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		<title>LiveWhale site updated with FAQ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve added some frequently asked questions to the LiveWhale public site (www.livewhale.com), as well as a feed of articles about LiveWhale from this blog.
Sticking to the &#8220;use your own tools&#8221; mantra, we use LiveWhale to edit that site.  I can tell you that it is a heck of a lot faster to add items from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Make Me Think About How Stupid the Title of Steve Krug&#8217;s Book Is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Douglas&#8217; blog post yesterday contained lots of interesting points about how computers communicate with users.  It&#8217;s true that applications ought to speak in human language, not computer-speak; as Donald has also pointed out, it&#8217;s crazy to ask a user to &#8220;Attach Resource&#8221; when what she really wants to do is put an image on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chapter42.whaleblogs.net/archives/dont-make-me-think/</link>
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		<title>Communicating in plain English</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At this point, we&#8217;ve all been barraged by Krug&#8217;s &#8220;don&#8217;t make me think&#8221; mantra a nearly infinite amount of times.  I remember the first time I heard this phrase: sitting in Web 1 class, learning how to code html the &#8220;right&#8221; way.  Our instructor was raging on about standard web design conventions, how one should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chapter42.whaleblogs.net/archives/communicating-in-plain-english/</link>
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		<title>Coding Ahead of Yourself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re maintaining a software product which evolves and expands in order to remain competitive and make itself more useful to a user base, it&#8217;s easy to forget to keep all the moving parts in line with changes and new features as you roll them out. However, if this issue isn&#8217;t dealt with, bugs and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chapter42.whaleblogs.net/archives/coding-ahead-of-yourself/</link>
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		<title>Virtual 3D Internet of the Future, We Hardly Knew Ye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Unplugs Lively as Hype Fades Over Virtual Worlds
Although Google&#8217;s entry into Second Life&#8217;s market gave many of us .edu-dev-type people the sense that maybe there WAS something to this virtual worlds thing, it looks like that was a short-lived experiment.  From a Reuters article cited in the above:
It&#8217;s hard to say what, if anything, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chapter42.whaleblogs.net/archives/virtual-3d-internet/</link>
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		<title>The Uncommon Application, Part I:  The personal touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have made no secret of the fact that White Whale would jump at the chance to develop a customized college admission application.
More and more of our clients are moving to the Common Application— in most cases that&#8217;s because homegrown applications tend to be unwieldy and hard to manage, and it&#8217;s easy to see how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chapter42.whaleblogs.net/archives/the-uncommon-application/</link>
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		<title>Screencast Demo of the Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the process of developing documentation for LiveWhale, our new CMS, we have begun to record screencasts to demo LW&#8217;s features.  Often it&#8217;s easier to show than tell, when it comes to CMS features; a narrated demonstration lets us inject a little personality.  And it&#8217;s also a lot faster than writing out a how-to page [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chapter42.whaleblogs.net/archives/screencast-demo-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>Converting to Title Case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the process of developing and refining our CMS, the question occasionally arises whether or not we should convert text inputs from format X to format Y.  These questions range from the innocuous and straightforward (should we convert curly quotes to straight quotes?  or vice versa?) to the more insidious (should we correct a misspelling?  should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chapter42.whaleblogs.net/archives/converting-to-title-case/</link>
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		<title>This month&#8217;s free online Photoshop alternative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; is Pixlr.  And despite the silly Web 2.0 name (what is it with these people?), based on a quick review it seems impressive.  Of course, those of us who depend on Photoshop are likely to be so deeply ingrained in the basic workings of PS that it would be torture to change; in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chapter42.whaleblogs.net/archives/this-months-free-online-photoshop-alternative/</link>
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		<title>2,001 words about White Whale&#8217;s stance on the upcoming presidential election</title>
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