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	<title>Webapper Blog &#187; Business of Software</title>
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		<title>ColdFusion Alive and Well &#8211; eWeek Article</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2010/10/07/coldfusion-alive-and-well-eweek-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Quinn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ColdFusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted an article about ColdFusion performance myths (&#8220;(Bollox to) ColdFusion is Slow&#8220;), and a related myth we hear quite often is in the &#8220;ColdFusion is dying&#8221; category (or even more amusing is the already-dead variation). If you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, there&#8217;s a piece in eWeek magazine showcasing ColdFusion. I&#8217;m an eWeek subscriber, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently posted an article about ColdFusion performance myths (&#8220;(Bollox to) ColdFusion is Slow&#8220;), and a related myth we hear quite often is in the &#8220;ColdFusion is dying&#8221; category (or even more amusing is the already-dead variation). If you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, there&#8217;s a piece in eWeek magazine showcasing ColdFusion. I&#8217;m an eWeek subscriber, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>ColdFusion Support Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/06/coldfusion-support-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Quinn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ColdFusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past decade, our team here at Webapper has been delivering specialized software services focused on ColdFusion performance and stability. Up until now, we had only offered that expertise in the form of &#8220;retail&#8221; consulting services. This model works roughly like conventional medicine&#8211;wait until you&#8217;re sick, then call a doctor. Sure, docs can do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For the past decade, our team here at Webapper has been delivering specialized software services focused on ColdFusion performance and stability. Up until now, we had only offered that expertise in the form of &#8220;retail&#8221; consulting services. This model works roughly like conventional medicine&#8211;wait until you&#8217;re sick, then call a doctor. Sure, docs can do [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specification Documents</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/20/spec-doc-template/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/20/spec-doc-template/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Papovich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spec Docs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My CFUnited presentation went very well &#8211; the room was pretty full and I had a bunch of great questions from the audience. If you were there, thank you for showing up!
Here are the materials:
Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specifications.zip, a zip-up of the PowerPoint presentation. It&#8217;s 144 slides and about a 14 MB [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[My CFUnited presentation went very well &#8211; the room was pretty full and I had a bunch of great questions from the audience. If you were there, thank you for showing up!
Here are the materials:
Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specifications.zip, a zip-up of the PowerPoint presentation. It&#8217;s 144 slides and about a 14 MB [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dont have a scope? Need a fixed bid?</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/14/dont-have-a-scope-need-a-fixed-bid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/14/dont-have-a-scope-need-a-fixed-bid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Papovich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bidding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another section from my presentation at CFUnited:
//
This segues into the question of what to do when the customer needs an &#8220;estimate&#8221; or requires a &#8220;fixed bid&#8221;? I think I just answered that one &#8211; you write a thorough spec doc, break it down into tasks and provide an estimate based on your anticipated schedule. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another section from my presentation at CFUnited:
//
This segues into the question of what to do when the customer needs an &#8220;estimate&#8221; or requires a &#8220;fixed bid&#8221;? I think I just answered that one &#8211; you write a thorough spec doc, break it down into tasks and provide an estimate based on your anticipated schedule. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New Job Title: Front End Engineer</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/10/new-job-title-front-end-engineer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/10/new-job-title-front-end-engineer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Quinn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User Interface]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UI]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a pretty good article about job titles in the current ColdFusion Developer&#8217;s Journal: 
Are the Job Titles &#8220;Web Designer&#8221; and &#8220;Web Developer&#8221; Too General? &#8211; There are a lot of professions that have emerged from the web: designers, developers, strategists, search engine optimists, information architects, usability and accessibility consultants, the list goes on&#8230; Today, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a pretty good article about job titles in the current ColdFusion Developer&#8217;s Journal: 
Are the Job Titles &#8220;Web Designer&#8221; and &#8220;Web Developer&#8221; Too General? &#8211; There are a lot of professions that have emerged from the web: designers, developers, strategists, search engine optimists, information architects, usability and accessibility consultants, the list goes on&#8230; Today, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Three Phases of Programmer Development</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/09/three-phases-of-programmer-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/09/three-phases-of-programmer-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daryl Banttari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JVM & Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading with some amusement Doug Boude&#8217;s retort to a Java purist that was dismissing ColdFusion for being too&#8230; simple? to be considered a &#8220;real&#8221; language, and I was reminded of a topic I commonly rant on.  It&#8217;s what I call the Three Phases of Programmer Development.
Phase One
A novice programmer is happy to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was reading with some amusement Doug Boude&#8217;s retort to a Java purist that was dismissing ColdFusion for being too&#8230; simple? to be considered a &#8220;real&#8221; language, and I was reminded of a topic I commonly rant on.  It&#8217;s what I call the Three Phases of Programmer Development.
Phase One
A novice programmer is happy to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>What About Data-Centric Applications?</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/26/what-about-datacentric-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/26/what-about-datacentric-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Papovich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spec Docs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webapper.net/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/30/What-About-DataCentric-Applications</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on my CFUnited presentation titled &#8220;Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specifications&#8221; and want to publish another teaser that might make it into the final version. This is raw, rough, uncut and unedited so beware.
// 
What About Data-Centric Applications?
Early in the project, you need to determine whether this is a data- centric [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on my CFUnited presentation titled &#8220;Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specifications&#8221; and want to publish another teaser that might make it into the final version. This is raw, rough, uncut and unedited so beware.
// 
What About Data-Centric Applications?
Early in the project, you need to determine whether this is a data- centric [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Building treehouses in code</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/12/building-treehouses-in-code/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/12/building-treehouses-in-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Papovich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spec Docs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webapper.net/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Building-treehouses-in-code</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on my CFUnited presentation titled &#8220;Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specifications&#8221; and thought I&#8217;d publish a teaser that might make it into the final version. This is raw, rough, uncut and unedited so beware.
//
Sometimes, a client knows what they want in the end, but really truly can&#8217;t tell you all the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on my CFUnited presentation titled &#8220;Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specifications&#8221; and thought I&#8217;d publish a teaser that might make it into the final version. This is raw, rough, uncut and unedited so beware.
//
Sometimes, a client knows what they want in the end, but really truly can&#8217;t tell you all the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Categories &#8211; UI and Business of Software</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/17/new-categories-ui-and-business-of-software/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/17/new-categories-ui-and-business-of-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Quinn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re adding two new categories to the Webapper blog. I&#8217;ve always been fascinated with user interface design challenges, not least of which because the browser has always been a difficult place, to say the least, to build software. So one of my resolutions in 2008 is to do more writing on the topic&#8211;book reviews (currently [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We&#8217;re adding two new categories to the Webapper blog. I&#8217;ve always been fascinated with user interface design challenges, not least of which because the browser has always been a difficult place, to say the least, to build software. So one of my resolutions in 2008 is to do more writing on the topic&#8211;book reviews (currently [...]]]></content:encoded>
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