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 </description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)</generator><item><title>How can you force clients to use your APIs properly?</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmstall/archive/2006/08/21/buzzword-bingo.aspx#735805</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:32:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:735805</guid><dc:creator>Mike Stall's .NET Debugging Blog</dc:creator><description>It's tough to make a client use your API correctly. It's especially tough to get clients to not do things...&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=735805" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Buzzword bingo</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmstall/archive/2006/08/21/buzzword-bingo.aspx#711880</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:38:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:711880</guid><dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator><description>Synergy is also a rather natty tool for working with multiple computers: &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/index.html"&gt;http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Agile&amp;quot; is in danger of becoming the mot de jour - and is being abused so much that it is often used to mean: We don't design, plan or think ahead - we just do whatever the customer wants.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=711880" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Buzzword bingo</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmstall/archive/2006/08/21/buzzword-bingo.aspx#711492</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:35:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:711492</guid><dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator><description>Turd-polishing: Making repeated fixes to a (very) poorly written product, component, subsystem or method, rather than just rewriting or replacing it.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=711492" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>