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Kent Newsome wrote a post detailing his disgust from MySpace. Ayelet wrote a reply in which she claimed MySpace has it’s uses.
I tend to agree with Kent.

Blogging takes effort, time and at least a little talent.
MySpace requires choosing a template.
Blogging is about sharing your view, opinions and (some times) personal life with your readers.
MySpace is about sharing links to your “friends”, meaning other pages in which the only meaningful data is links to more “friends” and so on.
(Why do I use quotes? ask Samy)

If a blog is the equivalent of an autobiography, MySpace page is the equivalent of a phone book.

Worried about SQL injections, user spoofing and other hacking methods?
Worry no more - here you can find various security checklists from the P&P team.

It’s 12:30AM, and after walking several miles, running like crazy in the yard, and playing for an hour, my dog is still busy chasing it’s tail or trying to dig through the floor.

A very long hallway has 1000 doors numbered 1 to 1000; all doors are initially closed. One by one, 1000 people go down the hall: the first person opens each door, the second person closes all doors with even numbers, the third person closes door 3, opens door 6, closes door 9, opens door 12, etc. That is, the n th person changes all doors whose numbers are divisible by n . After all 1000 people have gone down the hall, which doors are open and which are closed?

How many times you had an interview in which you were given questions like this one?
And how many times you have an interview in which you were asked to solve real problems the development in the hiring company had?

Which hiring company would you like better?

Developers are smart people, don’t expect them to take you seriously if you throw logic riddles at them instead of really testing their programming skills.
Let the interviewee solve actual problems - a good developer will enjoy the challenge and will show it.

(The title of the post is based on the hebrew version of the riddle above, in which “people” were replaced by “gnomes” or “dwarves”. I wonder if this tell you something about the Israeli culture)

By default Team System limits the size of work items attachments to 4mb.
This can be rather limiting some times, requiring use of compression utilities and other “hacks”.
I have ran into a Martin Woodward’s post point to this MSDN artical, showing how to change this limit.

Looking back on all those years of blogging, and looking forward to many more