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		<title>Upgrade to Rails 4 already</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been developing a new application from the ground up built on Rails 4. I wanted to publicize my thoughts so far and try to encourage the weary to stay on the edge lest they face their own deprecation. Even though we&#8217;re extremely close to an official Rails 4 release there are countless gems out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generic Email Resque Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was working on a project recently that uses Resque to queue jobs. One of the main things they use this for is to queue email jobs so they don&#8217;t hold up the user. The way things were initially implemented and the way I&#8217;ve seen it done in the past is they had a separate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving your Development Process with Tests and Code Reviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve worked with a lot of different teams in the past and I&#8217;ve seen a lot of variation with how those teams approach things like tests and code reviews. With this article I hope to shed some light on what practices work, which are destined to fail, and provide some advise on how to improve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a pervasive cultural problem in the software industry that has only been getting worse in the past few years. As software developers, we&#8217;re always neck deep in code and we&#8217;re always looking for more efficient algorithms and processes. The constant refinement of our software, our architecture, and our processes is an art form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 new I18n gems for your Rails 3 app</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been busy building 3 new translation gems for a new application I&#8217;m working on. The first is i18n-country-translations. It breaks countries down into their standard country codes and adds translates for different locales. This gem can be easily incorporated into other gems or apps that need I18n country translations. Just add this to your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Instead of searching for water on other planets, why not search for space debris?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this image today and it made me think of how scientists have been searching for water around distant plants. If humans have created this much space debris, its reasonable to assume another developing civilization on a distant planet would also have generated this amount of space debris. Perhaps instead of a quest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t see the forest for the trees &#8211; Robots, AI, and the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to share some ideas I&#8217;ve had today about robotics, ai, and the internet. First lets discuss robotics. There has been much work in the field of robotics to create bi-pedal humanoid like machines. Much, if not most, of the work pursues what I consider the ideal: being as human as possible. When you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Years Resolution: Build my first robot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been all over the place lately on deciding what I should do and commit my time to. For the past 8 or so years, I&#8217;ve been building Ruby on Rails applications and though I&#8217;m pretty good at it I don&#8217;t find it intellectually challenging. I keep coming back to the idea of going back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investing in myself: Realizing my value as a programmer</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/investing-in-myself-realizing-my-value-as-a-programmer/437</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a programmer, you have an invaluable skill that you need to learn to harness. Investors realize this already which is why they&#8217;ll spend stacks of cash to have you build them something that&#8217;ll someday be profitable. Large corporations realize the value in good developers and sometimes bend over backwards trying to retain their top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing the Devil&#8217;s Advocate: An Argument for SOPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s much ado online these past few weeks promoting the demise of the SOPA act. Many smart people are arguing it will destroy the internet as we know it. That may be true but that may also be exactly what we need. We&#8217;ve long known about the problems with the current DNS system from its [...]]]></description>
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