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		<title>How to find your Ruby gem installation path</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It took me a bit too long to Google this, so I thought it was worth a note: You can find the location or path to where your Ruby gems are installed at with this command:

gem environment gemdir

Hope it&#8217;s useful!
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		<link>http://nealenssle.com/blog/2010/03/30/ruby-gem-installation-pat/</link>
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		<title>Management by walking around</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 3 in a series on managing programmers
The third installment in this series is about something I learned well before I got into management. In fact, it&#8217;s probably the reason why I got into management at all:
Get up out of your chair.
As geeks we&#8217;d rather just sit there. Sit in our chairs and send yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nealenssle.com/blog/2010/02/06/mbwa/</link>
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		<title>How to get an &#8220;A+&#8221; on your performance review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My advice on how to get an awesome grade at your next performance review is to simply follow Rands&#8217; advice:
@rands, 1/11/2010: &#8220;Be productive, be fantastically clever when necessary, speak truth to power, hit your dates, and don&#8217;t ship crap.&#8221; 
By the way, if you&#8217;re a programmer or a manager of programmers and you&#8217;re not reading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nealenssle.com/blog/2010/01/14/how-to-get-an-a-on-your-performance-review/</link>
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		<title>Make the call</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 2 in a series on managing programmers
The second lesson I learned after being thrust into management was this:
Make the call.
Management didn&#8217;t confer any secret knowledge or special skills. Nothing about me had really changed from one day to the next. Except that all of a suddenly folks around me expected me to make the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nealenssle.com/blog/2009/12/18/make-the-call/</link>
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		<title>What do you think?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 in a series on managing programmers
If I have any management secret, it&#8217;s this: Every now and then, when one of my team members asks for my opinion, I try to pause and answer with one simple question:
What do you think?
I&#8217;ve been managing programmers for over five years now. That&#8217;s a long time in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nealenssle.com/blog/2009/11/22/what-do-you-think/</link>
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		<title>How to find the name of the current Rake task</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I needed a Rake task to answer a simple question for me:
&#8220;What&#8217;s my name?&#8221;
I honestly can&#8217;t quite remember why exactly the task needed to know it&#8217;s own name, but at the time it seemed important and I spent a couple hours digging about before I found out that Rake tasks are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nealenssle.com/blog/2009/11/14/how-to-find-the-name-of-the-current-rake-task/</link>
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		<title>Reading is fundamental</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was knocking about on LinkedIn this morning and saw they&#8217;ve added a new &#8220;Amazon Reading List&#8221; feature. So I took it for a spin and wrote up quick reviews for three of my new favorite books: Chad Fowler&#8217;s Passionate Programmer, Martin Fowler&#8217;s Refactoring, and Bob Martin&#8217;s Clean Code. 
Then I thought: Why should LinkedIn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nealenssle.com/blog/2009/11/14/reading-is-fundamental/</link>
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		<title>How to filter Subversion logs by date and author</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I keep forgetting this snippet, and then spend hours re-discovering/re-inventing it. So for the record: Here&#8217;s a bit of magic to let you filter your Subversion (SVN) logs by date and author:

svn log -vr {20091014}:"HEAD" &#124; sed -n "/nealenssle/,/-----$/ p"

I use it in a bash shell script function that I&#8217;ve got in my .bash_profile script [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nealenssle.com/blog/2009/10/14/how-to-filter-subversion-logs-by-date-and-author/</link>
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		<title>Developer Day in Boulder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Jake and I enjoyed attending Developer Day at the TechStars facility in downtown Boulder.
Highlights included meeting Chad Fowler, author of one of my new favorite books The Passionate Programmer. It turns out Chad and I are, literally, neighbors. His house in Longmont is just a few blocks away from my own.
Another interesting moment was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nealenssle.com/blog/2009/10/11/developer-day-in-boulder/</link>
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		<title>Hiring 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foraker just posted my new blog article: “Hiring 101“. The key point:
At Foraker, we recognize that our best chance at success involves getting the right people on our bus. So we’re almost always looking for people who live and breathe the web, who are passionate about getting just a little bit better every single day, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nealenssle.com/blog/2009/09/16/hiring-101/</link>
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