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		<title>Illinois homepage usability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Delaporte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s XKCD is absolutely spot on. I&#8217;m happy to say that the Illinois homepage is much improved on this score. My colleagues did a usability study a year ago and learned and addressed the exact information XKCD is teasing about. If you visit the Illinois homepage, notice that everything XKCD put in the right circle [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://xkcd.com/773/">Today&#8217;s XKCD</a> is absolutely spot on. I&#8217;m happy to say that the <a href="http://illinois.edu">Illinois homepage</a> is much improved on this score. My colleagues did a usability study a year ago and learned and addressed the exact information XKCD is teasing about. If you visit the Illinois homepage, notice that everything XKCD put in the right circle is available within 2 clicks. Maybe one of our team is feeding XKCD&#8217;s author ideas. In any case, we&#8217;re laughing pretty hard at today&#8217;s comic.</p>
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		<title>How to build a stadium in iPhone Simci</title>
		<link>http://www.edthedev.com/2010/how-to-build-a-stadium-in-iphone-simcity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Delaporte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a bug in the iPhone version of Simcity; it&#8217;s simple but very annoying. The problem is that the &#8216;Citizens demand a stadium&#8217; news item is much more frequent than the &#8216;Here&#8217;s a stadium for you to accept&#8217; petition. What&#8217;s the difference you may ask? Well, without finding the &#8216;petition&#8217; version, you can never build [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a bug in the iPhone version of Simcity; it&#8217;s simple but very annoying.</p>

<p>The problem is that the <em>&#8216;Citizens demand a stadium&#8217;</em> news item is much more frequent than the<em> &#8216;Here&#8217;s a stadium for you to accept&#8217; </em> petition.</p>

<p>What&#8217;s the difference you may ask? Well, <strong>without finding the &#8216;petition&#8217; version, you can never build a stadium</strong>.</p>

<p>Normally that&#8217;s not a problem, because for most special buildings, the news item is either attached to the related &#8216;petition&#8217; or alternates with the petition often enough that you&#8217;ll come across the &#8216;petition&#8217; version in the news ticker eventually. But for some reason <strong>the &#8216;build a stadium petition&#8217; never appears in your news feed</strong>.</p>

<p>So if you are tired of your citizens endlessly requesting an <em>impossible </em> stadium, follow these instructios:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Click the &#8216;&#8230;&#8217; button on your map, then select the &#8216;advisors&#8217; button (it has a speech bubble); on the &#8216;advisors&#8217; page, click the &#8216;petitioners&#8217; button (it has a clipboard). You should now be on the &#8216;Petitioners&#8217; page.</p></li>
<li><p>Now scroll through your many open petitions until you find one with the word &#8216;stadium*&#8217; in it. On the petition itself click the &#8216;Accept (thumbs up)&#8217; button.</p></li>
<li><p>Now go to your city buildings menu and select &#8216;Gifts (wrapped present)&#8217; and then scroll back and forth until you see a huge $75,000 stadium.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Now you can finally <del>shut those stupid citizens up</del> satisfy those voters with their stadium!</p>

<p>*If someone will comment with the exact wording of the petition title, I will gladly update this article.</p>
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		<title>Python fast list comprehension</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Delaporte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a one line list comprehension that stops processing the list as soon as it finds a true member, and returns false if all members are false. Keep in mind that you could also use a lamba function to check for a more complex circumstance in the list. mustBlock = next((True for rule in rules [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a one line list comprehension that stops processing the list as soon as it finds a true member, and returns false if all members are false. Keep in mind that you could also use a lamba function to check for a more complex circumstance in the list.</p>

