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	<title>Requisite Reading &#187; Computers/IT</title>
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		<title>Software Architecture: There Is No One Right Way</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/07/03/software-architecture-there-is-no-one-right-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent some time perusing the programming stacks at Seattle&#8217;s main library today, and skimmed through some texts on software architecture. Perhaps the most interesting was 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts (ed. Richard Monson-Haefel). It&#8217;s a collection of various two-page thoughts from people who do software architecture from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Managers Should Not Write Technical Job Postings</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/02/08/why-managers-should-not-write-technical-job-postings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/02/08/why-managers-should-not-write-technical-job-postings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine encouraged me to tell this story which I watched unfold first hand while a software development manager for a mid-sized consulting firm. One of my best developers &#8212; a software architect, really &#8212; started laughing in the middle of the day. We all needed something to release the strain of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Timespans to Solve Communication Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2009/10/24/using-timespans-to-solve-communication-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2009/10/24/using-timespans-to-solve-communication-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder if timespans has any practical usefulness? Here is how I used timespans to clear up a communication problem in a global IT architecture group for an international bank. Awhile back I worked with a group of IT architects at an international bank. The group, although &#8220;headquartered&#8221; in the US, had members in each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different Worlds: My Experiences with AT&amp;T/RIM vs. Apple</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2009/02/10/different-worlds-my-experiences-with-attrim-vs-apple/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2009/02/10/different-worlds-my-experiences-with-attrim-vs-apple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had two problems come up. Neither of them are really horrifying but the experiences that I had show why Apple dominates the markets for consumer-oriented electronics, and why RIM&#8217;s Blackberry, Obamania aside, is declining. I should start out with a confession: I&#8217;ve been a systems administrator at a variety of levels on several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kinston&#039;s &amp; Algie&#039;s guide on how managers can approach decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2008/08/22/kinstons-algies-guide-on-how-managers-can-approach-decisions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2008/08/22/kinstons-algies-guide-on-how-managers-can-approach-decisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Friday, here's "Seven Distinct Paths of Decision and Action" by Warren Kinston and Jimmy Algie from 1989.  This paper describes the seven different approaches to decision-making, but note that it's really about action.]]></description>
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		<title>Retraining Mainframers to Object Oriented Programming (OOP)</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2008/05/08/retraining-mainframers-to-object-oriented-programming-oop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2008/05/08/retraining-mainframers-to-object-oriented-programming-oop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going through my old email archives, and discovered a note from a project I ran to help a very large US property &#038; casualty insurer to better retool their mainframe-oriented programmers (procedural using COBOL) to client-server paradigms (mostly Object-Oriented Programming using Java). It was an interesting project because the dirty secret was that some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New MacUpdate Promo Bundle</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2008/04/16/new-macupdate-promo-bundle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2008/04/16/new-macupdate-promo-bundle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I got so much grief from some of y&#8217;all for failing to mention the last one, here&#8217;s the news: a brand new MacUpdate Promo bundle is available. You get some great apps, plus the chance that they will unlock SoundStudio (probable), BannerZest (likely), and Parallels Desktop (possible but don&#8217;t hold your breath), all for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greybox Really Is a Popup Window That Doesn&#8217;t Suck</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2008/03/03/greybox-really-is-a-popup-window-that-doesnt-suck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2008/03/03/greybox-really-is-a-popup-window-that-doesnt-suck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[RapidWeaver]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been evaluating several technologies for a small web project I&#8217;m working. One of the things that I&#8217;ve seen lately are these popup windows that display on top of the original page, graying out the original and &#8220;floating&#8221; on top of it. There are several neat implementations of this for images but I needed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We are breaking the Von Neumann Assumption&#8221;: Burton Smith&#8217;s Keynote</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2007/07/02/we-are-breaking-the-von-neumann-assumption-burton-smiths-keynote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2007/07/02/we-are-breaking-the-von-neumann-assumption-burton-smiths-keynote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facing up to parallelism: Multicore means today&#8217;s HPC is tomorrow&#8217;s general purpose&#8221; by Martin Banks The Register has an interesting article on the International Supercomputing Conference keynote speech by Burton Smith, who used to be Chief Scientist at Cray and now works at Microsoft. Smith believes that parallel computing, now the domain of mostly High [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Structured Process vs. Drift: A Question of Worklevel?</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2006/08/22/structured-process-vs-drift-a-question-of-worklevel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2006/08/22/structured-process-vs-drift-a-question-of-worklevel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claudio Ciborra, who unfortunately died too early recently, left a rich quantity and breadth of writings on information systems from a sociological perspective. Here I look at one of thisClaudio Ciborra. 2002. &#8220;Design, Kairos and Affection&#8220;. From Managing as Designing: Position Papers [?], Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University. &#8230; if speed is the main characteristic [...]]]></description>
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