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	<description>developing the light fandango...</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why shouldn&#8217;t IT people look different?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/10/19/why-shouldnt-it-people-look-different/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/10/19/why-shouldnt-it-people-look-different/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Frustrations</category>
	<category>Software Projects</category>
	<category>Blog Replies</category>
	<category>Opinion</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[quick post: I think I need to reply to Computer Weekly&#8217;s blog entry - The IT Professional&#8217;s Survival Guide.  I think it&#8217;s heading in the right direction but got sent off at a terrible tangent at some point&#8230;
Firstly, the most important thing is not to &#8220;flatter&#8220;, or understand &#8220;where you fit in&#8221; it&#8217;s simply to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Software Projects Under Control</title>
		<link>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/09/12/bringing-software-projects-under-control/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/09/12/bringing-software-projects-under-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
		
	<category>tips</category>
	<category>Software Projects</category>
	<category>Configuration Management</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/?p=23</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the jobs that Code Wizards often gets is to help a software project that&#8217;s in trouble, and there&#8217;s a pretty standard list of things that we do each time to establish and baseline and see what we can do to help.
Identify the movers and shakers - who&#8217;s the head developer?  who handles the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TIP: Getting VIM to open files in Unicode (UTF8) format by default</title>
		<link>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/08/11/tip-getting-vim-to-open-files-in-unicode-utf8-format-by-default/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/08/11/tip-getting-vim-to-open-files-in-unicode-utf8-format-by-default/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Frustrations</category>
	<category>vim</category>
	<category>tips</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/?p=22</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever i re-install VIM (aka Vi IMproved) i get the same issue: if i open a file encoded as utf-8 then vim will open it and show control characters in some places.
To fix this simply find your vimrc file (on windows you&#8217;ll find it in c:\program files\vim\ - it&#8217;s called _vimrc), open it (using vim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Services - Picking the right one for the right job</title>
		<link>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/07/24/web-services-picking-the-right-one-for-the-right-job/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/07/24/web-services-picking-the-right-one-for-the-right-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>Web Services</category>
	<category>SOAP</category>
	<category>XML-RPC</category>
	<category>REST</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/?p=21</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Picking your web service standard is an important decision and shouldn&#8217;t be taken lightly, and development teams shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to make the decision on their own.
Roughly there&#8217;s 3 &#8220;standards&#8221; to choose from; SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), XML-RPC, and &#8220;REST&#8221; (&#8221;REpresentational State Transfer&#8221;).  It&#8217;s worth touching briefly on what each is before continuing;

SOAP is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architects need to properly Communicate with Developers: Scale-Up vs. Scale-Out</title>
		<link>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/07/02/architects-need-to-properly-communicate-with-developers-scale-up-vs-scale-out/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/07/02/architects-need-to-properly-communicate-with-developers-scale-up-vs-scale-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Performance</category>
	<category>Scalability</category>
	<category>Architecture</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/?p=20</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a problem that unfortunately we so often see.
Architects are employed to  ensure that software projects have a reasonable base; solutions are well thought out, robust, and follow industry best practices; and provide a more detailed but higher-level view of application spread (and inter-operation) than a senior developer, project or programme manager could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Open Command Line Here&#8221; windows explorer option for Vista</title>
		<link>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/06/20/open-command-line-here-windows-explorer-option-for-vista/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/06/20/open-command-line-here-windows-explorer-option-for-vista/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Frustrations</category>
	<category>Windows Vista Tips</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/?p=19</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who have upgraded from XP to Vista and need to run a command line (aka cmd.exe or &#8220;open command window here&#8221;) you may be a little confused.  Even searching on microsoft.com doesn&#8217;t appear to help and the Windows XP Powertoy &#8220;Open Command Line Here&#8221; isn&#8217;t usable for Vista.
Well it&#8217;s built into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL - Looking for Table Locks and Killing them if needs be</title>
		<link>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/05/01/mysql-looking-for-table-locks-and-killing-them-if-needs-be/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/05/01/mysql-looking-for-table-locks-and-killing-them-if-needs-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 10:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
		
	<category>MySQL</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/?p=17</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick tip, for MySQL you&#8217;ll occasionally get problems where some processes lock a table (for MyISAM tables atleast) and you need to find out what the rogue query is (or just look at what&#8217;s being executed on your server at any time).
If so use the command &#8220;SHOW PROCESSLIST;&#8221; - this will show you the process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why adding an index to a DB table isn&#8217;t always a good idea</title>
		<link>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/04/29/why-adding-an-index-to-a-db-table-isnt-always-a-good-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/04/29/why-adding-an-index-to-a-db-table-isnt-always-a-good-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
		
	<category>MySQL</category>
	<category>Performance</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/?p=16</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we&#8217;re on site we talk to a lot of people who are struggling with databases and how they work.  I always try and help by explaining the basic of how a RDBMS works and how indexes are generally used, however there&#8217;s one thing that always requires extra discussion, as it&#8217;s contrary to commonsense, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL - how to create a Stored Procedure</title>
		<link>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/04/29/mysql-how-to-create-a-stored-procedure/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/04/29/mysql-how-to-create-a-stored-procedure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
		
	<category>MySQL</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/?p=15</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Creating StoredProcs still feels a little like magic at the moment, but it&#8217;s incredibly simple really.
Stored Procs (aka &#8220;SPs&#8221; or &#8220;SProcs&#8221;) live within the database and allow a number of activities to be chained together.  They also represent an abstraction method so you can help de-couple DB and application code.
However, MySQL didn&#8217;t have Stored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A well recommended agency for Medical workers in New Zealand and Australia</title>
		<link>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/03/29/a-well-recommended-agency-for-medical-workers-in-new-zealand-and-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/2008/03/29/a-well-recommended-agency-for-medical-workers-in-new-zealand-and-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Uncategorized</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.codewizards.co.uk/?p=14</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Extremely off topic here but I&#8217;ve been asked to point out to UK readers (that are medically trained) that one of our old colleagues has run off to New Zealand (NZ) using an agency over in NZ that specialises in placing foreign nationals.
So, if you&#8217;re interested take a look, it may be a good way [...]]]></description>
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