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		<title>An Experiment in Transpection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, in the course of commenting on James Bach&#8217;s blog, I explained that I liked to learn by laying my beliefs and understandings in front of others for them to question things I may not have questioned and, in turn, to question them to see if knowledge or views they have fill in something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2010/06/25/an-experiment-in-transpection/</link>
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		<title>Chaos != Agility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have the dubious pleasure of trying to provide documentation for a small application that is basically a helper application for our product. It&#8217;s NOT complicated and it shouldn&#8217;t be causing nearly the amount of drama that is currently occurring. This has been probably twenty times more frustrating than my big project.
Now, one thing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2010/06/21/chaos-agility/</link>
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		<title>Diversity Groups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was asked an interesting question about how I felt as a female tester and whether I thought I needed or wanted a group focused on Women in Agile. 
I had to think a bit about my own history in test and remember the few bad times I&#8217;ve had as a female tester. Most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2010/06/05/diversity-groups/</link>
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		<title>Rodent Program Managers &#8211; Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week the rodent program managers have become Nutria:

When I stopped to talk to them on Thursday, they told me that one of the development leads had confessed to both the capybara and nutria monikers and they think another PM had started it off with the squirrels tag but they&#8217;re not sure who labeled them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2010/04/02/rodent-program-managers-update/</link>
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		<title>The Rodent Program Managers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As in most offices, there is a bit of a tradition of pranking at my office. Pranks that cause physical damage, make it impossible for the victim to work or which are mean are discouraged but some fun pranks still take place. It does help lighten the day,  I&#8217;ll admit. Right now there seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2010/03/24/the-rodent-program-managers/</link>
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		<title>Author It First Look</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just in a meeting at the Evil Day Job where we met with representatives from Author It. Author It is a software suite designed for documentation management and production and I&#8217;ve only heard a few rumbles about it before. I&#8217;m quite interested by what I heard and saw because it&#8217;s based on an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2009/12/09/author-it-first-look/</link>
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		<title>Ruby Gems &#8211; The Basics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ruby Gems can be a little interesting to manage, especially to someone as new to it as I am. In the course of my own self-education, I&#8217;ve compiled a little list of what I consider the basic commands. Hopefully this will be of some help to others as well.
Gem Sources
To see which gem servers or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2009/03/11/ruby-gems-the-basics/</link>
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		<title>Where is Ruby looking for Gems?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know where your Ruby installation is looking to do Gem installations, you can enter the following at a command prompt to find out:

gem sources


You&#8217;ll get back a message that looks similar to this:

*** CURRENT SOURCES ***

Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
http://gems.rubyforge.org






		
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		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2009/03/07/where-is-ruby-looking-for-gems/</link>
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		<title>Demise of Print Newspapers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marked the last edition of the Rocky Mountain News, a print newspaper that has been in business almost 150 years. While I am saddened by its demise, it does make me ponder the ways technology and society have changed how we receive and seek out information.
For myself, I&#8217;m a news junkie. I grew up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2009/02/27/demise-of-print-newspapers/</link>
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		<title>Test Automation != Good Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a common myth in software QA at the moment that if you hire an SDET and they whip you up some test automation, you&#8217;ll have achieved &#8220;good&#8221; testing. Honestly, I&#8217;m not quite sure why this myth still exists. Just common sense says it&#8217;s not true.
Test automation is a good thing but should be used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mauravanderlinden.com/blog/2009/01/30/test-automation-good-testing/</link>
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