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		<title>What do you want the web to be?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five months ago, I had an opportunity to accept a contract to work at Mozilla as part of the webdev team. There was a match for my skills on a contract basis, and even though it meant leaving permanent employment for the uncertain world of contracting, I knew it was something I would never forgive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Tools I Can&#8217;t Develop Without</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every developer has a toolkit of favorite tools and applications that help them develop more effectively. Being individuals, developers often differ (and in some cases, argue) about the tools they use. One of the most frequent questions I&#8217;m asked is &#8220;what are the tools you use?&#8221; and that was the genesis of this blog post. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fallacy of Sunk Cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 11:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I began working on something that didn&#8217;t pan out. For whatever reason, I went down the wrong path, and ultimately abandoned the task I was working on. In discussing it with my boss, he mentioned to me that it was better to realize early on that something wouldn&#8217;t work than to trudge onward, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 15 Minute Rule Of Software Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I talk a lot about how having a spec is a critical component of software development. But how do you know that your spec is good, and that it has been developed enough? Simply put, how do you distinguish between a good spec and a spec that is lacking? This problem had confounded me for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Development Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Marco Tabini told us that we were doing it all wrong. He makes some fantastic points about software development overall, and about the state of our profession. This article&#8217;s point isn&#8217;t to be a rebuttal, but a corollary to what he had to say. Marco is right: every one of us is &#8220;doing [...]]]></description>
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