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The reason is that I wanted to do too many things with the site and was forced to look for so many so-so plug-ins. So rather than do that I just coded what I [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scottpreston.com/articles/1014.php</link> </item> <item><title>The Resistance &#8211; The Reason Why You&#8217;re Stuck.</title> <description><![CDATA[I recently read a post over at ZenHabits, that resonated with me. It was a guest post by Seth Godin which talked about a term coined by Steven Pressman, called “the resistance”.
The resistance is that little voice in the back of your head, the one that tells you that it will never work, the one [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scottpreston.com/articles/1010.php</link> </item> <item><title>Programmer Productivity</title> <description><![CDATA[What makes a programmer productive?There are lots of ideas about this and I have a few of my own. I have read some interesting articles and books on Pareto&#8217;s Law (The 80/20 Rule) and am finding that most productivity comes from just a few things.3 Most EffectiveThe Language – The language you choose to do [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scottpreston.com/articles/1007.php</link> </item> <item><title>A Memory Leak Windows 7 &#8211; NVIDIA Drivers!</title> <description><![CDATA[I have been seeing the memory in my system slowly approach close to 4GB while my Resource Monitory only has about 1GB in use as part of the &#8220;Working Set&#8221; I then saw a note that talked about the video drivers and I started to connect the two.
It seems that the NVIDIA driver for my [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scottpreston.com/articles/1002.php</link> </item> <item><title>CodeMash 2010 – Conference Wrap-Up</title> <description><![CDATA[Overall Great Conference. Thanks to all those who organized it and all the speakers that volunteered to speak!
The only big downside was VERY POOR Wi-Fi and 1 Bar of Edge on AT&#38;T. This meant that my blogging had to wait until after the conference.
The Thursday party was very cool, but it was a little disconnected [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scottpreston.com/articles/988.php</link> </item> <item><title>CodeMash 2010 – Clojure</title> <description><![CDATA[Presented By Howard M. Lewis Ship
This was an OK presentation. I was a little distracted by the Neal Ford reference Ceremony vs. Essence. Perhaps Neal was not  the only person to use it, but because I heard it a few years ago at a CodeMash keynote, it distracted me. I wanted to learn more about [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scottpreston.com/articles/986.php</link> </item> <item><title>CodeMash 2010 – The Mother Of All Bugs</title> <description><![CDATA[Presented by Andy Hunt
It was a pleasure seeing Andy speak. He’s one of the co-authors of The Pragmatic Programmer and it’s nice to see his perspective on things. Today’s talk was a pleasant surprise. No talk about Java evils or process improvement, but a discussion on cognitive science and why we think the way we [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scottpreston.com/articles/984.php</link> </item> <item><title>CodeMash 2010 – Refactoring The Programmer</title> <description><![CDATA[Presented By Joe O’Brien
Another great talk by Joe, The theme of this talk was how to improve your career as a programmer if you are finding that you hate/dislike what you are doing. I was fortunate to get a 2nd shot at this talk since it was packed in yesterday’s session.
Joe gave a number of [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scottpreston.com/articles/981.php</link> </item> <item><title>Is Your Niche Too Small?</title> <description><![CDATA[So you want to create a niche market because you read the Four Hour Workweek or are starting a business. You&#8217;ve done the following:Listed your passions.
Listed the things your good at.
Consolidated the list and started to test.
Then you found out all the stuff you like or are good at doesn&#8217;t have the best performing indicators. [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scottpreston.com/articles/976.php</link> </item> <item><title>CodeMash 2010 – Thursday Wrap Up</title> <description><![CDATA[
The only negative is lack of WI-FI connectivity.
We are having dinner, drinks and a live band after the sessions, Thursday’s always good for that.
I would definitely vote that I learned the most from the Griffon session, only because I never heard of it.]]></description><link>http://www.scottpreston.com/articles/959.php</link> </item> </channel> </rss>
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