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		<title>New URL for this Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve migrated my blog to http://lookatsoftware.blogspot.com/.  I&#8217;ve loved my experience here on WordPress.  The software is awesome and I&#8217;ve had some great interactions with other wordpress authors.  However, I wanted to see what the world of internet advertising is all about and needed a host that supported that model.  (So far I&#8217;ve made $1, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffspost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1400857&amp;post=87&amp;subd=jeffspost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New User Interface</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not unusual for IT to slide back and forth between extremes&#8211;thin client to fat client, back to thin client and back, etc. One of those pendulums has been UI programming. Back in the early 90&#8242;s user interface programming was either CHUI or roll your own custom GUI. Standardization was not common until Windows 3.1. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffspost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1400857&amp;post=84&amp;subd=jeffspost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>REST for Corporate IT</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[REST is old news for web based companies, but it&#8217;s penetration into corporate IT is just beginning. SOAP has three big advantages for the corporate developer—familiarity, tool set support and ease in handling large input sets. Want to pass a 3,000 character SQL statement to a web server? SOAP swallows it up without blinking. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffspost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1400857&amp;post=81&amp;subd=jeffspost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Affect of Minimum Wage on the Recession</title>
		<link>http://jeffspost.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/the-affect-of-minimum-wage-on-the-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago while standing in the Wal-Mart line the cashier asked me, “Hey, didnt you go to Southern Adventist University?” Ends up we were classmates about 9 years ago. He told me after graduation he&#8217;d spent most of the last decade managing a construction firm until it went under. Thus the entry level [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffspost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1400857&amp;post=76&amp;subd=jeffspost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 6th Grade Financial Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When one of my software engineer friends was in 6th grade his teacher decided it would be a good learning experience for the kids if she created a mock economy. She had no idea how popular and profound the experiment would be. Kids could now trade for durable goods (lunch components, spit wad shooters) without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffspost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1400857&amp;post=72&amp;subd=jeffspost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$163.29 for Auto, $4,572.18 for Finance</title>
		<link>http://jeffspost.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/16929-for-auto-457218-for-finance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s frustrating to see new article after news article throwing out terms like “25 billion dollars” with no further explanation. As if any of us except Warren Buffet really understand a billion dollars. On a visit to Chicago I saw a million dollars in a museum display at the Chicago Fed—it is a huge amount of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffspost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1400857&amp;post=69&amp;subd=jeffspost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Requirements Myth</title>
		<link>http://jeffspost.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/the-requirements-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago I first heard this myth and it lodged itself deeply in my mind. It seems so true that it&#8217;s taken years to shed myself of it. The myth: Never start designing and certainly NEVER start writing code until the requirements are defined. It implied that requirements make a foundation of solid rock on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffspost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1400857&amp;post=60&amp;subd=jeffspost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Support John McCain&#8211;A Geek&#8217;s Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, let&#8217;s knock out the junk that invarably clutters a campaign. Things that Don&#8217;t Matter The War&#8211;going into Iraq was a choice.  Getting out of the war is fairly straight forward.  1) establish security, 2) build up local government, 3) turn control over to the locals, 4) leave.  Right now we&#8217;re between #2 and #3.  It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffspost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1400857&amp;post=41&amp;subd=jeffspost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Custer&#8217;s Last Stand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 25, 1876 a distant relative of mine, Major General George A Custer, met his end leading 210 troopers into a disastrous aborted attack against a thousand or more Dakota (Sioux), Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors. Today Custer is remembered most often as the butt of jokes and cartoons. However, a twist of fate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffspost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1400857&amp;post=27&amp;subd=jeffspost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Answer: How to Talk to a User</title>
		<link>http://jeffspost.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/the-right-answer-how-to-talk-to-a-user/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A user calls a programmer and says, “We need a button on screen ______ to do _____.” What is the right answer? a) Sure we can do that for you. b) Wow that screen already has way too much stuff on it. Adding another button will make it way too busy. c) That screen wasn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jeffspost.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1400857&amp;post=24&amp;subd=jeffspost&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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