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		<title>Is local multiplayer dead?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is local multiplayer dead?
What happened to local multiplayer? I&#8217;m tired of dropping $60 (over 1/10th the cost of the console itself) on a game that I can&#8217;t enjoy with my friends. In the same house. Which you have been able to do since the home version of Pong in 1975.
Fight the guy you can&#8217;t see
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://perilled.com/2009/07/02/is-local-multiplayer-dead/</link>
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		<title>asset_packager with cache buster &amp; asset_hosts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While working on some front end optimizations for a venture of mine I went on the lookout for a better bundling strategy then that provided with the default rails stack.
While rails does provide bundling of CSS and Javascript it does not support minification. Which in my opinion is a huge win for site performance, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://perilled.com/2009/06/16/asset_packager-with-cache-buster-asset_hosts/</link>
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		<title>Rake Spec Errors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed a couple of days ago there are some unexplained errors when running rake spec with the rspec rails gem. That appear to have been there for a while. 3/07/2009
when running script/generate rspec new rake tasks are placed in lib/tasks/rspec.rake
if you open this file you will see that line 101 is the offending line
::STATS_DIRECTORIES [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://perilled.com/2009/04/13/rake-spec-errors/</link>
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		<title>Trapped in Recruiter Hell II (the proof)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I previously posted a rant and a bit of a story telling article about some of my horrible experiences with recruiters. Well about a month ago I had yet another experience. I give to you the proof.
I was sitting at home  and I received this email. (shortened to just useful excerpts)
Hello Erik,
Trust you are doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://perilled.com/2008/10/12/trapped-in-recruiter-hell-ii-the-proof/</link>
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		<title>le.cms maybe you should do your research.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was wondering around today and happened to run into this super-lightweight cms called le.cms. Intrigued I continued to read about the benefits of the application and I read this:
The content is stored in text files, one per page, which means that no matter how many pages there are, page load time remains virtually the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://perilled.com/2008/10/10/le-cms-maybe-you-should-do-your-research/</link>
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		<title>Metric_Fu and Git Unite!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those that have not used metric_fu (http://metric-fu.rubyforge.org/) its a great project by Jake Scruggs (http://jakescruggs.blogspot.com/) that merges many different ruby projects for measuring code performance, into one bundle of rake tasks and generates html reports. Up until now its churn feature (which shows you which of your files have been modified the most in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://perilled.com/2008/10/07/metric_fu-and-git-unite/</link>
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		<title>5 Tips for Writing Good Comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are probably as many theories on proper commenting of your code as there are developers writing the code. What is worth noting? what is not? I think to much focus is wrapped up in rules that make writing good comments confusing to new and seasoned developers alike. I will go over a few simple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://perilled.com/2008/06/24/5-tips-for-writing-good-comments/</link>
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		<title>The Day Linux is Like Windows, is the Day I Find Something Else</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;компютрis getting a little ridiculous with the number of &#8220;Is Linux Ready for the Desktop&#8221;, &#8220;Is Linux Ready for the Masses&#8221;, &#8220;Will This New Release of Ubuntu Make Linux Ready&#8221; articles I continue to see. What constitutes ready? Linux has been a stable operating system with all the functionality you would expect out of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://perilled.com/2008/04/22/the-day-linux-is-like-windows-is-the-day-i-find-something-else/</link>
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		<title>7 Tips for Dealing With Recruiters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After writing my previous rant about recruiters titled Trapped in Recruiter Hell. I decided that it might be beneficial for me to compile a list of tips for dealing with recruiters to alleviate some of the hassles. There are several mistakes I see people make, or things that contractors just aren&#8217;t aware of before jumping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://perilled.com/2008/04/03/7-tips-for-dealing-with-recruiters/</link>
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		<title>Officially Cast at Disney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been offered a permanent (cast) position at Disney. April 7th marks my first day as a Disney cast member. Up until this point I have been a leased worker.
I have been working for Disney Internet Group as a leased worker since January of 2007. This has been a great experience for me and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://perilled.com/2008/04/03/officially-cast-at-disney/</link>
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