I read a nice post by Steve Blank (a recommendation by Erez Eden) that describes how to manage and balance life, family and children during hard work.

Perhaps it could work and you could find free time to raise your kids even the hard work!

Great post is here.

Check this out - http://java.dzone.com/videos/video-hug-a-developer-today

So sad and true...

I want to share with you a great experience that I was a part of it on the last weekend. This post is a continues post to the one I published few weeks ago about the StartupWeekend Israel event.

We gathered up - a bunch of 56 amazing and talented people, each one with its own professional skills (technologic developers, BizDevs, project managers,  UI experts, graphic designers and more...) for 56 hours of hard work, philosophies, work plan, branding (marketing and advertising), programming developing and more. At the end of this weekend we succeeded to raise a prototype version of the project to the air.

First of all, I want to mention my friend Erez Eden that was the main engine behind the event, organized it in a perfect way - well done!

After voting for an idea from a pool of nice ideas that brought by some of the event members, the majority votes were given to a website that has called in the end of the event TribiU.com.

I won't give a spare words about the website - you can watch it in here. More details about the whole event, participants, work, idea and stuff you can check out in out community here.

So, some final words, I want to thank to all of the people that participated in this event, it was a pleasure, great time and fun; and I hope that we could do some more business together and don't forget the hard work has just began, we have to switch a gear and continue working as much as we can...

Me and Erez Tison	Dev Team
Architecture Team	UI Experts
Friends

I just wanted to give you some 'development' status ;)

Here is Ori after 8 months... - in our terms is something around 5760 programmer's hours (but who counts.... ;)).

Remember him here?

I want to introduce you (if you not familiar with that) a term called: Startup Weekend. This term is well known and take place every year in US and Europe. Generally, this is an event that gathers around a bunch of 'people' that comes from the hi-tech community: software developers, graphic designers, UI specialists, product managers and more and more....

There is one goal: sit around, think about an idea of a tech project (web site, desktop application whatever...), design it properly - functionality and technologically and finally develop it in order to create a great product at the end of the weekend.

Some more details: this event is being produced by Erez Eden and Dan Rimon and will take place between 3 to 5 in April 2008 at Netwise offices.

So, if you're a software geek (like me ;)) and this idea interest you, you are welcome, I'll going to be there, you can count on it... ;)

More details at: startupweekendisrael.ning.com

See you there...

I got a recommendation from my friend about great Israeli Jazz band. This band is called: thirdworldlove and i think that is one of the finest original materials bands that I've heard in the last year.

So if you're Jazz lovers/fans or even not, I recommend you about them.

Almost forget one more great thing, you can listen to their materials here just FREE.

Enjoy...

Hey all,

During the last couple weeks I started working on a new web 2.0 site (simultaneously to my daily work) with partnership with 2 old collegues, which are the head of the wonderful idea and the UI experts (in life and in this specific website) and an art director, (I am responsible of course on the technologic side of this site). Details regarding this site will be revealed in the future and alpha invetations will be sent to our best friends (leave me a comment if you want to be one of the alpha users)...

BTW - My collegues names are kept calssified by their request...

Now, to our post issue: Website Scalability.
Many stories had been published regarding great startup websites that suddenly experienced success on the Internet and then had to re-design their application to handle the growing traffic web requests.

In order to do it by the book, also in our web 2.0 site we want to prevent this scenario and to handle the anormous web accesses to our site (I wish) and after some searching the web, Erez send me a link regarding this issue; GigaSpaces published a tool that come to help us regarding this issue by saying that "GigaSpaces XAP allows developers to build applications that can quickly and easily scale-out limitlessly across low-cost servers with few or no code changes."

I going to check out this tool and to make a use with it (if it's satisfactory like they are saying of course).

You can check it our at the The GigaSpaces Start-Up Program here.

After a year and a half of posting (most of the time) not included weak periods of time, Google ranked me as 4 in their PageRank.

I just want to mention it, KUDOS ;-)

I decided to publish some more nice pics of my son Ori (I thinking about registering him a domain - myabe I'll start blogging sometime... ;). I can't belive that he's almost 3 month old may have many happy returns...

Ori with Tzippi...

Ori is focusing...

Ori is playing his 'University'...

I wouldn't call it a problem/error/bug/you can call it how you want, I'll call it a moment of idiotic lack of attention?

I struggled with a very common problem (it seems to be a common after some googling): "My Global.asax events are not being constructed/called - what should I do?"; this one was so familiar and I was sure that I've done everything like it has to be, so again what was it?

Finally I figured out my problem myself and was supprised of it (I'm seriously not jocking), the Global.asax file was not placed under the root folder of my web application (my web aplication structure is quite 'complex' because it suppose to serve many web sites that sits also in the same solution). I replaced it in the right folder (the one that the IIS is pointed to) and that's it.

I think that post can solve to (starter?) web developers this (common?) problem while it occurs, because google's results didn't supply very good solutions for this one.

What aobut me? Even after developing and designing many web applications, things like that could happen to anyone :-S

I'd like to represent my new son that was borned this Tuesday, July 17, 2007 05:55 AM at Jerusalem, Israel. Name has not yet been given and will be revealed at the Brith :)

It's more to come...