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	<link>http://www.beilers.com</link>
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		<title>Blog Spam&#8230;</title>
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What is up with this? I guess my domain must have ended up in some &#8220;target&#8221; file for a marketing campaign&#8230; It is amazing how many &#8220;spam&#8221; comments get posted to your website each month. Akismet blocked almost 14,000 spam comments THIS month. I used to only get about 50 per month; you can see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beilers.com/2010/02/blog-spam/</link>
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		<title>Cherry Picture Frame&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this really cool poster when we were Christmas shopping last December and thought it would be great for my guitar playing son. Needless to say, I hid the poster in the basement and found it in January, oh well! 
I have a quite a stack of ruff sawn cherry in the barn and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beilers.com/2010/02/cherry-picture-frame/</link>
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		<title>WordPress and Mobile Themes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran across a website on my phone the other day and was very impressed with the presentation. I had tried some &#8220;mobile friendly&#8221; WordPress themes in the past, but was never very excited by them; they always looked too bland on high-resolution devices.  A quick Google search turned up the popular WPtouch plug-in. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beilers.com/2010/01/wordpress-and-mobile-themes/</link>
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		<title>Self-Documenting Code&#8230; Interesting thoughts about comments&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently found an interesting web site called Making Good Software. I really liked this guy&#8217;s site, he might just save me from writing down a lot of my own thoughts! Unlike my typical post, his are very short and easy to read. I highly recommend checking it out and popping through his other recent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beilers.com/2009/11/self-documenting-code-interesting-thoughts-about-comments/</link>
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		<title>Gnome 3.0 Beta Shell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Half of the fun of playing with Linux is trying out new stuff! I found a blog the other night that talked about Gnome 3.0 as well as installing it on Ubuntu. I don&#8217;t think that anyone would disagree that the current Gnome desktop seems a little dated; it is not vastly different from a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beilers.com/2009/11/gnome-3-0-beta-shell/</link>
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		<title>Code Presentation or Inspection?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago, I got back on the code review bandwagon and jotted down some thoughts. As I worked with other teams doing &#8220;code reviews&#8221;, the lack of structure (from my perspective) got me energized to go back down this road.  We have been playing with the Crucible Code Review Tool for a couple of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beilers.com/2009/11/code-presentation-or-inspection/</link>
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		<title>NetBeans Unit Test Creation better than Eclipse? And where should unit test live?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I seem to work on a variety of Java applications and find that unit testing is one of the most varied (implementation-wise) pieces of the development process. These applications, created by different development staffs, many which have evolved over the pass few years are all very unique&#8230; kind of makes me wonder why? That is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beilers.com/2009/11/netbeans-unit-test-creation-better-than-eclipse-and-where-should-unit-test-live/</link>
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		<title>Eclipse &#8211; Ubuntu 9.1 Button Issue&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was making me crazy the other night&#8230; I did not spend too much time on it, thinking is was just me. But, after upgrading my laptop and encountering the exact same problem, I knew there was more too it. It seemed like only the cancel buttons actually worked; all of the next and finish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beilers.com/2009/11/eclipse-ubuntu-9-1-button-issue/</link>
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		<title>Spring Framework Anti-Patterns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not that I&#8217;m a big fan of the whole &#8220;Anti-Pattern&#8221; concept, but there is some subtle irony in the title of this post; some of my coworkers will actually understand. Sorry about the mystery for the rest of you, but I think this post is really relevant for those trying to use Spring for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beilers.com/2009/10/spring-framework-anti-patterns/</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu 9.10 Upgrade&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, I like to live dangerously; last week I upgraded my Ubuntu box to the 9.10 beta. Unlike my last upgrade, this one went off without a hitch. Not surprisingly, I seem to have 100MB updates every other day, but even so, the box is rock solid. The only annoying thing is that many of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beilers.com/2009/10/ubuntu-9-10-upgrade/</link>
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