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	<title>Software is too expensive to build cheaply... &#187; wotif</title>
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	<description>Robert's Rambling Ruminations Regarding Reality</description>
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		<title>&#8230; and sometimes they don&#8217;t.</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2008/01/and-sometimes-they-dont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent most of the last year involved in an intensive project that really drained me &#8211; hence the lack of blogging. I want to blog in a positive fashion this year, so I&#8217;ll start by getting a lot of gripes off my chest. :) Call it things that suck.
Here&#8217;s a short list, before I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes, things just work&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2008/01/sometimes-things-just-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[integration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[9 months of intense development later, our first big integration project with Tourico Holidays, went live today, with an additional 1000-odd hotels appearing on our site (with more to come). A good example is Texas where we had only a few hotels outside of the major cities and we now have about 90 (plus more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If it quacks like a startup, it is a startup&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2007/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-startup-it-is-a-startup/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2007/05/if-it-quacks-like-a-startup-it-is-a-startup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 17:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Cannon-Brookes asks Is Atlassian still a startup? And when is a startup not a startup anymore? Well, Mike, the answer&#8217;s simple. If it still feels like a startup, it&#8217;s a startup.

Being part of a startup is about the attitude, not the company size. Successful startups &#8211; the ones that take the world by storm, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Interfaces with EJB3</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2007/01/interfaces-with-ejb3/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2007/01/interfaces-with-ejb3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting last October, we went through a process of upgrading the main application at Wotif to be running under Java EE 5 (not just Java SE 5). The biggest part of this was upgrading from EJB 2 to EJB 3.
One of the things I noticed was that EJB3 gives you a lot of choices for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running on Glassfish</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2007/01/running-on-glassfish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glassfish]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it took long enough, but it&#8217;s finally done:

Response Headers - http://www.wotif.com/

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Phew. Now maybe I can get those backlogged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s no feeling like releasing software&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/09/theres-no-feeling-like-releasing-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agile Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahhh&#8230; that&#8217;s the first production release of my latest project at work out the door today. I can&#8217;t talk too much about specifics, but it&#8217;s not a big secret that Wotif is enabling various B2B aspects of our web site, mainly with the registered hotels. Today saw the first big step in that direction. :) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third time&#8217;s the charm?</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/09/third-times-the-charm/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/09/third-times-the-charm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that makes it official: Wotif is the third company I&#8217;ve worked in that&#8217;s decided to go public. Hope it goes better than the last two&#8230; the first misread the market badly and went into a several year downturn, while the other managed to burn through nearly all their VC finance, nearly went bankrupt, and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Some businesses just don&#8217;t get it</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/05/some-businesses-just-dont-get-it/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/05/some-businesses-just-dont-get-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 17:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this entry started as a quick blurb to highlight an article on my boss here at Wotif.com in the Australian Financial Review But that&#8217;s not what it&#8217;s ended up as. :)

You see, when I went over to the AFR site, I couldn&#8217;t find the story. I ended up doing a search for it, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving on &#8211; reflections</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2004/12/moving-on-reflections/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2004/12/moving-on-reflections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agile Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m leaving Suncorp in January, after about 3 years there. I&#8217;m taking up a position at wotif.com where I will be joining a small team that drives their website.

My time at Suncorp was largely a change-agent role. I came in to help get Suncorp serious about doing J2EE-based and agile development. I had successes and [...]]]></description>
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