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		<title>Chris MissalChris Missal</title>
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  <title>About Chris Missal</title>
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<img class="alignright" style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;" title="Chris Missal" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3c4478e6ae6c60b73d21c9fa0d1785ea?s=128&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG" alt="" width="128" height="128" />My name is Chris Missal, currently I'm a software developer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I have a passion for creating software that <strong>works well</strong>. I have a very strong opinion that testing software is the most important piece of delivering quality projects, and delivering them on time. Not only does it provide the peace of mind that the application does what it is supposed to do, but provides faster turnaround times when adding new features and functionality.

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<h2>My Background</h2>
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Most of my background is in web development using ASP.NET with C#. I have developed several web sites in PHP and related technologies, although lately, I've been focusing more towards .Net and its Open Source frameworks and libraries. Major strengths of mine include XHTML, CSS &amp; the jQuery JavaScript library.  I do my best work in web development, but have some experience in desktop applications and Windows services. I have started learning Ruby more recently and can write Ruby, but haven't put it towards any large projects yet.

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<h2>Skills</h2>
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The following is a list of skills of which I am comfortable sharing my perceived skill level. These will be either beginner, intermediate, advanced, or expert.

<dl> <dt><strong>ASP.NET WebForms</strong> (Intermediate)</dt> <dd>I've been working in ASP.NET for 3 years using VB.Net and C#.</dd> <dt><strong>ASP.NET MVC</strong> (Advanced)</dt> <dd>I've been working extensively with ASP.NET MVC since Community Preview 3 in June 2008.</dd> <dt><strong>C#</strong> (Advanced)</dt> <dd>I do most of my coding in C# and I'm comfortable using all features up to version 3.0</dd> <dt><strong>VB.Net</strong> (Intermediate)</dt> <dd>I've used VB.Net on various web and windows applications, but little experience of the language in great depth or detail.</dd> <dt><strong>(X)HTML</strong> (Expert)</dt> <dd>I've been actively using XHTML for over 10 years and keep up to date with W3C recommendations and improvements.</dd> <dt><strong>CSS</strong> (Advanced)</dt> <dd>Proficient in applying CSS to new and existing web pages. Extensive knowledge of cross-browser complient styling.</dd> <dt><strong>jQuery</strong> (Advanced)</dt> <dd>I'm very comfortable with jQuery for dynamic web content as well as many of its plug-ins.</dd> </dl></div>
<h2>Contributions to Open Source Projects</h2>
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I like to contribute to open source software whenever I can. Here are some projects that I've helped out with:
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	<li><a href="http://github.com/CoryFoy/DotNetKoans">DotNetKoans</a> : A set of Koans to teach the DotNet language. Based off of EdgeCase's RubyKoans</li>
	<li><a href="http://github.com/TimBarcz/groop">Groop </a>: User Group Site</li>
	<li><a href="http://plugins.jquery.com/project/horiz-bar-graph">jQuery Horizontal Bar Graph</a> : The Horizontal Bar Graph allows you to display a set of data semantically while giving it some visual appeal.</li>
	<li><a href="http://github.com/BlogSharp/Blogsharp/tree/master">Blogsharp</a> : A .Net blog engine.</li>
	<li><a class="external" title="Docu" href="http://docu.jagregory.com">Docu</a> : A .Net documentation generation tool</li>
	<li><a href="http://castleproject.org/">Castle Project</a> : .Net tools, libraries and frameworks.</li>
	<li><a href="http://plugins.jquery.com/project/validate">jQuery Validate</a> : A client side jQuery validation tool.</li>
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<h2>Non-Professional / Miscellaneous</h2>
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Some other things about me that I'd like to share is that I'm a <em>newly</em> avid disc golfer. I picked it up semi-seriously at the beginning of summer in 2008 and have been playing quite a bit since then. Additionally, I'm a big fan of movies. I like to watch them, collect them and pick them apart.

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  <title>What I'm Doing in June 2009</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[As of lately, I've been working on a bunch features to add to an ASP.NET MVC site for SEO (Search Engine Optimization). For those that don't know, SEO is improving your ranking in search engines. This helps new people find your web site through the use of a search engine like Google.

Technically, using the MVC stack, there's a lot of nice features we've been taking advantage of, including Routing. This isn't exclusive to ASP.NET MVC, but gives better URL structure to some links that you might need some attention when given keywords.

Aside from the professional details, I'm enjoying some (mostly) nice Iowa weather and looking forward to a wedding and vacation in the next month.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>More or Less Privacy with Facebook</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[In case you're on Facebook, you might want to check this post out:

<a title="More or Less Privacy with Facebook" href="http://missals.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/more-or-less-privacy-with-facebook/">http://missals.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/more-or-less-privacy-with-facebook/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Tools I Use</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[The following is a list of tools that I find very helpful. There's several reasons to use these tools, but primarily they make my life easier and I trust them. I'm using these tools because they are worth the price (most are free), or I haven't found something better yet!
<h2><strong>Testing Tools</strong></h2>
The following are tools that I use to create unit tests and account for code coverage. Unit testing and code coverage are important to me because they ensure that my code works as I intended it to and future changes that can break my functionality will alert me right away, not in production.
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.nunit.org/">NUnit</a>, <a href="http://xunit.codeplex.com">XUnit</a>, <a href="http://www.mbunit.com">MbUnit</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://shouldly.github.com/">Shouldly</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.testdriven.net">TestDriven.Net</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ncover.com">NCover</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://watin.sourceforge.net">WatiN</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://github.com/machine/machine.specifications">MSpec</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://qunitjs.com/">QUnit</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Isolation/Mocking/Testing Frameworks</strong></h2>
Isolation Frameworks (or sometimes referred to as mocking frameworks) aid in testing. They provide the ability to setup objects quickly to give your tests an expected outcome. When you write your code to work with abstractions, isolation frameworks are key to testing the behavior of your custom code with these abstracted libraries.
<ul>
	<li><a title="Rhino Mocks" href="http://hibernatingrhinos.com/open-source/rhino-mocks">Rhino Mocks</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://nsubstitute.github.com/">NSubstitute</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/moq/">Moq</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>IDEs &amp; Text Editors</h2>
Editors are the life of code and the plug-ins they come with are the blood. I do all of my professional work in .Net (and other various MS technologies), so I use Visual Studio nearly all the time. I always try to keep up to date with the most recent version, as of this update, I'm using VS2008 Pro, but it's not really Visual Studio that I use, it basically hosts ReSharper for me. JetBrains's ReSharper is a necessity for any .Net programmer that thinks of their job as a serious craft for enabling quality software. When it comes to basic/general/all-purpose text editors, I choose Sublime 2.
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx">Visual Studio</a> with:
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/">ReSharper</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx">GhostDoc</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.testdriven.net">TestDriven.net</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/2">Sublime 2</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net">Notepad++</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php">Beyond Compare</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/">PyCharm</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Productivity</h2>
Automating a tedious task can save boat loads of time over the lifetime of a project. If there's something that causes any friction, I try to find a better way to avoid the slowness or pain. Here are some tools I use to allow me to be more productive.
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/">ReSharper</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.linqpad.net/">LINQPad</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://evernote.com/">Evernote</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://nant.sourceforge.net/">Nant</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://launchy.sourceforge.net/">Launchy</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Photo/Image Editing</h2>
By no means am I a power user when it comes to photo or image editing software. I primarily use them for screen capturing or simple web image editing. When I need to open something up for some quick edits or basic cropping, I use Paint.Net. I'm slowly weaning myself off of GIMP because the shortcuts aren't as natural to me as Paint.Net.
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.paint.net">Paint.Net</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>.NET Code Libraries</h2>
There's no point in re-inventing the wheel, right? For that reason, it's pointless to write a brand new ORM with every new project. There are many open source libraries out there to help you hook up a lot of the tedious plumbing that's required to build an application. The time I could spend writing all this code would essentially be stealing. For this reason I rely on these tools to help save me time and get my projects done faster. The final reason I use other libraries in my code is that I'm not going to be around forever to maintain this code, if I can give somebody a widely used and highly available codebase to work from, they're going to have a lot easier of a time working with it than if they came in and had to piece together what my brain was building at that time.
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://nhforge.org">NHibernate</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://structuremap.sourceforge.net/Default.htm">StructureMap</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://castleproject.org">Castle Windsor, Castle Validators</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://logging.apache.org/log4net/index.html">log4net</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://github.com/mvccontrib/MvcContrib">MvcContrib</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://sparkviewengine.com/">Spark View Engine</a></li>
	<li>Razor View Engine</li>
	<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/">Dapper</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://nservicebus.com/">NServiceBus</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://ravendb.net">RavenDB</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Python Packages</h2>
What do I use in when working with Python?
<ul>
	<li>South</li>
	<li>Django</li>
	<li>Flask</li>
</ul>
<h2>Front-End Web Development</h2>
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://jquery.com">jQuery</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs">Ext JS</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://requirejs.org/">RequireJS</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Browsers</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Chrome</li>
	<li>Firefox</li>
</ul>
<h2>Version Control Systems</h2>
Also known as Source Code Management or Revision Control. Here are the systems I am familiar with using. Subversion is very widely used and pretty good; the support and tooling around it is great. Git seems to be the best solution I've used, and while adoption rate hasn't quite reached "mainstream" in .NET, it is growing every day.
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://git-scm.com/">Git</a> <em>(<a href="http://chrismissal.github.com/git-achievements/">My Git Achievements</a>) - I'm not using this any longer, but still using git almost everywhere</em></li>
	<li><a href="http://mercurial.selenic.com/">Mercurial</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Debugging</h2>
Sometimes you need to look a little deeper to find the solutions to some problems. Sometimes I'll use tools to expose problems that aren't very easy to see. Fiddler2 is great for seeing all web requests that are made from the computer it's running on. While looking into reasons .Net applications crash, WinDBG has provided to be useful for analyzing crash dump files. Additionally, I've used JetBrains' DotTrace for profiling applications and finding bottlenecks and poor performing code.
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDbg">WinDBG</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler2/version.asp">Fiddler2</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/">JetBrains DotTrace</a></li>
	<li>JetBrains dotPeek</li>
	<li>log4net</li>
</ul>
<h2>Project Management</h2>
<ul>
	<li>AgileZen</li>
	<li>PivotalTracker</li>
	<li>Teamwork</li>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I just came across a really good quote that was not intended for software development, but completely rings true.
<blockquote>"Neither talent without instruction, nor instruction without talent can   produce the perfect craftsman."

