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	<description>Living with standards compliance</description>
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		<title>Random thoughts about the Rails Outreach workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the Monday I didn&#8217;t expect to see, the Monday after the latest Rails for Women workshop. Two months ago I agreed to step up my volunteer commitment to these workshops. Instead of my usual lurking at the registration table, or lunchtime KP duty, this workshop saw me promoted to Assistant Organizer. Suddenly I became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ada Lovelace Day: The Sarahs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a bumper sticker you&#8217;ll see a lot around northern California: &#8220;Be the change that you want to see.&#8221; I&#8217;m not usually persuaded by the greeting-card pithiness of bumper sticker slogans, but this one, for some reason, sticks with me. I&#8217;m alert to opportunities to be the change that I want to see&#8211;my impulse has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twobanjos.com/blog/2010/03/ada-lovelace-day-the-sarahs/</link>
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		<title>12+ People I Owe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s a pretty satisfying thought experiment/daydream: if uncountable buckets of money suddenly landed in your bank account one morning, who would you invite to share the windfall? Just in case this happens to Yours Truly, I&#8217;m writing up a list of people who devised things which made my professional life easier over the years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twobanjos.com/blog/2010/01/7-people-i-owe/</link>
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		<title>Productivity System Smackdown: FlyLady vs. GTD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of us, it seems, meet day&#8217;s end with disappointment, not satisfaction. We started ambitiously, worked steadily&#8211;at something. But what is there to show for that? A barely diminished to-do list, and a burden for tomorrow. I confess that my favorite way to procrastinate is to read productivity blogs. It&#8217;s by way of this habit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twobanjos.com/blog/2009/10/productivity-system-smackdown-flylady-vs-gtd/</link>
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		<title>How to demoralize your front-end developers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stop failing at this apparently necessary chore; I&#8217;m here to help.  I can verify that all the following techniques have worked on for me. How to Demoralize Your Front-end Developers Constantly change requirements. It&#8217;s, what, the day before the scheduled launch?  And the product doesn&#8217;t include that absolutely requisite feature you didn&#8217;t think to require [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twobanjos.com/blog/2009/10/how-to-demoralize-your-front-end-developers/</link>
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		<title>My First Web Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some digging in a dusty file box the other day yielded no fewer than three floppy disks. What wisdom might these ancient tablets convey? Fortunately, there was at least one device in the house which still had a floppy drive. Result: mostly disappointment. The files were either first drafts of things I&#8217;d sent off to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twobanjos.com/blog/2009/09/my-first-web-page/</link>
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		<title>A visit with HTML 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that HTML 5 has been declared victorious over XHTML 2, the last six to eight weeks have yielded a bouquet of tutorials, introductions, cheatsheets, and blog postings about it. I guess we&#8217;re so excited about anything new in markup we&#8217;ll even cheer a draft proposal. I can&#8217;t excuse myself from the mob, having joined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twobanjos.com/blog/2009/09/a-visit-with-html-5-2/</link>
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		<title>6 Things to Know About Developers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No surprises here, or none for techs, anyway. A lot of the following sounds like banal repetition of common sense. But the thing about common sense is that it isn&#8217;t&#8230;common. And so, even after twenty years of Dilbert cartoons, I feel compelled to list a few points I want my non-tech colleagues to remember. 6 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twobanjos.com/blog/2009/08/6-things-to-know-about-developers/</link>
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		<title>Frameworks are tomato paste, not cake mixes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alright, I&#8217;ll start by admitting I was wrong, all wrong: using frameworks isn&#8217;t a sign of laziness or incompetence. Today&#8217;s frameworks aren&#8217;t yesterday&#8217;s Hot Scripts or Dynamic Drive slop. They aren&#8217;t Dreamweaver cruft or FrontPage junk. Using them requires more than cutting and pasting; you use them better if you understand their basic technologies of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twobanjos.com/blog/2009/08/frameworks-are-tomato-paste-not-cake-mixes/</link>
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		<title>Elements of a productive work day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having spent the past few weeks playing Whac-a-mole on a project, and waking this day with some leftover sanity and a lot of work done, I think I&#8217;ve arrived at a framework. Elements of a productive work day Turning off clients for IM, IRC, and e-mail. The benefits of working without distractions have been well-publicized.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://twobanjos.com/blog/2009/07/elements-of-a-productive-work-day/</link>
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