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	<description>ramblings of a late 20s IT nerd / volleyball junkie / semi-professional drinker</description>
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		<title>LINQ-to-Entities Date Comparison Gotcha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this problem very recently while trying to deploy a working product to a new server.  There&#8217;s more information in this StackOverflow question I posted, but here&#8217;s a summary.
When you do a date comparison with DateTime.Now using LINQ-to-Entities against a SQL Server database, the engine translates DateTime.Now to GetDate().
For example:

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		<link>http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2010/02/25/linq-to-entities-date-comparison-gotcha/</link>
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		<title>jQuery 1.4 released!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yep, jQuery 1.4 has been released.
Here&#8217;s a great post from nettuts outlining some key differences and new features.
I don&#8217;t really have much to add on this, but just a few thoughts:

Speed improvements are good and all, but when you can get ten times better javascript performance by changing browsers, nearly doubling the speed of your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2010/01/15/jquery-1-4-released/</link>
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		<title>Getting into ASP.NET MVC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It all started when I decided that I&#8217;d rewrite a partially-aborted PHP web app of mine in .Net.  The PHP version was relatively functional, but PHP is not my strongest skill, so updating and improving it was hard.  Combined with a lack of good quality free time, it meant that I didn&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2009/11/19/getting-into-asp-net-mvc/</link>
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		<title>Probably the best response on Stack Overflow ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d probably be aware that I&#8217;m a fan of Stack Overflow.  I mean, I have my SO profile over there on the right of the page.
This is just a quick post to provide a link to the best response I&#8217;ve seen on Stack Overflow.  And just to clarify, I mean best in terms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2009/11/16/probably-the-best-response-on-stack-overflow-ever/</link>
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		<title>Coding Tests in Interviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my travels, I stumbled across a blog post from Brandon Savage titled, &#8220;Why Coding Tests Are A Bad Interview Technique&#8221;.  While there are some points I think are fair enough, for the most part I disagree.  I&#8217;ll break down the major points so it&#8217;s easier to read.
Sending out Resumes to all available companies
Brandon mentions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2009/11/03/coding-tests-in-interviews/</link>
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		<title>Lessons Learned from Entity Framework</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m starting a new project, and we&#8217;ve made the decision to use the ADO.NET Entity Framework for talking to the database.
I actually found it quite difficult to get started.  Examples on the web seemed to assume that I already had everything installed and ready to go.  Step one was invariably &#8220;Add a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2009/10/15/lessons-learned-from-entity-framework/</link>
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		<title>Using jQuery for evil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you find a tool that&#8217;s not just good for run-of-the-mill, intended-purpose work, but also for fixing up some bad situations.  jQuery is one such tool.
Some work I&#8217;m currently doing involves presenting nicely styled pages to the user of a web site.  The html I have to work with is not always ideal and needs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2009/10/05/using-jquery-for-evil/</link>
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		<title>Just a quick Kentico menu solution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thought I&#8217;d post this solution to what I would have thought was a fairly common problem with this product.
I&#8217;m using an ASP.Net CMS called Kentico CMS.  It is quite good &#8211; much more friendly than some others I&#8217;ve used recently.  I&#8217;ve been trying to get the CSS Menu control set up so that it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2009/09/04/just-a-quick-kentico-menu-solution/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t say random when you mean unique!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made a mistake the other day.  It seems that I used a random number when I really wanted a unique number.
Let me explain.
A service I wrote needed to send a message to an older process every 30 seconds or so.  To do this, it put a file in a particular folder and gave it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2009/07/16/dont-say-random-when-you-mean-unique/</link>
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		<title>Offtopic &#8211; Triple J Hottest 100 of all time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t often write about anything non-tech related, but I thought this was worth the detour.
Triple J is taking votes for their Hottest 100 of all time.  It&#8217;s incredibly hard to choose.  If you&#8217;re anything like me, you&#8217;ll find yourself with a shortlist of about 30 before you realise you&#8217;ve forgotten one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.damianbrady.com.au/2009/06/19/offtopic-triple-j-hottest-100-of-all-time/</link>
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