<em>- Vitruvius</em></blockquote>]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Speaking Engagements</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I don't spend lots of time speaking and traveling for meetings/presentations, but I will occasionally try to squeeze some in.
<h3><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Previous Presentations</span></h3>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong>Using jQuery to Create Rich Internet Applications</strong>
<a href="http://crineta.org">CRineta</a> - Cedar Rapids, IA - March 2nd, 2009</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong>Beginner's Guide to Unit Tests</strong> (with <a href="http://devlicio.us/blogs/tim_barcz/">Tim Barcz</a>)<strong>
</strong><a href="http://iowacodecamp.com">Iowa Code Camp</a> - Cedar Rapids, IA - May 2nd, 2009</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong>Open Spaces Convener</strong>
<a href="http://iowacodecamp.com">Iowa Code Camp</a> - Cedar Rapids, IA - May 2nd, 2009</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong>How to do Virtually Anything With JQuery</strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">
</span><a href="http://iowacodecamp.com/">Iowa Code Camp</a> - West Des Moines, IA - November 7th, 2009</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong>Using jQuery to Create Rich Internet Applications
</strong><a href="http://cvineta.org">CVineta</a> - Cedar Falls, IA - November 10th, 2009</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong>Open Spaces Convener
</strong><a href="http://iowacodecamp.com/">Iowa Code Camp</a> - West Des Moines, IA - November 6th, 2010</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong>Better Today: Your First Unit Tests</strong>
<a href="http://iowacodecamp.com">Iowa Code Camp</a> - Cedar Rapids, IA - April 30th, 2011</p>

<h3><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Topics I Enjoy Talking About</span></h3>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">Front-End Web Development with JavaScript/jQuery
Unit Testing &amp; Frameworks used in Testing
HTML/CSS Best Practices and Guidelines
The ASP.NET MVC Framework</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Community Involvement</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Iowa Code Camp</h2>
<strong>Web site:</strong> <a href="http://www.iowacodecamp.com">http://www.iowacodecamp.com</a>
<strong>Title:</strong> Vice President
<strong>Duration: </strong>Fall 2009 - Present

Any kind of help that is needed with the code camp involves all leaders, but working with sponsorhip I'm required to find area businesses and companies and allow them to sponsor our code camp.
<h2>CRineta</h2>
<strong>Web site:</strong> <a href="http://www.crineta.org">http://www.crineta.org</a>
<strong>Title:</strong> Webmaster/Communications
<strong>Duration:</strong> January 2008 - Present

My primary duties involved managing the email communication to the hundreds of users in the mailing list. Usually three times per month, emails are sent out keeping the members up to date with reminders and notices on upcoming meetings and any information from previous meetings in follow-up messages.
<h2>IowaJS</h2>
<strong>Web site:</strong> <a href="http://iowajs.org">http://iowajs.org</a>
<strong>Title:</strong> None/Organizers
<strong>Duration:</strong> May 2011 - Present

IowaJS started as a topic at the Spring 2011 Iowa Code Camp and a couple weeks later had the first meeting. The organization is still very young, but we're getting lots of people to show up that are very interested in JavaScript. Our meetings are more like meetups than presentations, everything is very informal by design.
<h2>BarcampICR</h2>
<strong>Web site:</strong> <a href="http://barcampicr.com">http://barcampicr.com
</a><strong>Title:</strong> Barcamp CTO
<strong>Duration:</strong> August 2011 - Present

Barcamps stray outside my normal community of software people, but there's enough overlap and diversity to make it something that I'm happy to be a part of.]]></content:encoded>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure that there is a direct correlation between the time I started really growing as a developer and the time I stopped subscribing to television. Since then I've been able to spend a lot more time on projects, coding and reading. I remember when working on projects before that time. I always seemed to not have enough hours in the day to work on them. I still feel that way, but I'm actually putting in way more time than I was before I was TV-less.

There are times when I wish I had cable television, but they're far and few between. Most shows I watch, I can catch online with a day or two of their airing. Sports on TV are the only times I miss my idiot box.

