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	<description>what now?</description>
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		<title>Agile Register-ed As Overused</title>
		<link>http://whalespine.org/2008/12/29/agile-register-ed-as-overused/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tbeck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from pliantalliance.org.
The Register has named &#8220;Agile&#8221; one of the most overused phrases of 2008.  Along with &#8220;the cloud&#8221;, &#8220;web 2.0&#8243; and others, &#8220;Agile&#8221; was deemed to have been &#8220;so overused and misapplied during the last 12 months that they began to lose their meaning&#8221;.
Here&#8217;s the excerpt on &#8220;Agile&#8221;:

Agile software development methodologies are finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Java Fail</title>
		<link>http://whalespine.org/2008/12/23/java-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tbeck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to point out a great new blog from the rarely posting blogger at STRP.   Brad is a seasoned C++ developer and architect who has, for some unknown reason, thrown himself into the depths of Java hell.   At Java Fail he posts about the ways that Java comes up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AutoTagger</title>
		<link>http://whalespine.org/2008/12/21/autotagger/</link>
		<comments>http://whalespine.org/2008/12/21/autotagger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tbeck</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whalespine.org/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally found a Wordpress plugin which does auto-tagging of posts by looking for a list of tags in the post content.   I modified it a bit to make it also search for occurrences of  existing used tags in the new post.  I find this more handy since I can then just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logitech Control Center is Garbage</title>
		<link>http://whalespine.org/2008/12/05/logitech-control-center-is-garbage/</link>
		<comments>http://whalespine.org/2008/12/05/logitech-control-center-is-garbage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tbeck</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Logitech]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MacBookPro]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OSX]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whalespine.org/?p=170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I bought a Logitech mouse for my wife&#8217;s new MacBook Pro, we were getting kernel panics every couple of weeks (yes, the BSOD of OSX does exist).  Suffice to say I was none too impress with Apple.  Turns out, not their fault.  I stumbled upon this thread which indicates tha [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Switch</title>
		<link>http://whalespine.org/2008/11/11/the-switch/</link>
		<comments>http://whalespine.org/2008/11/11/the-switch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tbeck</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whalespine.org/?p=167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve switched my main domain (whalespine.org) over to being run off Wordpress and dropped the blog domain (spew.whalespine.org).  The main reason was that I didn&#8217;t really have that much going on at the old site.  For all 2.45 (and that is a generous estimate) of you who cared about what was on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back</title>
		<link>http://whalespine.org/2008/09/30/back/</link>
		<comments>http://whalespine.org/2008/09/30/back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tbeck</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spew.whalespine.org/?p=163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been quite a while since I&#8217;ve posted on the blog.  I&#8217;m planning on posting more often in the future, but I&#8217;ve said that in the past, so who knows what will happen.  Not to make excuses, but I have been busy of late, launching a new website for a client and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YupNope</title>
		<link>http://whalespine.org/2008/02/01/yupnope/</link>
		<comments>http://whalespine.org/2008/02/01/yupnope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tbeck</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging seems to have fallen down on the list of things I need to do, so as a result it has been a while since I&#8217;ve posted anything.  One of the things I&#8217;ve been working on instead of keeping the interweb buzzing with my keen insight and immaculate prose is working on a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prototype Ajax success()</title>
		<link>http://whalespine.org/2007/11/07/prototype-ajax-success/</link>
		<comments>http://whalespine.org/2007/11/07/prototype-ajax-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tbeck</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spew.whalespine.org/2007/11/07/prototype-ajax-success/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran across what I believe to be a bug in Prototype last week.   It has to do with the Ajax.Request.success() method which indicates if a given ajax request was successful or not, based on the http status code.
I&#8217;m currently developing against v1.5.1.1 and in that version of Prototype the success function looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Ruby Code?</title>
		<link>http://whalespine.org/2007/10/21/beautiful-ruby-code/</link>
		<comments>http://whalespine.org/2007/10/21/beautiful-ruby-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tbeck</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Ruby]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[STRP has an excellent analysis  of Tim Bray&#8217;s chapter in Beautiful Code.   I can&#8217;t believe someone (even of Bray&#8217;s stature) has the gall to say stuff like &#8220;If you don&#8217;t know Ruby, learning it will probably make you a better programmer&#8220;.   I&#8217;ll remind myself to either skip that chapter or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>v.Next Excitement</title>
		<link>http://whalespine.org/2007/10/18/vnext-excitement/</link>
		<comments>http://whalespine.org/2007/10/18/vnext-excitement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tbeck</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You know you&#8217;ve produced a good next version of your product when your development team is actually excited about the new release and finds itself loathing to use use the old version in production because it is too limited.  Of course this assumes that the development team actually uses your product in real life.
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