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	<title>The Rationalist Manifesto</title>
	<link>http://www.rationalistic.com</link>
	<description>Memes and other creatures</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:53:44 +0000</lastBuildDate>
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		<title>Maven voice notifications on Mac OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick hack to get the &#8216;mvn&#8217; Maven script to vocally notify &#8216;Success&#8217; or &#8216;Failed&#8217; when the build completes. I find it useful as it grabs my attention when I&#8217;m undertaking other tasks while the build is churning.
Naturally the real solution is getting the build to run in seconds&#8230; Technical debt, thou art a harsh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rationalistic.com/2009/04/16/software/maven-voice-notifications-on-mac-os-x/</link>
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		<title>DDD = ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Needham has a very interesting post regarding Domain Driven Design. One paragraph that caught my eye especially is:
As Luis Abreu points out, I don&#8217;t think there is a precise definition of what DDD actually is but for me the essence of DDD is still the same as when I compared it with OO i.e. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rationalistic.com/2009/04/07/software/ddd/</link>
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		<title>Google Maps Street View April Fools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;you are here&#8217; person in Google Maps&#8217; Street View is now a Panda, as this screenshot illustrates. I&#8217;m assuming this is an April Fools joke.
I&#8217;m wondering if this is happening in the US version of Street View or only here in Australia.
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		<link>http://www.rationalistic.com/2009/04/01/internet/google-maps-street-view-april-fools/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;IT pays&#8217; doesn&#8217;t pay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Picture this rather common scenario&#8211;
You are in charge of a project for developing an internal application at a large brick-and-mortar company. Your target audience for the application are the employees of a critical business department (here on, Department X). The customer representative is the head of that department and is glad to be involved in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rationalistic.com/2009/03/27/software/it-pays-doesnt-pay/</link>
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		<title>Movember Rain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://www.rationalistic.com/2008/12/01/personal/movember-rain/</link>
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		<title>A Good Ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Work mates of mine just released A Good Ride, it is a Rails 2.0-based motorbike riding site with some killer features. Check out the ride video feature.
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		<link>http://www.rationalistic.com/2008/04/01/internet/a-good-ride/</link>
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		<title>Cute method_missing hack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love abusing method_missing in Ruby, it is great fun.
 module IsDoesIsntDoesnt

  def method_missing(method, *args)
    m = method.to_s
    if (m =~ /^is_(\w*?\?)$/) &#124;&#124; (m =~ /^does_(\w*?\?)$/)
      real_method = $1.to_sym
      return send(real_method, *args) if respond_to?(real_method)
    elsif (m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rationalistic.com/2008/03/06/development/cute-method_missing-hack/</link>
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		<title>Back in Melbourne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Home sweet home! ;-)
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		<link>http://www.rationalistic.com/2007/10/03/personal/back-in-melbourne/</link>
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		<title>I might be arriving tonight!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just spoke to El-Al&#8217;s Bangkok office and they said that there is a good chance that I&#8217;ll be able to board the flight, so I&#8217;m going to grab brunch and head off to the airport. I&#8217;ll be in stand-by, but hopefully I&#8217;ll get on the flight.
Hope to see some of you tonight ;p
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		<link>http://www.rationalistic.com/2007/09/03/personal/i-might-be-arriving-tonight/</link>
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		<title>Administrative stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Firstly, please don&#8217;t SMS me here unless it is important. It costs me almost $2 per SMS sent and received.
Secondly, to clarify any emails I may have sent &#8212; I&#8217;m arriving either on the 3rd, or the 6th of September, with El-Al flight LY84,  which lands at 23:20 at Terminal 3. I&#8217;ll let you all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rationalistic.com/2007/08/31/administrative/administrative-stuff/</link>
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