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	<description>Ruminations about innovation and software by Rob Di Marco</description>
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		<title>Breakfast Topics 10-23-2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went to breakfast with @codeslinger, @sfraser, @kyleburton, @jonnytran, @cashion on Friday and here is what I remember discussing

Unicorn &#8211; Rack HTTP server
Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his books Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan as

Related discussed Benoit Mandelbrot


A bunch of chat about Google Wave and how it would have been received if it were built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Issues and Workarounds While Building EAR files in Eclipse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my Java Programming class at Penn State &#8211; Great Valley, we are learning all about Enterprise Java; session beans, JPA, JMS, and all kinds of other Java goodness.&#160; In the process, I am teaching them how to build their projects with Eclipse and Maven using the M2Eclipse plugin.&#160; The plugin has improved a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innovationontherun.com/common-issues-and-workarounds-while-building-ear-files-in-eclipse/</link>
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		<title>Great Advice for Startups from Flying Fish Brewery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out these business lessons from Flying Fish brewery.&#160; The lessons learned for them are very pertinent for anyone starting out.&#160; I have said before that an early-stage technology entrepeneur has more in common with an entrepeneur opening up a 7-11 around the corner than they have in common with the problems Larry and Sergei [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innovationontherun.com/great-advice-for-startups-from-flying-fish-brewery/</link>
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		<title>Thing I learned From Going To Tel Aviv</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month I had the opportunity to travel to Tel Aviv to work with my development team there.&#160; This trip was fascinating for me, both personally and professionally, and I learned a bunch of lessons.
#1 Development Process Risk Mitigation
Spending $3-5k for travel will not kill a project, but bad communication can&#8230;&#160; Going to Israel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hating the Gantt Chart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Can you get me a plan for doing that&#34;.&#160; How often have people said that.&#160; More often than not they are looking for some sort of Gantt Chart that shows a list of tasks, completion dates, and dependencies.&#160; Gantt charts are very pretty&#8230;I&#8217;ve made plenty of them.
But they suck.&#160; And they suck because they convey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innovationontherun.com/hating-the-gantt-chart/</link>
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		<title>Getting Grinder To Work with a Self-Signed Certificate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve been working a bunch with Grinder to do some load testing.&#160; I&#8217;ve had great success with it in the past, and wanted to punish an app.&#160; My test needs to make HTTP and HTTPS requests which I never anticipated would be a problem.&#160; Unfortunately, my server has a self-signed certificate which the Java [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innovationontherun.com/getting-grinder-to-work-with-a-self-signed-certificate/</link>
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		<title>Life is like a sine curve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may know, it has been a tough time for my wife and I.&#160; This anecdote from her graduate school adviser really cheered me up.

My student Guoqing who is from China is always  full of stories and proverbs and good advice. When he was young he dreamed of  being a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innovationontherun.com/life-is-like-a-sine-curve/</link>
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		<title>Java Memory Management Improvement Proposal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the umpteenth time, I had to deal with the dreaded Java OutOfMemoryError, this time when trying to run Fisheye Subversion browser.&#160; My problem deals with a known issue in Fisheye where a background indexing task sometimes runs causes an OOM error.&#160; Of course, an OOM does not just effect the indexing task, it can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innovationontherun.com/java-memory-management-improvement-proposal/</link>
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		<title>Respect the Silent Evidence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading The Black Swan : The Impact of the Highly Improbable by  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (a.k.a. NNT) and been thinking about its impact on some of the assumptions that I have made.&#160; One of the main points is how often accept as proven fact theories which ignore silent evidence.&#160; Software professionals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innovationontherun.com/respect-the-silent-evidence/</link>
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		<title>No Rock Stars Need Apply</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article from fortune on why talent is overrated.&#160; As a society, we tend to overvalue innate talent.&#160; However, most success comes from focused hard work rather than pure talent.&#160; Tiger Woods is great because of how focused he is on constantly improving his game.
As i talked about in Effective Technology Teams, what someone knows [...]]]></description>
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