Tech Tech challenges for developers Recently one of our team leaders presented me with the following question: "What can I do to challenge my developers from a technical point of view, outside of the
Agile Can't we all just get along? I was reading this great post talking about UX vs UI when an interesting thought came to mind. The post discusses the differences between UX design UI design, and it
Agile Through the Looking Glass: Google Glass as a Lean Startup case study After a long time, I finally got my hands on Google Glass. I got one to try out for a couple of days and I must say I am very impressed. I think they are a technological achievement. What impresses me even more is
OFFTOPIC My new ideal workplace In my last post (which was way too long ago), I 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 Shop Your Way Shop Your
Windows 7 Windows 7 Service Pack 1 installation trouble 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
DEV Adding dictionaries for spell checking in Windows Live Writer 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 Windows Live Writer was that the spell check dictionary was installed according to the
Windows 7 Fixing autorun in Windows 7 Lately I notice that every time I insert a DiskOnKey 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
Visual Studio Improving Visual Studio 2010 performance About two months ago, we upgraded our projects to Visual Studio 2010. Since then the developers started to complain about the performance of the IDE. It seems to have degraded in comparison to VS2008. From build times that doubled to stalling in the editor
Continuous Integration Running a Visual Studio 2010 upgraded project in TeamCity You’ve upgraded your project to Visual Studio 2010 and .Net framework 4. Good for you! But when you commit it to the source control, the automatic build in TeamCity starts to run, and alas, build failed! In order to run an upgraded project
Debug DTC Error while running integreation testing 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
Installations Installing Windows 7 on Asus Eee netbook 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. I’ve installed it on my main computer (which is one
