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		<title>Android MapView Permissions and Prerequisites</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently you need the:
&#60;uses-permission android:name=&#8221;android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION&#8221;&#62;&#60;/uses-permission&#62;
&#60;uses-permission android:name=&#8221;android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION&#8221;&#62;&#60;/uses-permission&#62;
&#60;uses-permission android:name=&#8221;android.permission.INTERNET&#8221;&#62;&#60;/uses-permission&#62;
in your manifest file. Wasted a day on that INTERNET one! I swear it was working yesterday without it, but today I was just getting a blank map grid.
Other gotchas about MapViews:

In the manifest file, those &#60;uses-permissions&#62; elements should come before your &#60;application&#62; element
In order to define a MapView [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abbreviated Summary of All Joel Spolsky Articles</title>
		<link>http://zackola.com/blog/2008/10/22/abbreviated-summary-of-all-joel-spolsky-articles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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I worked at Microsoft
I worked at Juno
I learned stuff about software
Buy my software

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		<title>Why Git Rocks</title>
		<link>http://zackola.com/blog/2008/10/05/why-git-rocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a longtime subversion user and before that Visual SourceSafe (ew gross), but at the new jobby job, it&#8217;s all git all the time. Being very used to the pretty awesome TortoiseSVN and ZigVersion gui clients for svn, I&#8217;ve been a bit hesitant to really dive into git, not really knowing what to expect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Switch</title>
		<link>http://zackola.com/blog/2008/10/04/the-big-switch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s been a few weeks of working fulltime with Ruby, Rails, on OS X and I must say, I know so much less than I thought I did about OS X, Ruby, and Unix-like systems than I could have imagined. I have taken for granted that in the last seven years of experience I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the Calendar?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are working in XP, and you need to view a calendar to see what day of the week a particular date falls on, how do you do it? Well, if you are like 95% of non-corporate windows users (not getting your time from a domain controller or time server), you probably double click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secrets of Being a US Open Ninja</title>
		<link>http://zackola.com/blog/2008/09/04/secrets-of-being-a-us-open-ninja/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KL and I went to the US Open last night and saw some great tennis. The Williams sisters beat the crap out of each other until Serena prevailed, and M. Fish put up a great fight with Nadal for a while. We&#8217;ve been lucky enough to have a great ticket hookup over the past several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fake Chrome is Cool</title>
		<link>http://zackola.com/blog/2008/08/28/fake-chrome-is-cool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like these two examples of designing web UI elements that blend right into the browser&#8217;s chrome.
First we&#8217;ve got Google&#8217;s Firefox start page, which has probably been my default page for the last n years or so. The simplicity of this trick is great, basically just color matching with a little gradient, but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Secret Laptop Support Trick</title>
		<link>http://zackola.com/blog/2008/08/26/super-secret-laptop-support-trick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why, I just sort of seem to have this knack for fixing computers when stuff goes wrong. To the person I&#8217;m helping it always seems like magic, but not really having a penchant for wearing robes, I try to assure people it&#8217;s just experience that&#8217;s built up for the last 12 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The River Wild With Idiots</title>
		<link>http://zackola.com/blog/2008/08/22/the-river-wild-with-idiots/</link>
		<comments>http://zackola.com/blog/2008/08/22/the-river-wild-with-idiots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting experience this weekend. It served to remind me that even generally smart people can be complete idiots sometimes. And I&#8217;m talking about me and my family here, not the normal idiots I&#8217;m usually ranting about. So, KL and I go up to visit my sister and her husband, LC &#38; DC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Things You Will Only Learn By Screwing Up</title>
		<link>http://zackola.com/blog/2008/08/07/some-things-you-will-only-learn-by-screwing-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Don&#8217;t use an UPDATE or DELETE statement on a live, critical database from a query browser. Inevitably, you will forget to highlight the WHERE clause. The more time passes that you haven&#8217;t screwed this up, the more likely and damaging it will be when you do.
Don&#8217;t use email addresses in test data that resolve to [...]]]></description>
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