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		<title>If DZone were down where would you spend your day?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dzone just moved to new servers and changed their DNS yesterday. My local DNS has not updated yet so for me, Dzone is down still. I usually check the font page and upcoming links many times a day. While its been down I have had to look elsewhere. Mostly I have just been at javablogs.com.
Where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best of 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone else has a &#8220;Best of 2008&#8243; and I don&#8217; t post as much as I would like, so this is a cheap opportunity for a quick post.
I have two blogs, this one and the one for my open source project at http://architecturerules.org . I used PostRank and the number of reads to determine my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://72miles.com/blog/best-of-2008/</link>
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		<title>Favorite Software Patterns Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoy reading books about java and software development. My favorite type of book is the patterns books. Patterns books are great because the chapters are usually short and very focused. So you can read a chapter over lunch, or before you hit the pillow and usually not put the book down in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Pro Java EE Spring Patterns” Table Of Contents Preview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great way to determine if you want to buy a book or not is to review the books table to contents.

Pro Java™ EE Spring Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies Implementing Java EE Patterns with the Spring Framework  by Dhrubojyoti Kayal

Describes a catalog of patterns used across the three tiers of a typical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect&#8221; Book Review</title>
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Search This Book

Published by Apress, August 2008
416 pages
ISBN 1430209739

The Good

Numerous practical examples from the Netbeans API and the JDK.
Each chapter introduces a concept that could profoundly change your code.
Practical situations with concrete examples.
Explanations for novices and experts.

The Bad

System.out
.println
Have to read Theory before getting to the practical exapmles.
Subtitled &#8220;Confessions&#8221; ?


Purchase from Amazon.com


About the Author
Jaroslav Tulach is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect” Table Of Contents Preview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great way to determine if you want to buy a book or not is to review the books table to contents.

Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect by Jaroslav Tulach

Teaches you how to write an API that will stand the test of Time
Written by the designer of the NetBeans API at Sun
Based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why not an Open Source contribution tax deduction?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard of the Artists-Museum Partnership Act? Probably not. It didn&#8217;t even have a wikipedia article until I wrote it. In a few words the act would:
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers who create literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions or similar property a fair market value (determined at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://72miles.com/blog/why-not-an-open-source-tax-deduction/</link>
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		<title>Architecture Rules 3.0 Roadmap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE Aug-30-2008

added API package
added Listeners
added Configuration Properties
added default-architecture-rules.xml

OK, lets lay out a road map for 3.0. I sent this message to the architecture-rules-user mailing list and the architecture-rules-dev mailing list tonight. I have a few things that I want to see put into it, and I&#8217;d also like to hear what you want in it.
org.architecturerules
First. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://72miles.com/blog/architecture-rules-30-roadmap/</link>
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		<title>Open Source is Facinating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s true. Open source is is fascinating. Consider these questions (which have been asked by many):
How does open source work?
Why does open source work?
What motivates the developers?
Who is making money and how?
What are the open source business models?
How ubiquitous is open source?
What is the future of open source?
Whats with all of these licenses?
The questions are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://72miles.com/blog/open-source-is-facinating/</link>
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		<title>Software Development Standards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It all comes down to this.

When I put this depiction in to word, I would say it as &#8220;Industry Standards &#62; Organization &#62; Team &#62; Personal &#62; No Standards&#8220;.
It is that simple. Everyone has standards. However, some standards are more important than others. When developing your own standards you should consider those standards that are [...]]]></description>
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