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		<title>Object cloning in PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In any complex object-oriented PHP program, there are situations that require copies of objects. Objects are often designed mutable, which means they contain state information that can change. Consider a bank account object, for example, which contains state information about &#8230; <a href="http://www.thomasknierim.com/362/php/object-cloning-in-php/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pogoplugged</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone seems to agree that the outgoing year 2011 was the year of the cloud. Judging by how often the word &#8220;cloud&#8221; was thrown at us by computer vendors, hosting companies, and service providers, it sounds like the greatest innovation &#8230; <a href="http://www.thomasknierim.com/357/internet/pogoplugged/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Attrition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Naively, one might assume that digital artifacts, such as software, are not subject to decay and attrition, processes that affect physical objects. After all, any digital artifact reduces to a sequence of ones and zeros that -given durable storage- remains &#8230; <a href="http://www.thomasknierim.com/342/uncategorized/digital-attrition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Android versus IOs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The heydays of the personal computer are over. The fastest growth is not in the traditional PC segment any longer, but in tablet computers and mobile devices. The technological advances in this field have been phenomenal during the past few &#8230; <a href="http://www.thomasknierim.com/161/tech-trends/android-versus-ios/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Agile Samurai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Agile Samurai by Jonathan Rasmusson 1st edition, 280 pages Pragmatic Bookshelf Book Review Over the last ten years, I&#39;ve been working with teams with different degrees of commitment to the agile process, ranging from non-existing to quite strong. I &#8230; <a href="http://www.thomasknierim.com/160/management/the-agile-samurai/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>PHP is not Java</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fact that PHP is not Java is self-evident and does not need much emphasizing. Nevertheless, developers who come from a Java/OOP background sometimes treat PHP as if it were Java with dollar signs. For example, one finds not just &#8230; <a href="http://www.thomasknierim.com/159/php/php-is-not-java/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Selector Subtleties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have no idea what the title of this blog entry means, chances are that you are not a web developer. Fee free to skip to the next article in this case. We are going to discuss CSS selectors &#8230; <a href="http://www.thomasknierim.com/154/web-development/selector-subtleties/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Natty Unity UI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, the Natty Narwhal 11.04 release of Ubuntu has finally arrived, entering the Linux stage with a fanfare. Many oohs and aahs were heard throughout the blogosphere during the past few months, and it seems that outcries alternated with songs &#8230; <a href="http://www.thomasknierim.com/155/open-source/natty-unity-ui/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To inline or not to inline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As every web developer knows, there are three ways to apply CSS styles to a document. One can use a separate style sheet in connection with the &#60;link&#62; tag, one can embed style definition block(s) directly in the HTML document, &#8230; <a href="http://www.thomasknierim.com/156/web-development/to-inline-or-not-to-inline/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The mighty paper UI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went shopping last weekend, and since my capacity for remembering things is slowly degrading (sigh) I often make a shopping list when I have to buy more than 500 items. Okay, maybe that&#39;s a bit exaggerated. I mean 50 &#8230; <a href="http://www.thomasknierim.com/158/tech-trends/the-mighty-paper-ui/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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