I think it takes a lot of discipline to really try to improve as a software developer. By freeing yourself from "time-sucks", you'll be able to spend more time improving your craft. What are some other time wasters that people could consider removing from their life?]]></content:encoded>
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    <wp:comment_author><![CDATA[James Gregory]]></wp:comment_author>
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    <wp:comment_content><![CDATA[I've had a similar experience too. Over the past couple of years (coincidently also the time my OSS work has boomed) I've stopped watching TV completely, except for a dedicated "TV night" where I spend a few hours catching up with my favourite programs. This effectively means two things, I don't miss out on the TV shows I enjoy, and that I can plan around it. I'm now down one night instead of several smaller time-chunks throughout the week, which while the actual time is probably similar, not losing focus every few hours is great.]]></wp:comment_content>
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    <wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Jeremy Wiebe]]></wp:comment_author>
    <wp:comment_author_email>jeremy.Wiebe@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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    <wp:comment_date>2009-11-21 12:06:01</wp:comment_date>
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    <wp:comment_content><![CDATA[I find that reading blogs and technical materials online can suck up alot of time.  Those are good,  but I think you also need to read and write code alot more in order to "internalize" what you read and learn about.]]></wp:comment_content>
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    <wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Greg]]></wp:comment_author>
    <wp:comment_author_email>ponpumhdicq@mailinator.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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    <wp:comment_date>2009-11-21 16:21:11</wp:comment_date>
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    <wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Move into a condo or apartment and avoid yard work.

Don't get married. Skip women (or visa-versa) all together.

Don't have children, especially if you aren't married.

Avoid any social life.

Avoid heavy drinking or anything that could make you incapable of studying Microsof't's next data access pattern.

Hire someone to clean your condo or apartment.]]></wp:comment_content>
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    <wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Chris Missal]]></wp:comment_author>
    <wp:comment_author_email>chris.missal@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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    <wp:comment_date>2009-11-22 14:08:41</wp:comment_date>
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    <wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Kind of extreme Greg, but to each, his own. :)]]></wp:comment_content>
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  <title>One Post Per Day</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I've decided that I'm going to post here at least once per day now. I have my other blogs that I concentrate on, primary <a href="http://www.lostechies.com">LosTechies</a>, but the goal is to keep these short and sweet and share something that I've learned each and every day.

<a href="http://twitter.com/chrismissal">Twitter</a> is a good way to "micro-blog" if you will, but my posts here aren't quite going to make the 140 character cut-off.

For today's topic, if you do anything with a public facing web site, you really need to check out some of the video content that is put out by <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/">Matt Cutts</a>. Matt works for Google's Spam team (which really means anti-spam) and has excellent topics on how to improve the Page Rank, reputation and relevance of your site.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>How Much is One Percent Worth?</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[Today at work we were talking about how tiny improvements in e-commerce can yield big results. Take the following example:
<blockquote>You sell widgets on your web site and through email campaigns your average order is $50. Your email list is 50,000 subscribers strong; you can send them marketing emails to them all to entice them to purchase. At a 1% conversion rate you'll get 5 more orders for every percent you can decrease your bounce rate.</blockquote>
Obviously the key here is having a large list, but in our example above one percent will increase our revenue by $250, not bad!]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Twin Cities Code Camp</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>cmissal</dc:creator>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm off to the University of Minnesota to attend the <a href="http://twincitiescodecamp.com">Twin Cities Code Camp</a>! I'm really looking forward to sessions on JavaScript, Ruby, MVC, DDD and learning more about Pex.

I don't think I'll be able to attend all the sessions I'd like to, but not being able to attend all I want is a better problem than not having enough good ones to choose from. I haven't been to a TCCC yet. I'm confident that it will live up to the expectations.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Twin Cities Code Camp 7 - Session Win!</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">I was really looking forward to the first session of the day at Twin Cities Code Camp. It was [@kevingisi|Keven Gisi] talking about JavaScript testing. There was a problem right away though, the University of Minnesota's Wifi was down. I don't blame Kevin for putting his stuff online. It's the internet, it's always there, right?</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">With some coordination with the attendees, Kevin was able to present on somebody else's laptop, with a tethered mobile phone. Great teamwork!</div>
I was really looking forward to the first session of the day at Twin Cities Code Camp. It was <a href="http://twitter.com/gisikw">Keven Gisi</a> talking about JavaScript testing. There was a problem right away though, the University of Minnesota's Wifi was down. I don't blame Kevin for putting his stuff online. It's the internet, it's always there, right?

With some coordination with the attendees, Kevin was able to present on somebody else's laptop, with a tethered mobile phone. Great teamwork!

The talk was really good and I have a lot of work to do for my future JS coding.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Sinatra Has Taken the Stage</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>cmissal</dc:creator>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm <strong>finally </strong>building a Ruby application using <a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com">Sinatra</a>! It's only going to be a few pages in size, but hopefully I'll get some decent practice with Ruby, Haml and ActiveRecord. The end goal of this little endeavor is to be able to throw away the code and know how to recreate something similar (and better) than this first attempt.

I have a tiny site I'm planning on building by the end of the year with Ruby on Rails. Ideally, this first throw away application will give me the smarts to build something real.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Department Bookmarking</title>
  <link>http://chrismissal.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/department-bookmarking/</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[Some time ago, I set up a Delicious page for our department's bookmarks. We might share good usability articles or CSS tips and tricks. Sometimes it's a reference page for NHibernate. We previously sent them around on the distribution list to share with others. It was always a struggle to look back and find a URL that you remember being sent to you.

The Delicious account (that we all share) is great for saving links and tagging them. I'll also subscribe to the feed in my Outlook account, this way I'll get notifications when a new bookmark is added.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Iowa Code Camp Schedule</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[The <a href="http://iowacodecamp.com">Iowa Code Camp</a> schedule of sessions has been posted for the fall 2009 event in West Des Moines, Iowa. My session entitled <strong>"How to do Virtually Anything with jQuery"</strong> will be at 2:15pm (subject to change).

Here's the abstract:
<blockquote>When it comes to web site interactivity, jQuery is king. I've never run into a problem I haven't been able to solve... yet! There's so much you can do with it and many clever plug-ins are created all the time. This isn't an intro course, you'll want to know how to use jQuery to get something out of this, I'm going to go over some complex examples that will hopefully ignite your brain when it comes to solving problems that occur within a dynamic web interface.</blockquote>]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Adding a New Team Member</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[So adding a new member to a software development team slows down the team. It's a law, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law">Brook's Law</a>, to be exact. I have noticed some good trade offs. Our recently hired dev has asked some really good questions about the code. Questions that have gotten me to think differently about how we have designed and/or structured our application. A good fresh set of eyes can be just as helpful as those same eyes that aren't quite up to speed yet.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Teaching is Learning</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[As I've been spending time on my upcoming presentations on jQuery, I've found that I'm learning a lot. This isn't anything new that I've noticed however. People can be very knowledgeable in a particular field, and you (yes, you who is reading this) may be very good at something, but would you consider yourself an expert on the subject?

There's always more to learn about a discipline, technology or field. When you try to teach or inform others, you'll find that you only gain more knowledge on the topic.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>My Geeky Halloween Costume</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I decided to go as Mario for Halloween at work today. In addition to the Mario costume, I also got a Luigi costume. This costume totally brings out the geek in me, but my alternatives weren't really that good. I would get a kick out of dressing up like Peter Gibbons, but I'd just blend in. It would be hard to go as any character from <a href="http://xkcd.com">xkcd.com</a>, but that would also be sweet; I guess Mario will have to do.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>The Joy of New Projects</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been working on a project for a long time and it's gone through many, many iterations and even one full rewrite. Normally, I would never approach a project like this, but there is no client on the other side. This is just a project that I'm doing for fun and for learning. If it ever goes live, it's  for a domain name that I bought over a year ago.

The best part of this is that I can delete code and pull in new frameworks as I please. I'm hosting it on <a href="http://github.com">Github</a> (so as to learn Git more), using <a href="http://asp.net/mvc">ASP.NET MVC</a> (which I know and love), taking advantage of the HTML control I'm given with the <a href="http://sparkviewengine.com">SparkViewEngine</a> (because I like looking at pretty view files) and pulling in <a href="http://automapper.codeplex.com/">AutoMapper</a> (<a href="http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/jimmy_bogard/default.aspx">Jimmy</a> rocks!) and eventually <a href="http://nhforge.org">NHibernate</a> (later, because I want my domain to rule, not the database).

