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I have also opened a hebrew blog, to write about subjects related only to Israely croud.

• Always use the term country/region instead of the word country.
• Always use the term capital/major city instead of the word capital.
• Be cautious when using an untranslated trademarked term from the United States because it might be interpreted as an offensive or otherwise undesirable term in another language.

Webcasts differ in style. Some are screencasts, displaying the presenter’s computer screen, others display mixed content of power point presentation and a screencast, and there are many more types.
And there is the kind in which an interviewer and an interviewee sit in a studio and talk. Or in other words, a podcast pretending to be a webcast.
That’s the type Rico Mariani’s recent webcast belongs to. And to make things worse, someone at Microsoft thought it would be funny to store the one hour webcast in a wmv file consuming more than 800mb of disk space….
That’s where Video mp3 Extractor comes in - it’s free, and allows you to convert video into mp3 files. This particular webcast was converted into a 55mb file, much more easier to manage.

I previously wrote about career paths for software developers, and most of the career choices require getting away from coding.

It seems people like Rob Walling don’t like the transition:
The end result of promoting your best developers is at best a few unhappy months as they struggle with their unhappiness and desire to return to code. The worst case is they feel unbridled resentment as you watch them rush out the door like there was a 2-for-1 sale at Barnes & Noble.

Rob also opposes the promotion of good developers:
The problem is not that developers are promoted, it’s that the developers who are promoted are the “big producers,” the ones who come through on their projects. These are the same developers who stay late and read software books on the weekend because of their love for programming, which is why they come through on their projects. Promoting someone who loves to write software into a position where they will write little or no software doesn’t make a ton of sense

But who can you promote if not the good workers - the bad ones?

Rob also ignores the age problem in this profession - being a developer at the bottom of the food chain means finding job becomes more & more difficult as you grow older. His solution was freelancing, working as his own boss. That’s fine for some people, but it does carry a financial risk, and not everyone like being a freelance developer.

Larry Osterman wrote a very useful post on service debugging.

The idea with the AssemblyInfo task is to:

1. import Microsoft.VersionNumber.targets
2. populate the AssemblyInfoFiles item group with the list of AssemblyInfo.* files to be updated
3. set whatever properties you want to modify - AssemblyMajorVersion, AssemblyMinorVersion, etc.

You can find further info here.