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	<title>the blogging &#187; Geek</title>
	<link>http://auroralux.net/blog</link>
	<description>notes about this and that</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 18:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Prototyping</title>
		<link>http://auroralux.net/blog/2007/12/01/prototyping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Steve Northover&#8217;s Inside SWT:
The week was an almost perfect example of prototyping. The code we have is utter crap and we have cut every corner, however, we have learned the technology and explored the area. Prototyping is about reducing risk using a short term, high energy, low quality approach to prove that a solution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the light on, on, or off?</title>
		<link>http://auroralux.net/blog/2007/11/28/is-the-light-on-on-or-off/</link>
		<comments>http://auroralux.net/blog/2007/11/28/is-the-light-on-on-or-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning as Finley and I left the house for a cool and brisk morning walk, I noticed the cabin lights in our Honda Odyssey were on. I went back in for the keys, opened the front door, and looked for the cabin light switch. I wasn&#8217;t able to find one, so I figured the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy with the maps, unhappy with the vehicle mount</title>
		<link>http://auroralux.net/blog/2007/11/20/happy-with-the-maps-unhappy-with-the-vehicle-mount/</link>
		<comments>http://auroralux.net/blog/2007/11/20/happy-with-the-maps-unhappy-with-the-vehicle-mount/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>frank</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gadget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, we bought a Garmin Streetpilot c330 before a long car trip. We&#8217;ve been reasonably happy with the maps in the unit, though my ideal navigation product would include live updates to maps and points of interest when I plugged the unit in to my computer to charge it. 
However, the vehicle mount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loading data model with Fixtures in Rails</title>
		<link>http://auroralux.net/blog/2007/10/21/loading-data-model-with-fixtures-in-rails/</link>
		<comments>http://auroralux.net/blog/2007/10/21/loading-data-model-with-fixtures-in-rails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>frank</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m putting together a smallish data model in Rails. Some of my data is pre-existing, including a bunch of Items, some of which have SubItems. I found some hints on how to represent the initial data with YAML and to piggy-back on the Fixture functionality to load it in a migration, all from Agile Web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economics of Cynicism</title>
		<link>http://auroralux.net/blog/2007/10/06/economics-of-cynicism/</link>
		<comments>http://auroralux.net/blog/2007/10/06/economics-of-cynicism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>frank</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Software development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason I thought Joel Spolsky was anti-Apple and pro-Microsoft. Now I realize he&#8217;s a cynical guy who used to write about software development, but who&#8217;s now busy running a small, successful software company, and who writes about talking about software.
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