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		<title>I&#8217;m not a child&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Manager, I am one of your developers, when you hired me you treated me with respect, you asked me about my skills and abilities and (I assume) hired me because of these. Please could you explain to me why, now, the respect is gone and I&#8217;m being treated like a mentally deficient child? If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2010/02/16/trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forcing impossible deadlines, ordering people to be at work during certain hours, denying leave, bringing in consultants and hinting at using them as a yardstick for productivity&#8230; I often wonder what makes people resort to these tactics and if they know the net effect of them? Decreased morale, lowered productivity, lack of any desire to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change is good</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2010/02/03/change-is-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m often amazed at the number of dogmatic &#8220;prophets&#8221; out there when it comes to the latest fad&#8217;s of agile development. I myself am about getting productive and like to take the best of ALL worlds; change is not only inevitable but necessary, even changing of a process BUT, only if the change leads to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing an Effective Build Dashboard (for Hudson) (Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2010/01/15/implementing-an-effective-build-dashboard-for-hudson-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿Not really part of the dashboard configuration but more of a cool thing I thought I&#8217;d share the underlying layers (hardware, OS etc) behind our monitor. I decided to go with full portability and hands free start-up, I did this as follows: Installed Puppy Linux on a 2gb USB stick. Installed Firefox 3.x (needed for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing an Effective Build Dashboard (for Hudson) (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2010/01/12/implementing-an-effective-build-dashboard-for-hudson-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow on of my previous post and details how to implement the code available in the original post by Fabio Parera here, together with the modifications I made for our environment. I suggest you look at the original post first though to understand the extra stuff that I did not implement (I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing an Effective Build Dashboard (for Hudson) (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Information radiators are one of the core building blocks of any agile environment, you should never hide or feel the need to hide anything you&#8217;re doing. Information radiators encourage (or at least they should) a feeling of pride in teams allowing them to show off what they&#8217;re doing. They should be freely accessible for everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performance appraisals, do we really care?</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/12/22/performance-appraisals-do-we-really-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often wonder why companies think the current way of doing Performance Appraisals are actually effective (you know, a few times a year, you sit with your manager and he tells you what a good/bad boy you were). For me they&#8217;re unnecessary and this is why: Firstly, &#8220;appraising&#8221; someones &#8220;performance&#8221; is something that should have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continuous Integration with Hudson and .NET</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/12/04/continuous-integration-with-hudson-and-net/</link>
		<comments>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/12/04/continuous-integration-with-hudson-and-net/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was tasked with setting up a development environment for a .NET shop. I&#8217;m a great fan(atic) of Continuous Integration (CI) and set about thinking of a good way of doing this (and a fun/cool way as well). For those of you new to Continuous Integration, I think Martin Fowler describes it best on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The chatty daily standup&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/10/13/the-chatty-daily-standup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/10/13/the-chatty-daily-standup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the &#8220;ceremonies&#8221; of Scrum (man that sounds so culty) is the &#8220;Daily Standup&#8221;, a daily planning meeting where teams realign and coordinate their efforts for the upcoming day. It&#8217;s a concise, no frills no fluff zero waste of time meeting that answers three questions: what have I done, what am I doing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But haven&#8217;t we always been working this way?</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/09/03/but-havent-we-always-been-working-this-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/09/03/but-havent-we-always-been-working-this-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid I had a Commodore 64 with a cassette player, awesome little machine with cool games! I decided I had to write my own game, this is where it all started some 25 odd years ago. I decided I would write a &#8220;maze-like&#8221; game where an &#8220;avatar&#8221; would navigate through a [...]]]></description>
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