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Thursday, April 29, 2010

My first feedback on MS Connect

Regular expressions list in the Regular Expression Editor dialog in VS 2008 should be configurable ! What the hell I need a french phone number regular expression for !?!?!

Vote for the feedback "

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/555384/customize-standard-expressions-list-in-regular-expression-editor-dialog-in-vs-2008

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Service from a very HOT company

Few days ago I've called a certain company ( one of the big media/communication )
providers .

A nice service desk girl answered the call .

- Me :
Hello . I would like to hear some information about the phone line from your company.
Can you please tell me the prices ?

-She:
Well , I cannot tell you the prices , but I can write down your phone number and our representative will call you back in an hour

- Me:
Ok , my number is ... #####

- She:
Thank you sir . Now , can you tell me if you're satisfied with the service I gave you ?
- Me (wondering) :

What service !?!?!?! Writing down my number for other representative is a service ?!?!?!
I realize that in your work orders you have that line that says :
"Now darling.. ask the asshole on the phone about the quality of service he got from you"
But hey , use your brain - why the f#$& you ask me about it ? You didn't provide me a service!!

By the way , the representative never got back to me .

I had to call them again after 2 days , and after comparing the price they gave me, with other service provider , I chose the other one .

That's just a little sample . I've suffered a lot in the past from their awful service quality.
Hours of waiting on the phone until someone will pick up ...

Just thought that they got better - and yes they got better .
Now they pick up the phone quickly .

The problem is that the one who picks up can't give you the required service.

To whoever wonder what company is that , it's HOT !!!
(hmm.. that one was in the title )

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Site speed factor for SEO

Google announced that from now on ,
the speed of the site will be an important factor in the page ranking .

So if you want your sites to get up in the web searches in Google , you better
make them load fast.

Though some things are not that clear to me .
For example :

1.If I have a light page (well.. like google search page ) - it will sure load faster than a page loaded with info - like some article . Will the algorithm will take this into account ?

2. My server is located in Israel , and the search is done from US for example .

Sure it will load a little bit slower. How Google will treat this ?

Read all about it here - Using site speed in web search ranking

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Friday, April 02, 2010

Vowels missing in Gmail

Yesterday as I entered to Gmail I've noticed something strange ..




All the vowels were missing :)
Latter saw this post on Gmail blog :

Of course it was a 1 April joke..