<p><pre><code>
mustBlock = next((True for rule in rules if rule.block == True), False)
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		<title>Writing code from an Android device</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Delaporte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Graves has done what I&#8217;ve been dreaming of &#8211; he has configured an Android phone as a development environment. James, you are my hero for the week!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>James Graves has done what I&#8217;ve been dreaming of &#8211; he has configured an <a href="http://partiallyappliedlife.blogspot.com/2010/06/writing-code-on-handhelds.html">Android phone as a development environment</a>. James, you are my hero for the week!</p>
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		<title>Sun Java on Ubuntu &#8211; Complete Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Delaporte</dc:creator>
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		<title>Cool People: Hernan Ceballos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Delaporte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hernan Ceballos (www.flickr.com/photos/zeninho/3195095523/in/photostream/) leads research to create hardier strains of cassava to fight hunger in third world countries. In many cases, the cassava crop yield is doubled where the new strains are planted. (www.ciat.cgiar.org) Why are they working with cassava? Well apparently &#8220;cassava is a vital staple for about 500 million people. Cassava&#8217;s starchy roots [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hernan Ceballos (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeninho/3195095523/in/photostream/" title="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeninho/3195095523/in/photostream/" target="_blank">www.flickr.com/photos/zeninho/3195095523/in/photostream/</a>) leads research to create hardier strains of cassava to fight hunger in third world countries. In many cases, the cassava crop yield is doubled where the new strains are planted. (<a href="http://www.ciat.cgiar.org" title="http://www.ciat.cgiar.org" target="_blank">www.ciat.cgiar.org</a>)</p>

<p>Why are they working with cassava? Well apparently &#8220;cassava is a vital staple for about 500 million people. Cassava&#8217;s starchy roots produce more food energy per unit of land than any other staple crop.&#8221; And cassava grows well in hot dry climates. (<a href="http://www.cassavachips.com/cassava.html" title="http://www.cassavachips.com/cassava.html" target="_blank">www.cassavachips.com/cassava.html</a>)</p>

<p>Many charities are working to distribute these new strains of cassava; I learned about it through World Vision. (<a href="http://worldvision.org/NewCassava" title="http://worldvision.org/NewCassava" target="_blank">worldvision.org/NewCassava</a>)</p>
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		<title>Cool People: Randy Pausch</title>
		<link>http://www.edthedev.com/2010/randy-pauschs-last-lecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 07:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Delaporte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. If you&#8217;re angry at them, you haven&#8217;t given them enough time.&#8221; &#8211; Jon Snoddy Quoted from Randy Pausch&#8217;s last lecture.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. If you&#8217;re angry at them, you haven&#8217;t given them enough time.&#8221; &#8211; Jon Snoddy</p>

<p>Quoted from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo">Randy Pausch&#8217;s last lecture</a>.</p>
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		<title>XKCD helps us redefine color</title>
		<link>http://www.edthedev.com/2010/xkcd-helps-us-redefine-color/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 07:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Delaporte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The brilliant mind behind XKCD.com ran a truly fascinating survey about how people name colors. The results are surprising and in some cases hilarious.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The brilliant mind behind <a href="http://XKCD.com" title="http://XKCD.com" target="_blank">XKCD.com</a> ran a truly <a href="http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/">fascinating survey about how people name colors</a>. The results are surprising and in some cases hilarious.</p>
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		<title>Candy Art at Escape Pod</title>
		<link>http://www.edthedev.com/2010/candy-art-at-escape-pod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 07:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Delaporte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Candy Art is a surprisingly beautiful gritty tale of real love in a realistic future.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://escapepod.org/2009/12/24/ep230-candy-art/">Candy Art</a> is a surprisingly beautiful gritty tale of real love in a realistic future.</p>
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		<title>Choice Impairs programmers too</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 07:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Delaporte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;there&#8217;s an entire school of thought based around the idea that simple, focused programs are preferable to monstrosities that do it all.&#8221; &#8211; Sammy Larbi from]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;there&#8217;s an entire school of thought based around the idea that simple, focused programs are preferable to monstrosities that do it all.&#8221; &#8211; Sammy Larbi from <a href="
<a href="http://www.codeodor.com/index.cfm/2010/5/10/How-Choice-Impairs-Programmers/3191\">My&#8221; title=&#8221;http://www.codeodor.com/index.cfm/2010/5/10/How-Choice-Impairs-Programmers/3191\&#8221;>My&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>www.codeodor.com/index.cfm/2010/5/10/How-Choice-Impairs-Programmers/3191&#8243;>My</a> Secret Life as a Spaghetti Coder
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