There's much more I'm using and learning in this project, those are just the first ones that come to mind.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Keep Learning</title>
  <link>http://chrismissal.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/keep-learning/</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>cmissal</dc:creator>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[One technique that has really helped me learn a framework or library is by following mailing lists. Even if I'm not asking questions, I'm still able to figure out how it works or is used by reading other people's questions and answers.

I'm uncertain if this technique is beneficial or even common for others, but I just wanted to share it.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Two Tracks at CRineta</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[For the first time since I've been attending, and maybe since <a href="http://crineta.org">CRineta</a> existed, we had two meetings tonight. The first was <a href="http://devlicio.us/blogs/tim_barcz/default.aspx">Tim Barcz</a> presenting on <em>Building and Testing Loosely Coupled Applications with Rhino Mocks</em> and <a href="http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/dahlbyk/default.aspx">Keith Dahlby</a> with an <em>Introduction to .Net and Q &amp; A.</em>

I attended the Introduction to .Net, not because I needed to learn it, but I thought it would be a discussion about using and developing applications in .Net and thought I could provide some of my experiences since it is primarily what I do. The discussion was great and there was a good turnout. I think people got a lot more out of it than I expected. (Not that I didn't think Keith would do a good job, but because the questions were excellent and a lot of people were taking notes). I'm hoping we can do more of these dual track sessions in the future!]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Blame it on Iowa Code Camp</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[So much for my post per day huh? I blame <a href="http://iowacodecamp.com">Iowa Code Camp</a>.

I'm presenting "How to do Virtually Anything with jQuery" at Iowa Code Camp in West Des Moines on November 7th. I've been cramming to get as many changes into my presentation as I can before I take off tomorrow morning. I'm thinking I'll have some good stuff ready, but it's always nerve racking when doing a brand new presentation for the first time. Even more since this version of the event has a record number of registrants.

All in all, I think this is going to be a great event with great speakers and topics. I'm really looking forward to it and I know I'm not the only one who is.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Quick and Easy Ajax</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I needed a couple URLs that were active and returned some content for creating some demo code in <a href="http://jquery.com">jQuery</a>. I thought about modifying an existing ASP.NET MVC application to allow it to create the JSON I wanted to send to my jQuery code.

Just as I was about to open up Visual Studio, I realized that I could probably do what I wanted to do using Ruby and Sinatra. Rather than modifying, or even worse, creating an entire .Net application and compiling it, I wrote about 27 lines of Ruby and typed one command into the command prompt. Boom! I had a web server up and running with 2 URLs I could use with my jQuery sample code.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Speaking at CVineta</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[Tonight (Nov 10th, 2009) I'll be speaking at the <a href="http://cvineta.org/">Cedar Falls .Net User Group</a> on jQuery. This is an introduction to jQuery and how to get started using it. The aim is to get web developers the visibility of what it is and how to start using it.

If you're in the Cedar Falls and Waterloo area, and you're interested in creating rich, dynamic web sites, stop on by for some free education! <em>I'll do my best, I promise.</em>]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Iowa Code Camp IV - A Love Story</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[The 4th Iowa Code Camp is now over and my heart is broken. I wish we could do these every weekend, I had an amazing time! Also, like most code camps and conferences, it was another good opportunity to put some faces on Twitter handles and meet new people.

I had a really good turnout for my jQuery presentation (I say that because we ran out of chairs in the room), but I have a lot of improvements to make. If anybody that attended my session has any feedback they couldn't fit on the evaluation form, please feel free to leave them in the comments.]]></content:encoded>
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    <wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Chris,

Really not enough room on the comment form. 

Great session. Saw a lot of jQuery that I hadn't seen before. 

You threw out a disclaimer that if people didn't understand the document ready example that they probably weren't going to get much out of the session. I bet that wasn't true as you did a good job of explaining what was going on. I think if you took 3 minutes to describe the initial code that would have been great for any newbies.

The first few minutes were a little slow. You were talking to selectors, but not showing any examples. Once you got to the validation section, your passion for the framework really came through. I note that that was when you really started showing jQuery running and then changing things on the fly. From there we were off to the races.

A great talk and totally worth sitting on the floor in the overflow space.]]></wp:comment_content>
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    <wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Chris Missal]]></wp:comment_author>
    <wp:comment_author_email>chris.missal@gmail.com</wp:comment_author_email>
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    <wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Thanks for the feedback David!]]></wp:comment_content>
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  <title>Improvement is Recursive</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[The more and more I improve myself, whether it's in development or management or other, the more I realize I need to improve myself and my craft.

I have done some speaking gigs around the state this year and I've had to answer some questions to which I didn't know the answer. Now I feel obligated to learn more. Improvement begets the need for improvement, which begets more need for imp... you get the picture.

By no means am I complaining, but I wish the continuous need for improvement also increased the number of hours in the day!]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Easy Blogging Again</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the last several months, I’ve been blogging without Windows Live Writer. This hasn’t been terrible, but now that I have it again I’m realizing just how much I like it. I can type something up for this site and continue the thought on another blog to which I contribute.</p>  <p>I think this will ramp up my post count across the several blogs I post to. I still don’t think I’m going to be able to hit my mark of 72 technical posts I was aiming for in 2009. I guess if I add up all posts on all sites I probably have it. I guess I can take something away from that. :)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>People Shouldn't Multi-task</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I would consider the title of this post a true statement. Yes, people <strong>can</strong> multi-task, but they probably lower the quality of those tasks being performed (think driving while texting).

The other day, however, I was a multi-tasking maniac! Normally I like to work on something relatively undisturbed, but this day I was hopping between tasks and conversations like a mad man. It was very rare, but I actually got a lot of stuff accomplished. Since these days are rare, I'm going to chalk that day up to the one time in the next 100 days that it will happen. I'll go back to my single threaded work habits from now on.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Goodbye Text Files, Hello Zen!</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img style="display:inline;margin:0 15px 5px 0;" align="left" src="http://agilezen.com/content/images/app/logo.png" />When I’m working on writing up some new blog posts, I usually have a “TODO” text file that I keep on my desktop (hi-tech, I know). This process has been working quite well for long enough, but since <a href="http://twitter.com/TimBarcz/status/6051366435">we started</a> using <a href="http://agilezen.com">AgileZen</a> at work I’ve begun putting my own tasks and stories into my own project. This helps me keep them all in one place like the text file did, but now I have a way to track how close I am to completing a blog post, a series or readings or whatever it may be. I’m really digging the slick interface and ease of use that is built into the UI. I recommend signing up for a free account like I did if you’re looking to organize your “stuff” better.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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    <wp:comment_content><![CDATA[This post offers clear idea designed for the new users of blogging, that genuinely how 
to do blogging and site-building.]]></wp:comment_content>
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  <title>Good Intro to Ruby Code</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>cmissal</dc:creator>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I came across another good resource for learning Ruby. On Twitter, <a href="http://twitter.com/lazycoder">@lazycoder</a> retweeted a link from <a href="http://twitter.com/sintaxi">@sintaxi</a> that mentioned a new github repository for learning Ruby syntax and code. You can find it here: <a href="http://github.com/sintaxi/learn-ruby">http://github.com/sintaxi/learn-ruby</a>.

I recently received a license to the copy of RubyMine from JetBrains that I won. I haven't used it much, but it seems to be a really good Ruby editor. The best part is pointing it to a git repository and opening it up with almost zero setup and no command line.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Practices of an Agile Developer</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[Before I was even finished reading "Practices of an Agile Developer" by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt, I realized that it was going to exceed my expectations. I consider a lot of the practices in which I'm engaged in daily to be good agile practices. It wasn't until I read Venkat and Andy's descriptions of them that I truly appreciated the practices I regularly partake and learned about many others that I'm not participating.

