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	<title>Greg Crisp &#187; pragmatism</title>
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	<description>Technologist.  Pragmatist.</description>
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		<title>Project Predictability Correlates to Developers&#8217; Specific Experience</title>
		<link>http://gregcrisp.us/2009/03/02/project-predictability-correlates-to-developers-specific-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a test: Take 12 random stills distributed evenly across the span of a movie and give them to someone in a random order. Ask that person to sort them based on their sequence in the movie.

Whether or not someone puts them together in the correct order is essentially random.

Unless... that person has seen some or all of that movie before.]]></description>
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		<title>The Free is Worth Everything Paid for It</title>
		<link>http://gregcrisp.us/2008/12/08/the-free-is-worth-everything-paid-for-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Value is incompatible with Free. What can be the commitment to Free? If something is Free, then little or no value can be placed on it. As a customer, Free is worth every dollar you pay for it. As a vendor, the value of Free is inversely proportional to every dollar it costs you to deliver it.]]></description>
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		<title>Minute Clinic: Health Care for the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://gregcrisp.us/2008/11/02/minute-clinic-health-care-for-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woke up with a nasty head cold today.  The Minute Clinic was a quick, no-hassle way to get the care I needed.]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Fired!</title>
		<link>http://gregcrisp.us/2008/10/19/youre-fired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[firing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quiting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[two-week's notice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A business relationship is like any other human, interpersonal relationship.  It has its ups and downs, and when it's over, it is over.  There's no use prolonging the agony.]]></description>
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		<title>Start a side project to do the things you WANT to do</title>
		<link>http://gregcrisp.us/2008/08/17/start-a-side-project-to-do-the-things-you-want-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t always enhance your skills the way you want in the work you&#8217;re being paid to do on a daily basis.  Specific technology may not be compatible with your primary employer&#8217;s business need, IT strategy or the job role you presently hold there.

You should have a personal project, otherwise known as a Side Project. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Way: Defining the Problem</title>
		<link>http://gregcrisp.us/2008/05/18/the-right-way-defining-the-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://gregcrisp.us/2008/05/18/the-right-way-defining-the-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 23:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pragmatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bit plumbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the Right Way]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next few weeks, you’ll find here a series of articles that discuss the &#8220;right way&#8221; to build software for the web. To paraphrase John Galt: &#8216; Right?  By whose standard?&#8217;  I am the man who has asked that question.
I’m going to start by channeling Alan Cooper and define the problem.
I will try not to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optimizing for the right things</title>
		<link>http://gregcrisp.us/2008/04/20/optimizing-for-the-right-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pragmatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[optimization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a while now, I&#8217;ve been thinking about building a blog system of my own.  I did build a very basic blog engine in PHP once before, way back in 2002.  It worked quite well, but I never seemed to be able to commit the time to make it complete, which brings us full circle [...]]]></description>
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