s TechEd Eilat 2006. Microsoft rules our desktops. It keeps pushing on new technologies that…

I’ve read Thomas’s post about Duet and specifically his concerns regarding Microsoft’s commitment to the project. Looking at it from…

Just playing with some more with Google Trends (Google Trends: SAP NetWeaver, Oracle Fusion, Microsoft Dynamics): Seems like SAP wins big…

I was just exploring the new Google Trends and I found some interesting search pattern. “With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s…

André Furtado’s SharpLudus project is a very interesting-looking application of the DSL Tools. The proposed approach is targeted at the…

The recording of the Duet launch LiveMeeting that was held on Tuesday with Jeff Raikes and Shai Agassi’s is now available here. Technorati…

And now, the Duettm architecture as you’ve never seen it before (drawn by an unknown artist): Artistic isn’t it? On the next few weeks I’ll…

Since I’m going to start concentrating on Duettm I thought I should post an introduction post… My name is Eran Kampf and I’m a software…

Microsoft and SAP will present Duetâ„¢ at Microsoft TechEd Israel 2006. The presentation will take place as part of the Office 2007 track…

Here is a brief review of the media coverage for the Duetâ„¢ launch: Forbes: Headline – “Gates’ Microsoft Sings Duet With SAP”. “Birds of a…

In additional to the 4 scenarios developed for the first version of Duet (Time Management, Leave Management, Organization Management and…

Project Mendocino will now be known as Duet. You can get some more details at the newly launched www.duet.com. Technorati : Duet, Mendocino…

Microsoft and SAP are planning a Web press conference on Tuesday to update our plans for Mendocino. Scheduled to participate in the “Live…

Ha’aretz is featuring an article about Mendocino and the group in Israel. Agassi is not the only Israeli component in the project; SAP’s…

I found this great site listing weblog promotion tools… There’s tremendous value in reaching out to your target audience and soliciting…

Don Reamey, who is one of the guys we’re working with at Microsoft, started blogging about Mendocino. I read that he plans on writing a set…

The SQL Server 2005 SP1 is finally out and what interests me the most is the management studio for SQL Express which is finally released not…

Cleaned up my blogroll and added an SAP category. Turns out there’s a growing community of SAP corporate bloggers I was not aware of until…

Yep, finally got some spare time to update this blog. Work has been keeping me very busy latelly as our release date approaches…

Woke up this morning and I didn’t find myself sharing a room with some european girls. Looked up the window and could not see any mountains…

I have a flight to catch on the 24th and so much stuff to do so I’m currently on a real tight schedule. Yesterday I swam with Dolphins at…

Technorati : New Zealand, Travel, Travelling Del.icio.us : New Zealand, Travel, Travelling Ice Rocket : New Zealand, Travel, Travelling

Technorati : New Zealand, Travel, Travelling Del.icio.us : New Zealand, Travel, Travelling Ice Rocket : New Zealand, Travel, Travelling

After 5 years in which I’ve spent slaving for the army, finishing a CS degree (almost!) and working at SAP on Mendocino its time for me to…

According to CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/03/pf/payhikejobseeker/index.htm?cnn=yes Guess I’m in the right job :-)

HP has updated their WM5 upgrades page and set the date for the release of the update for the 4700/4705 models. The updates should be…

There’s a forum post at GameSpot featuring a list of games that should be released on 2006. There’s a short description and a screenshot on…

I’ve been using the new IE7 browser for quite some time now, mostly on my Windows Vista machine and I’ve recently installed the beta…

SAP Innovation Award Originally uploaded by Eran Kampf.