The authors describe 45 practices in the book. They go over things like "What it feels like" and "Keeping your balance". The signs you'll notice and feelings you'll feel when you're doing it right, and pointers on not getting in over your head.

I can’t cover them all, but I’d like to touch on a few that stuck out in my head.
<h2>The Bad</h2>
There were a few practices of which I would say I’m not doing a good job. I wouldn’t have read it if I didn’t think I’d learn something right? Here are few I noted that I couldn’t relate to when reading “what it feels like” when you’re doing correctly.
<h3>Be a Mentor</h3>
Aside from helping others out at work or going over code after user groups and code camps, which I wouldn’t consider mentorship, I’m definitely not a mentor to anybody. The next closest thing would be blogging and presenting at code camps and user groups. I have done this so I’d say I’ve participated in some type of mentorship, but there’s still much room for improvement.
<h3>Keep a Solutions Log</h3>
With the combination or mix of unit testing, test driven design or just test first, I usually think I do a decent job of eliminating defects early in the development process. There will be bugs that show up from time to time though. One thing I’m not as good at doing is keeping a solutions log. At work, we use Trac for our defect tracking tool and I’ll find myself getting lazy and adding something like: “Fixed with revision 6230” or something to that effect. I may not always noticed, but the details of the defect sometimes aren’t written down very well. We might have the result of the bug and how to replicate it, but when closing it with some boring message like I stated above. Another developer viewing it later on might not understand the full implications of the problem. Within our team, questions have risen about previous fixes and I wasn’t able to articulate them as well as I wished I could have. The authors suggest that it should feel like an extension of your brain… I’m not recording enough to be at that point yet. I’m good about recording the “what” and “when”, but working on improving the “where” and most importantly, “why”.
<h2>The Good</h2>
There are recommended practices that I think my group and I follow quite well. I selected a few to talk about that I think are very important and I’m proud we’re doing so well at keeping up with these.
<h3>Criticize Ideas, not People</h3>
I work on a team that is very open and honest. Sometimes I’ll forget I’m not at work and be very critical of something that somebody is doing. People don’t always take kindly to criticism, so I’ll get dirty looks. Within our team this type of criticism is not taken personally; we’re all part of the same team trying to do the best job we can for our company. I’m also lucky to work with a group of individuals that focus on quality and aren’t just there to collect a paycheck so they can spend it on the weekends. Because we’re often criticizing ideas, questioning the “way things are” and continually improving our process, we’re creating a better work-place for ourselves.

This practice talks about how you can interact with your colleagues to create an environment of respect, trust, pride and cooperation. Venkat recalls and talks about a real-life scenario where he learned a valuable lesson from a senior administrator. This senior admin could have pointed the finger, but decided to remain calm and help him with the fix. By working together they were able to fix what they needed and made everybody happy. This reminded me of the Collective Ownership practice the authors mention in Chapter 8.
<h3>Keep it Releasable</h3>
Small iterations and a short feedback loop make keeping it releasable easy. If you’re always making sure that you keep the code base in better condition than when you left it, you shouldn’t have a problem with this. The single best way to do this that I can think of is running unit tests in a continuous integration environment. The best part of this practice is that you can do it for free. Andy and Venkat describe this feeling as though you can always show your latest code without hesitation or fear. The project is always in a ready-to-run, stable state.
<h2>Final Thoughts</h2>
Many of the books I have on my shelf are more of a reference book than books about ideas and practices. This one will continue to be an excellent resource for bettering myself as a developer and a team member. I’ll probably end up reading this book a few times a year just to make sure that I stay balanced!]]></content:encoded>
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  <link>http://chrismissal.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/code-coverage-metrics/</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I know code coverage of 100% doesn't mean that the application is without bugs. I also know that code with zero unit tests can work just fine. I do, however, <strong>firmly believe </strong>that having automated tests is <strong>a must when writing complex software</strong>.

You can increase your code coverage several ways:
<ol>
	<li>Writing unit tests to cover code that isn't being tested.</li>
	<li>Delete un-used classes and functions.</li>
	<li>Reducing the number of uncovered lines of code in tested methods by means of refactoring.</li>
</ol>
There are others I'm sure, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head (and while I'm typing this up). Of the many ways you can reduce your coverage (writing new, untested code being the most obvious), another way just came to me that may be common sense to others, but it just popped in my head.

I could have a class with 100 sequence points, all covered. I could also have an application with 2570 of 3212 sequence points covered. This would give me just over 80% code coverage. Not bad, but what happens when I refactor that class of 100 sequence points into one that is still covered 100%, but now contains only 30 sequence points?

My coverage drops to under 80% code coverage:
<p style="padding-left:30px;">2570 / 3212 = 80.0125%
2500 / 3142 = 79.567%</p>
Sure, it's less than one half percent, but it's still a drop. My application is likely better and easier to maintain (less code), but my coverage numbers have gone down. This quick realization blip in my head just reminded of yet another reason code coverage isn't a good measure of a project.
<p style="text-align:right;"><em><strong>You may ask:</strong> How would you even notice something like this happening?
Well, you can fail a build in a continuous integration environment if coverage drops below a configured threshold.</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Explaining New Code</title>
  <link>http://chrismissal.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/explaining-new-code/</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>cmissal</dc:creator>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I just finished up writing an article about <a href="http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/chrismissal/archive/2010/01/28/reading-code-spark-s-once-attribute.aspx">How Spark's Once Attribute Works</a>. This was a lot better of an exercise than I had hoped. I've heard of two good practices that this successfully accomplished:
<ol>
	<li>Reading code to help you be a better developer</li>
	<li>Teaching somebody to help yourself learn it better</li>
</ol>
It wasn't exactly easy trying to explain some code that I, myself, didn't know very well. I had to read through and re-read to fully understand how the code works. It was a great exercise, I'll do this more often and highly recommend it to others as well!]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Number One on Google</title>
  <link>http://chrismissal.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/number-one-on-google/</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>cmissal</dc:creator>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[So this site is finally number one on Google searches for "chris missal". I wasn't actively trying to get the number one spot with this domain, but I was kind of surprised that it took as long as it did. All my other sites are still ranking very high, which is good. So now when I forget which web sites I run and maintain, I can just do a search to find the most important one at the top. ;)

Also, my book reading is going alright, but not great. I'm halfway through another tech book that I'll be reviewing here when I'm finished and the other week I completed my first fiction book in about 12 years.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Adding a GOTO</title>
  <link>http://chrismissal.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/adding-a-goto/</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>cmissal</dc:creator>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[The other day on <a href="http://lostechies.com">LosTechies</a>, I posted about <a href="http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/chrismissal/archive/2010/02/02/how-i-approach-a-defect.aspx">how I fix defects</a>. Today, while looking back at some old xkcd comics, I found something that made me think of that post and laugh really loud.
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/goto.png"><img class="aligncenter" style="border:1px solid black;" title="GOTO" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/goto.png" alt="Neal Stephenson thinks it's cute to name his labels 'dengo'" width="444" height="121" /></a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Why is your Site Not Getting Faster?</title>
  <link>http://chrismissal.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/why-is-your-site-not-getting-faster/</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>cmissal</dc:creator>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[Your site's performance should always be improving. Period. Hardware and internet connections are continually getting better and faster, so why are some web sites not getting faster?

I think it's because people aren't too concerned with their site's speed, but they should be! Maybe they're writing bad code on top of existing code and slowly ruining their project... I've seen it happen before.

