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		<title>Michael DiBernardo in the Wandering Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new entry of The Wandering Book by Michael DiBernardo is a very interesting one. In the first part of it he praises the Software Craftsmanship community (our strive to learn and improve, the way we try to make our software as simple as possible, etc), but it is actually the part &#8220;under the line&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nexwerk.com/2010/03/07/michael-dibernardo-in-the-wandering-book/</link>
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		<title>Farewell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Water washed you upon the shores of this earth
were you walked erect with the gusts of wind caressing your hair
now in flames you go from us never to be forgotten.
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		<link>http://blog.nexwerk.com/2010/02/26/farewell/</link>
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		<title>Bobby Wilson in the Wandering Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that The Wandering Book is travelling at higher speed now. We recently had a very insightful entry from Gustin Prudner and, to my surprise, today there is a new one; this time by Bobby Wilson coding fellow at Entryway:

In his entry he states:

There are ideas but there aren&#8217;t rules. Craftsmanship is an introspective [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nexwerk.com/2010/02/04/bobby-wilson-in-the-wandering-book/</link>
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		<title>Gustin Prudner in the Wandering Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have another wonderful entry to The Wandering Book, this time from Gustin. Gustin runs a small studio in Floyd, Virginia called Entryway. They follow a set of core values deeply ingrained into their culture embracing Software Craftsmanship to their daily lives as a business.
In his entry in The Wandering Book, Gustin, describes his thoughts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nexwerk.com/2010/02/01/gustin-in-the-wandering-book/</link>
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		<title>Customer Collaboration: on Empathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 4th value in the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship reads:

Not only customer collaboration,
but also productive partnerships.

Being &#8220;in tune&#8221; with our customers has always been one of the most important aspects of my professional life. I have always tried to understand, really understand, the need of a customer; get to know where it itches.
When I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nexwerk.com/2009/12/30/customer-collaboration-on-empathy/</link>
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		<title>Software Craftsmanship on IRC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was looking around IRC (it was a long time since I had logged into IRC) and to my surprise I could not find a #software_craftsmanship channel!
Long story short (this should be just a little update) I have decided to log into irc.freenode.net whenever I can and be in the #software_craftsmanship channel.
This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nexwerk.com/2009/12/22/software-craftsmanship-on-irc/</link>
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		<title>Doug Bradbury in the Wandering Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doug Bradbury has added this entry to The Wandering Book recently:
I love the point he makes about software development being physical;
The learning must get into your bones and muscles for it to be of use to you
One thing that most forget is, as Doug reiterates in his entry, that you need to practice your coding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nexwerk.com/2009/12/18/doug-bradbury-in-the-wandering-book/</link>
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		<title>Danger: Software Craftsmen at Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the upcoming Qcon Conference in London David Harvey is giving a talk on Software Craftsmanship with the title, you guessed right, Danger: Software Craftsmen at Work.
The abstract of his talk reads as follows:

Many &#8211; maybe all &#8211; of the ideas and practices being paraded under the banner of &#8220;Software Craftsmanship&#8221; are far from new. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nexwerk.com/2009/12/11/danger-software-craftsmen-at-work/</link>
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		<title>Micah Martin in the Wandering Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I woke up with a mail from Micah telling me that he had uploaded the pages he wrote in The Wandering Book. I checked the site and I was totally amazed by what I saw.
As you can see yourself he used a wonderful font for writing his entry, but above all he challenges [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nexwerk.com/2009/12/09/micah-martin-in-the-wandering-book/</link>
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		<title>My new Apprentices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday finally both of my new apprentices have accepted the role as an Apprentice at Eden Development.
I am very excited to be able to guide them on their long road to mastery. During the course of their apprenticeship I will be posting my thoughts on their progress, the tasks I have assigned to them and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nexwerk.com/2009/11/27/my-new-apprentices/</link>
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