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	<description>&#34;When you reach that upper level, your mind, body and soul will be one. It&#039;s a sacrifice. It takes hard work. It&#039;s a way of life.&#34;</description>
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		<title>Building Checkbox Elements in IE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why oh why does everything always need to be awkward in IE? Just when you are happily developing in Chrome and/or Firefox and everything is working perfectly you find out that some little bit of javascript or CSS is not working for Internet Explorer. Today we encountered another one of those. This one has to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeticulousgeek.com/2010/12/28/building-checkbox-elements-in-ie/</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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