Am I just crazy or do people not measure and/or care about performance?]]></content:encoded>
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    <wp:comment_author><![CDATA[Matt Youngblut]]></wp:comment_author>
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    <wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Well, if that whole Net Neutrality thing sticks, I plan on blaming ISPs for throttling and then never do anything to speed up a site ever again!]]></wp:comment_content>
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  <title>Common Computer Time-Savers</title>
  <link>http://chrismissal.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/common-computer-time-savers/</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>cmissal</dc:creator>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[As a geek and a software developer, I spend a lot of time in front of a computer and there are things I do that I take for granted. I'd like to compile a list of things that speed things up, make things easier, or are just helpful. We can all share this list with our friends and family members that might not know them. Here's a few that pop into my mind right away:
<ul>
	<li>When entering a username and password, you should be able to just press 'Enter' after you type your password. There's no need to go back to the mouse, move it to the button and click it. Once you get used to this, you'll use it all the time. When you run into  a page that has you enter information that doesn't "go" when Enter is pressed, you'll start to get annoyed. <em>(2009-10-18)</em></li>
	<li>If you are browsing the web in a browser that isn't very old, you should be able to just type a search in the address bar at the top. This will save you the loading of <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Google</span> your favorite search engine. Some browsers still might have the search bar attached near the address bar, but these seem to be going away with newer versions. <em>(2009-10-18)</em></li>
	<li>Google searches that appear inside a lightly shaded box, or in a sidebar are listed as "Sponsored links". These are paid for by individuals or companies to promote their link to the top. The page that it takes you to might not be the most relevant, it's just the one that won the bidding war. <em>(2009-10-18)</em></li>
</ul>
Leave a comment with your own tips and I'll add it to the list!]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>My Month Long Challenges</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>cmissal</dc:creator>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I just finished my third month long challenge. They're not really that challenging, but it's something for me to bust my cycle and try something with an end in site.
<h3>November</h3>
Have you ever heard of no-shave November? I tried this and succeeded. It was uncomfortable at times, but it allowed me to set my mind to something and make sure I stick to it. No matter how trivial and unimportant it might be.
<h3>December</h3>
In December, I decided to bring my lunch to work or eat at work every day. Usually I go out for lunch and spend more money than I really need. This was mostly a way to get myself to not spend so much each week on lunches. Since then I've been better about not going out for lunch as much.
<h3>January</h3>
I didn't really plan on doing anything for January, but after about 4-5 days, I realized I hadn't yet been on Facebook. I determined that I'd use some non-Facebook activity as my January challenge. I just checked today (Feb 1st) and realized that I didn't really miss much. A couple friend requests and a message from my lil sister was all.

I was (somewhat narcissistically)  hoping that I'd open up Facebook and see that I had hundreds of requests and all sorts of missed invites and opportunities. That wasn't the case. It kind of backs up my hypothesis that nothing really happens on Facebook.
<h3>February</h3>
Starting today I'm going to make sure I read at least 30 minutes every day. I enjoy reading but never really "find the time" to do so. I put "find the time" in quotes because there's plenty of time in the day. I just make excuses. Hopefully my success with these tiny challenges will get me reading again.

The best part of this is that these only go on for one month. They're easier than resolutions that encompass a whole year and they're not really that tough to do. Also, since I get to pick these things, they're fun and I can make my own rules. So going back to the January Challenge... If you felt like I was ignoring you on Facebook over the last month, I'm sorry. I was just messing around with another challenge. :)]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Stats are More Fun When Made Up</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Number 10,000!</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm a big fan of statistics and numbers that are nice and round for human consumption. I just reached my 10,000th tweet on Twitter and thought I'd celebrate by writing up a blog post.</p>
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<p><strong><em>tl;dr - Just read the bullet points...</em></strong></p>
<p>Having 10,000 of anything is quite a big achievement for something in my opinion. It's a much larger number than you can keep in your mind at any given time. I'm not trying to boast about this number, there are Twitter users with many times more (30,000+) tweets than myself. I just wanted to put a few things in perspective for fun.</p>
<p>I joined twitter on 08/08/08 and have been tweeting over 10 times per day, or once every two and a half hours since then. Some days, weeks, months, more than others, but that's how averages work. To put that into perspective:</p>
<p>In the Twitterverse:</p>
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<li>I have tweeted more in April 2011 than any other month.</li>
<li>My leasted tweeted full month was January 2011, I had only 97.</li>
<li>I tweet more on Wednesdays than any other day of the week.</li>
<li>The hour of 10pm contains my most tweets with over 700, the 4am hour is the least with 4 tweets.</li>
<li>I have followed 529 total people and had 704 total follow me.</li>
<li>If I tweet once per day since I was born, I'd be 428 days younger than I am now. (+10 internets for the first one to figure out the day I was born)</li>
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<p>In the real world:</p>
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<li>I could have spent each tweet on about one species of bird per tweet and have just gotten to them all now.</li>
<li>My car has approximately 9.99 miles lifetime for each time I've tweeted.</li>
<li>Since I began tweeting, 1529 military personal have been killed in Afganistan (that's just troops), and another 326 have been killed in Iraq.</li>
<li>We have discovered 7 extrasolar planets, confirmed.</li>
<li>There have been about 16 deaths due to oil power accidents.</li>
<li>There have been approximately 80 deaths due to coal power accidents.</li>
<li>There have been 0 deaths due to nuclear power accidents.</li>
<li>Known plane crashes: 128</li>
</ul>
<div>What's in store for the next 10,000 tweets? Probably nothing that's not in the first 10,000. I don't plan on changing any time soon, but I imagine that Twitter will likely figure out a bit more of it's business plan by then. I'll be pissed about one thing or another during that time, complain about it, and then go on living my life.</div>
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    <wp:comment_content><![CDATA[Sunday, October 10, 1982

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=today+-+10000+days+-+428+days]]></wp:comment_content>
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    <wp:comment_content><![CDATA[You're right Matt (if my calculation was correct, oops). It should have been 417 days since my birthday is 10/21/1982. My bad...]]></wp:comment_content>
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  <title>Adventures in Cabinetry, a Retrospective</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[So I don't really work on home projects very often, but when I do, I seem to learn a lot. This time around I've learned a lot about cabinets. Maybe I've only learned about my cabinets, but I'm going to share the things that went well and the things that didn't go well.

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<h2>The Plan</h2>
What we were trying to accomplish was the following:
<ol>
	<li>Paint the kitchen walls</li>
	<li>Paint the wooden cabinet doors</li>
	<li>Add new pulls/handles to the doors and drawers</li>
	<li>Add new and matching hinges.</li>
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<div>We had two days to do this (with one extra day by myself)</div>
<h2>What Went Well</h2>
I had some family and friends helping me and we were able to get the cabinet doors off the cabinets, remove the hinges and remove the pulls. This didn't take long at all with a couple people on the task. This was necessary because we were going to remove the finish so the paint would go on smooth and easy.

&lt;&lt;&lt; picture of old cabinets &gt;&gt;&gt;

&nbsp;

Removing the finish took some time, but we used a circular sander with fine grain sandpaper. It wasn't difficult, just time consuming (there were 25 doors to sand). We had to go through two pieces of paper because the first got worn down pretty bad.
<h2>What Didn't Go Well</h2>
When removing the finish on the doors we tried a chemical stripper. This didn't work very well. My cabinet doors are pretty old and either there is a lot of gunk on them or it's just had plenty of time to stick on there.

