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	<title>Nosce Tipsum - Jeff Powell's Blog</title>
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	<description>Know Thyself</description>
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		<title>Developer Driven Development (DDD)</title>
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Because Rails can never have enough diversity of testing philosophies, code_anthem  today announced the hottest thing to hit Rails since fixtures called Developer Driven Development (DDD).  

From the article:


Development Driven Development (DDD) is a revolutionary new approach to development that focuses on &#8230; you guessed it, development!  DDD takes a radical approach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2010/05/29/developer-driven-development-ddd/</link>
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		<title>The Savant experience in NYC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From TUAW TV: The Savant experience in NYC.



Filing this one under: Things to do when you have entirely too much money (but fun to try none the less).

Full story
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		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2010/04/18/the-savant-experience-in-nyc/</link>
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		<title>The Downfall of Agile Hitler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[it &#8220;should appeal to Rails developer&#8217;s sense of humor&#8221; do

Disclaimer: Unless you are familiar with Test-Driven Development with Rails Training and Behavior Driven Development, this video probably won&#8217;t make any sense whatsoever &#8212; On the contrary, if you are a Developer or Tester / QA type who happens to work in those environments, this video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/12/16/the-downfall-of-agile-hitler/</link>
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		<title>No, I Wouldn&#8217;t Hire a Programmer That Has No Interest in Programming Outside of Business Hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one caught my eye tonight and I wanted to capture it for posterity if nothing else.


No, I Wouldn&#8217;t Hire a Programmer That Has No Interest in Programming Outside of Business Hours

I read this on proggit:

A while ago my company interviewed someone who, in the course of some standard question, said that after the 5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/10/09/no-i-wouldnt-hire-a-programmer-that-has-no-interest-in-programming-outside-of-business-hours/</link>
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		<title>Matz has_many Macs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While doing some cleanup on my delicious bookmarks tonight, I came across this picture on Ruby Central showing Yukihiro Matsumoto/&#8221;Matz&#8221; with his new Mac laptop.  In this particular picture, if you squint just right (or perhaps it had something to do with the fact that it was nearly 3:00AM), there is a certain resemblance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/09/24/matz-has_many-macs/</link>
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		<title>Using Multiple Versions of Ruby At The Same Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

From RubyInside:


Ruby Version Manager GitHub repo (a.k.a. RVM) makes it ridiculously easy to install and switch between multiple Ruby versions on OS X and Linux. Over the last 24 hours, I&#8217;ve been playing with RVM and talking to creator Wayne E. Seguin and have been blown away with how cool (and simple) it is &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/09/04/using-multiple-versions-of-ruby-at-the-same-time/</link>
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		<title>A Buffet For The Mind: Things Every Programmer Should Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Time to break out the visine &#8211; the link leaves little doubt that you&#8217;ll be staring at the screen for hours to come after you check this one out.

A quick summary of the wiki:


&#8230;97 Things Every Programmer Should Know project, pearls of wisdom for programmers collected from leading practitioners. You can read through the Edited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/09/04/a-buffet-for-the-mind-things-every-programmer-should-know/</link>
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		<title>Code Rush in the Creative Commons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Andy Baio of Waxy.org and Upcoming.org fame has recently published a heavily-annoted version of the 2000 documentary Code Rush which if you haven&#8217;t seen it, details the process of (then) Netscape open sourcing the code behind the Mozilla project all those years ago. This was initially posted some time ago but at the request of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/09/02/code-rush-in-the-creative-commons/</link>
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		<title>Getting more out of your Rails Console</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It comes as a surprise to absolutely no one that I&#8217;m a huge fan of the Rails Console and I advocate its usefulness for anyone learning about Ruby on Rails.  In the early days of Rails, the Console was frequently overlooked in favor of some of the sexier parts of Rails but once you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/09/01/getting-more-out-of-your-rails-console/</link>
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		<title>The Todo.txt Command Line Interface (CLI)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Todo.txt Command Line Interface (CLI)

The sheer geekiness of this app warrants being posted but once you get past all the command line goodness &#8211; for those of us who routinely use basic text files for our daily todo&#8217;s and outlines &#8211; this is, at the very least, worth spending a little time playing with.


If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/08/28/the-todo-txt-command-line-interface-cli/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Vision of the Future (Parody)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

..and just because:


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		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/08/24/microsofts-vision-of-the-future-parody/</link>
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		<title>Cheating with Ruby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

If you are doing just about anything Ruby related these days, you really owe it to yourself to know about a fantastic little RubyGem called cheat. from the fine folks over at Err the Blog.

