Caught Microsoft with the pants down ;)

and thanks to Rael Kahn that draw my attention!

Are you a SVN users? I am one of them...

I will not outline here the great benefits of SVN, this related to other topic (if you don't know it yet, you must check it out here - {it's a source control software}), but I want to introduce you the plugin for the Visual Studio IDE.

The software allows you to perform the most common version control operations directly from inside the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE.

You can find it here.

BTW, AnkhSVN (the creator) is an active open source project with multiple committers from around the world, you can also get be involved of one or be a part of them (details on their site).

Enjoy...

I want to recommend you about a great article that was written by a friend of mine - Boaz Davidoff, about duplex web services.

He found a great way for multiple clients to communicate through web services that push events/messages to the client.

I will not get down on details here (this you can read on the article), but this is a great example of server-side multi-threading techniques.

I read some related stuff about this issue on the web and found that Microsoft covered this solution under the WCF environment, but my POC has proven that Boaz's solution is much more easier to understand (if you don't have the minimal knowledge on WCF) and to implement or customize to your own requirements.

So if you have a client application that requires real time information to be pushed from the server, or from other clients, this might be the ticket. 

The article is on the codeproject.com site here.

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?