When you have two doors that open side by side, you want the pulls to be even from the middle and even from the bottom/top. The pulls I had previously were 3 1/4 inches which seems to be a non-standard size. A more common size would be 3 or 4 inches. Since we needed a new size we had to drill new holes. Measuring these is a difficult problem. What we ended up doing was creating a template to try to ensure consistency. This didn't work well, we ended up drilling them and creating two holes that weren't lined up. After several more tries, a template was finally created that worked for all four locations of pulls (top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right). By rotating and flipping the door, you can get it in the correct location to drill. Doing this again, I would make sure to have plenty of wood blocks to line things up and measure, measure, measure...

&lt;&lt;&lt; show lined up cabinet pull &gt;&gt;&gt;]]></content:encoded>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm speaking at <a title="Iowa Code Camp Spring 2011" href="http://iowacodecamp.com/">Iowa Code Camp</a> <strong>April 30th</strong> on unit testing for those who haven't unit tested before. I will post my code and my slides some time next week, but if you're in the area and you haven't ever written a unit test (I know you're out there!), come to my presentation with a quiver of questions.

It's at <strong>Kirkwood Community College</strong> in <strong>Cedar Rapids, IA</strong>, Iowa Hall Room D at <strong>10:30am</strong>.]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>In Iowa? Love JavaScript?</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the weekend during some <a href="http://iowacodecamp.com">Iowa Code Camp</a> festivities, there was some talk about starting a JavaScript group in the area. With some help from <a href="http://twitter.com/nlsmith">Nathan Smith</a>, we have gotten the ball rolling! Things are still incredibly new right now, but let us know through whatever channel you're comfortable if you have something to ask or suggest.</p>
<p>Visit <a href="http://iowajs.org">Iowa JavaScript</a> for more information or leave a comment below!</p>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I just finished up a really, really great weekend! I figured I should share my experiences with the public and so I don't forget that all these things happened within the span of a few days.
<h3>Dallas Day of .Net and CTXDNUG (3/8/12 - 3/10/12)</h3>
There were nine Headspringers that attended Dallas Day of .Net and I was one of them. The conference went pretty well, I was able to see <a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/">Scott Hanselman</a> present for the first time and he did not disappoint. Even if you're not a techie, you would still probably enjoy one of his talks. I was also lucky enough to have some good conversation and add some faces to their twitter handles. On the way to Dallas, a few of us stopped in Temple to see <a href="http://userinexperience.com/">Brandon Satrom</a> present some thoughts on CoffeeScript. We had a good discussion as well as a good time.

After the first day of DDODN many of us went out for food and drinks. Our attempt to go to a restaurant that doesn't take reservations, on a Friday night, with about 15 people... didn't go so well. We ended up wandering about until finally visiting Chik-fil-a, a Chinese Buffet Sports Bar with karaoke (that's right) and Applebee's.
<h3>Tom+Gary's Decentralized Dance Party (3/10/12 - 3/11/12)</h3>
As soon as I was back in Austin, I headed south to meet friends to hit up a Decentralized Dance Party. If you don't know what this is, be sure to check it out. The photos you'll see below DDP were taken by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=656658794">Joe Lee</a>.

Also, here is some video from the Austin DDP:

<a href="http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21026159/highlight/248713">http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21026159/highlight/248713</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvhds75pvo"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvhds75pvo</a>
<h3>A Rooster Breakfast Guest (3/11/12)</h3>
After a long night, Sunday morning called for some delicious breakfast. Five of headed to two restaurants before finding a really amazing spot for. The first place we stopped were able to seat us right away, but after about 10 minutes and nobody acknowledging us, we opted to leave. We were hungry and didn't have time to mess around! Our second stop didn't offer their special until 3pm, so that was out of the question. We stumbled upon <a href="http://elalmacafe.com/">El Alma</a>. Everything about that place was fantastic! The staff was polite, friendly and knowledgeable, the Mimosas had a hint of mango, food was crazy delicious and there were awesome paintings of roosters on the walls from local artist Benito Lopez.

Our trip away from El Alma put us straight in the path of couple of Spartans (from Halo), an awesome camel that just took a trip through the car wash and a speeding car in our lane that almost totally killed us all. It was wild.

After some of that crazy, almost getting killed nonsense, the next best thing to do was hang out in the gorgeous weather with a pool and hot tub. The pool was slightly cold, but the hot tub was great!
<h3>The Not-Free Free Concert, Beer and Deer (3/11/12)</h3>
Later that evening a few of us attempted to hit up a concert that was free, but only free in the sense that you need to have a not-free SXSW badge. It turned out alright because we <a href="http://friendsbar.com/">bar-hopped</a> for the remainder of the night. I <a href="http://violetcrownsocialclub.com/">enjoyed a few drinks</a> and consumed some pork sliders from <a href="http://theseedlingtruck.com/">The Seedling Truck</a>. They were hella-good!

After being away from my apartment for almost 90 straight hours, it was time to head back. I had some friendly woodland creatures hanging out next to the driveway in. I decided to hop out and take their picture since they were all posing for me.

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What web host are you the use of? Can I am getting your affiliate link 
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I just watched a very short video by Jane McGonigal and I was actually opposed to many of the things she said. I was surprised, I normally love video games; I think video games are just fine. In fact, I have played video games for a very large portion of my life. While she argues that they're not a waste of time (as was a driving force for her talk here), I have a better idea: Get out and experience life as it actually exists. I still have maps of video games in my head after not playing them for over 10 years. In hindsight, I would much rather have maps of the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, or even Bourbon Street in my head. These are places where my impact can make a difference, I can interact and have fun, or help others. Jane gives very good examples, but I think they're very narrow opinions on what's important.

Before you read on, I suggest you watch/listen to the summary here:

<a title="When we are on our deathbeds, will we regret the hours we spent playing games?" href="http://kotaku.com/5919656/when-we-are-on-our-deathbeds-will-we-regret-the-hours-we-spent-playing-games" target="_blank">http://kotaku.com/5919656/when-we-are-on-our-deathbeds-will-we-regret-the-hours-we-spent-playing-games</a>

Under the assumption you listened, here are her five points that she received from hospice workers. You know her take on them by now since you listened to the video.
<ol>
	<li>I wish I hadn't worked so hard.</li>
	<li>I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.</li>
	<li>I wish I had let myself be happier.</li>
	<li>I wish I'd had the courage to express my true self.</li>
	<li>I wish I'd lived a life true to my dreams, instead of what others expected of me.</li>
</ol>
I feel like all of these statements are just fine as they're spoken by the dying. I feel that when taken into a video game context, they're misconstrued. I'm going to give you my rebuttal on Jane's interpretation:
<ol>
	<li>You can work hard and still have fun - find a job that is fun and get good at it. You don't have to immerse yourself in things that are make-believe.</li>
	<li>You can stay in touch with family and friends without playing games. This is possible without competetive behavior and relies more on the actual relationship than gamesmanship. Not everybody is at their best when competing.</li>
	<li>Games can make you happier, no doubt. However, many games are going online or online only. So many trolls and jerks exist in the online world. Why would one want to surround themselves with these types of people? I'd rather surround myself with those that I choose, not random MMO strangers that just want to grief me. If you still want to play games with friends, game up in somebody's house or apartment, you'll be closer friends in the long run because of it.</li>
	<li>A way to express my true self. Sure, use made up characters to express your true self. You're actually choosing a character to portray yourself in the way you want to be. You're creating a false world for yourself. If your true self is something unrealistic, I'd say you have a tenuous grasp on reality (unless you're a really young kid). It's fine to want to be a hero in the sense that some firefighters are heroes, but to be a hero in the sense that you can fly or shoot lasers out of your eyes, grow up.</li>
	<li>Do what you want! Make art. Build something spectacular. Give back to your community. Express your ideas. These can all contradict the fallacies I've described above. That's why Jane left a question mark. This is important and those other four reasons are just tiny bits of this. You have one life to live and you need to make it your own. Don't hurt people, don't do wrong, just be the best human being you can and help others to be the best they can.</li>
</ol>
I can't be too far off, can I?]]></content:encoded>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[Wow... I'm moved. The amount of effort that has gone into this (and other missions) will never be understood by 99.99% of the population. This is what keeps me up at night and helps me wake up the morning. It is unfathomable, yet people would rather talk shit about others, watch mindless television and coast through life not understanding the amount of potential we have when we work together. This was great and if you were part of it, you understand. If not, you missed out.

