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	<link>http://halfcooked.com/blog</link>
	<description>Wherein I write some stuff  that you may like to read. Or not, its up to you really.</description>
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		<title>Gerald release 0.3.6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just released version 0.3.6 of Gerald. Gerald is a general purpose database schema toolkit written in Python.
This release was at the request of the sqlpython project and contains only one change. A new convenience method connect has been added to the Schema class. This enables a schema to be initiated and then later [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfcooked.com/blog/2010/02/14/gerald-release-0-3-6/</link>
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		<title>Weird easy_install Behaviour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear lazyweb, I unsubscribed from the distutils-sig mailing list a while back and consequently I&#8217;m not up to date with the latest to-ings and fro-ings. But, I have a problem. As reported by someone today Gerald eggs won&#8217;t install on Windows. 
Everything is fine on my Ubuntu virtual machine, but on my shiny new work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfcooked.com/blog/2010/02/01/weird-easy_install-behaviour/</link>
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		<title>You Are Nothing Without A Command Line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always said that the appeal of any operating system &#8211; for me &#8211; is that I can fire up a terminal window and tinker around. When I say that many people look at me like I&#8217;ve got rocks in my head. But I&#8217;m glad I am not alone.
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		<link>http://halfcooked.com/blog/2010/01/30/you-are-nothing-without-a-command-line/</link>
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		<title>Professionalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read a fascinating article by Ed Smith called &#8220;Are We Too Professional?&#8221; which, although it is ostensibly about cricket, covers too many interesting topics to disect here. But it did prompt a couple of observations. 
One is that he is bang on the money and that some of the best performances &#8211; at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfcooked.com/blog/2010/01/28/professionalism/</link>
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		<title>Gerald release 0.3.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This last weekend I released version 0.3.5 of gerald. 
The major component of this release was to add a &#8216;User&#8217; class to the oracle_schema module. This is similar to the &#8216;Schema&#8217; class but whilst that shows all of the objects a database user owns the &#8216;User&#8217; class contains details of all of the objects they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfcooked.com/blog/2010/01/21/gerald-release-0-3-5/</link>
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		<title>Gerald release 0.3.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone, say hello to version 0.3.1 of gerald. This is a minor update that fixed some issues introduced in release 0.3 In summary these are:

Ticket 17 &#8211; Views have been converted to dictionaries from tuples
Ticket 18 &#8211; Reading an Oracle sequence updates it&#8217;s current value
Ticket 19 &#8211; Postgres primary keys were not represented properly when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfcooked.com/blog/2009/11/25/gerald-release-0-3-1/</link>
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		<title>Directory Information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a bit of an epiphany over the weekend. Luckily I managed to clean up afterwards. Actually, it was whilst I was cleaning up that I had the thought. 
As I removed the plastic wrapper from the latest set of phone books, dutifully placed it in the bin and then took the books themselves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfcooked.com/blog/2009/09/08/directory-information/</link>
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		<title>You can have your delimiter in any character, as long as it is comma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a recent project a number of interface files were defined as &#8220;ASCII encoded DOS files with CRLF (ASCII code 13 and 10 respectively) end of line markers and the field delimiter is &#124; (Pipe character &#8211; ASCII code 124)&#8221; or in plain language, pipe separated values files.
Now the casual observer would think that these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfcooked.com/blog/2009/06/24/you-can-have-your-delimiter-in-any-character-as-long-as-it-is-comma/</link>
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		<title>Gerald release 0.2.6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have packaged and released version 0.2.6 of gerald. This is an update that doesn&#8217;t change any functionality but has involved a major re-factoring of the module unit tests. Rather than wait I have released the package in it&#8217;s current form to give a base for some major changes coming in release 0.3
Gerald is being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfcooked.com/blog/2009/05/04/gerald-release-026/</link>
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		<title>Gerald release 0.2.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have packaged and released version 0.2.5 of gerald. This is another minor release with a couple of bugs fixes and one important administration update. You can find all of the details in the CHANGELOG.txt file that comes with the source distribution (or view it here) but in a nutshell the changes from the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfcooked.com/blog/2009/04/19/gerald-release-025/</link>
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