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		<title>Shopify_API 0.0.1 released on GitHub</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 20:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The newest member of our team has released a small library for driving the Shopify.com API. It is adapted from the official Shopify Rails plugin, but simplified to allow for use in non-Rails apps. It...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Python style with Ruby for- loops</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I noticed that a colleague was recently using the ruby for item in items syntax in a few places during some code review.  I immediately said something like &#8220;this is Ruby, not Python&#8221;, as...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Jay Powers Finishes 2009 Boston Marathon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Vermonster co-founder Jay Powers finishes another marathon today. I think it is a PR for Jay.  Congratulations!

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		<title>Rallyclock Fluid (app) Icon</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vermonster.com/2009/04/16/rallyclock-fluid-app-icon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bkaney</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Quick note today.  We finally created a Fluid icon for our time tracking Rallyclock.
http://go.rallyclock.com/images/rallyclock-fluid.png]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Tab-complete for git (from MacPorts)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vermonster.com/2009/04/15/tab-complete-for-git-from-macports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bkaney</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[After attending a git session at Boston.pm last night, I noticed that I was missing a super useful feature on my MacPorts -installed git&#8230;command tab-completion.
It turns out the completion code...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Amazon EC2 64bit Ubuntu-based AMI’s and Swap Space</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vermonster.com/2009/04/01/amazon-ec2-64bit-x86_64-ubuntu-based-amis-and-swap-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bkaney</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Recently when looking at a 64bit (x86_64) Ubuntu (alestic -derived AMI) instance, we realized it didn&#8217;t have any swap space.

$ free -m
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		<title>Default Capistrano task order (for deploy)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vermonster.com/2009/02/25/default-capistrano-task-order-for-deploy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bkaney</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We often throw in before/after hooks in our capistrano recipes and find ourselves looking up the default deploy task order each time.  So here&#8217;s the sequence of events:

  deploy
    update...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>svn:mergeinfo - Addressing a Painfully Missing Subversion Feature</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vermonster.com/2009/02/12/svnmergeinfo-addressing-a-painfully-missing-subversion-feature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bkaney</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yea, this article is about subversion and not git - but git is mentioned.  Since release 1.5, subversion now includes a property, svn:mergeinfo, that is auto-applied when preforming merges.  Before...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Minimizing Software Entropy in the Agile Environment</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vermonster.com/2009/02/06/minimizing-software-entropy-in-the-agile-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bkaney</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agile]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As part of the agile process, each development sprint has a planning prerequisite.  During this planning process, user stories are scored using a consensus complexity and risk estimations.  It is...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Immediate Agile Developer Position…  Just in Time for the New Year!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vermonster.com/2009/01/18/immediate-agile-developerposition-just-in-time-for-the-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bkaney</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We are a small energetic consulting firm in Boston&#8217;s Back Bay with more work than we can handle.  We&#8217;ve doing what we love for almost 10 years now and need to add to our team.  We are...]]></content:encoded>
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