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		<title>Installed Kubuntu Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the longest time, I have always had a goal to be Windows-free. Many people I work with feel that it is pure apostasy, because I have worked in Microsoft shops in the past 10 years or so. But frankly, I am particularly sick of Windows as a whole. If I can still continue doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&blog=1820921&post=115&subd=coderz4life&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Groovy Baby, Yeah!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working in mostly M$ shops in the past 10 years or so, coupled with my home projects in the functional languages, I don&#8217;t get to do much with Java or the JVM anymore.  But today, it was treated to my first experience in programming in Groovy.  The tool that I use to test SOAP web [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&blog=1820921&post=110&subd=coderz4life&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teagan&#8217;s Surgery</title>
		<link>http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/teagans-surgery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 16:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Akron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

 
 
Teagan is having surgery today.  You can follow his status here. Good luck, my son, and get well soon.
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		<title>Google Maps: Superman in Metropolis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I was visiting my brother and his family in Paducah, KY.  While visiting, I heard that there was a statue of Superman in Metropolis.  Metropolis is just across the river in Illinois, but I decided to check out the Harrah&#8217;s Riverboat casino instead of visiting the statue. Thanks to Google Maps, I can see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&blog=1820921&post=101&subd=coderz4life&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April Fools Day: Aluminum Foil Cubicle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this year for April Fool&#8217;s day, I decided to pull the classic cubicle prank.  I (with the help of others) wallpapered a collegue&#8217;s cube in aluminum foil.
It&#8217;s not like it was an original prank, but I think I wanted to try it once.  I honestly do not know how he would react, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&blog=1820921&post=94&subd=coderz4life&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real World Haskell</title>
		<link>http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/real-world-haskell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received by copy of Real World Haskell yesterday from Amazon.  The book is thicker that I thought, which makes me think that it should have been made a hardcover.  But, I&#8217;ll just need to be careful, I guess.  
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		<title>Reading Programming Erlang</title>
		<link>http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/reading-programming-erlang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I received my copy of Joe Armstrong&#8217;s Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World.  I was quite impressed.  It was a great introduction on the Erlang programming language and more importantly, concurrent programming. After reading the book, I am not sure if I fully understand it&#8217;s true power.  
What do I mean? The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&blog=1820921&post=84&subd=coderz4life&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Design Smell: Violating LSP</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a framework impedes on development so bad, it makes you somewhat angry and feeling helpless.  I encountered something today that gives me headaches just thinking about it.
Suppose I have framework in C# 2.0 that models document folder that contains one or more documents. The framework defines an abstract base class, Document:
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		<title>News IQ Quiz</title>
		<link>http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/news-iq-quiz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, I took the Pew Research News IQ Quiz.  It is a set of 12 questions on current events and people.  At the end of the quiz, the site asks you some basic demographic info about you.  I was surprised at my results: I apparently had a perfect score.
But what was more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&blog=1820921&post=65&subd=coderz4life&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beautifully Lean Documentation</title>
		<link>http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/beautifully_lean_documentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your development team spends a lot of time creating formal functional specifications, design documents, and general documentation.  They create a nice class diagrams, sequence diagrams, or flowcharts to be included. Sounds like your team did everything it should, right?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&blog=1820921&post=64&subd=coderz4life&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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