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	<description>Robert's Rambling Ruminations Regarding Reality</description>
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		<title>Maven &#8211; still giving me the shits</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2010/02/maven-still-giving-me-the-shits/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2010/02/maven-still-giving-me-the-shits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some months ago, I wrote about how the Maven Eclipse Plugin 2.7 release  didn&#8217;t fix a bug introduced in 2.6
Well, neither does the newly released 2.8 version.
Guys, I know you didn&#8217;t hear me earlier, but for pity&#8217;s sake &#8211; DO NOT RELEASE SOFTWARE while you still have critical bugs open. If you don&#8217;t want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSGi Diaries &#8211; Creating A Bundle</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/09/osgi-diaries-creating-a-bundle/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/09/osgi-diaries-creating-a-bundle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[java osgi tutorial]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://twasink.net/blog/?p=691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Covers turning the simple web app from <a href="http://twasink.net/blog/2009/09/osgi-diaries-a-short-series/">the first installment</a> into a simple web app using an OSGi Bundle.]]></description>
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		<title>OSGi Diaries &#8211; A short series</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/09/osgi-diaries-a-short-series/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/09/osgi-diaries-a-short-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[osgi java glassfish]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://twasink.net/blog/?p=684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be spending some time over the next couple of weeks learning about OSGi &#8211; there is an application at work that we want to try and make more modular. In particular, we&#8217;d like to be able to share the back tier with more front end clients. The more conventional modularisation techniques, such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why positive thinking works &#8211; in my opinion, anyway.</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/09/why-positive-thinking-works-in-my-opinion-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/09/why-positive-thinking-works-in-my-opinion-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agile Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw an an article on Seth Godin&#8217;s blog about positive thinking. Godin makes the valid point that people who think positively tend to succeed more, in part because their confidence means they don&#8217;t second-guess themselves. You can easily waste a lot of energy debating what to do.
A point that Seth didn&#8217;t cover is that positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two weeks with Twitter&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/08/two-weeks-with-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/08/two-weeks-with-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://twasink.net/blog/?p=676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A little over two weeks ago, I succumbed and decided to see exactly what the deal with twitter was. It just didn&#8217;t seem like a wonderful tool &#8211; SMS for the web? Really? But, in the spirit of inquiry, I thought I&#8217;d give it ago. Now, a bit over two weeks later, I can say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software and Obama&#8217;s Victory</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/software-and-obamas-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/software-and-obamas-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agile Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fowler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martin fowler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[org structures]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://twasink.net/blog/?p=671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[from Martin Fowler: Software and Obama&#8217;s Victory. I like the last org model shown; it would be very interesting to work in a company structured in such a fashion, with middle management acting as guides &#38; facilitators, instead of intermediates, filters and superiors.
]]></description>
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		<title>Warning: get off housing gravy train &#8211; ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/warning-get-off-housing-gravy-train-abc-news-australian-broadcasting-corporation/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/warning-get-off-housing-gravy-train-abc-news-australian-broadcasting-corporation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://twasink.net/blog/?p=666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an opinion page on the ABC News page about the increasing rise in house prices (and the subsequent fall in housing affordability). The solution presented: build more housing (not necessarily houses &#8211; apartments are okay too), thus increasing the supply. Unfortunately, that won&#8217;t help.

(All figures and quotes come from the ABS, particularly their Housing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wage growth does not automatically equate to inflationary pressure&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/wage-growth-does-not-automatically-equate-to-inflationary-pressure/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/wage-growth-does-not-automatically-equate-to-inflationary-pressure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://twasink.net/blog/?p=663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my coworkers tossed out this line today: &#8220;We can&#8217;t just increase the minimum wage, because that would cause inflation&#8221;. I said at the time that didn&#8217;t have to be the case, and I just thought I&#8217;d capture my reasoning in writing.

Inflation occurs because prices go up. Prices go up because:
a) costs have gone [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hudson Plugin for Eclipse</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/hudson-plugin-for-eclipse/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/hudson-plugin-for-eclipse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eclipse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hudson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://twasink.net/blog/?p=660</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lusting over the Atlassian Connector&#8217;s support for Bamboo made me decide to check out what support there was for Hudson in Eclipse. So  I checked out the Hudson Eclipse Plugin. My thoughts: not bad, but not great &#8211; a lot of potential is there, though.

The good:

non cluttered UI.
good &#8220;at-a-glance&#8221; summaries of the current state.
able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atlassian Connector for Eclipse &#8211; a review</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/atlassian-connector-for-eclipse-a-review/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/atlassian-connector-for-eclipse-a-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://twasink.net/blog/?p=657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In two words: pretty neat.

Once I managed to get the thing installed, using it was pretty easy. All I could take advantage of was the FishEye and JIRA integration (we don&#8217;t use Bamboo or Crucible at Wotif), but these were a good sample.
The JIRA integration is a more-polished version of the standalone JIRA Mylyn plugin. [...]]]></description>
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