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	<title>Digital Rubbish</title>
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	<description>In Search of a Tagline</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Poor Navigation Made Clearer with Confusing-As-Hell Popup</title>
		<link>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/10/23/googles-poor-navigation-made-clearer-with-confusing-as-hell-popup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick French</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[User Experience]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[AdWords]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#194;&#160;



Translation: Our navigation is so fucked up, you may be totally confused about where you&#8217;re trying to go. Clicking on our reports tab takes you to AdWords reports, not Website Optimizer reports. If you want to go to the page you think you want to go to, click &#8220;Cancel,&#8221; otherwise click &#8220;OK.&#8221; Are you totally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training Day</title>
		<link>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/08/28/training-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick French</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was our first session of what we&#8217;re calling &#8220;Team Education Day&#8221; at Engine Yard. We used to hold these when I was at Netsprout; we called them &#8220;Knowledge Sharing Days.&#8221;  The concept is that each member of the team chooses a topic to give a short, half hour presentation on, with an additional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Placeholder Copy</title>
		<link>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/08/21/placeholder-copy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick French</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Code]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#60;span class=&#8221;full-image-block&#8221;&#62;&#60;span&#62;&#60;img  src=&#8221;/storage/20080820-gbya3i4im9ub6757aafdhts85g.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1219335716144&#8221;/&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;span class=&#8221;thumbnail-caption&#8221;&#62;Apple QA?&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;]]></description>
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		<title>Stripped Down and Topless</title>
		<link>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/08/16/stripped-down-and-topless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick French</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Code]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some people prefer to take meeting notes on their laptop and other prefer pen and paper. It seems that when folks take notes on their laptop, they inevitably start reading email, IMs or the action in the IRC channel.  In the past, I&#8217;ve tried &#8220;topless&#8221; meetings, where everyone was supposed to keep their laptop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dysfunction</title>
		<link>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/08/14/dysfunction/</link>
		<comments>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/08/14/dysfunction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick French</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Code]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was introduced to Patrick Lencioni&#8217;s &#8220;Five Dysfunctions of a Team&#8221; a while ago, when we were doing some team building at Netsprout. But I never read his book until someone at work loaned it to me recently. I remember being amazed at how spot-on it was then, and I&#8217;ve printed it up and posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom?</title>
		<link>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/08/12/wisdom/</link>
		<comments>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/08/12/wisdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick French</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When life gives you lemons, make extra dry martinis straight up with a twist :)]]></description>
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		<title>Kanban</title>
		<link>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/08/11/kanban/</link>
		<comments>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/08/11/kanban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick French</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[kanban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve recently implemented Kanban on my team at Engine Yard, after having an agile/kanban training session from Joe Arnold, our Director of Engineering. I&#8217;m really excited at the ability for Kanban to optimize our throughput, while allowing us more flexibility than Scrum would.

Here are some photos from our training session, our first Kanban board, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engine Yard Closes $15 Million in Series B Financing</title>
		<link>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/07/13/engine-yard-closes-15-million-in-series-b-financing/</link>
		<comments>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/07/13/engine-yard-closes-15-million-in-series-b-financing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick French</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The company I work for, Engine Yard, just closed a second round of financing which includes investment from New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA), Benchmark and Amazon.

This is obviously great news for the Ruby, Rails and Merb communities, and Engine Yard. :)

See http://www.brainspl.at/ for more info on what this investment means.

You can read the entire press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apps for iPhone</title>
		<link>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/07/13/apps-for-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick French</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so I admit it: I&#8217;m totally addicted to the new apps for my iPhone. From the useful, to the ridiculous, to the sublime, there are a lot of great apps available and more great ones yet to come.

Some of my current favorites:

	Twitterrific by IconFactory - everything these guys do is elegantly designed and super [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Site-Specific Browsers</title>
		<link>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/06/08/site-specific-browsers/</link>
		<comments>http://digitalrubbish.com/2008/06/08/site-specific-browsers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick French</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ssb]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just came across this interesting, but light, <a href="http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/09/stories/2008060951261400.htm">article on Site-Specific Browsers (SSBs)</a>.

I've been using Fluid for some time now, to view my Basecamp, Confluence and Google Analytics accounts, and there are a few things I really like about it:]]></description>
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