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		<title>No Pain, No Gain &#8211; Code Katas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Code katas are not a new concept at all, but my recent participation in daily katas has compelled me to consider how valuable they really are. I won&#8217;t bore everyone with the technical definition of what a kata is; a kata is basically a specific thing you do repeatedly in order to improve in that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betweenthecode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13417257&amp;post=50&amp;subd=betweenthecode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>C# and Manual Transmissions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A very common (and sometimes heated) discussion among developers is: “Which is better – C# or VB.NET?” Answers that I have heard have ranged from “VB has a great &#8216;spell-checker&#8217;” (not kidding, that is a real reason that a developer gave to our team) to the statement that “Its the one I work with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betweenthecode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13417257&amp;post=32&amp;subd=betweenthecode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Troubleshooting Advice</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿It may be more glamorous to develop new code, but troubleshooting is something we all will have to do at some point. While it may not be as much “fun” at times, learning to troubleshoot well can serve good purposes as well such as making us better at our craft (if we are paying attention). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betweenthecode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13417257&amp;post=14&amp;subd=betweenthecode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity &amp; Asking the Right Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developers need to be creative – it is a must. A developer  is more than just someone who slings code. A developer combines their coding abilities with their ability to think creatively to come up with good solutions to meet business needs in a timely fashion. Sometimes the business may have some kind of idea [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betweenthecode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13417257&amp;post=8&amp;subd=betweenthecode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Developer-Think</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 02:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve heard of group-think? The “tendency of the members of a group to yield to the desire for consensus or unanimity at the cost of considering alternative courses of action.” (http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/group-think.html) I think in the world of software development we have to be careful not to engage in “developer-think”. What I am calling developer-think I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=betweenthecode.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13417257&amp;post=1&amp;subd=betweenthecode&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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