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		<title>What Existing Code is Good For</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think you're embarking on the Project from Heaven because it's a straight rewrite of an existing, successful app?  Think again.]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be in Awe of &#8220;Enterprise&#8221; Solutions</title>
		<link>http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/05/18/dont-be-in-awe-of-enterprise-solutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 03:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8220;Microsoft, Please Don&#8217;t Screw up MVC!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An eloquent open letter has been sent by David Starr to Microsoft's Scott Guthrie, in which David urges Microsoft to "do MonoRail justice and don't kill it without doing something as good or better".]]></description>
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		<title>How Not to Evolve an API</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a rather uneasy relationship with DotNetNuke, upon which my client's membership-only web site is built. I just don't care for DNN, but there is no one reason why. Just lots of little ones. As an example, last week I had a hair-pulling experience with DNN that has lessons for would-be framework developers.]]></description>
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		<title>Absuing OOP: Over-Abstracting and the &#8220;Huh?!&#8221; Factor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll bet you&#8217;ve had the experience of finding some cool article on a technique you can really use in your work &#8212; but then discovering that, once you look at the code, your major reaction is, &#8220;huh&#8221;?
Source code should not make your scratch your head.  It should be self-evident.  Granted, some things are [...]]]></description>
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