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	<title>Manuel Klimek</title>
	
	<link>http://klimek.box4.net/blog</link>
	<description>Dedicated to Software Development</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>One Day In My Life As A Googler</title>
		<link>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2008/06/07/one-day-in-my-life-as-a-googler/</link>
		<comments>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2008/06/07/one-day-in-my-life-as-a-googler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>klimek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: this is a personal entry. Which means that if you are here for technical revelations or to gather super secret information about Google, go away, or I'll bore you to death. Seriously. Don't tell me I didn't warn you.
6:00 am: The iPod station starts playing and lifts me gently from the land of dreams.
"... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Editor Independent Unittest Executor</title>
		<link>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2008/03/11/an-editor-independent-unittest-executor/</link>
		<comments>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2008/03/11/an-editor-independent-unittest-executor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>klimek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agile]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I got test infected I'm somehow unable to write a single line of untested code without feeling uneasy. When I just want to write a tiny script containing a few lines of code in whatever text editor is installed in a system, it seems to be a daunting task to set up a programming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Unit Tests In Ruby Scripts</title>
		<link>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2008/02/04/integrating-unit-tests-in-ruby-scripts/</link>
		<comments>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2008/02/04/integrating-unit-tests-in-ruby-scripts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>klimek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I write ruby scripts I like to use a single file, containing the program and all unit tests. It took me some time to find out how to add a command line switch to my ruby scripts that makes them run in script mode with full access to the Test::Unit command line arguments, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My First OCaml Tests - So Close To Heaven!</title>
		<link>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/12/26/my-first-ocaml-tests-so-close-to-heaven/</link>
		<comments>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/12/26/my-first-ocaml-tests-so-close-to-heaven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>klimek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago a a discussion in the testdrivendevelopment Yahoo-Group evolved around the concept of "testable languages". I thought about this for a while and came up with the idea that I want to be able to have expressions as first class citizens:

assertThat { assertThat(false) } abortsWith TestFailedException

Today I played a little with OCaml, sorted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XPDays Germany 2007 - Ideas Going Mainstream</title>
		<link>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/11/25/xpdays-germany-2007-ideas-going-mainstream/</link>
		<comments>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/11/25/xpdays-germany-2007-ideas-going-mainstream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>klimek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to take part in the XPDays Germany last week.  The company I work for enabled Uwe, our project lead, Holger and me to participate. It all started with a three and a half hour ride from Munich to Karlsruhe where we heroically overcame a nearly empty tank, a shaking car [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does “Test After” Work For You?</title>
		<link>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/11/17/does-test-after-work-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/11/17/does-test-after-work-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>klimek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agile]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Why not write a test for this?"
"Why should I, it works..."
The idea of Test-After Development is to write a set of automated white-box tests after writing your production code. Since probably every CS student in the world has learned that unit tests are a good idea, you'd expect unit testing to be an industry state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Program Is Born: QCMake’s First Functional Test</title>
		<link>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/11/02/a-program-is-born-qcmakes-first-functional-test/</link>
		<comments>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/11/02/a-program-is-born-qcmakes-first-functional-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>klimek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When you write a GUI that is just a thin layer for an existing business layer and you don't see how to integrate test fixtures into this business layer, you'll be down in the dirty functional testing work very quickly. This happened to me today when I tried to write my first test for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fasten Your Seat Belts! - Chances And Pitfalls Of Test Driving Your Development</title>
		<link>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/11/01/fasten-your-seat-belts-chances-and-pitfalls-of-test-driving-your-development/</link>
		<comments>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/11/01/fasten-your-seat-belts-chances-and-pitfalls-of-test-driving-your-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>klimek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agile]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago I had a rendezvous with a beautiful girl, and at the end of the evening I gave her a ride home. Back than I thought playing the gentleman to be posh, so I opened the door for her. She slid with one elegant movement into her seat and I paced around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Remember Hungarian TLAs?</title>
		<link>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/10/29/can-you-remember-hungarian-tlas/</link>
		<comments>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/10/29/can-you-remember-hungarian-tlas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>klimek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scene 1. Karl and J.B. are pairing on a small web service. Karl is just returning to the workplace with a steaming, hot cup of coffee in his hand.
Karl: 'Let me see what you wrote just now... 
usUserName = request.getParameter("UserName");
Um... This variable, usUserName, what does the us-prefix stand for?'
J.B.: 'Well, that is the unescaped user [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Struggling to TDD a GUI application</title>
		<link>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/10/28/struggling-to-tdd-a-gui-application/</link>
		<comments>http://klimek.box4.net/blog/2007/10/28/struggling-to-tdd-a-gui-application/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>klimek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CMake is one of the best build tools out there. It has a nice command line interface and comes with an even nicer GUI. Unfortunately the GUI is MFC based, which means you need a VC professional license to build it for windows and you can't use it in linux.
Since Trolltech released it's wonderful GUI [...]]]></description>
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