One picture is worth a thousand words:

There has been some speculation recently about Office “12” product naming. Steve Bink of Bink.nu has recently attended an IT Forum, where…

There are two new articles on MSDN which are worth a good read: Craft A Rich UI For Your .NET App With Enhanced Windows Forms Support…

Manual Update: Apperantly Flickr does not set the Post’s title correctly (this was originally posted by Flickr without a title and fixed by…

After hearing a lot of the buzz around Flickr I decided to open my own gallery and try it out. Having an online web storage for photos…

Check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/EntLib2.asp. The patterns & practices Enterprise Library…

I’ve noticed on Dror’s blog that there’s a new skype out there. According to the web site it was actually released on January 5th. Anyway…

One of my goals for 2006 (full list on a future post) was to read more books and especially ones that do not directly relate to my work…

I’ve got 6 invitations to Messenger Live! I’ll give them away to the first few who’ll comment here… Update 15/1/2006: Got no more invites…

MDXInfo is a new site created by DirectX enthusiasts containing articles, tutorials and resources about Microsoft’s Managed DirectX. From…

Just noticed this new site focusing on 3D graphics using WPF.

I’ve purchased www.developerzen.com to act as my blog’s domain name. The www.ekampf.com domain name still acts as my main domain name and…

Engadget recently published the transcript for an interview they had with Bill Gates at CES. You can find it online at The Engadget…

Going over my daily blog activities I noticed a refferal from a new search engine called Previewseek. So I did some research and decided to…

I’ve had to design a system that works with unmanaged resources and thus I had several classes that required the implementation of the…

The MSBuild Team Blog featured a series of posts about integrating MSBuild with Visual Studio. Here is the summary of these posts: A New…

A graphics engine written in C# and OpenGL which uses Sharp3D.Math can be found at http://www.jordodesigns.com/jpgl.html. From the web site…

I’ve been trying for hours without success to get my Visual Sourcesafe 2005 to work over the internet so I could access the sources on my…

After reading this post at Dror’s blog I decided that paying ~5$ a month for 3GB of storage is an awsom deal so I just signed up for a year…

Earlier this month Microsoft made a preview release of its design tools for its upcoming Windows Presentation Foundation subsystem (known as…

Ok so I found out whats the new link for my Google GuestMap. You can find it in the following link: http://www.mapservices.org/myguestmap…

Its 4am in the morning and I’m finally about to leave the office. The Mendocino flow works and we’re ready for the preview. Finally I’ll be…

Well its already all over the news and on several Microsoft blogs (Michael Kiselman, Marc Monplaisir,…) so I thought I should mention this…

I got tired of editing Html in order to update my homepage so I switched to TiddlyWikki which allows simple html editing and fits perfectly…

I was doing some MSBuild development last week and I found it very annoying that I had to edit the project’s XML externally and then rename…

Someone had to do it sooner or later… http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/nextgen.html Jansen Harris mentioned in one of the comments…

A new version of RSSBandit (1.3.0.38) has been released. Its my RSS reader of choice and I haven’t seen anything better so far… The new…

Saw this on Oren’s blog and thought of giving it a try too… You are .pdf No matter where you go you look the same. You are an acrobat…

The Mendocino preview release is due soon and we’re now entering crunch time! This means long nights of debugging, integrating, LiveMeeting…

I’ve made some effort to organize my blog’s categories. Basically, I moved all the development related material to a “Development” category…

Recently published on MSDN: Generics FAQ: Fundementals – Review frequently asked questions regarding generic types and their various uses…

The Visual Studio .NET 2005 RTM release is availble online for MSDN subscribers. I understand the official release date is November 7th…

Finally found the definite answer to the question raised in the following post. The following link at MSDN describes all the breaking…

Looking at my blog’s Aggregator Activity statistics I’ve noticed a refferal coming from the following url: http://www.google.com/reader/… I…

Cyndy Wessling, a program manager in Office, started blogging about the PDF functionality in Office 12. Check her blog out at http://blogs…

jfo posted a very interesting Frequently asked Windows Forms questions at the PDC post at his blog. You can find code\slides from the…

A new update for the Wild Magic library has been recently released. The library a commercial-quality game engine and is the companion source…

Channel9 has posted a great video featuring Kam Vedbrat, lead program manager on the Aero interface being developed for Windows Vista. Aero…

