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	<title>The Safety Net</title>
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	<description>Grey matters in technology by Safe Hammad</description>
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		<title>Our days are numbered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I learn a new word in any language, I often find myself comparing that word with equivalent words in other languages. I was recently thinking about words for days of the week in various languages. For related languages, not only are there similarities in the words themselves, but the origins of those words also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://safehammad.com/2011/10/28/our-days-are-numbered/</link>
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		<title>Be good to your colon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Programmers spend more time reading code than writing it (a fact well known by most programmers who tend not to publicise this to their employers).  It therefore stands to reason that (most?) programming languages should be designed as much for human consumption as for machine consumption and should be as readable as possible. Python is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://safehammad.com/2011/08/10/be-good-to-your-colon/</link>
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		<title>Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery is a book about the building of Ajax-enabled web applications using Django and jQuery.  Django has rapidly shot to fame as the most popular web development framework for the Python programming language.  Similarly, jQuery has taken the Javascript world by storm as a client-side Javascript framework making the development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://safehammad.com/2011/04/10/django-javascript-integration-ajax-and-jquery/</link>
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		<title>Pro Python &#8211; Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent thread on the Python Northwest mailing list asked for opinions on Marty Alchin&#8216;s book Pro Python.  I thought I&#8217;d reproduce the answer I gave and expand on it a little. I&#8217;ve owned Marty Alchin&#8217;s first book, Pro Django, for some time and was very happy with that purchase.  Based on that, I decided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://safehammad.com/2011/03/14/pro-python-book-review/</link>
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		<title>Cracks on the surface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent freeze and thaw of the canal beside where I live has produced a beautiful natural phenomenon.  Cracks in the surface ice reminiscent of neurons with pronounced dendrites have appeared in random locations.  Stars in the night sky also spring to mind:]]></description>
		<link>http://safehammad.com/2011/01/07/cracks-on-the-surface/</link>
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		<title>The Circles of Satisfaction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What motivates us to get a job?  The instinctive answer for many might be: &#8220;To earn money!&#8221;  And what motivates us to stay in that job?  A member of the developed world might then pause for thought and mutter enlightened words such as &#8220;fulfilment&#8221; and &#8220;sense of worth&#8221;. I&#8217;ve been thinking for some time about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://safehammad.com/2010/12/04/the-circles-of-satisfaction/</link>
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		<title>Hessian RPC Services.  What&#8217;s not to like?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few days I&#8217;ve been playing with Hessian, &#8220;a compact binary protocol for connecting web services&#8221;. In my previous company we used Hessian extensively for communicating between a Java thick client and a Java Apache Tomcat HTTP server with good success. These days we talk of JSON and REST and peer our noses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://safehammad.com/2010/10/16/hessian-rpc-services-whats-not-to-like/</link>
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		<title>PyWeek 11 &#8211; And the winner is &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PyWeek 11 has come to an end .  The judging is over and the winners have been announced.  The deserving winners are Universe Factory 11 as an individual entry with the game Mortimer the Lepidopterist and Super Effective 11 as a team entry with the game Trident Escape. I made several interesting observations during the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://safehammad.com/2010/09/13/pyweek-and-the-winner-is/</link>
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		<title>PyWeek 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently involved in PyWeek, a game writing competition where entrants are given exactly one week to write a game from scratch in Python.  To be honest I&#8217;m not much of a gamer, but I couldn&#8217;t resist the creative challenge of writing a playable game in one week and I&#8217;m loving every minute of it.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://safehammad.com/2010/08/27/pyweek/</link>
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		<title>Why should kids be interested in programming?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My 10 year old nephew, Bob, loves computer games. In fact, I think it would be fair to say that most self respecting 10 year olds love computer games and wonder what else a computer is for apart from computer games, Facebook, Bebo, and the occasional use of that legacy communications medium called email. There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://safehammad.com/2010/08/13/how-do-you-get-kids-interested-in-programming/</link>
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