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	<description>thinking outside the { }</description>
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		<title>Trees and Roots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend on Facebook mentioned a nice little naming problem I had not been aware of in years of computer science:
We are always drawing tree structures with the root on top, sometimes with the root on the left, but almost never with the root where it belongs (according to biologists) in a tree: at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://devgrind.com/2010/05/04/trees-and-roots/</link>
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		<title>Javagötterdämmerung</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Gosling has left Sun.
And I hadn&#8217;t heard of it until now. Looks like I&#8217;m not such a geek after all.
But it shocked me just as much as when I heard that J.D. Salinger had died &#8211; it actually made my eyes well up &#8211; so I guess I am quite a geek.
When I wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://devgrind.com/2010/04/29/javagotterdammerung/</link>
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		<title>Ruby Version Reminder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[rvm is great, but I still sometimes lose track of which Ruby version I&#8217;m currently using. As a little reminder, I put the Ruby version in my shell prompt, like this:
PS1="\u `ruby -v &#124; grep -e "[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]" -o` \w"
Works nicely.
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		<link>http://devgrind.com/2010/02/22/ruby-version-reminder/</link>
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		<title>Hoccer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I use this posting for blatantly advertising one of the development projects I was recently involved in &#8211; an Android application called Hoccer. It was released by ART+COM Technologies as a free app on the Android Market and as entry for the 2nd Android Developer Challenge.
The aim of Hoccer is to simplify the process of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://devgrind.com/2009/09/03/hoccer/</link>
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		<title>Perl programmers are psychopaths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always suspected that anyone who likes to write Perl programs can&#8217;t be a healthy human being, but I didn&#8217;t know what evil, murderous psychopaths these people really are until I read this headline:
How to optionally kill a child and capture status if not killed
How could killing a child ever be optional? It&#8217;s illegal! It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://devgrind.com/2009/02/17/perl-programmers-are-psychopaths/</link>
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		<title>Innovative Telephone Scams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be a new kind of scam, involving the telephone network: my sister (from her O2 mobile phone) called me (on my Alice fixed-line phone), but the Lithuanian premium-rate number 0037091005481 was displayed as caller ID &#8211; although we&#8217;re both in Germany! This has happened to dozens or probably hundreds of people in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://devgrind.com/2009/02/15/innovative-telephone-scams/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;gem install mysql&#8221; on Debian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Short note to myself and whom it my concern. If you try to sudo gem install mysql on a Debian system and it responds, after some working, with:

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing mysql:
	ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
(...)
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://devgrind.com/2009/02/07/gem-install-mysql-on-debian/</link>
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		<title>Keeping Up with Rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently updating a not-so-small application from Rails 2.0.2 to 2.2.2 and it seems that about every other plugin is not compatible with the new version, because one or the other method was removed,  and I have to update them as well. Not such a big problem, if a compatible version exists, but takes quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://devgrind.com/2009/02/07/keeping-up-with-rails/</link>
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		<title>Developer Frustrations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I need unit tests for my unit tests testing whether the unit tests do correct tests or not. And a decent TestNG documentation.
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		<link>http://devgrind.com/2009/02/04/developer-frustrations/</link>
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		<title>Developer Frustrations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Constructing software surely is satisfying work. But these days I dream of constructing airships. What if you could actually see the product of your very own hands, climb into it, loose the tag lines and fly away?
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		<link>http://devgrind.com/2009/01/22/developers-frustrations/</link>
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