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	<description>A statistical impossibility</description>
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		<title>Definition: Drive-by coding/scripting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drive-by coding or scripting: Not using Object Oriented techniques while coding/scripting in order to decrease complexity and increase development speed. On the long term, this results in significant extra work. Basically, the above is my definition of &#8216;drive-by coding&#8217;. I just thought of this, and was curiously surprised when my (granted, very superficial) Google search [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michielvdvelde.nl/2010/04/definition-drive-by-codingscripting/</link>
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		<title>Cufon; fancy fonts on your web site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although the title may not be entirely correct (I spent about three hours coming up with it), this blog post is about the use of fancy font types on your web site without the visitor having the font installed on their system. I first noticed this in the WordPress theme for this site, and decided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michielvdvelde.nl/2010/03/cufon-fancy-fonts-on-your-web-site/</link>
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		<title>Agile software development: Scrum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Software development can be done in lots and lots of different ways. A software company, whether it develops in-house software or software on order (or both), probably has adopted one of the more well known ideologies for this. For a long time, sequential software development was prevalent. One of these methods is known as the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michielvdvelde.nl/2010/03/agile-software-development-scrum/</link>
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		<title>Namespaces in php 5.3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PHP 5.3, introduced in June 2009 and has some really interesting enhancements. Some of you may know about the promise of namespace support in php 6. Because this was a popular requested feature, namespaces have been introduced in php 5.3. What are namespaces and why are they convenient? &#8216;Namespaces&#8217; are default in almost every other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michielvdvelde.nl/2010/01/namespaces-in-php-5-3/</link>
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		<title>[Opinion] Apple&#8217;s Quest for World Dominance &#8211; the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: obsessed Apple fans should stop reading right now, unless you can take criticism. The Mac, the Macbook, the iPod, the iPhone, and now the iPad &#8211; God save us; Apple is taking over the world! First of all, Apple claims it&#8217;s intention is not to compete with the personal computer and Microsoft&#8217;s operating system [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michielvdvelde.nl/2010/01/opinion-apples-quest-for-world-dominance-the-ipad/</link>
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		<title>What does the next decade have in store for us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the question that so-called &#8216;futurists&#8217; are trying to answer. Because the first year of the second decade of the second millennium has just begun, and because we are advancing toward a technological singularity, these are extremely turbulent times of rapid (technological) advances. Is this really happening? Yes! Technological advances happen much more quickly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michielvdvelde.nl/2010/01/what-does-the-next-decade-have-in-store-for-us/</link>
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		<title>The next phase of virtual reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, three dimensional games and simulations on two dimensional surfaces (computer monitors) are real popular and the quality of the graphics is increasing every minute, it seems. Still, no matter how great the graphics, it is still on a 2D surface and will never be really real to the person using it. So, how cán [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michielvdvelde.nl/2009/12/the-next-phase-of-virtual-reality/</link>
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		<title>Forensic IT How-To: Using Volatility to examine your RAM dump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the previous forensic how-to, we have made a dump of your computer&#8217;s active RAM, or Random Access Memory. This is the memory that stores everything you&#8217;re working on and with when your computer is on. Viruses and other malware can run exclusively in your RAM, but you can also possibly find cryptographic keys &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michielvdvelde.nl/2009/12/forensic-it-how-to-using-volatility-to-examine-your-ram-dump/</link>
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		<title>Security article: Password security in PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article will deal with password security. Especially, passwords of your web site&#8217;s (or program&#8217;s) users. Although the title of this posts suggests it only applies to PHP scripts, it can in fact be used for and programming or scripting language (except the PHP examples, or course). On many web sites, visitors can register themselves, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michielvdvelde.nl/2009/12/security-article-password-security-in-php/</link>
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		<title>How-To: Use the PHP Data Objects class to access your database</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a PHP developer, you are of course aware of PDO; PHP Data Objects. Or are you? PDO is the new form to communicate with databases, for example MySQL, PostgreSQL and MSSQL. When you&#8217;re using MySQL, you may be using the following methode to connect to your database: $connection = new mysqli&#40;'localhost','username','password'&#41;; Or, even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michielvdvelde.nl/2009/12/how-to-use-the-php-data-objects-class-to-access-your-database/</link>
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