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	<title>Dragons in the Algorithm</title>
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		<title>Viewing a dependency tree in Maven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To find out what dependencies you are getting and from where, execute &#8220;mvn dependency:tree&#8221;. Send it to a file using &#8220;mvn dependency:tree -Doutput=file&#8221;.
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		<link>http://mcherm.com/permalinks/1/viewing-a-dependency-tree-in-maven</link>
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		<title>Election Guide, May 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This coming Tuesday, we have primary elections. I have been doing my research on the candidates for the various races &#8212; all primary elections, and I am registered as a Democrat. I will summarize the results of that research here along with my endorsements and intended votes.
Race #1: Governor:
Dan Onorato
Dan is the front-runner for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcherm.com/permalinks/1/election-guide-may-2010</link>
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		<title>Petitioning the FCC on Net Neutrality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sent the following message to the FCC, which is currently accepting public input prior to promulgating new rules on &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221;.
To the FCC:
Some form of &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; is essential, and it is up to the governing agencies to determine what form and how.
The general principle holds that government should regulate as little as possible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcherm.com/permalinks/1/petitioning-the-fcc-on-net-neutrality</link>
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		<title>Logging APIs &#8211; Evaluating Options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I defined a number of different features that logging libraries could have. This time, I will evaluate some Java libraries based on those features. I&#8217;ll start by ranking these according to how important I think they are, at least for my purposes.

Severity &#8211; mandatory: no logging system should be without this
Tree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcherm.com/permalinks/1/logging-apis-evaluating-options</link>
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		<title>Logging APIs &#8211; Feature List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Logging is not the world&#8217;s most interesting computing problem, but it is important, and it&#8217;s been on my mind lately because people have been pointing out that my company&#8217;s use of logging is currently a bit of a mess and ought to be cleaned up. Specifically, I&#8217;ve been thinking about the API that is used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcherm.com/permalinks/1/logging-apis-feature-list</link>
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		<title>Password in Pieces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across the following question on reddit:
My bank on the online banking login instead of having a password field it presents you with 3 password fields 1 character each where it asks you for 3 characters from your password, chosen randomly. E.g. the 2nd, 4th and 7th.
I wanted to respond to this, because not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcherm.com/permalinks/1/password-in-pieces</link>
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		<title>Raising the limit on IDs processed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a fairly simple screen for entering &#8220;mass alerts&#8221;. There are (omitting some irrelevant details) just two fields: one in which the user enters the text of an alert, and the other in which they enter a list of customer-ids specifying who we should show the alert to. This is normally pasted in from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcherm.com/permalinks/1/raising-the-limit</link>
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		<title>Upgrading GWT/AppEngine to v1.6+</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a project using Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and App Engine. It was developed in Eclipse (which I don&#8217;t like much, mostly because I don&#8217;t know how to use it very well) because Google recommends this and provides support in the form of Eclipse plugins for working with these tools.
Well, they released a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcherm.com/permalinks/1/upgrading-gwtappengine-to-v1-6</link>
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		<title>Estimate Units</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you estimate tasks, should the estimates be done in hours, or in days?
As I see it, the big advantage of estimating in hours is that if you THINK in hours, you tend to get a more accurate estimate. There are lots of development tasks which will seem like they should take &#8220;no more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcherm.com/permalinks/1/estimate-units</link>
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		<title>An Exception to Every Rule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like automated code scanners, really I do. They can scan your code either before or after you check it in and review it for code formatting, memory errors, or even potential security problems. It can prevent lots of foolish errors and unnecessary inconsistencies.
But there is one catch: the tools are &#8220;dumb&#8221;, and there always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcherm.com/permalinks/1/an-exception-to-every-rule</link>
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