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		<title>Filler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A record-breaking run of high temperatures in Sydney, broken air conditioning, wifey&#8217;s odd work schedule, and a handful of things to deal with at once at work conspired last week to suppress any motivation I may have had to do any programming at home. &#8230;although, okay, I did update a couple of my toy Go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Priority-queued channel in Go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right. So. I&#8217;ve been writing my standard hello-world Sudoku solver in Go. It reached a plateau about a week ago when some changes that I thought were going to make it faster actually made it slower. I think I did something to a function that stopped the compiler inlining it. Or something. The point is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.mcleish.id.au/2011/01/priority-queued-channel-in-go/</link>
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		<title>Sudoku Goggles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of my interests overlapped this morning when I found out that Google Goggles solves Sudoku. (As an almost-related aside, I&#8217;m still tweaking my Go Sudoku solver. More on that later.) So, after a bit of discussion, we decided to try to mess with it by feeding it invalid puzzles. Here&#8217;s one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.mcleish.id.au/2011/01/sudoku-goggles/</link>
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		<title>2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few orders of business heading into the new year&#8230; My resolution for 2010 to learn to use Emacs properly remains unfulfilled. Despite my flirtation with Eclipse, I&#8217;m now back with Emacs and will probably stay there unless I do something Java-related. Eclipse is just too bulky and all-encompassing &#8211; my mentality is starting to drift [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.mcleish.id.au/2011/01/2011/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first few pages of Fred Brooks&#8217; The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist are&#8230; how shall I say this&#8230; dry. Like listening to a philosopher whose work long ago degenerated into a recursive attempt to define itself. In an earlier paper, I divided the tasks in building software into essence and accident. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.mcleish.id.au/2010/12/understanding-poetry/</link>
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		<title>More books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part two of the Amazon shipment arrived today: Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction &#8211; I read a recommendation for this somewhere. Can&#8217;t immediately remember why I thought I needed it desperately. The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist &#8211; by Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man-Month, which all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The collected thoughts of smart people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two books arrived from Amazon this morning, the first batch of a shipment of eleven. (This is our effort to take advantage of the strong Australian weak American dollar). By slight coincidence they&#8217;re both collections of essays by or interviews with programmers: Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming The Best Software Writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.mcleish.id.au/2010/12/the-collected-thoughts-of-smart-people/</link>
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		<title>Lexifabricography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m the only Google hit for &#8220;encapsulecurity&#8221;.]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.mcleish.id.au/2010/11/lexifabricography/</link>
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		<title>The Little Guy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I said at the end of my sort-of review of Effective Java that a few things bugged me while reading it, not about the book, but about Java itself. These aren&#8217;t totally well-formed in my head, so I&#8217;m going to try to write them down in an attempt to get them to make sense. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dev.mcleish.id.au/2010/11/the-little-guy/</link>
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		<title>Kris Kringle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our family is breaking with our old everyone-buys-a-gift-for-everyone tradition this year and doing Kris Kringle instead. There&#8217;s a bit of kerfuffle about how to select names and get word out to everyone; I mentioned to wifey that the cleanest way would be to write a short program to shuffle the names and send each person [...]]]></description>
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