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		<title>Programmer’s 12 Days of Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: Twelve cores debugging, Eleven named-pipes piping, Ten laptops loading, Nine apps compiling, Eight mice a-moving, Seven smartphones syncing, Six geeks a-coding, Five I-D-E&#8217;s, Four calling cards, Three iPads, Two monitors, And a cartridge for my H-P. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Peace to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Don&#8217;t Own a Computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[True story…&#160; After Thanksgiving dinner yesterday at the in-laws, I was talking with a nice older woman in her 60s.&#160; Eventually the conversation shifted to my favorite subject, computers.&#160; The woman, whom I’ll call “Helen,” told me that she doesn’t own a computer anymore since her “scare.” “Did your computer get attacked by a virus?” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 11/11/11 11:11:11</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See you again next century!]]></description>
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		<title>Email for the Man Who Has Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: It appears that Elite750 has already gone out of business.&#160; As the Bill Gates character said in a Simpsons episode, “I didn&#8217;t get rich by writing a lot of checks!” Do you remember the “I Am Rich” iPhone app that did nothing and sold for the maximum $999.99?&#160; Eight rich douchebags blew a grand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apparently C# Doesn’t Suck</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DotNetBaby says, “I&#8217;m an expert on sucking, and I can assure you that C# doesn&#8217;t suck.” YourLanguageSucks is a wiki on theory.org that lists reasons why the most popular programming languages suck.&#160; There are long lists of reasons why Java, JavaScript, C++ and PHP suck.&#160; But the list for C# is very short: Supports &#8216;goto&#8217;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vertically-Paired Programming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main challenge of Paired Programming is deciding which developer gets to drive the computer.&#160; Looks like these fellas have figured out a work-around:]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft + Skype = OMG!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 15:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This would be even more funny/scary if Microsoft was still the 800-pound gorilla in the computer industry that everyone feared.]]></description>
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		<title>Vanity Guids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you notice anything odd about the following list? 00000000-9b6d-4998-9dd7-6026894bdfba 11111111-9022-4400-bac2-8b66a9874443 22222222-a890-4dec-98bc-f41536b760bc 33333333-e361-4239-8d04-3f16f68ad9ce 44444444-d8c2-40ab-91bd-5a84511ed9d3 55555555-447a-4aa9-a51f-35c74a154156 66666666-193b-4ac3-bd92-860b6b49aedb 77777777-49de-4cc5-b9e6-2e5785dd47af 88888888-0d00-4672-933a-d68e240772be 99999999-7d9d-4d77-9e35-5e919db0f7d1 aaaaaaaa-76cd-4d6b-bae2-574e5b57c7ab bbbbbbbb-6f9e-4d2d-ba11-64df5c7355fa cccccccc-b897-4b15-9ab3-11b97836ce85 dddddddd-b417-48ad-8b5b-b762df75e03b eeeeeeee-cc9c-4cb8-bae0-bbd4b10307fa ffffffff-8d46-4a31-b297-2ac67dda3600 Yes, they are all legitimate Guids (Globally Unique IDs).&#160; But each is also a Vanity Guid, which is a unique ID that has some recognizable pattern embedded in the Guid’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.NET is pronounced like “Doughnut”, only different</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Burk wrote a terrific, funny article “A Brief History of Windows Programming Revolutions” that describes the internal back-and-forth struggle between programming groups at Microsoft in their endless pursuit to eliminate DLL Hell.&#160; First there was DDE, then OLE, COM, ActiveX, MFC, ATL, and eventually .NET: “And that brings us up to date with .NET [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software Developers are Doomed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First it was musicians, now it’s software developers, and next it will be movie stars.&#160; The gravy train is over, folks! If you write code for a living, your career is in the crosshairs of the Web’s demand that everything digital be cheap or free.&#160; A whole generation is growing up believing that if you [...]]]></description>
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