Ayelet asks Which Is Your Favorite Social Network and Why?

I think a more interesting question is to which suck social networks site people are willing to pay for use or for access to extra features.

I’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 visiting again soon…

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 seems that a great developer is measured almost solely based on his knowledge of new technologies and methodologies.
Besides improving presentation skills and keeping a blog (duh! coming from blog writers…) all posters concentrate on learning new technologies (WPF, WCF, WPF, Ruby, LINQ, Silverlight…) and experiment with development methodologies (TDD, Agile, XP, SCRUM, …).

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 Google that we hang out with at Tel Aviv for teh past couple of days. Tal has the whole thing documented on his Flickr page !🙂

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 teams there. Last time I was supposed to stay therefor 10 days and ended up being there for almost a month and with another extra day in Bombay due to an airport strike in Israel.

Binding to Outlook item (Mail, Task, Contact, etc.) is one of the main features that differentiates Duet’s user experience from other OBA products such as Snap-Ins, Extensio etc. What exactly are bounded items? and how is binding implemented?

The Singleton implementation in the snippet I posted works fine as a lazy, thread-safe Singleton as it ensures only one thread can create the instance. However, there’s a big performance hit caused by the fact that we acquire a lock each time the Singleton’s instance is requested. Yoav, suggested to fix this performance problem by checking for null twice – outside the lock and inside the lock:

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 launching Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 on the same date.

Got to love this “Will it blend” videos series…
So what do you think? How about an iPhone smoothy? 😉

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