I’ve been playing AOE2 a lot latelly and I can’t wait for AOE3 to come out. I’ve noticed something interesting on http://ageofempires3.com…

Scott Berkun, who one of IE’s PM (versions 1.0 to 5.0) announced he switched to FireFox. In a very interesting blog post he explains the…

One of the new announcements from Bill’s keynotes presentation yesterday was the Gadgets feature in Windows Vista. First of all, it seems…

Jensen is a PM on the Office 12 UX team and his blog will focus on the new UI of Office 12. Should be interesting… http://blogs.msdn.com…

You can watch screenshots of Office 12 at http://pdc.xbetas.com/?page=o12preview1 Bill Gate’s keynotes should start in about 10 minutes and…

My favorite questions : “Who are you?” and “Why are you still working?” :-) http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=111598

Another interesting post at the inquirer… I didn’t expect any significant change to DirectX before DirectX10\WGF (Vista). It seemed the…

Sometimes it just seems to me Microsoft is trying to confuse us with its naming conventions… Longhorn turned to Vista (I still don’t know…

After a long period of inactivity the announcement finally came: “After more than six and a half years of game development goodness…

Ever since I wrote this post regarding sex in video games (the GTA suit), which obviously contained the word “sex”, I’ve been getting some…

John Carmack announced at his Quakecon 2005 keynote that the Quake 3 Arena source code would soon be released. Today it was released (under…

I just came across XAMLShare, a public wiki dedicated to providing various Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) code samples. There…

Turns out I was born in the year of the Dog (1982). Here’s what the chinese calendar site has to say about dogs: Dogs are honest and…

Thought this was funny and worth sharing: http://ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54 Just have to insstall, write some scripts, patch the kernel…

Just notices on MSDN’s DirectX developers center that the Meltdown2005 presentation are availble for download. You can download them…

Where are you located? Double-Click on the map and tell me where you are! :-) Update: Removed the IFrame as it was slowing the site down…

A group of indie game developers worried about the future of gaming has launched GamesAreArt.com. Welcome to this brand new site. Here it’s…

MSDN has released a new article which shows how to implement a Word-like UI object model architecture that supports automation etc. like…

PocketPC Web Browsers Roundup The pocketpcthought.com forums features a web browsers roundup article. Get SplashID for free! SplashID safely…

Extremetech.com features an article about the Windows Vista presentation for game developers given at Microsoft’s Meltdown convention…

Peter Golde, formerly a Lead Designer for the C# language, has built a generic collection classes library for C# 2.0. The download is…

The Game Programming Wiki just turned one year of age today! Visit the anniversary page to see some usage statistics…

So, the Windows Vista beta1 is officially out and I couldn’t resist downloading it… I created a new VPC machine and since VPC couldn’t…

If you try to refresh an IBF region the region gets duplicated by default. To stop this you need to define a unique region name in the Port…

Just came across the Windows Vista entry at wikipedia. Covers all the new buzzwords etc. Also check out the new Microsoft Windows Vista…

So I guess everyone out there have already heard about GTA San Andres. Several points to think about: Mrs. Cohen bought a game marked as 1…

designinteract.com features a very interesting article about the UI design process of Microsoft’s Xbox 360. “Taking two years to design an…

The entire Mendocino project staff moved to a new building. Check out our new space at this gallery (new 20” screens and everything… joy…

Someone asked me if there’s a publication of a list of incompatibilities between .NET 1.0 and 2.0. I tried searching for this info but all I…

The Mendocino Community at http://www.sap.com/community/pub/private/mendocino/ contains news information, discussion board, and more…

עוד מאמר פורסם היום ב-TheMarker על חשיבות של תעשיית המשחקים בעתיד. אז למה באמת אין…

Just finished reading a great book – The One Minute Manager(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?linkcode=ur2&camp=1789&tag…

I’ve been using my new pocket pc for a few says now and I like it! Some “must have” software I’ve installed: WebIS Pocket Informant which…

Just got my new HP iPAQ hx4705 Pocket PC from Amazon. So far its working well and I still need to install some kewl applications so I’ll…