To get started with cheat:

$ sudo gem install cheat


To use cheat you simply supply the name of whatever you wish to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/08/23/cheating-with-ruby/</link>
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		<title>Introduction to using vim for Rails development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fine folks over at Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots have put together a screencast on how to go about using vim for Rails development.  You are starting to hear more and more about people in the Rails community experimenting with vim lately and with plugins like this it isn&#8217;t hard to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/08/20/introduction-to-using-vim-for-rails-development/</link>
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		<title>Video: Money and Passion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fireside chat on the topic of money and passion with Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capitaland Paul Graham of Y Combinator.  An interesting discussion about how even the best ideas can be worthless without passion.


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		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/08/09/video-money-and-passion/</link>
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		<title>Comic Relief for XHTML2 and HTML5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smashing Magazine has a post today featuring one of my favorite web developer centric conics The Brads.  Congratulations to Brad Colbow on the exposure at Smashing. Oh yea, and they do a great job of clarifying the whole XHTML2 / HTML5 noise of the last few weeks.

Original post


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		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/07/30/comic-relief-for-xhtml2-and-html5/</link>
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		<title>Flynn Lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

More Tron Legacy goodness on the heals of the previous post.  Seems like ComicCon was quite the Tronfest this year and I have to give Disney credit for pulling off a successful viral marketing campaign to generate interest in the new film.  Beginning with the selectively distributed Home of Tron coins that ultimately [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/07/30/flynn-lives/</link>
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		<title>First Look at Designs from the new Tron Legacy Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings Program! 27 years since the debut of the original Tron movie &#8211; today for the first time, the world was given its most detailed look yet at some of the designs from the new movie, now officially called Tron Legacy which is currently in production in Canada.  The style has no doubt evolved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/07/24/first-look-at-designs-from-the-new-tron-legacy-movie/</link>
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		<title>SlickMap CSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

This is just badass. Site maps tend to fall in and out of vogue but this is something that I&#8217;ve wished I had for many years &#8211; create beautiful site maps with little more that a series of unordered list tags.  I&#8217;ve got a handful of projects that this is going to fit into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/07/08/slickmap-css/</link>
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		<title>A method to sync almost any application between 2 or more Macs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

I&#8217;m thinking this couldn&#8217;t possibly be this easy but what started out as a relatively simple task turned into a ah-ha moment tonight.  Long story short &#8211; I came across a brain dead easy way to synchronize just about any application between multiple Macs using free software.  Full disclosure, I haven&#8217;t yet looked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/07/07/a-method-to-sync-almost-any-application-between-2-or-more-macs/</link>
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		<title>RubyTube &#8211; A YouTube for Rubists Arrives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RubyTu.be is a community driven collection of Ruby related videos and screencasts.

Aside from getting a clever domain name, the new RubyTu.be site launched with a whopping 320 Ruby videos with more being added all the time. Can you say AppleTV meet RubyTu.be?  I have no more excuse that there&#8217;s nothing on TV these days.
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		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/06/30/rubytube-a-youtube-for-rubists-arrives/</link>
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		<title>The Rush</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

From Uncle Bob

There&#8217;s nothing like the feeling of achievement when you get a complex software system working. It&#8217;s the feeling of the hunter making a hard fought kill. By the sheer power of your intellect you have imposed your will upon inanimate nature, and forced it to do your bidding. You feel the rush of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/06/26/the-rush/</link>
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		<title>iPhone 3G S &#8211; The Calm Before the Storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the keynote from WWDC last week, the usual slew of news from Apple fan boys &#38; MacMacs has kicked into some serious over drive and it seems you can&#8217;t turn around without someone (wrongfully) bitching about AT&#38;T not letting them out of their existing contract (learn to read your contract folks).  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/06/18/iphone-3g-s-the-calm-before-the-storm/</link>
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		<title>Good Programmers and How to Become One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Pat Eyler has an interesting post where he interviews the folks behind the Ruby Best Practices Blog where they talk about what really makes a good programmer and some ideas on how to become one.

Much of what is discussed aligns pretty much spot on with my experiences with a programmer with real talent and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/06/04/good-programmers-and-how-to-become-one/</link>
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		<title>Rails 3 and the Real Secret to High Productivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From two weeks ago at RailsConf 2009, David Heinemeier Hansson&#8217;s keynote address on Rails 3 and the Real Secret to High Productivity.  There&#8217;s a lot of interesting refinements coming with Rails 3 which I compare to the forth coming OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard release being more about gradual improvements over earth shattering new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/05/21/rails-3-and-the-real-secret-to-high-productivity/</link>
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		<title>If you believe you are a competent programmer&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://www.noscetipsum.com/blog/2009/05/21/if-you-believe-you-are-a-competent-programmer/</link>
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