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		<title>Building systems like a tailor made suit</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2006/12/11/building-systems-like-a-tailor-made-suit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be an increasing trend for people building systems to ensure they meet current needs but then take that even further with customising them to fit just so.  Or sometimes it is expressed as a refusal to consider future needs unless those are clearly expressed and the need for them is well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power of a technical blog</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2006/12/09/the-power-of-a-technical-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine I am holding my hands out in front of me, two feet apart and imagine that represents all the work an average technical team does.  Then think about just how much your customers actually get to see.  For me I think that is about the last two inches.  So we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The horror of the Windows registry</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/15/the-horror-of-the-windows-registry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst there are plenty of people who mistakenly follow a technical religion, there are actually some very good technical reasons for minimising your use of Microsoft Windows.  The main one of these is the horror of the Windows Registry.
At the heart of Windows lies a group of binary files that store almost all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware technology religion</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/14/beware-technology-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/14/beware-technology-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the most difficult problems to deal with &#8211; when people get religion &#8211; in other words when people get extremely strong views on technology because that&#8217;s what the entrails of the chicken told them.
Now don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m not equating strong views with a belief in voodoo, it is actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islands of information</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/14/islands-of-information/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/14/islands-of-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some years now I&#8217;ve viewed the practice of users storing data files in directories on local hard disks or even servers as completely anachronistic.  In fact I think of it much the same way as I think of data held on a floppy disk &#8211; I know it&#8217;s there but getting at it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Convention over configuration</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/09/convention-over-configuration/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/09/convention-over-configuration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I used to be a programmer I was very hot on my own internal naming conventions and I was using my own variant of Hungarian notation long before I discovered there was such a thing.  Writing systems by myself meant that I could enforce this internal consistency and make my life simpler.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forcing password changes</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/09/forcing-password-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/09/forcing-password-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A small bugbear of mine.  Why do auditors ask me every year &#8220;Do you force your users to change their passwords regularly?&#8221;.  Since when did this become such an unchallenged tenet of security?
Well I don&#8217;t agree that this is a good idea at all, and I patiently explain that to the auditors each [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Submarine compartments</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/08/submarine-compartments/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/08/submarine-compartments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Submarines are built with compartments separated by bulkheads.  These prevent the spread of fire and limit the impact of damage to one compartment.  Good technical architecture follows exactly the same principle, but it normally applies to:

Compromise of one system leading to compromise of other(s)
Failure of one system leading to failure of other(s)

Interestingly, wherever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loosely coupled systems</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/03/loosely-coupled-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/03/loosely-coupled-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is increasingly common to find that applications have remote API access.  With the ubiquitous use of web technology people can add XML based remote interfaces quite quickly.
The temptation is now there to connect together all sorts of systems using these APIs in an event driven fashion.  For example, if we want to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Indirection &#8211; the life saver</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/01/indirection-the-life-saver/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2006/11/01/indirection-the-life-saver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the very few technical principles that I absolutely insist upon and tend to have sense of humour failure when it is not adhered to.  This has saved my life so many times that I have lost count.
The principle is simple:
All applications and end users should, wherever possible, only ever connect [...]]]></description>
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