Andrew Kirillov posted an interesting article about image processing in C# at thecodeproject.com Check it out…

If you haven’t seen it yet, Scott has updated his list of tools that every developer should look at. This is by far the most comprehensive…

Here is the presentation from a UML lecture I had to give at the university. Enjoy 🙂 UML.pdf (451.16 KB)

Just found an interesting link in MSDN for high-level class diagrams of the .NET framework library: http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio…

I was recently asked by wout (www.woutware.com) about ways to donate money to Sharp3D.Math. The best way for me to recieve money (without…

SAP Executive Board member Shai Agassi shares his personal view on why Mendocino, the first product to be developed and delivered jointly by…

Microsoft has announced that the next version of Microsoft Office will use a new open XML file formats by default. Ok… Didn’t we already…

What Video Game Character Are You? I am a Gauntlet Adventurer.I am a Gauntlet Adventurer. I strive to improve my living conditions by…

Just came accross this funny domino routine executed using the Half Life 2 engine. http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/30715/

Recently I’ve encountered a problem where I had to dynamically insert new configuration sections to Microsoft’s Configuration Application…

Currently, only the Word and Excel PIAs are documented (If you’re using VS2005). This site tries to feel the gap by providing a wiki…

I got an email from Wout who is using Sharp3D.Math for his DXF class library\viewer projects. Check his site out at http://www.woutware.com

The project I am part here at SAP Labs has just been officially announced at SAPPHIRE ’05 Copenhagen. SAP and Microsoft will join forces…

Finally the wait is over and beta2 is out! It is already availble in the for MSDN subscribers and the rest of you can check out this site…

Took me a while to figure this one out… To add a button to the Outlook explorer context menu you need to get the “Context Menu” CommandBar…

Scott Hanselman has posted a very interesting blog entry about organizing the code for software projects. A particular interest in the post…

On the news: Sony’s PlayStation Portable Released at Midnight (Wired article) Apple Settles With Man Who Leaked Software Plants Challenge…

Site links: Eric Virro has a great site that covers all aspects of ripping digital audio. Highly recommended reading if you are curios about…

A question I am being asked alot latelly… Well here’s the answer: German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung English…

Get them here: Game Developers Conference 2005 This download includes presentations given by the Windows gaming and graphics team at the…

I have been having lots of troubles with the Outlook addin I was working on. This post about using Marshal.ReleaseComObject helped me fix…

Keith Brown has setup a wiki page encouraging people to list their managed applications. The intent here is to simply start creating a list…

Microsoft’s MSDN site features the new DirectX developers center which now looks and feels like the other developers center on the site…

Here’s a snippet I wrote recently to read a user’s information (name, phone etc.) from the active directory: public static string…

There’s a new Visual Studio 2005 CTP out?! When did that happend? Where is it? Well, apperantly it is availble at the MSDN subscribers…

In one of the prototypes I was working on I had to programmatically populate an InfoPath form with data. After loading the required data and…

Started working at SAP Labs Israel as a .NET developer on on one of SAP’s new projects. I guess I am going to start posting office…

Here are my answers to the second part of the questions (without using MSDNGoogleetc. except when noted): Mid-Level .NET Developer Describe…

Here are my answers to the first part of the questions (without using MSDNGoogleetc. except when noted): Everyone who writes code Describe…

Scott Hanselman has written a list of things a great .net developer ought to know. Going over the list of questions I can see there’s a fair…

What Season Are You? Result:: You scored as a Winter. You are WINTER. You’re more introspective, thinking deeply, feeling deeply. You love…

Read about it here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/0…

I was snowboarding for a week at Val Thorens, France. We had a storm for the first few days but it was sunny afterwards. The trip to the…

Microsoft have announced the latest update to the DirectX SDK. You can download the it from here. From the microsoft’s web : The DirectXÂ…

I just got a new job working as a .NET developer at SAP Labs Israel. Seems like an interesting job and I cant wait to start…

“העתיד של ×”×”×™×™ טק הישראלי הוא בתעשיית ×”×§×•×œ× ×•×¢ ומשחקי המחשב” – כך × ××ž…

I am nerdier than 43% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!

