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	<title>Becoming a craftsman</title>
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		<title>Tags &#8211; Subversion Conversion to Mercurial, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, if converting the trunk was a necessary appetizer, and converting branches was the meat and potatoes of Subversion to Mercurial conversion, then surely converting the tags is the dessert. We now understand all of the basics of converting the trunk and branches of a Subversion repository to Mercurial. All we need to do is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rock.hymasfamily.org/blog/2010/04/16/tags-subversion-conversion/</link>
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		<title>Branches &#8211; Subversion Conversion to Mercurial, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading about how the hg convert extension can convert the trunk of a Subversion repository to Mercurial, you&#8217;re probably thinking: &#8220;But we have more than just a single line of development! We branch our code! We merge it! We tie it into knots! It&#8217;s like a great monster!&#8221; Of course it is. You wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rock.hymasfamily.org/blog/2010/04/08/branches-subversion-conversion/</link>
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		<title>The Trunk &#8211; Subversion Conversion to Mercurial, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;ve got a bunch of code, the key to your companies future, and like a good developer you&#8217;re keeping it under source control using Subversion. But you&#8217;ve heard about these new distributed version control systems, like Mercurial, and after doing some research you&#8217;ve decided to take the plunge. But now you face a challenge: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rock.hymasfamily.org/blog/2010/03/18/the-trunk-subversion-conversion/</link>
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		<title>Commitments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my post on how to care, I committed to start blogging more regularly, rather than sporadically. I began last week by spending an hour on my commute each day doing writing and research for the post I published Saturday. On Sunday I took a break from the entire internet. I plan to continue with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mercurial will make you a better developer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since starting at Fog Creek, I&#8217;ve been learning about Mercurial from day one, since I&#8217;m working on Kiln. It was a big change from my work at Microsoft, where we used a VCS that was much closer to the Subversion model than the Mercurial model. One of my areas of focus in Kiln has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, Merlin Mann wrote about one principle that is more important than we typically acknowledge: First, care. He begins by discussing the common challenge of staying focused on the important stuff. Staying focused is the easy thing, he reminds us: just do one thing at a time. Of course, he knows that an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rock.hymasfamily.org/blog/2010/02/25/how-to-care/</link>
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		<title>The 6 Changes Habit Creation Technique in Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first read the posts at 6Changes.com just before Christmas. At the time, I was preparing for the yearly planning that my wife and I do each January. I already wanted to make some changes in my own life, and 6changes.com was like a small revelation. It convinced me to tackle an important change, gave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rock.hymasfamily.org/blog/2010/02/19/6-changes-in-action/</link>
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		<title>Fog Creek Software, Inc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m now at Fog Creek. I love it here. The benefits they mention in their recruiting materials are all real and all great. I love the food, I love the snacks, I love the flexibility, I love the views of New York and the Hudson.
More important than that, I love the work.

Microsoft
Over the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rock.hymasfamily.org/blog/2009/10/19/fog-creek-software-inc/</link>
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		<title>Whimsical Walk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I mentioned that I was doing some practice with the binary search algorithm. I wanted to approach it with a slightly different mindset and see what kind of an algorithm that led to. So I decided to think of it as a walk. I would go &#8220;visit&#8221; locations in the array [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rock.hymasfamily.org/blog/2009/05/01/whimsical-walk/</link>
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		<title>Practicing Binary Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So for the last couple of weeks I&#8217;ve been practicing the binary search algorithm, as laid out by Dave Thomas here. I&#8217;ve done both iterative and recursive variations in C++ and then in C. I love the value of katas for learning new languages and features. I know both C++ and C, but doing this [...]]]></description>
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