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	<description>Good. Evil. Bratwurst.</description>
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		<title>Generational Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Come gather &#8217;round people wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept it that soon you&#8217;ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you is worth savin&#8217;
Then you better start swimmin&#8217; or you&#8217;ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin&#8217;.

It always happens. Something comes along and catches on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theodicius.net/archives/2010/07/14/generational-change/</link>
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		<title>Customizing Safari Reader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so the new Safari (version 5) is out, and it includes a &#8220;reader&#8221; feature that&#8217;s been taking some heat.
The complaints are justified &#8212; what it does to links is insufficient for some vision-impaired users, and justified text looks horrible without good hypenation, which Safari doesn&#8217;t do, just to name the two most obvious.
But that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theodicius.net/archives/2010/06/10/customizing-safari-reader/</link>
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		<title>Missing the Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Giorgio Sironi writes about (among other things)his first experience with Rails over at Web Builder Zone:
class Post &#60; ActiveRecord::Baseend
Oh thanks, now I&#8217;m enlightened. No fields, no scope, no getters or setters. What is going on here? Where is the business logic?

It&#8217;s a common enough reaction from Rails newcomers, but it completely misses the point.

There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theodicius.net/archives/2010/05/09/missing-the-point/</link>
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		<title>Frameworks over CMS&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave a presentation recently at Web414 that promoted the idea that frameworks were the future of web development. The presentation didn&#8217;t go well (It started its slide downhill when I realized too late there would be no way to show my slides. I switched to a more interactive, discussion-oriented presentation, which of course I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theodicius.net/archives/2010/02/25/frameworks-over-cmss/</link>
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		<title>Bad Behavior and Arrogance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How far can you reach when someone&#8217;s behavior becomes offensive? Is guilt by association ever permissable?
Robert Vining, newly minted chief spokesman and admin for All Together As A Whole is finding that out, right now. He writes about it in this blog post.
I&#8217;ve been there, Robert. You made the right choice.
In a nutshell, he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theodicius.net/archives/2010/02/21/bad-behavior-and-arrogance/</link>
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		<title>Lies and Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lee Brimelow made this wonderful post ridiculing the iPad&#8217;s lack of flash. Only one problem with it.
It&#8217;s a lie.
And that&#8217;s a problem. Apparently, he made those wonderful claims of his without ever once checking the reality of them. Most of those sites that supposedly don&#8217;t show anything, actually do. As this set of screen captures [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theodicius.net/archives/2010/01/30/lies-and-marketing/</link>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t they test?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard from some more developers on the subject of testing, who claim they aren&#8217;t allowed to do unit testing because there isn&#8217;t time. I&#8217;m not blaming the developers here, but their management for being just plain stupid. An elementary analysis of the question proves just how wrongheaded they are.
The first question to ask is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theodicius.net/archives/2010/01/13/why-dont-they-test/</link>
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		<title>Some Capistrano Recipes for Radiant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been dipping my toes into the Radiant CMS lately (a side-effect of my love affair with Ruby on Rails) and have run into several interesting moments. On the assumption I&#8217;m not alone in that, I thought I&#8217;d share some of my favorite recipes for deploying a Radiant app to an Apache-Phusion Passenger combination.
As I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theodicius.net/archives/2009/09/30/some-capistrano-recipes-for-radiant/</link>
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		<title>Reactive Layout, Dealing With the Window</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things our layout will have to deal with is window size. Designs too wide for the window frustrate users as they scroll left and right, but designs too narrow can also be frustrating, as they string boxes out vertically, when they would fit on screen. What to do, what to do?
Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theodicius.net/archives/2009/09/12/reactive-layout-dealing-with-the-window/</link>
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		<title>Why Is Online Advertising Different?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Media Week writes about a new trend in online ads. The first question that occurs to me is: why?
The complaint is that people aren&#8217;t seeing the ads on web pages, so the proposed solution is &#8220;don&#8217;t let them see the web page until after they see the ad.&#8221; My first reaction: Your only synapse just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theodicius.net/archives/2009/08/10/why-is-online-advertising-different/</link>
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