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		<title>Roadmaps Of Doom!</title>
		<link>http://blog.alanklement.com/2012/02/11/roadmaps-of-doom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Invoking the image of the greatest orators of all time, every month I would gather the stakeholders together and eloquently guide everyone through the product roadmap: the vision of our product and how we would execute it. It was glorious&#8230;. &#8230;wait&#8230;what am I talking about??!! Our monthly roadmap discussions were a NIGHTMARE. All that tension, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Velocity Has Left The Building</title>
		<link>http://blog.alanklement.com/2012/01/17/velocity-has-left-the-building/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Velocity and I were never a good match, so we&#8217;ve parted ways&#8230;. I just came across an article about Agile Velocity: how to use it and why it&#8217;s important. In some ways the author and I are similar&#8230;we both have experience as software developers, worked in management positions and we even have the same name, &#8216;Alan&#8217; (I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only When Simple Fails</title>
		<link>http://blog.alanklement.com/2012/01/12/only-when-simple-fails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.alanklement.com/?p=744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An email popped up on the developer mailing list&#8230; &#8220;I&#8217;m updating the library [server] Ivy pulls from with new versions. It&#8217;s gonna take a lot of time and it&#8217;s a pain in the butt to deal with. Anyone have suggestions on what libraries to add or any comments about the repository?&#8221; I certainly did have a suggestion: shut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flashtent Sessions</title>
		<link>http://blog.alanklement.com/2012/01/02/flashtent-sessions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything Flash has begun uploading pieces of my talk to their website. Right now only the first two segments are available, when more are availabl I&#8217;ll post an update about it. See the videos on Everything Flash here. Comment on G+]]></description>
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		<title>My FATC Talk Is Now Online</title>
		<link>http://blog.alanklement.com/2011/12/22/my-fatc-talk-is-now-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.alanklement.com/?p=685</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My talk from FATC has been posted by The AT&#038;T Tech Channel. I talk about using FDT &#38; Flash to dev for multiple platforms. Here I&#8217;m using an inheritance approach to abstract differences. It&#8217;s good to know even though I still prefer a composite approach. I like using a library of platform agnostic business logic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do You Actually Track Employee Hours?</title>
		<link>http://blog.alanklement.com/2011/12/21/why-do-you-actually-track-employee-hours/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alanklement.com/2011/12/21/why-do-you-actually-track-employee-hours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.alanklement.com/?p=661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[a quick anecdote&#8230; I had an employer who required everyone at the company fill in time sheets. These were supposed to be filled in as work was done on projects and then submitted for &#8216;approval&#8217; at the end of the week. Approval is used abstractly because I&#8217;m not really sure what happened as there was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do We Really Need A QA Phase Anymore?</title>
		<link>http://blog.alanklement.com/2011/12/18/do-we-really-need-a-qa-phase-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alanklement.com/2011/12/18/do-we-really-need-a-qa-phase-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.alanklement.com/?p=640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A funny thing happened&#8230; Over the last year, as I learned more about how Google, Facebook and Flickr deploy software, I noticed little to no mention of QA. In fact often the developers themselves were pushing their commits live. Facebook does have a roll out gatekeeper, but from what I understand he&#8217;s reviewing the commit and focusing on how damaging it could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AS2 Detecting When Mouse Leaves the Stage</title>
		<link>http://blog.alanklement.com/2010/06/07/as2-detecting-when-mouse-leaves-the-stage/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alanklement.com/2010/06/07/as2-detecting-when-mouse-leaves-the-stage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.alanklement.com/?p=541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A handy script when working with Actionscript 2 code. Because there is no Actionscript 3 Event.MOUSE_LEAVE equivalent in AS2. the best thing to do is to write a custom script for mouse detection on stage. I don&#8217;t know who authored this, but I&#8217;d like to record it so it doesn&#8217;t get lost on the internet. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategies For Global Data   ( hey it happens&#8230; )</title>
		<link>http://blog.alanklement.com/2010/02/10/strategies-for-global-data-hey-it-happens/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alanklement.com/2010/02/10/strategies-for-global-data-hey-it-happens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.alanklement.com/?p=501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[ disclaimer: I see this technique as 'damage control' and not a best (or even good) practice. Yes, globals are to be avoided ] Twitter is a wallflower&#8217;s dream&#8230; anyone can eavesdrop and quietly judge from afar&#8230;. Last night Jesse Freeman , Ralph Hauwert and Robert Penner had a little discussion via Twitter about statics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liskov&#8217;s Behavioral Sub-Typing In Action&#8230; or How To Misuse Inheritance</title>
		<link>http://blog.alanklement.com/2010/01/18/liskov-behavioral-sub-typing-in-action-or-how-to-misuse-inheritance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alanklement.com/2010/01/18/liskov-behavioral-sub-typing-in-action-or-how-to-misuse-inheritance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.alanklement.com/?p=423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Time To Eat My Own Dog Food A few days ago, I posted an implementation of a Semaphore with AS3. Ever since then, something about the code just didn&#8217;t sit right with me. I&#8217;ve wanted to research and write about the Liskov substitution principle (LSP) for a while now, and I decided that I [...]]]></description>
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