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    <title>Python Rocks! and other rants</title>
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    <description>Comments about life, the universe and Python, from the imagination of Kent S Johnson.</description>
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      <title>Yet another new job</title>
      <link>http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2008_05.html#e76</link>
      <description><![CDATA[For those of you keeping track at home I will note that I am now working for Cambridge Research &amp; Instrumentation in Woburn, MA as a Principal Software Developer. I am excited to be working on medical equipment - I am helping develop software for the Maestro and Nuance systems. ... [71 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 12:24:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Published</title>
      <link>http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2008_05.html#e75</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I just noticed that my name is in a new book. The book is Refactoring HTML, by Elliotte Rusty Harold. ... [88 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 12:06:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Job</title>
      <link>http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2007_02.html#e74</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I am pleased to say that I have a new job as a Python programmer! I am very happy at the prospect of full-time Python work. ... [82 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:45:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Django rocks</title>
      <link>http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2007_02.html#e73</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I recently tried out TurboGears and Django for a small project at work. Here are some impressions. I tried TurboGears first. ... [379 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:13:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>lxml for Windows!</title>
      <link>http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2006_04.html#e72</link>
      <description><![CDATA[lxml now has a Windows binary available. I'm thrilled! lxml is a fast, Pythonic XML library with full XPath support. ... [115 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 6 Apr 2006 19:18:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Switching to Firedrop2</title>
      <link>http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2006_03.html#e71</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I finally switched this blog from PyDS and Python Community Server to Firedrop2 and static hosting at my ISP. I made the switch because PyDS wasn't working well for me. ... [288 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:27:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why I love Python 5</title>
      <link>http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2005_12.html#e70</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Easy introspection and dynamic loading This example shows off several useful features of Python including introspection, dynamic loading, first-class functions and flexible except clauses. At work I have some Java code that uses XPath support from the Xalan class org.apache.xpath.XPathAPI. ... [385 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:49:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Simple itertools.groupby() example</title>
      <link>http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2005_12.html#e69</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Suppose you have a (sorted) list of dicts containing the names of cities and states, and you want to print them out with headings by state: &gt;&gt;&gt; cities = [ ... { 'city' : 'Harford', 'state' : 'Connecticut' }, ... ... [511 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 7 Dec 2005 02:37:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How I write code</title>
      <link>http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2005_12.html#e68</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I tend to design from the bottom up - not exclusively, but in general I make small parts and combine them to make larger parts until I have something that does what I want. I refactor constantly as my understanding of a problem and the solution increase. ... [312 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:01:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Recommended Reading</title>
      <link>http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2005_11.html#e67</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I have just added a page of recommended books to my main web site. It is very much a work in progress but there is enough there for an initial post. ... [31 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:12:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What's so great about Ruby?</title>
      <link>http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/blog/arch_m1_2005_10.html#e66</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I'm reading Bruce Tate's latest book, Beyond Java. In it, he argues that Java has become overgrown, unwieldy and vulnerable for replacement in many applications. ... [321 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:14:40 GMT</pubDate>
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