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	<description>The personal blog of Brandon Savage. Contains entries of a personal and professional nature focusing on PHP, Apple, LAMP, MySQL and Washington, DC.</description>
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		<title>Why You Should Write Clean Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developers discuss and debate clean code all the time. They even debate what constitutes clean code. The discussion about clean code is as old as languages themselves; entire languages (I&#8217;m looking at you, Python) have been written around the philosophy of easily readable code. But why should you care about writing clean code? What does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Site Hacker News Ready?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years and years ago, somebody coined the term &#8220;slashdotting.&#8221; In essence, it&#8217;s the experience when your website is linked to by a larger website, overwhelming your servers with a crush of traffic. Hacker News can have this effect, especially if your website reaches the front page for any length of time. Two weeks ago, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem With Paper Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you buy a book on Amazon, the transaction ends when the book gets packaged up and shipped (or delivered wirelessly over Whispernet). There are no updates (typos are corrected over Whispernet, but content is not updated), no connection to the author, no new versions when the material changes. For most books this is just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A better personal biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For as long as I can remember, writing a personal bio has been a tough challenge. You know how this goes: you&#8217;re applying to a conference, writing a resume or creating an &#8220;About Me&#8221; page on your website. You have to write down information about who you are, what you&#8217;ve accomplished and what you think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Languages Don&#8217;t Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language Wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two craftsmen make chess sets. Beautiful chess sets. One craftsman uses old style tools: chisels, files, hammers of all sizes. His preferred material is stone; he carefully carves the pawns, the queen, the rooks and the knights with exquisite detail, like his father, and like his father&#8217;s father. Another craftsman uses more modern technology to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Value In Offering &#8220;Time To Tinker&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, I worked for a company that had a strictly governed bug fixing process. The bugs to be fixed per release were specifically regimented, right down to the amount of hours available to fix each issue. Developers were expected to meet or beat their estimates, and failing to do so meant overtime (since the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flight Time Tracking In The 21st Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ifr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instrument rating]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pilot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pilot in command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[playdoh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every pilot works hard to maintain good records of their flight time. Besides being expensive to obtain, the FAA requires that flight time of a certain nature be logged and available for inspection, should it ever be required or questioned. The pertinent regulation gives a description of what information must be logged, but leaves the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diversifying This Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.brandonsavage.net/diversifying-this-blog/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=diversifying-this-blog</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I began writing this blog back in August of 2008, I stated that I wanted to write about the things that I cared about. At the time that list included a slice of technology, largely focused on the LAMP stack. As I&#8217;ve changed over the years, I&#8217;ve also increased the things that I care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do you want the web to be?</title>
		<link>http://www.brandonsavage.net/what-do-you-want-the-web-to-be/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-do-you-want-the-web-to-be</link>
		<comments>http://www.brandonsavage.net/what-do-you-want-the-web-to-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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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>Why I Love Being An Engineer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura Thomson posed a question on Twitter, asking what do you like most about being an engineer? I spent a good part of the morning thinking about it, and it&#8217;s an interesting question to answer. My answer is simple: it&#8217;s the fact that engineering is a creative enterprise, one that requires intense imagination and sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Validation Blind Spots Hurt Real Users</title>
		<link>http://www.brandonsavage.net/validation-blind-spots-hurt-real-users/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=validation-blind-spots-hurt-real-users</link>
		<comments>http://www.brandonsavage.net/validation-blind-spots-hurt-real-users/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine lives on Bonieta Harrold Drive. I live on a Windsor Hill Drive. Both of us have a problem in common, which is that poorly designed software is incapable of accepting the length of our street address. For me, American Express refuses to accept more than &#8220;WINDSOR HILL D&#8221;, which still arrives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding A Job Without A Recruiter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about all the reasons that recruiters are bad for your career. For a variety of reasons I highlighted the reasons job seekers should avoid enlisting the services of recruiters that solicit them, and the traps that recruiters employ to disadvantage job seekers while improving their odds of collecting a commission. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Recruiters Are Bad For Your Career</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some point or another, every technical person will conduct a job search. And either by design or accident, they will encounter the nemesis of job searching: The Recruiter. These individuals are employed by companies whose sole purpose is to serve as an intermediary between job seekers and potential employers. Their marketing literature will say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Tools I Can&#8217;t Develop Without</title>
		<link>http://www.brandonsavage.net/the-five-tools-i-cant-develop-without/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-five-tools-i-cant-develop-without</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1330</guid>
		<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>A Reflection On Adopting Zend Framework &#8211; One Year Later</title>
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		<comments>http://www.brandonsavage.net/a-reflection-on-adopting-zend-framework-one-year-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Architecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, I was introduced to Zend Framework as the framework I was going to be working with almost every day. And for nearly a year now, every day I have worked closely with Zend Framework, learning it&#8217;s intricacies and dealing with its warts. I sat down in March of last year and [...]]]></description>
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