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	<title>Andrew Rollins</title>
	<link>http://www.andrewrollins.com</link>
	<description>Technology, entrepreneurship, the Internet, and video gaming.</description>
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		<title>Yahoo Fire Eagle Now Public</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo Fire Eagle has come out of private beta, and it&#8217;s now open to everyone. Fire Eagle provides a unified way for applications and web sites to share location data tied to specific users.
For your average web surfer or mobile device user, this means a single, unified way for sharing your location across all of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewrollins.com/2008/08/12/yahoo-fire-eagle-now-public/</link>
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		<title>Languages and Their Library Cultures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw an interesting blog post today titled Why I stick with Perl. In short, the author&#8217;s reason for sticking with Perl was that he believes it to have the best &#8220;library culture.&#8221; A strong library culture is more important to him than the language itself.
What does &#8220;library culture&#8221; even mean? I would define it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewrollins.com/2008/08/06/languages-and-their-library-cultures/</link>
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		<title>Cuil is Uncool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who missed the flurry of news over the startup Cuil, I think it&#8217;s an interesting look at what&#8217;s wrong (at times) with Silicon Valley. Despite being full of ex-Google employees and $30+ million in funding, all they have is a crappy search engine that sucks. It might be because they were too busy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewrollins.com/2008/07/31/cuil-is-uncool/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Getting Close to Photo-realism in Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this screenshot from Crysis Warhead, and this one, too. Now if only the colors could be a little less brown and gritty, and maybe go a little less on the bloom.
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		<link>http://www.andrewrollins.com/2008/07/10/were-getting-close-to-photo-realism-in-games/</link>
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		<title>The State of the Web Illustration - Summer 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I liked this illustration of 2008 Internet and tech trends by Matt Inman. He did one back in 2007, too. It&#8217;s not particularly comprehensive, I just think he&#8217;s a good illustrator. His portfolio is creative and vibrant. Now that I&#8217;m working on my own web projects, I&#8217;m starting to appreciate good, original design work.
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		<link>http://www.andrewrollins.com/2008/07/08/the-state-of-the-web-illustration-summer-2008/</link>
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		<title>Mobile Web Panelist Discussion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just yesterday I attended a panelist discussion about mobile web browsing organized by Mobile Monday Boston. I did a write-up of the event here.
This is a good opportunity to plug my new blog, Boston Startups (where the write-up exists).  The purpose of this new blog is to more properly separate my coverage of Boston area [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewrollins.com/2008/07/01/mobile-web-panelist-discussion/</link>
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		<title>Location Tracking and Heat Maps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Citysense by Sense Networks launched two days ago. Since the cat&#8217;s pretty much out of the bag, I might as well talk about this. Quote:
What if you could look at your cell phone and see a heat map of where everybody in the city was at that very moment? The more people at any given [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewrollins.com/2008/06/11/location-tracking-and-heat-maps/</link>
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		<title>More on Maglev</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a little more searching around, I found some good pieces which bring back to reality the performance claims of Maglev and potential problems with object oriented databases. Let&#8217;s not forget that Maglev isn&#8217;t even out yet, and we have no idea if it&#8217;ll be what it claims to be. In the mean time, there are other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewrollins.com/2008/06/06/more-on-maglev/</link>
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		<title>On Database Abstraction, PHP, and Ruby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It took me a couple days on my current PHP/MySQL project to get the DB abstraction with proper error handling, input validation, and relational support coded to the point where I&#8217;m happy with the model. This was after trying Zend_Db, Doctrine, and Propel, which are all good libraries, but I hit points where the work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewrollins.com/2008/05/31/on-database-abstraction-php-and-ruby/</link>
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		<title>Barcamp Boston 3 Recap</title>
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I spent this last weekend attending Barcamp Boston 3, a two day grassroots technology event on Saturday and Sunday, as well as the Barcamp pre-event party at Betahouse. I put some pictures from Barcamp up on Flickr, and here are pictures from everyone.
Barcamp is best described by the following snippet on their web site:
BarCamp is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewrollins.com/2008/05/20/barcamp-boston-3-recap/</link>
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