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		<title>Getting Closer To The Fine Line In Software</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest blog post touched on the fine line between no architecture and over architecture in software.  I talked a lot about technical debt and why it&#8217;s bad. I got some feedback and some were wondering exactly how do you find that fine line, so here are some suggestions for improving in order to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dandouglas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7347994&amp;post=448&amp;subd=dandouglas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Technical Debt In Software &#8211; The Fine Line Between No Architecture and Over Architecture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I am writing this, I am sitting on my condo&#8217;s terrace in downtown Toronto, baking in the sun while I take in the noise of the city and cars and people down below at the street level.  There is a helicopter that seems to be circling the downtown core for quite a while now. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dandouglas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7347994&amp;post=439&amp;subd=dandouglas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Event: Starting a Software Business, Dec 14 @ Gigs Grillhouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, December 14, 2010.&#160; The Canadian Information Processing Society is holding our holiday event.&#160; Our featured speaker, Robert McCarter will be doing a talk on “Starting a Software Business”.&#160; This promises to be a top notch event.&#160; Robert has been working on a phenomenal software application for the last several years and has started [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dandouglas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7347994&amp;post=434&amp;subd=dandouglas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Software Development, Mission Statements, Business Alignment, and Identifying the Job to Be Done</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog post Software Development and Steven R. Covey on Leadership, I wrote about an interesting audio excerpt relating to IT departments and Software Development from Steven R. Coveys audiobook &#8220;Stephen R. Covey on Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results&#8221; . As an exercise, I put some of my own thoughts together [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dandouglas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7347994&amp;post=423&amp;subd=dandouglas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Software Development and Steven R. Covey on Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of my audible.com subscription I had the opportunity to listen to &#8220;Stephen R. Covey on Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results&#8221; It&#8217;s a really good listen and has some very good ideas. I recommend purchasing it and listening to it in its entirety. Specifically, I thought this excerpt of audio I took [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dandouglas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7347994&amp;post=422&amp;subd=dandouglas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Software Development At My Organization, An Article</title>
		<link>http://dandouglas.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/software-development-at-my-organization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked if I would be willing to write an article for our organization&#8217;s newsletter. I didn&#8217;t mind. I&#8217;d like to share the newsletter article I wrote with the readers of my blog… Software Development is an important piece of what is happening at Presstran every day.  You can see this by looking at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dandouglas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7347994&amp;post=415&amp;subd=dandouglas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes From DevTeach Toronto 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dandouglas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended DevTeach Toronto 2010 in early March and have found some time to finally summarize my notes. There is certainly value in being able to network with other developers in the community and learn from some of the top people in the industry who are speaking on many different developer related subjects. I tend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dandouglas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7347994&amp;post=407&amp;subd=dandouglas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring the Time Saved When Reusing a Well Architected Component</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A well architected component is easy to develop given the right technical knowledge, practice, skill, and motivation to do the right thing.  I’m taking a practical example of a component I developed recently, described in the blog post titled Getting to the Monetary Value of Software Architecture.  Relatively speaking this component wasn’t complex to develop, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dandouglas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7347994&amp;post=376&amp;subd=dandouglas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Class to Add Instant &#8216;As You Type&#8217; Filter Functionality to Infragistics UltraCombo Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dandouglas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog post, I talked about a filter enhancement to a ComboBox that could be added to a single combo box with just one line of code. The blog post wasn’t necessarily to talk about the code, but was to talk about a good architecture and the importance of a good architecture for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dandouglas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7347994&amp;post=363&amp;subd=dandouglas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting to the Monetary Value of Software Architecture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Software Architecture is a huge topic and it’s something I am passionate about. I believe, and can prove, that continuous improvement in this area will contribute to overall better system design, faster bug tracking and fixing, reduced maintenance time, faster development time, developer happiness, quicker time to market, and allowing you to allocate more time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dandouglas.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7347994&amp;post=353&amp;subd=dandouglas&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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