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	<description>Appeal to greatness not guilt</description>
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		<title>Competition for Customer Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on hold with AT&#38;T and what I&#8217;ve really noticed is besides being on the phone with them for an hour is how customer service is handled.  They&#8217;ve done everything &#8220;right&#8221; however what&#8217;s interesting is to think about how the dialog has gone as it compares to all of my training via Vail/Northstar Ski School. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMTP Client for Tornado</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was looking around for a mail handler for Tornado, found it pretty amazing that it didn&#8217;t exist.  Since I&#8217;ve only written on commercial SMTP server and have been playing with just about everything in Tornado Web at this point I figured it wasn&#8217;t too much work to whip one out.  So, instead of using annoying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Python Lazy Object Reloader</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a more general title for this kind of object, but the challenge came up and here&#8217;s what I put together.  The basic idea is to have a python class that only recomputes something hard when one of the attributes is modified.  It doesn&#8217;t make sense to recompute on every modification, nor does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Amazon be great!</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/can-amazon-be-great/391</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently read this great little article about doing map reduce over music.  What was interesting is that the author put up a test dataset for people to use, but of course had to caveat it with &#8220;don&#8217;t abuse&#8221;.   What&#8217;s interesting is that there is a host of interesting datasets out there: Music Wikipedia Some IMDB information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You are not your customer&#8221; &#8211; organizational insult</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the motos that has gotten embedded in corporate culture is &#8220;You are not your customer&#8221; as an engineer I see this all the time.  A designer builds something, engineering looks at it and says &#8220;but&#8230;&#8221;.  A manager responds with the flip, &#8220;The designer is the professional, you&#8217;re not the customer&#8221;. With an attitude [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Framing your Customer</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/framing-your-customer/386</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were working on some customer issues the other day and it another customer was having problems, you know double whammy.  What was interesting is that a more senior person started talking about the customer about &#8220;they&#8217;re such a problem&#8221; and then talking about strange things they did in the past.  As we dug into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language Design Choices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick bit of background, I&#8217;ve used many programming languages over the years.  Though in general I would bias myself to being a procedural/object guy rather than a functional programmer.   Though I can say that I&#8217;ve done big projects in most of the popular languages at this point [C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby]. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing an echo server in libev and c++</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/writing-an-echo-server-in-libev-and-c/375</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking at event IO frameworks and found some really good comments about the &#8220;ev&#8221; library, the challenge is that I would rather work in C++ than pure C &#8211; I like methods.. Found that the documentation is lacking for the C++ side of the library and needed to build a test harness. This is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrum without Objective</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/scrum-without-objective/371</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waterfall bad, right?  Well, to an extent it is &#8212; the good part about waterfall is that you start with a objective and build a team around an objective.  The challenge is that the interm points and progress measurements get caught up in gantt charts, absolute assignments, critical paths, etc.etc.  Of course waterfall is all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blink Tag</title>
		<link>http://www.skitoy.com/p/blink-tag/363</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 20:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koblas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ended up wondering what it would take to create the blink tag in jQuery.  It was pretty easy, but the big catch is that $(this).is(&#8220;:visible&#8221;) is really checking &#8220;display == none&#8221;. That said, here&#8217;s the code.]]></description>
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