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		<title>Extract, Transform&#8230; Load!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What Is This Shit Called? I was going to say all this sounds pretty boring but actually if you put it this way it sounds like something out of an action movie! Extract, Transform, Load. It might seem mundane and it probably is but somehow, I seem to get a lot of satisfaction thinking about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeticulousgeek.com/2010/06/03/extract-transform-load/</link>
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		<title>The Chileans Got Him</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, that asshole Joran van der Sloot has been captured. Apparently, by the Chileans. Not surprisingly, as allegedly he crossed the border with Peru some hours ago. This post is solely based on tweets and a somewhat arcane blog but the Twitter storm is picking up and more and more other sources are popping up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeticulousgeek.com/2010/06/03/they-got-him/</link>
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		<title>Encapsulating vs Hiding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short while ago I posted this rant about a incompetent programmers and a good friend posted the following comment: You say OOP is about hiding mutable state. Isn’t it about encapsulating mutable state? Maybe it’s just a matter of wording – but &#8220;hidden&#8221;, in my dictionary, means that it’s totally out of reach. Encapsulated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeticulousgeek.com/2010/05/10/encapsulating-vs-hiding/</link>
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		<title>The GIP (Guild of Incompetent Programmers)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Guild of Incompetent Programmers (GIP) is a group of programmers who are doing it wrong. Even though the GIP as a name, entity or organization is not very well known, most people have encountered one of its members or at least work produced by one of its members. There are a lot of sister [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeticulousgeek.com/2010/05/04/the-gip/</link>
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		<title>YMFUHBML</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YMFUHBML is a new form of markup language that I just invented. It stands for Your Mother’s Fucked Up Home Brew Markup Language. Actually, I only invented the acronym as the credit for the actual language specification goes to the International Guild of Incompetent Programmers. YMFUHBML is designed to fuck up your mind and your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeticulousgeek.com/2010/05/04/ymfuhbml/</link>
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		<title>About Being Agile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The powers that be probably won&#8217;t like it all that much but programming remains an art. To those who want to argue that it is a craft instead I say: a craft is just a special form of art. So we are both right. That doesn&#8217;t have a lot to do with the stuff below [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeticulousgeek.com/2009/12/07/about-being-agile/</link>
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		<title>Extreme Advertising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Couldn&#8217;t resist creating this. I seem to have been spending too much time over at knowyourmeme lately. In other news, a big post is coming up soon. I just don&#8217;t know about what it is going to be yet.]]></description>
		<link>http://themeticulousgeek.com/2009/10/21/extreme-advertising/</link>
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		<title>Achievement Unlocked: RROD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, my brother and I were playing Guitar Hero 3 on PS3 and really wanted to play Rock Band instead. Unfortunately, the game was nowhere to be found for that particular system but we did manage to find it for the Xbox 360. So, instead we bought that version, the Band in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeticulousgeek.com/2009/09/14/achievement-unlocked-rrod/</link>
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		<title>More The Guild!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally! After waiting eagerly for months and checking the XBL videos at least every two days, the good news has arrived: season 3 starts the 25th of August! If you don&#8217;t know what The Guild is, go check that link now even if you are not a gamer or not really into MMO&#8217;s (like me). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeticulousgeek.com/2009/08/20/more-the-guild/</link>
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		<title>Syntax Highlighting Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is some JavaScript code to see if the syntax highlighting is working. $(document).ready(function() { $('.with-default').focus(function() { if($(this).val() == $(this).attr('default')) { $(this).val('').removeClass('with-default'); } }).blur(function() { if($(this).val() == '') { $(this).val($(this).attr('default')).addClass('with-default'); } }); }); Now fingers crossed that it works&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://themeticulousgeek.com/2009/06/25/syntax-highlighting-test/</link>
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