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		<title>&#8220;The Mac lets you code anywhere, anytime.&#8221;: Ahh, the irony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got an email from Appie with the following text
ANY PLATFORM, ANY LANGUAGE, ANYWHERE
Why are the hottest new applications being developed on the Mac? Because the Intel-based Mac lets you easily develop for virtually any platform, language, and programming environment. And now, you can test and run applications on UNIX, Linux, and even Windows, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.exis.com/colin/archives/2007/05/29/the-mac-lets-you-code-anywhere-anytime-ahh-the-irony/</link>
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		<title>10 Months From Maven 2.0.4 to 2.0.5. What&#8217;s Wrong With That Picture?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maven 2.0.4: released April 11, 2006
Maven 2.0.5: released February 14, 2007.
I&#8217;m really glad Maven 2.0.5 is out, it fixes quite a number of important issues (along with some more more minor stuff and enhancements). But for a tool which should be one of the key enablers of an agile and frequent release process, something seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.exis.com/colin/archives/2007/02/16/10-months-from-maven-204-to-205-whats-wrong-with-that-picture/</link>
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		<title>Best Halloween quote ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So last night I went out trick or treating with my kids and my brother and his son. At one house, the kids collected their goodies and started walking back to the street, and with the door open and the homeowner still standing there, my 5 year old nephew took a look at the Coffee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.exis.com/colin/archives/2006/11/01/best-halloween-quote-ever/</link>
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		<title>First attempt to use Eclipse Callisto update site not very inspiring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve used update sites for various Eclipse plugins over the years, but for the most part have manually downloaded and linked to WTP. Now that Callisto is ready, I decided to go the update manager route. After installing a bare Eclipse SDK, I selected the Callisto site, picked the WTP components, BIRT, and all their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.exis.com/colin/archives/2006/07/03/first-attempt-to-use-eclipse-callisto-update-site-not-very-inspiring/</link>
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		<title>The Rewards of Being an Open-Source Developer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Basing your business around open-source is pretty tough sometimes, but it all becomes worth it when you get a private forum message like this:
&#8220;You guys are clowns for making me register to be able to browse your archives.
CLOWNS.&#8221;    &#8211;AnnoyedInSF
Of course, this genius couldn&#8217;t figure out that in fact you don&#8217;t have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.exis.com/colin/archives/2006/05/09/the-rewards-of-being-an-open-source-developer/</link>
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		<title>Google Calendar is Nice, But Lacks Some Key Group Functionality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s already been a decent amount of blogging about Google Calendar (such as this entry), so I&#8217;m not going to talk about most features. In general, it&#8217;s a pretty powerful, very nice to use (due to extensive use of Ajax) calendar app.
It lacks some key group/multi-calendar related functionality compared to some alternatives such as AirSet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.exis.com/colin/archives/2006/04/13/google-calendar-is-nice-but-lacks-some-key-group-functionality/</link>
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		<title>Spring Framework at EclipseCon 2006: Stop by and Say Hello!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EclipseCon have graciously offered Spring Framework one of the 10 &#8216;pods&#8217; in the open-source pavilion at EclipseCon 2006. The closest tie right now between Spring and Eclipse is probably the Spring-IDE plugin for Eclipse (also used as the basis for Spring support in MyEclipse IDE), but you can also expect to see some Spring integration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.exis.com/colin/archives/2006/03/20/spring-framework-at-eclipsecon-2006-stop-by-and-say-hello/</link>
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		<title>JTA Does Not Equal Automatic Support of Two-Phase Commit!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find it a little bit distressing how few Java developers understand that using JTA does not automatically get you XA/Two-Phase-Commit capabilities.
Here we&#8217;ve got Matt Raible, who really should know better, or at least should not be blogging about it, posting on Two Phase Commit in Tomcat with JOTM and Spring. Somebody flew out to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.exis.com/colin/archives/2006/02/17/jta-does-not-equal-automatic-support-of-two-phase-commit/</link>
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		<title>BEA to open-source JPA (EJB3) persistence library based on Kodo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is pretty big news. Back in November, BEA acquired SolarMetric, makers of the excellent KODO JDO persistence library. I&#8217;ve always had a lot of respect for Kodo JDO, as it&#8217;s very performant, is very flexible in terms of mapping complex schemas, has excellent error messages, and comes with good tools and excellent documentation. Now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.exis.com/colin/archives/2006/02/15/bea-to-open-source-jpa-ejb3-persistence-library-based-on-kodo/</link>
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		<title>Spring is Most Certainly Designed for Scalability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading Diego Parilla&#8217;s  Spring is not designed for scalability, and simply had to respond. I actually first wrote a comment directly on his blog, but I guess he&#8217;s not going to allow the comment to be posted, as some other stuff has appeared but not mine, after  a number of hours&#8230;
(Edited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.exis.com/colin/archives/2006/01/16/spring-is-most-certainly-designed-for-scalability/</link>
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