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		<title>Cool things at the Melbourne Maker Faire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at the Melbourne Maker Faire and a few cool things have caught my eye: the FreeRTOS for Arduino &#8212; and  @fei_li_pu has persuaded me to take another look at Eclipse as an AVR development environment Cool wooden journal covers from the Beehive the MHV Arduino board Up! 3D Printer &#8212; shame about the price and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alecthegeek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=444144&amp;post=1390&amp;subd=alecthegeek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 29,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alecthegeek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=444144&amp;post=1381&amp;subd=alecthegeek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top Tip: Running Perl Regex Coach on OS/X</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve used the excellent Regex Coach for Perl programmers on Windows but have been dissapointed that the current version does not run on Mac OS/X, fear not. You can build Wine and then it runs well. Install HomeBrew Run the command brew install --use-gcc wine Download the Regex Coach installer Run the command wine regex-coach.exe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alecthegeek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=444144&amp;post=1370&amp;subd=alecthegeek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Setting up test printing on a Mac using CUPS-PDF</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my new job at PaperCut Software I do a lot more testing of print jobs and I&#8217;ve found the following useful for saving trees. Note that this actually creates a PDF printer device on the Mac, this is different the PDF option displayed on the standard OS/X print dialogue. Download and install the Mac [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alecthegeek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=444144&amp;post=1362&amp;subd=alecthegeek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Application or IT Environments Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec The Geek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note from Alec: I&#8217;ve copied this article here in case the original version disappears. Author: Valentine Application or IT Environments Management service will fall under Application Management as defined in ITIL2 (operational guidance) because it contributes to improving the overall quality of IT Software development and support through the lifecycle. Application Environments Management set encompasses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alecthegeek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=444144&amp;post=1353&amp;subd=alecthegeek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have a *nix sh script put itself into the background</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Unix Bourne style shell languages (e.g. sh, bash, ksh etc) you can put a long running command (or another script) into the background so that control returns to the user. The original idea is that you can perform other work whilst the background process continues. This is achieved by adding a &#38;, for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alecthegeek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=444144&amp;post=1331&amp;subd=alecthegeek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Setting up a Perl development environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are my suggestions on how to set up your Perl development environment: (NB If you are a Perl novice then start here) Install a copy of Perl Windows: Strawberry Perl UNIX developer with a Windows desktop? Use Cygwin Linux: Your distro should have Perl. See here for some suggestions on installing CPAN modules UNIX: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alecthegeek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=444144&amp;post=1309&amp;subd=alecthegeek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My presentation on software process improvement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec The Geek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently gave a new presentation on Improving Software Processes at OSDC 2010 in Melbourne, AU Filed under: Application Lifecycle Management, Change Audit, LinkedIn, Open Source Software, Work Practices<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alecthegeek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=444144&amp;post=1294&amp;subd=alecthegeek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My 43 Folder Tickler File</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tickler File &#8211; 43FoldersWiki In the parlance of Getting Things Done, a Tickler File consists of a series of 43 file folders: 12 monthly and 31 daily folders. Items are filed in a folder corresponding to when the item will need to be handled, thus reminding or &#8220;tickling&#8221; the user about it. These items might [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alecthegeek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=444144&amp;post=1296&amp;subd=alecthegeek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Khan Academy effectively</title>
		<link>http://alecthegeek.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/using-the-khan-academy-effectively/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Khan Academy is a great resource for learning maths and science. There are a few tricks when you start using the site and here are the things I&#8217;ve discovered over the last couple of weeks using the site with my daughter. Step 1 (Optional) Watch this talk by Sal on his vision for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alecthegeek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=444144&amp;post=1287&amp;subd=alecthegeek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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