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		<title>Learning Programming Languages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think learning new programming languages is both easy and very difficult. Syntax is nearly always easy, but understanding when to use a language and what are its strong points. Failing at this leads to the familiar &#8220;when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.&#8221; On the other hand I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.illotus.com/cleanishcode/2010/05/learning-programming-languages/</link>
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		<title>Autosave in games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I played Batman Arkham Asylum for a while and quit at some point. I&#8217;m about 80% through and just started the game to finish it tonight. No can do: corrupt save and that was that as there is only one save slot per &#8220;game&#8221;. The reason apparently is that I shut my Xbox [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.illotus.com/cleanishcode/2010/04/autosave-in-games/</link>
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		<title>Teamwork For The Win</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been doing research for my thesis. The thing is, planning card sorting and heuristic evaluation alone without a lot of experience isn&#8217;t much fun. I&#8217;d extrapolate this to any kind of reasonable difficult pursuit. It&#8217;s always easier with a team or partner even if every one is inexperienced. Of course this is parallel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.illotus.com/cleanishcode/2010/04/teamwork-for-the-win/</link>
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		<title>Fileserver, part 3, setting up ACL permissions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally I have nearly everything moved to the new server. I&#8217;ve ended up using ACL for handling permissions for the CIFS shares. ACL isn&#8217;t too difficult to understand, but there aren&#8217;t too many resources on the net on it. Finding Daz&#8217;s &#8220;OpenSolaris cifs/smb server – configuring ACL’s on shares&#8221; article really helped. For example for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.illotus.com/cleanishcode/2010/02/fileserver-part-3-setting-up-acl-permissions/</link>
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		<title>Cloning a Running Windows 2008 Server to a Virtual Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m ready to migrate my 1½ year old Windows 2008 installation to a virtual machine and finding out about the options run into Disk2vhd. It&#8217;s made by the Sysinternals team at Microsoft and what it does is snapshot of any drive to a VHD, virtual hard disk. The cool thing is that you can clone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.illotus.com/cleanishcode/2010/02/cloning-windows-2008-server-to-a-virtual-machine/</link>
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		<title>Fileserver, part 2 &#8211; taping raid card</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have my server running now with the following hardware: Asus P7F-X motherboard Intel Xeon x3440 processor 4GB Kingston ECC DDR3 6 Western Digital 1,5TB drives, model nro WD15EARS 2 Samsung F3 500GB drives Dell SAS 5/i sata raid card Nexus Edge case The first problem I ran into was no boot, if the raid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.illotus.com/cleanishcode/2010/02/fileserver-part-2-taping-raid-card/</link>
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		<title>Steve Krug&#8217;s new book on usability testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great guide to low-cost usability testing. 168 pages, so reading it slowly takes 2 hours and those hours just fly by. Generally books on the practical part of testing are kinda boring, but this one is really easy to read.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.illotus.com/cleanishcode/2010/01/steve-krugs-new-book-on-usability-testing/</link>
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		<title>Fileserver, part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have this AMD 4850e/4GB non-ECC RAM/2,6TB/WS2008 serving files and other needs around the apartment. No RAID, no formal backups etc. Some of the more important stuff is on couple of disks and in the cloud etc. At first I intented to buy only 2 more hard drives, adding maybe 2-3TB. Then I got this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.illotus.com/cleanishcode/2010/01/fileserver-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Webapp business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been toying with Django for a week or so and started building a simple CRUD app. Essentially it is a todo list software. Mainly this is because it is suitably small project and it is also scratching my own itch. For the latter correct solution would be to be lazy and use Todoist or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.illotus.com/cleanishcode/2010/01/webapp-business/</link>
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		<title>Usability Implications of Requiring Parameters in Objects&#8217; Constructors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting finding from a research article by Jeffrey Stylos and Steven Clarke A comparative study was performed to assess how professional programmers use APIs with required parameters in objects’ constructors as opposed to parameterless “default” constructors. It was hypothesized that required parameters would create more usable and selfdocumenting APIs by guiding programmers toward the correct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.illotus.com/cleanishcode/2010/01/usability-implications-of-requiring-parameters-in-objects-constructors/</link>
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