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		<title>Refactoring Keeps Functionality Intact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The development team gathers to find a solution to cut technical debt.

&#8220;We cannot finish this feature in time. We need to change too much code to do it&#8221;. Joe, the technical lead, was always direct and honest.

&#8220;What would help?&#8221; Bill, the manager, was not happy, but he trusts Joe. If he told him  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When The Hammer Becomes More Important Than Driving Nails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1980s a few developers realized that common patterns appear in the code everybody was writing. They documented them in 1995 a famous book called &#8220;Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software&#8221;. Today, many software teams have a guideline stating they must use design  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Whys Shouldn&#8217;t Be 5 And Shouldn&#8217;t Be Whys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Romanians have a class of jokes called &#8220;Radio Yerevan&#8221; jokes. My favourite one is:

Is it true that Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov from Moscow won a car in a lottery?

A: In principle yes, but:

it wasn&#8217;t Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov but Aleksander Aleksandrovich Aleksandrov;
he is not from Moscow but from  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The case for tinkering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a boy the most common car in Romania was Dacia. Compared with modern cars, it is awful. It looks quite bad, you need a lot of force to steer it, putting it into reverse gear is a mix of force and accuracy and you are lucky if it starts when it&#8217;s cold outside. It requires a lot of  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Reasons to Attend a Code Retreat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You will love programming again
You relive the first moments of programming (unless you started with Cobol)
You will see how other people write code
You will write and speak about code all day long. You&#8217;re between friends, accept that&#8217;s the one thing you could do for days
You come as an expert  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, I&#8217;m a sinner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sure that by now you have heard about Steve Jobs and his premature death. Here&#8217;s something you probably haven&#8217;t heard about.

Dennis Ritchie died this week. You probably never heard of him. I never heard of him until today, showing once again that I&#8217;m guilty of the developer sin #3. And the  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passion Moves the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something about special people always moves me. That something is passion.

Steve Jobs was from the beginning in the middle of a revolution that completely changed the world. At that time, it took real courage and burning passion to push for ideas that most people didn&#8217;t understand &#8211; and yet  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 7 Sins of Software Developers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to assemble a list of sins for software developers. Ideally 7, since, well, this is the normal number of sins one would expect.

I&#8217;ve come up with the list below. It is by no means final, and hopefully I can get enough feedback to improve it greatly.

Some caveats:

I don&#8217;t say that all  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Games and Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, my friend Felix asked me for an article for No Time To Play, and since I owe him and this time I knew I can do it, I started thinking about games once again and my history with playing. And I thought about sharing with you as much as I can in a blog post. So, this is it: my (incomplete  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information based backlog prioritizing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The general rule for prioritizing the backlog is that you do it based on business value. From the business perspective, this makes a lot of sense: you maximize the ROI by doing first the things that create the most value in the context of your product, be it monetary or non-monetary (e.g. number of  [...]]]></description>
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