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		<title>Techmology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone at work wasn&#8217;t paying attention and gave me a password to the new Centro Tech blog. Check out our first post, it&#8217;s the follow up to the LaunchPad Challenge I wrote about previously.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.somethingunimportant.com/2011/01/04/techmology/</link>
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		<title>ejabberd and External Authentication in Ruby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just spent far far to long trying to get an ejabberd service to authenticate with an external Ruby script. In the hopes of saving someone else the trouble I&#8217;ve thrown together this gist.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.somethingunimportant.com/2010/12/30/ejabberd-and-external-authentication-in-ruby/</link>
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		<title>Fun with TI&#8217;s LaunchPad starter kit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know, it&#8217;s been a really long time since I&#8217;ve actually written anything on this blog. About a year ago I left Leapfrog Online and moved to Centro. I&#8217;m still doing similar stuff, mostly Ruby and a lot of Javascript, but recently I&#8217;ve found myself helping out with some recruiting efforts. This Friday, November 19th, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.somethingunimportant.com/2010/11/16/fun-with-tis-launchpad-starter-kit/</link>
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		<title>MongoDB SF Conference Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CRUD in the JS shell http://github.com/mdirolf/shell_presentation Schema Design 4MB object limit atomicity at the document level ... the rest of the talk isnt visible due to his slides/projector the $ operator sounds cool, I need to research this compare &#038; swap is the safer and more appropriate pattern than just modifying a single value Sharding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.somethingunimportant.com/2010/05/06/mongodb-sf-conference-notes/</link>
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		<title>First Annual Software Craftsmanship North America Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at SCNA today, and so far it&#8217;s pretty great. I know this post is short but I plan on eventually cleaning up my notes and posting them here later today or tomorrow. I promise! *edit* As promised, here are my notes (maybe, just maybe I&#8217;ll write up a summary&#8230; later). George Leonard - Mastery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.somethingunimportant.com/2009/08/26/first-annual-software-craftsmanship-north-america-conference/</link>
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		<title>Arduino Nixie Tube Bar Graph Control With TLC5628CN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out these tubes, pretty bad ass, don&#8217;t you think? With the help of Daniel Naito&#8217;s amazing project and the TI TLC5628CN 8-bit serial DAC I&#8217;ve managed to get my Arduino controlling an IN-13 tube. I&#8217;ve got simple 3 wire serial communication working with the TLC5628 (thanks Ogi Lumen), and but I&#8217;m only utilizing one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.somethingunimportant.com/2009/05/04/arduino-nixie-tube-bar-graph-control-with-tlc5628cn/</link>
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		<title>Steampunk Here I Come</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As my previous posts show, I&#8217;ve been working with an Arduino and some Nixie Tubes. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, they&#8217;re pretty cool, but they don&#8217;t come close to IN-13 Bar Graphs. Yeah, neon tube bar graphs that glow orange, don&#8217;t even try to deny the badass nature of these. Check out the circuit I put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.somethingunimportant.com/2009/04/28/steampunk-here-i-come/</link>
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		<title>Some Arduino Photos and a Better Film</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave a brief Lightning Talk today at work. It went well and the audience seemed genuinely interested and engaged. I&#8217;ve posted a 30 second youtube video of the device running on my desk and showing off a few of the commands over the serial port. A few people have mentioned they have no idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.somethingunimportant.com/2009/04/24/some-arduino-photos-and-a-better-film/</link>
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		<title>Playing with the Arduino</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I might have mentioned previously that I recently bought an Arduino Duemilanove. It&#8217;s pretty damn cool and I&#8217;m amazed at the amount of power you can get for such small price (and form factor). My first month or so was spent hooking it up to LED&#8217;s and the Ethernet Shield. I wasted a bunch of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.somethingunimportant.com/2009/04/23/playing-with-the-arduino/</link>
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		<title>News Groups :(</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh news groups, we really have a love hate relationship. Why do many people chose never to send a final correspondence to let the others in the discussion know how things turned out? It&#8217;s really frustrating to try to offer help and have no idea if you were useful. Also, why isn&#8217;t Google Groups more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.somethingunimportant.com/2009/04/13/news-groups/</link>
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