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		<title>Visual Studio Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visual Studio has been my primary IDE for the majority of my career.&#160; It has gone through several versions, each one bringing with it a degree of additional extendibility in the form of Extension, Add-Ins and a growing list of customizations that can be applied to the VS environment, both functionally and aesthetically.&#160; I recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind Mapping</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have played with mind mapping tools in the past, but for some reason I have never felt entirely comfortable adopting them, never really feeling a natural &#34;flow&#34; from mind to paper as it were.&#160; I am making another go at it after finding XMind, an open source mind mapping project, on Scott Hanselman&#8217;s Recommended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Organized</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Observations 2011 closed out a crazy year, with a lot going on, a lot accomplished and learned, and a lot of questions looking forward into the future.  The first decade of the millennium blew by fast, hard and furious, leaving my head spinning.  As a software developer who weathered the Great Internet Bubble, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode #3 Porting Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week’s discussion is on porting, or converting code.&#160; While there are tools to automate the process, most often, manually converting the code ends up being the best option.&#160; This episode discusses my experiences in working with code conversion and common themes and considerations I have found along the way. Share this Post[?]&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Episode #2: Technology Shift</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is show #2 of the Development Podcast. The search for a name that is not completely lame is on, and I am continuing my education in the art of podcasting.  Along with software development, music and technology, I have a related interest, even passion, for audio recording and production technologies, which is part of [...]]]></description>
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That said, this week we discuss technologies that I will be focusing on this year and why they are important or relevant.  These technologies include:

Web/Internet Development 

	HTML5
CSS3
HTTP

Functional Programming

F#
Haskell
OCaml
Lisp

Mobile/Device Development

Android
--Phone
--Tablet
--Googel TV
--Other

iOS
--iPhone
--iPad
--iPod (Touch)

Windows
--Phone
--XBox

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Xamarin.com

Appcelerator/Titanium

Windows Phone

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		<title>Episode #1: Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is show #1 of the Shepard Road Developer Podcast, a.k.a. I don&#8217;t have a name yet. In this kick-off episode, in addition to an overview of the ideas behind it, along with some beginning podcaster rabmling, the discussion is on the importance of defining a development process and developing routines and habits around that [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:summary>This is show #1 of the Shepard Road Developer Podcast, a.k.a. I don&#039;t have a name yet.

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		<itunes:author>Shepard Road</itunes:author>
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		<title>LINQ to SQL and the IN Clause</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I am continuing to convert queries from T-SQL to LINQ (to SQL), I came across a scenario where I am using an IN query to pull back a result set where a criteria is within a given range of values.&#160; Here is the original SQL: &#160; SELECT DISTINCT File_Format.File_Format_Key, File_Format_Name, Exit_Call_Routine.Exit_Call_Routine_Key, Exit_Call_Routine.Exit_Call_Routine_Text FROM File_Format [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorting It All Out&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past few months have been a time of craziness and chaos professionally, with a fair amount of frustration but also tremendous learning.&#160; There are so many light bulbs going off in this rapid-fire brain of mine that I am fighting the urge to chase each one of them, which is why I am trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T-SQL Table Column Lookup Query</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a quick snippet of T-SQL that I use to find the column names in a given table in SQL Server: SELECT ORDINAL_POSITION ,COLUMN_NAME ,DATA_TYPE ,CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH ,IS_NULLABLE ,COLUMN_DEFAULT FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME = ‘table_name’ ORDER BY ORDINAL_POSITION ASC; Just replace ‘table_name’ with the name of the table you want to get information about.&#160; This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subversion 1.7 is out</title>
		<link>http://www.shepardroad.com/2011/10/subversion-1-7-is-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011-08-31 &#8212; Apache Subversion 1.7.0-rc2 Released &#182; We are pleased to announce the release of Apache Subversion 1.7.0-rc2. This is the first public release candidate of Subversion 1.7.0 (rc1 was not publicly released). It is thought to be free of blocking issues, and if none are found will become the final release. For this reason, [...]]]></description>
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