On this happy day, I am most pleased to announce the launch of my own clothing line - “bitzwear”. It’s about time I joined the ranks of many sports celebrities and hip hop artists and designed my own, signature wear. So, if you’re young, cool, hip, smart and beautiful - get yours now! And get something for your friends too. Available only from the official bitzwear store on the web.…

This post is a continuation of two previous posts: Solving the Measuring Paradox and If You Measure This Then Your Children Will Be Next. When setting quantity-based goals or metrics, it is usually better to measure over a period of time that is long as possible. Consider the following example: suppose you want to motivate developers on your team to resolve as many bugs as possible. So you start measuring the number of bugs closed by developer and set the following goal: each developer must resolve at least two bugs a day.…

I finally caved and got the Flickr “Pro” account. So now everything, old and new, is available here.…

That was fast. Oren wins a beer correctly answering the quiz. Not exactly what I had in mind, but the rules didn’t say anything about googling it. Solution: MySQL thinks that in my time zone (Jerusalem) daylight savings time starts on March 30th every year (which is not exactly true) and on that day the clock goes from 01:59:59AM straight to 03:00:00AM. So all the datetime values between 30/3 02:00:00 and 30/3 02:59:59 are considered invalid.…

Zoominfo is a website that exposes a database of companies and people. Zoominfo builds this database automatically by software that crawls the web and extracts structured data from unstructured web pages (for example, “about” pages in company websites and press releases) using natural language processing algorithms. A while ago, I posted a little satirical “press release” about me, the CTO of pashabitz.com, purchasing a burekas from “sammy burekas”. A couple of weeks ago zoominfo’s crawler reached that “press release” and now I am listed as the “chief technology officer of pashabitz.…

As I’ve mentioned, I left Clarizen a couple of months ago. Now about the new thing: I joined a new startup company - Semingo. During the past year I got certain that what I want to do right now is develop ideas “from scratch” in a startup environment. So when Sagie, who is one of the founders of Semingo and my friend from the army days invited me to join - it was a perfect fit.…

Flash: Mitch: And yours truly:…

I couldn’t find this all in one place, so, here’s how you enable developing and debugging an asp.net app under IIS7 on Vista: 1 Install windows features in “turn windows features on or off”. You need these things (which are not installed by default): Under “web management tools”: a. IIS metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility b. IIS management console Under “Application Development Features”: a. ASP.NET Under “Common Http Features” - check everything.…

I should’ve posted on this a while ago, but it’s been crazy lately. Better late than never. A month ago I left my place of work at Clarizen. It’s not been long, but it was definitely a great time for me. I learned a lot and had so much fun. Most importantly, I had a chance to work with some very talented and wonderful people - Eyal, Eli, Dudu, Sasha, Asher and many many more.…

Well, that’s just the exception to the rule, that only proves the rule. (My Father, when wrong) A while ago, I complained about how measuring the wrong thing will just make things worse, in particular, how measuring things in software almost never works. Recently, I read the earth-shattering news that “Transformers” beat the all-time record for first-week revenue by a non-sequel. “Transformers” beat the all-time record for first-week revenue by a non-sequel.…