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		<title>Innate Creativity and Eureka Moments</title>
		<link>http://nathanlevesque.com/2010/02/28/innate-creativity-and-eureka-moments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Problem solving is a very specific process. It&#8217;s what your mind goes through when you have a problem with no apparent solution. I&#8217;m talking about those kinds of problems that you spin your wheels on for hours on end. The kind where despite all that wasted time, the solution comes to you in the least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun with Groovy Closures</title>
		<link>http://nathanlevesque.com/2009/08/19/fun-with-groovy-closures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhysyngsun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working with some of Groovy&#8217;s more powerful concepts lately and thought I would share some of the stuff I&#8217;ve discovered that is not readily apparent in the documentation. I myself took Groovy closures for granted for a while but once you really start to understand how powerful and flexible they are you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frameworks are a Terrible Thing</title>
		<link>http://nathanlevesque.com/2009/07/13/frameworks-are-a-terrible-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhysyngsun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a rant that has been building in me for a while. This is probably going to be a bit raw as a result.
I&#8217;ve seen a lot of talk about MVC in Flex/ActionScript circles over the last year or so and wish I had voiced my opinion a little earlier, so I apologize if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HTTP and the Stagnation of the Web</title>
		<link>http://nathanlevesque.com/2009/01/01/http-and-the-stagnation-of-the-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhysyngsun</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nathanlevesque.com/?p=100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read some of my previous posts, me and the current state of web technology have shared a love-hate relationship, more so on the latter side of things recently. Frankly I think the web has reached the pinacle of it&#8217;s current incarnation. Sure, there are lots of companies out there working hard, but for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Future with Merb, Rails 3, and Ruby</title>
		<link>http://nathanlevesque.com/2008/12/31/my-future-with-merb-rails-3-and-ruby/</link>
		<comments>http://nathanlevesque.com/2008/12/31/my-future-with-merb-rails-3-and-ruby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhysyngsun</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nathanlevesque.com/?p=94</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So after my initial negative reaction to the announcement of the merger, I&#8217;m slightly less worried about it, but still not at all happy about it. I have no doubt that this initial release of Rails 3 will be a big win for Rails programmers, but I&#8217;m very worried about Rails slipping back into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comments back</title>
		<link>http://nathanlevesque.com/2008/12/31/comments-back/</link>
		<comments>http://nathanlevesque.com/2008/12/31/comments-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhysyngsun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Site News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nathanlevesque.com/?p=92</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t realize until the other night that comments have likely been hidden since I first made this design. I&#8217;ve fixed that now, anyone should be able to comment now.
How embarassing to have that be like that for months and not notice&#8230;
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		<title>My Thoughts on Merb/Rails Merger</title>
		<link>http://nathanlevesque.com/2008/12/26/my-thoughts-on-merbrails-merger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhysyngsun</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nathanlevesque.com/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My first reaction to this news was pretty much to scream &#8220;NOOO!!!&#8221; I&#8217;d recently really been getting to love the Merb framework. No one ever likes change but this is one that I still honestly can&#8217;t fathom. It&#8217;s not that I lack faith in the Merb team to do their integration, it&#8217;s that I lack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linux is Liberating</title>
		<link>http://nathanlevesque.com/2008/11/27/linux-is-liberating/</link>
		<comments>http://nathanlevesque.com/2008/11/27/linux-is-liberating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhysyngsun</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nathanlevesque.com/?p=87</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to say, I had the most enjoyable experience tonight taking a 5-year-old HP Pavilion laptop and tearing it&#8217;s evil Windows inside out to replace with a more loving Linux. My flavor of choice was Ubuntu, mostly due to more experience with that OS.
Seriously though, Linux was more of a technical choice than a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on What I&#8217;ve Been Doing</title>
		<link>http://nathanlevesque.com/2008/11/23/update-on-what-ive-been-doing/</link>
		<comments>http://nathanlevesque.com/2008/11/23/update-on-what-ive-been-doing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhysyngsun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nathanlevesque.com/?p=84</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been nearly two months since my last post and I can honestly say it wasn&#8217;t for lack of wanting to. The last six months has become increasingly busy for me. Six months plus ~1 week ago I graduated from college. 6 months ago I started my first career job at My Perfect Gig, Inc. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PureMVC Tip: Notifications</title>
		<link>http://nathanlevesque.com/2008/09/29/puremvc-tip-notifications/</link>
		<comments>http://nathanlevesque.com/2008/09/29/puremvc-tip-notifications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhysyngsun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a somewhat obvious tip, but in the past when sending PureMVC notifications I&#8217;ve sent them with an Array as the body. This is nice for simplicity, but requires you to more or less remember what the order of parameters are and what type each is. My solution is simply to create a single [...]]]></description>
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