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		<title>An interesting property of C# inheritance rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was playing with the robot and was thinking about a few possible ways of solving a particular problem I was having so that the internal API is nice for developers to attach to. I wondered if a method from a base class could be used as an implementation of an interface, even though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suppress warning &#8220;Field is never assigned to, and will always have its default value null&#8221; when fields are populated by MEF</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEF is a great framework for doing all kinds of cool things in .NET. However one thing that gets me quite often is that fields in classes that are composed by MEF using the [Import] label often generate warnings like the following: Field 'field name' is never assigned to, and will always have its default [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abusing PHP to your whim &#8211; private methods and properties</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been writing a lot of code (and open-sourcing it &#8211; see here, here, here, here, here, here / here, here, here) and today came across a particular problem and a rather convenient solution provided by PHP&#8217;s visibility rules for methods and properties of classes. I am working on a PHP-based object mapper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get the low-down on WebMatrix, for creating simple websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The full release of WebMatrix is now available. It&#8217;s a great tool designed to be easy to use to build great websites. It comes with a load of built in project templates including DotNetNuke, Joomla, WordPress and more. You may have noticed this list includes PHP software &#8211; WebMatrix and the servers that support it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twiq: a quick-tweet applet for Windows</title>
		<link>http://www.chris-alexander.co.uk/4692</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is with great pleasure that I announce my latest open-source adventure in the form of Twiq. Twiq is a little applet for Windows that allows you to quickly tweet a message you come up with and then get straight back to work. Too many times I have forgotten something funny, useful or generally tweetable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing with Kinect: Depth Detection</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been busy hacking around with Kinect, the Xbox 360 &#8220;controllerless controller&#8221; I&#8217;ve been writing a lot about recently. Yesterday I got it up and running under Ubuntu, and after that I got a very simple &#8220;nearest object&#8221; algorithm running on it. Check out the videos below! Also &#8211; the code. Kinect up and running: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#ukpdc10 Full Time &#8211; wins all round</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the #ukpdc10 event has come to a close. While developers attending the event in the US get yet more content to enjoy, over on the east of the Atlantic we&#8217;re calling it a night. But what a brilliant event it has been! First of all thanks must go out to the UK team for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#ukpdc10 Half-Time Analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.chris-alexander.co.uk/4242</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we&#8217;re half way through PDC 2010, Microsoft&#8217;s Professional Developers Conference. While the US are off having their lunch between sessions, it&#8217;s a great opportunity to sit back and take in what has been unleashed upon us in the last few hours. Unfortunately due to this pesky University thing I managed to miss most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IE 9 For Developers</title>
		<link>http://www.chris-alexander.co.uk/4199</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some innovative features in IE 9 that I had previously been extremely excited about. These are mostly regarding the browser&#8217;s integration with the operating system (especially Windows 7), which is something that Microsoft is in a unique position to provide in an efficient manner. Some of these features are enabled through a JavaScript [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ChrisBot: Let&#8217;s play Tic Tac Toe</title>
		<link>http://www.chris-alexander.co.uk/4186</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the sessions I attended at Software Craftsmanship 2010 (the other being on Refucktoring) was called Robot Tournaments. This seemed extremely intriguing to me so I was there with the laptop out ready to try my hand at whatever this tournament was. The idea of the project was to create a battlebot rewarding a rapid development [...]]]></description>
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