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	<title>Salvatore Iovene</title>
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	<description>About myself and programming</description>
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		<title>Win32 odyssey: who needs documentation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[During my coding adventures, I have just found myself having to port an existing Win32 application to CMake. After writing a mere 283 lines CMakeLists.txt file, and getting the application successfully compile, I fired it up to see if it worked, of course. I found it failing when doing a WSAAsyncSelect, and failing there didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving closed protocols behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[(Leggi la versione Italiana qui.)
In order to fulfill what has been a proposition of mine for quite a long time, as of December the 1st 2007, I will no longer use any Instant Messaging services based on a closed protocol, e.g. MSN, ICQ, AIM or Yahoo. The only way you will be able to contact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fujitsu-Siemens shame on you</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself in the process of realizing a dual-boot system on a laptop, with Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.10. After wiping out the content of the disk and partitioning it appropriately, I proceed to the installation of Windows XP (knowing that I needed to install it first, since it would overwrite the MBR and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who wants to talk about patent infringement?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After all the dust raised again by Microsoft about Linux and the Open Source community allegedly committing patent infringements (235 this time, they were 228 in 2004), I really feel the need to spend a few words about the matter, or then, a few images.
It looks like the jealous Redmond&#8217;s zealots, avidly fighting to protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TABs vs Spaces. The end of the debate.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 12:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When writing source code, indenting is very important. Having a neat and clean programming style, let alone a precise and uniform one, is probably one of the most important keys when attaching example source code with a job application. I was myself asked to show some of my source code in my last two interviews. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to improve the quality of programmers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[






After claiming that most programmers just can&#8217;t program, and actually addressing most of the problems to the lack of passion of people who decide to start a career as a programmer, I would also like to express my point of view on a tightly related subject: what can be done to improve the situation? The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why most programmers are lousy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
		
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I&#8217;ve been in the IT field long enough to get to know many programmers, both experienced and just wannabies. During this time, I&#8217;ve realized that most of them are just bad programmers, simply said. I find myself agreeing with a brilliant post by Jeff Atwood, which alleges that programmers can&#8217;t program. What are the reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ultimate guide for UTF-8 in irssi and GNU/Screen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been having quite a lot of trouble, lately, configuring irssi to work well with UTF-8. Irssi&#8217;s documentation was quite incomplete, on the matter, or discouraging, and there wasn&#8217;t much on the Internet, so, after figuring out what the way is, I&#8217;ll share it here.
First of all, you&#8217;ve got to make sure that your system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Useless fuss about ZIP and RAR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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There has been some fuss generated by Jeff Atwood (who is a Windows developer, which is bad, and a Visual Basic one, which is worse), who seems, in my humble opinion, to be giving partial information around, as closed in his Windows-only world as he appears to be. In a recent article of his, Jeff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture of patching semantic versus logical content</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Versioning]]></category>

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Inspired by a certain patch that hit a darcs repository to which I concur, I would like to talk about one thing that developers don&#8217;t seem to get very often, when using revision control systems: the structure of your files in the repository should have nothing to do with the logical units that make your [...]]]></description>
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