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	<description>Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification</description>
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		<title>Avoid Unnecessary Comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning's short read is "5 Types of Comments to Avoid Making in Your Code".  No developer doubts the benefit of good comments, but when the signal-to-noise ratio tips in favor of noise, productivity can actually be hindered.  I know I'm guilty of using at least one of these forbidden comment types in my code, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicholascloud.com/2010/07/avoid-unnecessary-comments/</link>
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		<title>Dynamic CSS and the Plan of Attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm working on an ASP.NET website where I need to generate dynamic CSS, mostly for "theming" purposes.  I really don't like .NET skins or themes -- I prefer straight CSS and markup; besides, it needs to be configurable through an administration page and persisted to a database.  Here are the options I'm contemplating:

Allow the client [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicholascloud.com/2010/06/dynamic-css-and-the-plan-of-attack/</link>
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		<title>New Events page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have added a new page for developer events in the St. Louis/Kansas City areas.  If I have missed a big event (not local user group meetings), please let me know.
Also, Illinois, I have not purposefully left you out.  I just don't know what goes on over there in those corn fields!
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		<link>http://www.nicholascloud.com/2010/05/new-events-page/</link>
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		<title>.NET Rocks Roadtrip: Destination St. Louis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the .NET Rocks! Roadtrip came through St. Louis and local developers were treated to a very special live broadcast of the .NET Rocks! podcast by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell, two tech heads who are just south of sane and a whole lot of fun to hang with!  The roadtrip is a fifteen-city trek across America in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicholascloud.com/2010/04/net-rocks-roadtrip-destination-st-louis/</link>
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		<title>Why Agile Works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ability to err early and often is essential to getting real work done. We are taught this in school when teachers tell us to write a rough draft of our final paper, store it away for a day or so, then revisit it several times refining and correcting as we go.  Unfortunately most of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicholascloud.com/2010/04/why-agile-works/</link>
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		<title>IE does something better than Firefox, hell freezes over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like most web developers, I write markup and Javascript that will work on both IE and Firefox, and if I'm particularly ambitious, Chome and Safari.  I've been writing a lot of Javascript lately, which has been a good learning experience but frustrating at the same time.  I don't have the luxury of using jQuery on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicholascloud.com/2010/02/ie-does-something-better-than-firefox-hell-freezes-over/</link>
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		<title>Red Gate releases Reflector 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lutz Roeder scored major points with developers the world over when he released his .NET Reflector software, a tiny package of TNT that lets the user examine compiled .NET assemblies, and even disassemble them (for debugging purposes).  I know it's a tool I couldn't live without.  I've used it countless times to examine APIs of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicholascloud.com/2010/02/red-gate-releases-reflector-6/</link>
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		<title>Ambiguous match really is ambiguous in ASP.NET</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just love days of lost productivity.  You know, the ones where you pine away at some problem, retracing every change you made, every source control update you performed, attempting to track down the offending bug in code.  Days like yesterday, for example.  I was working on a fairly nondescript ASP.NET web page, but every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicholascloud.com/2010/02/ambiguous-match-really-is-ambiguous-in-asp-net/</link>
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		<title>Best IE 6 smack down. Ever.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend sent me a link to this website, which has a disclaimer and the bottom that wins the gold in two categories: 1) side-splitting humor, and 2) caustic diatribe against inferior technology.  I reprint it here in its full glory.
"Hi, if you are coming to this site via Internet Explorer 6, you might not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicholascloud.com/2010/01/best-ie-6-smack-down-ever/</link>
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		<title>NUnit assertions and constraints cheat sheet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm pouring through the NUnit documentation to get a better grasp on the robust unit testing API.  I tend to learn quickly if I reproduce whatever I read (whether in written form, in passing conversation, with diagrams or drawings, etc.), so I decided to compile the NUnit assertions and constraints into a single "cheat sheet" [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicholascloud.com/2010/01/nunit-assertions-and-constraints-cheat-sheet/</link>
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