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	<title>New Adventures in Software &#187; Software Development</title>
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		<title>ReportNG Conquers Google, No Longer Just a Typo</title>
		<link>http://blog.uncommons.org/2010/02/25/reportng-conquers-google-no-longer-just-a-typo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time last year, if you typed &#8220;reportng&#8221; into Google, you would get this:

This was Google&#8217;s way of telling the world that my project was insignificant, that the only people who would type that particular search term were those without full control of their fingers.
The Subversion repository for ReportNG dates back to September 2006. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Nicholson, Software Developer</title>
		<link>http://blog.uncommons.org/2010/01/06/jack-nicholson-software-developer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2010/01/06/jack-nicholson-software-developer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>

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Jack&#8217;s new career in software development was going pretty well, but he didn&#8217;t appreciate the daily stand-up meetings.
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		<title>Zeitgeist 1.0 &#8211; An Intelligent RSS News Aggregator</title>
		<link>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/11/26/zeitgeist-1-0-an-intelligent-rss-news-aggregator/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/11/26/zeitgeist-1-0-an-intelligent-rss-news-aggregator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently signed-up for GitHub. Compared to Java.net or Sourceforge, it provides a much lower barrier of entry for code hosting.  There&#8217;s no need to wait an indeterminate period of time for somebody to approve your project, you just upload it. And because it&#8217;s a DVCS, it&#8217;s easy for other people to fork your projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Programmers&#8217; CVs &#8211; 20 years behind the times?</title>
		<link>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/10/24/programmers-cvs-20-years-behind-the-times/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/10/24/programmers-cvs-20-years-behind-the-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a programmer&#8217;s CV/résumé from the late 1980s and one from today and, aside from the content, what has changed?
Not much. Both will typically be approximately two pages of static, word-processed, black text on white A4 paper (or US Letter in North America). Maybe the text doesn&#8217;t always arrive on actual paper these days thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attention to Detail</title>
		<link>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/09/23/attention-to-detail/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/09/23/attention-to-detail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A thought for the day, courtesy of Landon Dyer (no relation) a.k.a DadHacker.
&#8220;Good programs do not contain spelling errors or have grammatical mistakes. I think this is probably a result of fractal attention to detail; in great programs things are correct at all levels, down to the periods at the ends of sentences in comments.&#8221;
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		<title>10 Tips for Publishing Open Source Java Libraries</title>
		<link>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/07/29/10-tips-for-publishing-open-source-java-libraries/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/07/29/10-tips-for-publishing-open-source-java-libraries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the strengths of the Java ecosystem is the huge number of open source libraries that are available.  There are often several alternatives when you need a library that provides some specific functionality.  Some library authors make it easy to evaluate and use their libraries while others don&#8217;t.  Open source developers may not care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s Gotta Hurt &#8211; Netflix Prize Snatched Away at Last Moment?</title>
		<link>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/07/26/thats-gotta-hurt-netflix-prize-snatched-away-at-last-moment/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/07/26/thats-gotta-hurt-netflix-prize-snatched-away-at-last-moment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[30 days ago, the BellKor&#8217;s Pragmatic Chaos team submitted the first qualifying solution for the $1 million Netflix prize.  The prize is awarded to the best performing solution 30 days after first submission that achieves the 10% improvement threshold.
BellKor achieved 10.05% on 26th June and have since moved on to 10.08%.  Several teams that were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Qualifying Solution Submitted for $1 Million Netflix Prize</title>
		<link>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/06/26/first-qualifying-solution-submitted-for-1-million-netflix-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/06/26/first-qualifying-solution-submitted-for-1-million-netflix-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Internet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The word on the street (well Reddit actually) is that the BellKor&#8217;s Pragmatic Chaos team today submitted the first qualifying solution for the Netflix Prize.  If nobody submits a better solution within the next 30 days then they will claim the $1 million reward that has so far eluded the best efforts of thousands of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>5 Ways to Become a Famous Programmer (Probably)</title>
		<link>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/04/12/5-ways-to-become-a-famous-programmer-probably/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/04/12/5-ways-to-become-a-famous-programmer-probably/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How do ordinary programmers become famous programmers?  Since I am not already a famous programmer I can&#8217;t speak from experience but, from scientific observations of the those programmers who are well-known, I have been able to identify the following five strategies for becoming a &#8220;thought leader&#8221;:
1. Do Great Things
Build software that everybody uses and you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Software Naming Revisited</title>
		<link>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/02/16/software-naming-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/02/16/software-naming-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do I know about naming software projects?  Maybe it&#8217;s not such a good idea to give your project a name which is a common typo of a common word?
Google Search suggests that it&#8217;s a mistake:

TestNG has achieved sufficient popularity to overcome that problem.  ReportNG is not there yet.
Google Alerts doesn&#8217;t like it much [...]]]></description>
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