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  <title>An Intro to Ext JS</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently hosted an hour long brown bag at <a href="http://www.headspring.com">Headspring</a> to tell my colleagues a little bit about Ext JS. Here are the slides:

<a href="https://github.com/ChrisMissal/presentations/tree/master/AnIntroToExtJS">https://github.com/ChrisMissal/presentations/tree/master/AnIntroToExtJS</a>]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Plans for Austin, Year Two</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[<em>This was originally an email to my family, but I thought I'd share it publicly because there's something cathartic about living my life publicly.</em>

Hi family,

I can't wait for y'all to visit soon! The link I'm sharing with you was just shared on Facebook by a few friends tonight. I didn't want to post on Facebook because I wanted to add several of my own comments to a few of the things that I can talk about. Feel free to browse through the entire list on your own, then I'll have some comments and links back to it so you can get my take on a few of the things that are listed.

Here's the whole article (only read and watch videos that interest you):

<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia">http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia</a>

Done yet? No? I'll wait...

...

Now that you're finished browsing, here are some notes from me:
<ol>
	<li>I have met so many talented, nice and beautiful people since I've moved here, it's no surprise <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_855810">she's from Texas</a>.</li>
	<li>Some people don't know what these are, mostly from the coasts. Thankfully <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_855833">they have travelled north</a> far enough that I haven't been missing out for 30 years.</li>
	<li>Swimming really isn't my thing, but we should probably go <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_857524">check this out</a>. A few of my friends live within walking distance.</li>
	<li>Looks like I left the big Czech community in Cedar Rapids for another one in Texas. There's a great place on the way to Austin from Dallas. I don't know that my family that's flying in can make the stop, but hopefully the drive in folks can <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_855826">pick us up something from Czech Stop</a>!</li>
	<li>The first one shown here was <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_860032">born in Texas, died in Iowa</a>. Probably the complete opposite I'm going to experience.</li>
	<li>Not that I can compete, but at least I'm <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_860965">not an outcast</a> when I get lazy.</li>
	<li>Don't worry Mom, <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_863954">they won't "get" you</a>. We definitely need to see them, I've been putting this off for too long!</li>
	<li>I can vouch for this. <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_860890">Wowza</a>!</li>
	<li>This wasn't actually true until <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_860907">February 10th, 2012</a>.</li>
	<li>We need to <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_860768">visit all of his places</a>. I've only been to one, but it was fantastic!</li>
	<li>Yes, we will visit. It will be <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_860917">glorious</a>!</li>
	<li>The first in the list is my favorite music event of all time. I have already bought four tickets (almost a year out) for the next one. <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_864079">I can't wait</a>!</li>
	<li>It's <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_860884">true</a>.</li>
	<li>Also <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/50-sure-signs-that-texas-is-actually-utopia#superlist_2005324_864070">true</a>. I still have so many more places to take y'all!</li>
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I realize the entire list is based on Texas, but we're going to be spending most of our time in Austin. No worries, it's still going to be a blast! Let me know if there's anything else we should look into even if it's not on the list.

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  <title>Austin, Texas - Year One</title>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[It's nearly the second weekend of February. Normally this isn't a big deal, but to me it marks the end of the first complete year I've lived in Austin, Texas. If my time here hadn't gone so great, this wouldn't be worth typing. My time here has been great, so to me, that's a big deal.

I left a tremendous job and many great people in Iowa for a chance at a dream job with brilliant folks in Austin. I greatly miss my friends in Iowa, but I have no regrets in my decision. Rather than give you all a long winded explanation of what I'm missing and what I've gained, I'm going to bullet-point this thing.

<strong>Things I miss:</strong>
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	<li><span style="line-height:13px;">Family (you know who you are)</span></li>
	<li>Friends (you also know who you are)</li>
	<li>Coworkers (come on...)</li>
	<li>Mulligan's</li>
	<li>Iowa Hawkeye football/tailgating</li>
	<li>The ability to buy beer after midnight (sometimes)</li>
	<li>CRBC (and team)</li>
	<li>Iowa "traffic"</li>
	<li>The Iowa startup/entrepreneurial community</li>
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<strong>Things I don't miss:</strong>
<ul>
	<li><span style="line-height:13px;">Snow</span></li>
	<li>Ice</li>
	<li>Cold</li>
	<li>Driving 25 miles to work</li>
	<li>Not having a tech user group or conference available every night of the week.</li>
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<strong>Things I've learned:</strong>
<ul>
	<li><span style="line-height:13px;">Everything tastes better with avocado</span></li>
	<li>Even my best beard/mustache is lame here</li>
	<li>Temperatures of 100+ are nice when you have three per year, but not when you have thirty per year.</li>
	<li>A city can grow as fast as technology can grow</li>
	<li>Austin traffic sucks</li>
	<li>You can enjoy pub trivia almost every night of the week. Why is Cedar Rapids not doing this?!</li>
	<li>It's more dangerous to drive in rain in Texas than snow in Iowa.</li>
	<li>If you go camping in Texas, know the terrain you'll be dealing with before packing.</li>
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<strong>Regrets:</strong>
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	<li><span style="line-height:13px;">Not spending enough time with friends before I left.</span></li>
	<li>Buying a house. No offense to people that own a house, sell houses, or are looking to buy one. But what a terrible decision for a single person. I grew up thinking that it was a wise "investment". It's definitely not an investment, it's a money pit. Hit me up offline if you'd like a more detailed opinion on the matter.</li>
	<li>I should have hired a moving company to get my crap here. It seems the cost would have been about the same and I wouldn't have had nearly as many headaches as I did.</li>
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  <content:encoded><![CDATA[So I've been working at Headspring for just over a year and still very happy with my decision to move to from Iowa to Texas for this job. Even if we weren't doing a tremendous job, and growing at a great pace, I'd still be happy. The rapid growth is bringing on much exciting news:
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	<li><span style="line-height:13px;">We are <a title="Headspring expands to Houston" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/nuts-and-bolts/2013/01/austin-tech-company-headspring-to-open.html">expanding to Houston!</a> - When I started, we had a small office (now we have 4x the space) as well as an office opening in Houston very soon.</span></li>
	<li><a title="Headspring is Hiring" href="http://www.headspring.com/careers">We are hiring</a> like crazy! - Last time I counted, we have had 16 new hires since me in Feb 2012. I can't wait to count in another 11 months.</li>
	<li>We have created <a title="Headspring Mobile" href="http://www.headspringmobile.com/">Headspring Mobile</a> - So if you want to come work with us and build mobile apps... You know what to do.</li>
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The best part about all the news over the past year is that the new office is right across the street from my place. :)

<em>P.S. - See how awesome we are:</em>
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	<li><em><a href="https://coderwall.com/team/headspring"><span style="line-height:13px;">Our Coderwall page</span></a></em></li>
	<li><em><a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Headspring-Reviews-E283863.htm">Our Glassdoor reviews</a></em></li>
	<li><em><a href="http://www.headspring.com">Headspring.com</a></em></li>
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