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	<title>Tales from the Inner Genius</title>
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	<description>Personal development through the releasing of your inner genius</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Introducing the Book Mashup Concept</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Book Mashups]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since the Kindle has made it very easy for me to digitally extract noted passages, I have decided to try experimenting with a new type of content.  In the coming days I will be randomly selecting noteworthy passage from various books and then trying to create a new article based on those concepts.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle, oh Kindle</title>
		<link>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/kindle-oh-kindle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/kindle-oh-kindle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Reviews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kindle Review]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sony Reader]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I was one of the lucky few to get one of the precious Kindles before Christmas.  After using it for a couple of months now, I am finally ready to provide my feedback on it.
The week before the Kindle was announced I picked up the Sony Reader and had gotten a feel for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Software Polite?</title>
		<link>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/is-your-software-polite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/is-your-software-polite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Quality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is based off the politeness criteria mentioned in The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity.
One way to produce quality software is to design it to behave like a good human workmate.  Good human workmates are polite and therefore polite software [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Rules of a Software Defect</title>
		<link>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/five-rules-of-a-software-defect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/five-rules-of-a-software-defect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Quality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software Testing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the key items for a software tester is to know when software is defective.  The best definition of a defect that I have been able to find comes from Software Testing (2nd Edition):

 The software doesn&#8217;t do something that the product specification says it should do.
 The software does something that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joys of Bundling</title>
		<link>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/the-joys-of-bundling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/the-joys-of-bundling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[The Business of Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bundles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Macintosh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a recent flurry of activity in the Mac community regarding the bundling of applications.  MacHeist has just recently concluded its second bundling attempt in which they offered 14 products normally priced almost $500 for only $49.  In addition to the bundle, 25% of their sales are being donated to charity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from the Book - Four Days with Dr Deming</title>
		<link>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/notes-from-the-book-four-days-with-dr-deming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/notes-from-the-book-four-days-with-dr-deming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Quality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Deming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently finish reading the book Four Days with Dr. Deming: A Strategy for Modern Methods of Management (Engineering Process Improvement Series) and I would like to share my thoughts on it.
This book is designed to replicate the feeling that a CEO would have had attending one of Dr. Deming&#8217;s four day seminars.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software Quality - Part II - 7 Deadly Diseases</title>
		<link>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/demings-7-deadly-diseases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/demings-7-deadly-diseases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Quality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Deming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article is the second in a series of articles addressing the application of W. Edwards Deming&#8217;s principles in developing software.  Previous parts can be found here: Part 1.
In order to help foster the growth of a quality movement within a company, certain conditions and obstacles need to be avoided.  Dr Deming referred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software Quality - Part I - Deming&#8217;s 14 Obligations</title>
		<link>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/software-quality-part-i-demings-14-obligations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scotthassler.com/archives/2008/01/software-quality-part-i-demings-14-obligations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Quality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Deming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The 14 points all have one aim: to make it possible for people to work with joy.&#8221; - W. Edwards Deming
This series of articles is meant to address the issues of quality in software development.  We begin by studying a brief overview of the theories developed by the Father of the Quality Movement, W. [...]]]></description>
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