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		<title>Another Ada Lovelace Day Post &#8211; CS Role Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted earlier for Ada Lovelace Day about LinuxChix.org as a great resource for women in technology, and now I'm getting into the groove and want to add another post, this time about my first female role model in computer science.
Dr. Neelima Shrikhande is a professor of computer science at Central Michigan University. At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and Women in Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 24th has been designated as Ada Lovelace Day and is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women in science and technology. FindingAda.com is encouraging women to blog about this today.
I've not paid much attention to her aside from being aware of her and knowing she's the namesake of the Ada programming language, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekontheloose.com/geekery/celebrating-ada-lovelace-day-and-women-in-technology/</link>
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		<title>A Loosely Coupled Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Build loosely coupled systems." That was one nugget of recurring advice given last night by Jorge Noa, CTO of HyperStratus when he spoke at a meet-up titled "Amazon EC2 Cloud Computing and Application Design" held at HackerDojo (see slides here - pdf and I also found the same slide show already online here as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saying Goodbye to Transparencies and Roundies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[and goodbye to pitiful SEO, too...
After several years of experimenting with css rounded corners and transparency and the various perplexing cross-browser issues, I've redesigned this website and even moved it over to a new platform. Gone are the strange hoops I needed to jump through to add new stories to this site.
Here's one last glimpse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekontheloose.com/design/saying-goodbye-to-transparencies-and-roundies/</link>
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		<title>Parallelism and Abstraction in Java</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's an interesting parallel programming interview with Intel's Paul Guermonprez covering threads, JSR166y, and Hadoop. I particularly enjoyed the Hadoop discussion at the end.
The discussion focused on efforts to separate Java programming from the nitty gritty details of threads. This separation allows a greater number of developers to successfully program for parallel environment by removing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekontheloose.com/programming/java/parallelism-and-abstraction-in-java/</link>
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		<title>Martin Odersky and Josh Suereth at Scala BASE Tonight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to a Scala BASE meeting tonight that is headlined by Martin Odersky and Josh Suereth.
From the announcement email:
Professor Martin Odersky is the director of the LAMP group at EPFL, the creator of the Scala programming language, and author of Programming in Scala.
Josh Suereth hosted the first Scala Lift Off East in Reston, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Found: Nice OWASP Top 10 Cheat Sheet</title>
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I discovered this very useful, developer-centric cheat sheet for the OWASP Top 10 for 2010 (go directly to the pdf). It's nice and concise and gets straight to the simplest code fixes that will work. Memorize it and your code will be better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster...

Here's the current OWASP 2010 Top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekontheloose.com/security/found-nice-owasp-top-10-cheat-sheet/</link>
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		<title>Looking Forward to HTML5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've seen a lot in the geek news lately about HTML5. I've tried to get a book, but none are available for a few more months, and O'Reilly doesn't even have a "rough cuts" book yet.


Today, via DZone, I discovered this super nifty HTML5 sketch pad demo.


I'm really looking forward to the widespread use of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekontheloose.com/design/looking-forward-to-html5/</link>
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		<title>A Tale About Problems of Scale</title>
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I earned some new bragging rights this week and had fun doing it. I love computer science!


A tale about iteration, unexpectedly large data sets, and time... 


About a month ago, a large file of data unexpectedly needed to be processed, using some pre-existing code written several years ago. This code happened to be written in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekontheloose.com/computer-science/a-tale-about-problems-of-scale/</link>
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		<title>The Christmas That Santa Got His Geek On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year I received a lot of geek books for Christmas (2009), and I'm so delighted and intrigued by them that I thought I'd share them here and maybe somebody else will discover a wonderful book to read.


These are the six books I received:

The Code Book, The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum [...]]]></description>
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