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	<title>Chris Maeda</title>
	<link>http://blog.cmaeda.com</link>
	<description>I'd Rather Be Lucky Than Good</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Back in the Software Business</title>
		<link>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2008/07/14/back-in-the-software-business.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back in the software business.
http://brickstreetsoftware.com
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		<title>Agora Inc., Porter Stansberry fined $1.6 million for Securities Fraud</title>
		<link>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2008/01/07/agora-inc-porter-stansberry-fined-16-million-for-securities-fraud.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2008/01/07/agora-inc-porter-stansberry-fined-16-million-for-securities-fraud.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have been investing for any length of time, you are probably familiar with Agora Inc. and their breathless direct marketing pieces about stocks that are poised to skyrocket.  
Do not buy anything from Agora Inc. &#8212;  Agora Inc. does not run money; they publish newsletters.  If they were as good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows NetBios Network Browser Problem Fix</title>
		<link>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/11/02/windows-netbios-network-browser-problem-fix.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/11/02/windows-netbios-network-browser-problem-fix.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/11/02/windows-netbios-network-browser-problem-fix.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My Windows boxes can&#8217;t browse each other on the network. After reading a bunch of Microsoft KB articles, I discover nbtstat.exe:
nbtstat.exe -A ip-address
This command will download the NetBios name table from the remote IP address.  It also appears to update your local cache with the NetBios name of the remote host at ip-address.
I verified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.NET Obfuscator Shootout</title>
		<link>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/09/16/net-obfuscator-shootout.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/09/16/net-obfuscator-shootout.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/09/16/net-obfuscator-shootout.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to select an Obfuscator for .NET.  If you are writing commercial code and want to know why you should use a code obfuscator, upload your binaries to this site: http://www.remotesoft.com/salamander and see what a decompiler can do to them.
The candidates:

PreEmptive DotFuscator Community Edition (Free)
PreEmptive DotFuscator Pro Edition ($1890)
XHEO CodeVeil ($899)
Wise Owl Demeanor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>F-22 at 2007 Toronto Air Show</title>
		<link>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/09/02/f-22-at-2007-toronto-air-show.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/09/02/f-22-at-2007-toronto-air-show.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been low-flying fighter jets over Toronto all weekend; the air show is in town.  I just saw a P-51 Mustang, an F-16 and an F-22 give demos over the downtown financial district.  The F-22 flies like a UFO &#8212; it has thrust-vectoring engines and appears to hover in the air as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prosper.com is a Bad Investment So Far, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/08/25/prospercom-is-a-bad-investment-so-far-part-1.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/08/25/prospercom-is-a-bad-investment-so-far-part-1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/08/25/prospercom-is-a-bad-investment-so-far-part-1.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In March 07, I decided to try out Prosper.com.  Prosper is a peer-to-peer marketplace for loans.  The allure of Prosper is that you can loan out money at high interest, much higher than a savings account.  But there a number of problems with Prosper.
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		<title>Startup War Stories</title>
		<link>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/08/03/id-rather-be-lucky-than-good-any-day.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/08/03/id-rather-be-lucky-than-good-any-day.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was the lunchtime entertainment at a recent CMU Alumni Advisory board meeting. I ended up telling war stories about my dot com startup days.  Here are the slides.  Enjoy.
Slides (pdf, 384kb)
]]></description>
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		<title>Startup closes India R&#038;D Office</title>
		<link>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/05/29/startup-closes-india-rd-office.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2007/05/29/startup-closes-india-rd-office.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 23:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Riya decides to close their Bangalore R&#038;D office and consolidate engineering in Silicon Valley.  India was getting to be too expensive to deal with the hassles:
Coverage in InfoWorld:
http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/07/05/29/riya-wage-inflation-sinks_1.html
CEO&#8217;s blog discussing the decision:
http://munjal.typepad.com/recognizing_deven/2007/04/episode_26_indi.html
One of my clients has been outsourcing a large software development effort to an Indian team.  The time zone differences, experience level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schema Extensibility in Commercial Enterprise Software</title>
		<link>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2006/08/27/schema-extensibility-in-commercial-enterprise-software.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2006/08/27/schema-extensibility-in-commercial-enterprise-software.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cmaeda.com/2006/08/27/schema-extensibility-in-commercial-enterprise-software.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on the main site.
This document describes how schema extensibility is typically achieved in commercial enterprise software applications; in particular, in customer relationship management (CRM) applications.  A future update will discuss newer extensibility mechanisms such as native XML column types in databases.
]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the grinder, stupid.</title>
		<link>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2006/08/10/its-the-grinder-stupid.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.cmaeda.com/2006/08/10/its-the-grinder-stupid.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So I have a caffeine addiction that goes back to 1986 when I was instructed on proper use of the cappucino machine on the 7th floor of the old MIT AI Lab (Thanks, Gumby!).  At home, I&#8217;ve been making espresso with a 10 year old Saeco Aroma Nero with pre-ground canned Lavazza coffee.  [...]]]></description>
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