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	<title>Sean Mountcastle</title>
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	<description>The musings of a programming enthusiast.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Dr. Horrible</title>
		<link>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/07/18/dr-horrible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered had a nice story on Dr. Horrible tonight. This enjoyable, currently web-only, musical was produced during the writers&#8217; strike last year by Joss Whedon. I highly recommend catching it while you still can.
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		<title>Hedge Your Fuel Costs Like Southwest Airlines</title>
		<link>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/07/11/hedge-your-fuel-costs-like-southwest-airlines/</link>
		<comments>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/07/11/hedge-your-fuel-costs-like-southwest-airlines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Autoweek reports that a company called MyGallons allows folks to pre-purchase gallons of gasoline at a predetermined average price for the area where they live. According to the article, the gallons are loaded onto a debit card that the company says is accepted at more than 95% of the nation&#8217;s fueling stations. To take part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone 2.0 Firmware is Like Getting a Whole New iPhone</title>
		<link>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/07/11/iphone-20-firmware-is-like-getting-a-whole-new-iphone/</link>
		<comments>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/07/11/iphone-20-firmware-is-like-getting-a-whole-new-iphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After bricking my iPhone this morning by getting caught in the iTunes server onslaught, I was able to complete the upgrade successfully this evening. The upgrade breathes new life into the EDGE iPhone &#8212; when I&#8217;m on a WiFi network it&#8217;s almost equivalent to the iPhone 3G. So far I&#8217;ve downloaded twelve free apps from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startup Mashup</title>
		<link>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/06/23/startup-mashup/</link>
		<comments>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/06/23/startup-mashup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re looking for startup companies in your area, there&#8217;s a great new resource: Startup Warrior. It&#8217;s incredibly useful to drill-down into your region on the map and see all of the amazing work going on nearby.
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		<title>Inaugural CocoaHeads Reston Meeting</title>
		<link>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/06/12/inaugural-cocoaheads-reston-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/06/12/inaugural-cocoaheads-reston-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mac]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight the first CocoaHeads Reston meeting was held at Near Infinity Corporation. Jason Harwig gave an excellent presentation on WebKit, starting with a simple browser created completely in Interface Builder (it consisted of a text field linked to a web view). I&#8217;ve recreated it and included a snapshot below.


Next he demonstrated how to interact with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yesterday&#8217;s Storm</title>
		<link>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/06/05/yesterdays-storm/</link>
		<comments>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/06/05/yesterdays-storm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ErinGary has NEXRAD images and commentary of yesterday&#8217;s storm here in Northern, VA. For about half-an-hour yestersay, the folks at work milled around in interior offices, hallways, and the stairwell while my family at home hid out in the basement. Thankfully there were not much damage in my neighborhood, though I saw several fallen trees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn a New Programming Language</title>
		<link>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/06/04/learn-a-new-programming-language/</link>
		<comments>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/06/04/learn-a-new-programming-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Erlang]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Chad Fowler says, &#8220;The best reason to learn a new programming language is to learn to think differently.&#8221; Here in Northern VA, we have a new opportunity to think differently with the introduction of the NoVA Languages group. Chris Williams from Iterative Designs posted to the NoVA RUG mailing list this morning and received [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startups 101</title>
		<link>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/04/23/startups-101/</link>
		<comments>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/04/23/startups-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[startup]]></category>

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Tonight I had the opportunity to attend a special Refresh DC meeting on the challenges of starting your own business. The format was a panel of folks from the DC startup scene moderated by Jackson Wilkinson of Viget Labs. The panel consisted of Brian Williams of Viget Labs, Andrew Lee of Publi.us, Eric Rupert from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performance Tuning Network Applications</title>
		<link>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/03/20/performance-tuning-network-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/03/20/performance-tuning-network-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently at work I spent a few weeks tuning a network service across three platforms (Solaris, Linux, and AIX) to get within 10% of the theoretical maximum throughput. In this short article, I&#8217;ll walk through the various tools I used to improve the performance of the application.
This application is very specialized in that the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Rails Recipes</title>
		<link>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/02/23/advanced-rails-recipes/</link>
		<comments>http://seanmountcastle.com/2008/02/23/advanced-rails-recipes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost a year ago, I submitted three recipes to Advanced Rails Recipes. Unfortunately, one which was originally selected back in June has been dropped from the book as it&#8217;s not really advanced. So I thought I&#8217;d post it here for everyone to enjoy.
Using AJAX with REST
Problem:
You have finally mastered REST (Representational State Transfer) and wish [...]]]></description>
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