It has been a while since I last bloged and I regret that…. So whats new? I quit my job at the IDF and applied for a position as a .NET…

After doing some performance tests (suggested by Wout de Zeeuw) it became clear to me that using public fields instead of properties can…

The new release contains several bug fixes. Download the new release and check out the changes at the project’s homepage.

Well, I have been using TDD for Sharp3D’s development process for few days now and it already helped me find several bugs. At first I…

I started working on Sharp3D.Math v2.0 using using Visual Studio 2005 (.NET 2.0). I am using TDD (Test Driven Development) to develop the…

Few minor bug fixes on this release… Check it out on the Sharp3D.Math Project Page.

Here’s an update on my Matrix4 Benchmark Results. The last test compared the generic class compiled with the new C# 2.0 compiler against the…

I started working on the next major version of Sharp3D.Math (2.0) using version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. Some of the features I am adding…

The benchmark measured the time (in seconds) of 1,000,000 random matrix multiply operations on the different matrix implementations. The…

I’ve started doing tests on the use of generics (introduced in the new .NET framework 2.0) for the next versio of Sharp3D.Math. Doing…

The PowerCollections project is a community project sponcered by wintellect to develop a collection classes library for .NET 2.0. Browse the…

I’ve been playing with .NET generics trying to find a way to convert the current Sharp3D.Math structures to be generic templates. The…

Just got an answare for the problem reported in this entry. The product team looked at the issue and the problem is as follows Issue has to…

The DirectX 9.0 SDK – (October 2004) contains the FINAL release of the DirectX 9.0c Runtime and all DirectX software required to create…

A serious vulnerability issue that affects ASP.NET was recently discovered. There’s a bug in ASP.NET’s canonicalization process which can…

Jacco Bikker started a new tutorials series at flipcode.org. Check it out: Raytracing Topics & Techniques Part 1: Introduction Raytracing…

Here’s what the MSDN entry about validation (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/aspplusvalid.asp…

After the time I spent making Flex compile on win32 platform (see this post) I found out about the GnuWin32 project which provides Win32 (MS…

I’ve recently had to use flex and went through some trouble trying to compile it to win32 platform (using my VS.NET 2003). So, if you want…

I decided to publish a prolog project I did about4 years ago for a prolog course at the university. The project is an implementation of the…

החלטתי לפרסם פה פרוייקט גמר שעשיתי עבור קורס ”פרולוג ×•×‘×™× ×” מל…

When implementing ISerializable the MSDN documentation recommends on applying the [SecurityPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.Demand…

Microsoft Calculator Plus offers conversions between different measurement units for area, temperature, volume and more. It also includes…

I just found this out while going over today’s entries at weblogs.asp.net.(Check out this entry). Same as the author of that above entry, I…

Check it out at http://webmessenger.msn.com/.

I noticed this document about C# coding standards while browsing the latest entries at weblogs.asp.net. I think its a very usefull document…

I’ve been thinking about starting a tutorials series about 3D math. I could use Sharp3D.Math for code samples etc… Anyway, I hope I’ll have…

I was at a presentation of Yukon (among other things) given by Yosi Taguri and in this presentation he demonstrated the ability of Yukon to…

Moved the stuff from the old blog system here… From now on I will be using this system (dasBlog) for my blogging activities.

A company called bionix is using the GPU’s processing power for audio processing purposes. More information at this press release.

Consult with experts before you code! This is a problem I encounter frequently lately… Developers write infrastructure code with no real…

You can download the new release from here. You can also check out the change log and browse the online documentation.

I am taking two courses this semster: Compilation Introduction to AI Should be an interesting semester… cover cover

There is an interesting article at extremetech.com about Microsoft’s plans for its next generation 3D graphics API. Basically, according to…