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	<title>New Adventures in Software</title>
	
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	<description>Rants and opinion interspersed with awe-inspiring tales of heoric software engineering endeavours.</description>
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		<title>Programming the Semantic Web and Beautiful Data</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/06/27/programming-the-semantic-web-and-beautiful-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve mentioned previously, I&#8217;m a big fan of Toby Segaran&#8217;s book Programming Collective Intelligence. It introduces several cutting-edge algorithms for building intelligent web applications through a well chosen set of compelling example programs . A different author might have made the book a dull, overly mathematical ordeal but Segaran manages to inspire the reader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Qualifying Solution Submitted for $1 Million Netflix Prize</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/06/26/first-qualifying-solution-submitted-for-1-million-netflix-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Internet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The word on the street (well Reddit actually) is that the BellKor&#8217;s Pragmatic Chaos team today submitted the first qualifying solution for the Netflix Prize.  If nobody submits a better solution within the next 30 days then they will claim the $1 million reward that has so far eluded the best efforts of thousands of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opera Unite Divides Opinion</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/06/17/opera-unite-divides-opinion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Internet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Opera Software would have you believe that yesterday they reinvented the web.  The launch of their new Opera Unite service has received a decent amount of publicity.  By now you&#8217;ve probably heard all about it, but if not you can read the details here.
The 10 second summary is that version 10 of Opera&#8217;s web browser [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Escape Analysis in Java 6 Update 14 – Some Informal Benchmarks</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/05/31/escape-analysis-in-java-6-update-14-some-informal-benchmarks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 22:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sun recently released update 14 of the Java 6 JDK and JRE.  As well as the usual collection of bug fixes, this release includes some experimental new features designed to improve the performance of the JVM (see the release notes).  One of these is Escape Analysis.
To see what kind of impact escape analysis might have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading Obsolete Ubuntu Systems</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/05/30/upgrading-obsolete-ubuntu-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 17:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) recently reached EOL (end-of-life).  Presumably to discourage people from continuing to use a distro that is officially dead, the package repositories for an EOL release disappear from archive.ubuntu.com, which means that if you try to use apt-get to install or upgrade your software you will get 404 errors.
The recommended action for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SICP – The most divisive book in Computer Science?</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/05/28/sicp-the-most-divisive-book-in-computer-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (universally referred to as SICP) seems to be mentioned whenever people are discussing the great/classic/essential Computer Science books.  It typically generates a mixed response.
Somebody recently sent a copy (anonymously?) to Python creator Guido van Rossum, apparently as a comment on his supposed ignorance (incidentally, this is an incredibly arsey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watchmaker 0.6.0 – Evolutionary Computation for Java</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/04/26/watchmaker-060-evolutionary-computation-for-java/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolutionary Computation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Version 0.6.0 of the Watchmaker Framework for Evolutionary Computation is now available for download.  This release incorporates several minor changes that I&#8217;ve been making over the last few months.  Consult the changelog for full details, but here are the highlights:
Numerous Improvements to the Evolution Monitor and other Swing Components
The Watchmaker Swing library provides a collection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Java Language Features that Nobody Uses</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/04/17/the-java-language-features-that-nobody-uses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read Anthony Goubard&#8217;s &#8220;Top 10 Unused Java Features&#8221; on JavaLobby earlier today.  I agree with some of his selections but I think he missed out a few key features that nobody uses.  Restricting myself to just language features (the API is too huge), here are four more widely unused features of Java.
4. The short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways to Become a Famous Programmer (Probably)</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/04/12/5-ways-to-become-a-famous-programmer-probably/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How do ordinary programmers become famous programmers?  Since I am not already a famous programmer I can&#8217;t speak from experience but, from scientific observations of the those programmers who are well-known, I have been able to identify the following five strategies for becoming a &#8220;thought leader&#8221;:
1. Do Great Things
Build software that everybody uses and you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using PHPUnit with Hudson</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/03/25/using-phpunit-with-hudson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.uncommons.org/?p=490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem with undocumented standards is that they tend not to be very standardised.  The XML format used by Ant&#8217;s JUnitReport task has been adopted, extended and bastardised by several different testing tools to the extent that there are at least half a dozen different dialects currently in use.  This creates a problem for tools [...]]]></description>
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