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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>New Rockville PHP Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of active, vibrant developer groups in the DC area: DC PHP, Baltimore PHP, and the Frederick Web Tech group. The DC PHP Beverage Subgroup meets monthly in Northern Virginia. But in the middle between all these groups lies Montgomery County, Maryland. In that area live hundreds of developers who struggle to reach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excited About PHP Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General PHP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten months ago when I started at Mozilla, I began transitioning away from PHP and into Python and Django. This was inevitable: the Mozilla Webdev team favors Python over PHP in almost every webapp (Socorro is the critical exception). However, over time I had become disillusioned with the direction that PHP was taking. The project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking The Technical Resume</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[curriculum vitae]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During my last job, I occasionally was invited to interview candidates for the web development team. Usually I&#8217;d receive a copy of their resume a few days beforehand with the instructions to review it, and I&#8217;d take a few minutes to read their resume and usually pop them into Google to take a look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We The State, Not We The People</title>
		<link>http://www.brandonsavage.net/we-the-state-not-we-the-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By now, most if not all of us have seen the graphic images from UC Davis, where students were pepper sprayed at point blank range by two officers of the campus police force. These images have become more and more commonplace in our society, which is quite sad. The news seems more and more consistently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working To Defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act</title>
		<link>http://www.brandonsavage.net/working-to-defeat-the-stop-online-piracy-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brandonsavage.net/working-to-defeat-the-stop-online-piracy-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stop Online Privacy Act]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past few days, the alarm has been sounded in the technology community for us to help defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). This legislation, while well-intentioned, is crafted in such a way that it would give private companies the power to shut down other private companies, and require the government and Internet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diversifying This Blog</title>
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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>
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		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1352</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>Validation Blind Spots Hurt Real Users</title>
		<link>http://www.brandonsavage.net/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>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blind spots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[user friendly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[user input]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[validation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1348</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.brandonsavage.net/finding-a-job-without-a-recruiter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brandonsavage.net/finding-a-job-without-a-recruiter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[headhunting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job board]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://www.brandonsavage.net/why-recruiters-are-bad-for-your-career/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brandonsavage.net/why-recruiters-are-bad-for-your-career/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aerotek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php jobs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1333</guid>
		<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/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brandonsavage.net/the-five-tools-i-cant-develop-without/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dual monitors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essential]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firebug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IDE]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[plugin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[print_r()]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://www.brandonsavage.net/a-reflection-on-adopting-zend-framework-one-year-later/</link>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zend Framework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decisions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1328</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>July Slides</title>
		<link>http://www.brandonsavage.net/july-slides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Object-Oriented Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP 5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[System Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[micro-optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[object oriented programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[object-oriented design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scalability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[July was a month of talks and travel, including speaking at OSCON and user group talks to DCPHP and PDXPHP. For those who saw the &#8220;Micro Optimize This!&#8221; talk, you can download the slides here. For those looking for the &#8220;Five Tips To Make Good Object Oriented Code Better&#8221; slides, those are available here.]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts On Software Licensing</title>
		<link>http://www.brandonsavage.net/some-thoughts-on-software-licensing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brandonsavage.net/some-thoughts-on-software-licensing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GPL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brandonsavage.net/?p=1315</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week saw a huge dust-up over the issue of whether or not WordPress themes are GPL. It&#8217;s not my goal to rehash the debate, or even to discuss it in particular; instead, my goal is to share some thoughts I&#8217;ve had about software licensing, and in particular, licensing going forward as a result [...]]]></description>
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