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	<description>Dhananjay Nene's free (as in free speech) opinions on all things related to Software Engineering</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Outsourcing does not suck. Our understanding of it does !</title>
		<link>http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/outsourcing-does-not-suck-our-understanding-of-it-does/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dhananjay Nene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not a post in defense of outsourcing. However every so often I come across a rant like Why Outsourcing Sucks and much as I emotionally connect to such posts which talk about poor software quality, I find the rant and the underlying thoughts a highly misguided exercise. This post attempts to place outsourcing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why merging development and testing makes sense in a TDD / agile environment</title>
		<link>http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/why-merging-development-and-testing-makes-sense-in-tdd-agile/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/why-merging-development-and-testing-makes-sense-in-tdd-agile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dhananjay Nene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting post in the Agile Journal, &#8220;Software Testing in an Agile Environment&#8221;. Great article and a reflection on how the software testing function would be influenced in an agile environment. IMHO, the author does a nice job, but perhaps could have gone a little bit further in terms of exploring how the development and testing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Factors influencing Cache Design</title>
		<link>http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/factors-influencing-cache-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dhananjay Nene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of posts talk about how caching can improve performance and how one can use tools such as memcached for the same. It is a great tool, and I am certain it does wonders, but I do wonder if it and its usage is getting too much press at the cost of other caching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My first impressions of Google Knol</title>
		<link>http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/my-first-impressions-of-google-knol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dhananjay Nene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google just launched &#8220;Knol&#8221; today (announced here on their blog). Back in january, I had written up a blog post - Will the knol be a knowall ?, so I was immediately curious to get a first hand experience. Here&#8217;s my fresh off the oven first impressions of Google Knol in no particular order.


	Current topics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for Software / Programming blogging</title>
		<link>http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/tips-for-software-programming-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dhananjay Nene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just realised, have been blogging for more than 6 months now (actually I had started another blog ages ago .. but that tapered off soon then). Over this period, I believe I learnt or adopted a few practices. Just sharing them here. Feel free to comment. YMMV.


	Treat your readers like a jury not as customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presentation : Contrasting java and dynamic languages.</title>
		<link>http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/presentation-contrasting-java-and-dynamic-languages/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/presentation-contrasting-java-and-dynamic-languages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dhananjay Nene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I presented this last week at the Session @ Java Meet organised by IndicThreads. Have attempted to look at the contrast from the points of view of developers, architects and managers.

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