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Mid 2010 Podcast List
0it’s time to update my podcast list some shows are RIP and some new came to light. so without further ado my mid 2010 podcast list .
This time i grouped them by interest . some have fixed amount of episodes and some reoccur weekly . there are some hebrew podcasts in the list as well , I left the name and notes in hebrew.
.NET
Hanselminutes - ”is a weekly audio talk show with noted web developer and technologist Scott Hanselman. Scott discusses utilities and tools, gives practical how-to advice, and discusses ASP.NET or Windows issues and workarounds.”
.NET Rocks! -” is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.”
Deep Fried Bytes – “The show discusses a wide range of topics including application development, operating systems and technology in general. Anything is fair game if it plugs into the wall or takes a battery.” they are .NET centric and focus on mainstream development.
Alt.NET
i’m not sure if Alt.NET is the correct way to call the following section maybe .net with balls is more at it ….. they push the envelope
Herding Code – “Herding Code is a weekly podcast with K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon, and Jon Galloway.” it’s the show with most hosts at once i hear but what can I say when it works it just works.
The Thirsty Developer – ”A podcast with Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Dave Bost and Clark Sell” They bring top guests and talk about interesting topics.
Flex / AS3
The Flex Show – Everything Flex and AS3 sadly that’s the only one I found …
Open source / Versatile technology
The Changelog – very new very cool show about open source , I hope it will last.
Software Engineering Radio – “Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast”
Hacker Medley – ” is a short podcast for curious hackers. Our goal is to talk about the cool things we’ve learned that we love explaining to our friends.”
WebDevRadio.com – web development podcast – “News, views and issues for the web developer”
Tech / inspiration
WNYC’s Radiolab – if nothing else at least you owe it to yourself to subscribe to this one.
עושים היסטוריה! עם רן לוי Making History! with Ran
Business developement
Startups For the Rest of Us – about building small ventures - ”the podcast that helps developers be awesome at launching software products”
Harvard Business IdeaCast – “features breakthrough ideas and commentary from the leading thinkers in business and management”
כלכלת מוצרי מידע (ספר קולי) – ספר שמלווה קורס של האוניברסיטה הפתוחה אפשר שווה לכל מי שרוצה לבנות ולתמחר תוכנה
התנהגות ארגונית (ספר קולי) -ספר שמלווה קורס של האוניברסיטה הפתוחה אם אתה עובד באירגון גדול או רוצה להשתלב באחד
Usability
The User @ the Center of it All
Engineering and Computer Science
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Flex 3 hebrew textbox
0following my last post on flex3 RTL label , next challenge was input text with RTL support , in that case I decided to cheat and use html input overlying flex.
Not so elegant solution, but a solution non the less. the trick is to pass the flex component coordinate and position the HTML input accordingly , and on the HTML side handle keyboard and mouse event to let the flex developer feel @ home with regular focus and key press events.
Add the following MXML component to your flex project
Add the following code to your html page
Flex 3 label RTL support
1If you know or not , I’m leaving and working in Israel, where we have the most annoying text rendering issues.
we write in right to left order – that means in the opposite direction of most languages. Letters and words are left to right, though numbers and other symbols remain right to left.
Through the years I’ve seen (and even wrote) noumerous attempts to build an AS class that will provide this functionality to flash, all of them suffered from quirks and different edge cases.
About a year a go Adobe published a new text rendering engine (TLF) which wasn’t integrated into Flex3 framework , and though flex4 includes the new TLF some still need to work with the 3.x framework so here is a simple example of implementing true RTL label in flex 3 note that you need to download and install Text Layout Framework on your development machine in order to compile the code.
Cross Posting from Word Press to Community Server
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One of the challenges encountered in transition to a private blog was to update my origina blog which sits on a main hub. When I switched Blogs i chose WordPress as my blog system due to its support for many plugins (most make it easier for me on the writing process and management). After a little online search and browsing reading on how blogs work, I found a plugin that performs the task but for WordPress blogs only.The plugin uses standard MetaWeblogAPI which nearly overlaps between WordPress and Community Server , with any luck some time and some coffee made wp -> cs version you can download and install it manually.
XpostCS .