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	<description>Life as a software developer</description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a Sale at Praggys!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re looking for a book or two about software development, check this out&#8230;
25% off the Pragmatic bookshelf - Black Friday Only!
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		<link>http://blog.robertromito.com/2008/11/27/theres-a-sale-at-praggys/</link>
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		<title>New Gig</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my first week at Academic Management Systems. We write software that helps universities manage their medical programs.
We&#8217;re a Ruby on Rails shop. My 6 year run as a .Net developer is over for now. I still like .Net. I still think .Net is a good platform. I see myself working with .Net again [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.robertromito.com/2008/11/06/new-gig/</link>
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		<title>Does VMWare Workstation 6 crash when you power on?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been having a major VMWare problem on my Fedora 8 x64 workstation. Creating a new VM was no problem. Whenever I tried to power it on, however, my entire system would lock. Being the demanding, unreasonable jerk that I am, I wasn&#8217;t willing to accept this behaviour  
I found this post (I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.robertromito.com/2008/04/21/does-vmware-workstation-6-crash-when-you-power-on/</link>
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		<title>REST is Gathering Support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Udi Dahan, an active enterprise software community member, posted a great podcast on using Rest for large scale projects.
Here&#8217;s my summary:

Most of the on-line REST examples focus on simple active record, crud-ish systems. The resources are things like Customer, Catalog, Catalog item, Order, etc.
Business operations can be treated as resources too. Transfer balance, Sunset product, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.robertromito.com/2008/04/19/rest-is-gathering-support/</link>
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		<title>Do You Know TED? Yeah, TED is Pretty Cool!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Personal Fabrication&#8230; interesting!
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		<link>http://blog.robertromito.com/2008/02/27/do-you-know-ted-yeah-ted-is-pretty-cool/</link>
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		<title>Let Powershell Sort Them Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve got a program, Firefox for example, that regularly orphans its processes:

Get powershell
Run ps &#60;process name&#62; &#124; kill

No more orphans!
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		<link>http://blog.robertromito.com/2008/02/23/let-powershell-sort-them-out/</link>
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		<title>So, ah, How Do You Do It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a fan of InfoQ. The site has some neat presentations on system architectures; a couple of the names might be familiar  

eBay
Yahoo!
SOA and ESB (an interesting argument for avoiding vendor ESB frameworks)

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		<link>http://blog.robertromito.com/2008/02/09/so-ah-how-do-you-do-it/</link>
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		<title>Computer, Run Program Romito Delta 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holodeck 0.1: the durable, rewritable holographic display 
Cool. I&#8217;d so love to visit a holodeck before I die!
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		<link>http://blog.robertromito.com/2008/02/07/computer-run-program-romito-delta-4/</link>
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		<title>Cycle your Network Adapter with Powershell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My desktop goes to sleep after 1 hour of idling. When it wakes, the network adapter is pretty grouchy! Post nap network performance for file shares hosted by the desktop is absolutely terrible and completely ineffective. Installing the latest drivers didn&#8217;t help.
Disabling and enabling the adapter does help. Manually reseting a network adapter in Vista, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.robertromito.com/2008/01/31/cycle-your-network-adater-with-powershell/</link>
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		<title>C#&#8217;s Syntatic Sugar gets a Little Spicy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So far I&#8217;ve bought into the &#8220;All of C# 3.0&#8217;s new language features are just syntatic sugar&#8221; view. Today I realized  that this sugar has some kick to it.
If Lambda Functions are syntatic sugar, then Expression Trees are habanero peppers.

A lambda function is a new way to declare an anonymous delegate, which is effectively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.robertromito.com/2008/01/30/cs-syntatic-sugar-gets-a-little-spicy/</link>
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