I'm getting a lot of feedback on NAppUpdate, and obviously there's plenty to discuss on how to make it better and bugs-free. So I went ahead and created a mailing list / Google group dedicated to NAppUpdate issues, suggestions and discussions. I'll be posting all future announcements to the list, to...

To all of those who asked: NAppUpdate and HebMorph aren't dead. The last few months have been quite hectic for me in several aspects, and this is mainly why I wasn't able to make any real progress with them, not to mention blogging. I still have big plans for both, and several other unrelated plans ...

While developing quite a simple Silverlight application a few months ago I noticed how lagish it can become. Now I came across this article, and after realizing I wasn't imagining things I'm starting to realize how immature WPF and Silverlight are. And that is without mentioning some severe bugs WCF...

NAppUpdate (pronounced: nap-date), a small and flexible open-source library providing consumer applications with auto-update functionality, is now being officially released, and is ready for production. About a month ago I released a first version of my local copy of the library, and posted this fir...

פוסט מעניין, שיש בו כדי לשפוך אור על דרך הפעולה של שירות התרגום של גוגל. גוגל משתמשים במידע סטטיסטי כדי להציע תרגומים והטיות רלוונטיים בהתאם להקשר המילה:

שירות התרגום השוביניסטי של גוגל

Any desktop applications programmer finds himself every now and then looking for a library providing an application auto-update functionality, that is flexible and easy-to-integrate. I had the intention of working on such a library for some time now, so it will do things the way I want it to. Last w...

The implementation of the splitter behavior which comes with HTMLayout, and its .NET wrapper in Nabu, suffers from several issues: it doesn't take into account RTL layouts, and the actual resizing is done while dragging the splitter itself - which is quite costly. As a result of the latter, 2 on_siz...

Today I gave a talk at SIGTRS on Hebrew search and HebMorph. Attached with this post is the slideshow from the presentation. More info on HebMorph is accessible through the project's page. A PDF with the presentation summary in Hebrew is available as well (6 pages): HebMorph SIGTRS presentation summ...

This is what they revealed in a video floating around lately. Instead of sending thousands of git pull requests to each of their deployment servers , Twitter started using the BitTorrent protocol from Python to distribute the binaries in their deployment cycle. They report a drastic speed improvemen...

BzReader (http://code.google.com/p/bzreader/) is a simple utility which allows browsing dump files downloaded from Wikipedia. Once downloaded, BzReader will go through all pages and articles in the dump file and index their titles. Using BzReader, it is easy to browse and search Wikipedia for specif...