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		<title>Giving Thanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the United States, we take the fourth Thursday in November to give thanks for all the things we appreciate, and all the people who matter. I know that without PHP, my life wouldn&#8217;t be nearly the same; the language I use every day plays a critical role in everything else I do: it provides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned From An Impromptu Job Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I lost my job on October 12th, I knew that the PHP community was an invaluable resource for finding a new one. What I didn&#8217;t expect, though, was the outpouring of support and assistance I would receive from that community. I learned a lot of lessons from the job search, and thankfully, largely due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To The New PHP Programmers&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly five years ago I started writing PHP code for fun. I had a project that I was working on, and I needed some sort of a programming language that would do calculations for me, and hopefully make managing a website easier. So I wrote my first web application. Boy, was it bad. Looking back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Essential WordPress Plugins</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone asked me a few days ago what the best plugins for WordPress are. That&#8217;s not a question I can answer definitively; however, I can answer the question about what plugins I prefer and use every day. Here&#8217;s a list of the plugins I use. Akismet This is a must-have plugin for spam protection. Written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Count The Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that you&#8217;ve just been offered a brand new job. That&#8217;s fantastic! Now, make sure you do the math and find out what it will cost you. &#8220;Cost me?&#8221; you ask. Yes. Accepting a new job is exciting and often beneficial, but there are costs associated with it that you must consider before you sign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted: Friends Who Write</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a technological world, one that allows us to communicate instantly. Through email, instant message, IRC, Twitter, Facebook, and tons of other platforms, a message we have to share can be spread to anyone in the world almost instantly. So it would seem odd, then &#8211; in fact, almost paradoxical &#8211; that as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving On</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is my last day at The Bivings Group. Yesterday was my last effective day; as I write this, I&#8217;m flying over West Virginia on my way to a friend&#8217;s wedding in California. Starting June 22nd, I&#8217;ll be working for Applied Security. I&#8217;ve learned a lot at The Bivings Group, and worked on a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#tek09 &#8211; Day Two: A Hackathon And A Lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 04:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest things about the PHP community is the willingness of people to help one another. Picture this: you&#8217;ve got developers of all levels, working in the same room. They&#8217;ve been tasked with working on various open source projects. Only in PHP do you see expert level developers like Eli White, Matthew Turland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#followfriday &#8211; Those That Influence Me Most</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big believer in giving credit where credit is due. There are a number of people who have influenced my experience as a programmer, and I want to take time on this Friday to talk about and thank each one of them individually. Oh, and they&#8217;re all on Twitter in case you want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back: Learning From Old Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007 I wrote a blogging program from scratch. I was really proud of it, too. It was all my own invention, with a little help that I got from a Facebook developer I knew, and I worked really hard on it. Spent the whole summer writing it so I&#8217;d be able to launch it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balancing Work And Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I worked a lot. A lot. Between working full time (and sometimes overtime), and running a small business, I probably put in a good sixty or seventy hours a week. The money was nice and the projects were intriguing, that&#8217;s to be sure, but the workload was a bit too much. I learned [...]]]></description>
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