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		<title>Faking Production &#8211; database access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our services has been around for a while, a realy long time.  It used to get developed in production, there is an awful lot of work involved in making the app self-contained, to where it could be brought up in a VM and run without access to production or some kinds of fake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Java Onion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m siting on my flight home from my first devopsdays in Goteborg, so firstly, many thanks to the awesome Patrick Debois, Ulf &#38; many many others that put the effort in to organising the conference, and everybody that turned up and made the event so worth while! My primary reason for going was to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 Essentials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just rebuilt my laptop (a combination of McAfee Whole Disk Encryption slowing the current build down &#38; a Crucial ReadSSD 128Gb that was too cheap to resist forced me to, honest guv), so it&#8217;s time to refresh &#38; re-document the essential software list: Windows 7 Professional 64bit VistaSwitcher (better alt-tab) WindowSpace (snap windows to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Mac Toolbox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my recent post on the engineers toobox, I&#8217;ve just rebuilt my Apple MacBook (newer, bigger hard disk was the perfect opportunity for a fresh Snow Leopard install and to fix some annoying iPhoto index &#38; thumbnail corruption), so here&#8217;s my list of essentials for my MacBook, in no particular order: Evernote SpanningSync [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Toolbox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In days gone by, any computer guy worth his salt had a collection of boot floppies, 5.25&#8243; &#38; 3.5&#8243;, containing a mix of MS-DOS, DR-DOS, Toms Root Boot &#38; Norton tools. These days passed and the next set of essentials was boot cd-r, containing BartPE, RIPLinux, Knoppix etc. People quickly switched to carrying these tools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL Replication slides from BarCamp Belfast 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[just incase anybody was interested, the slides from my BarCamp Belfast talk are here: Google Docs SlideShare (you can download the PPT from there as well)]]></description>
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		<title>St Anne&#8217;s Cathedral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[St Anne&#8217;s Cathedral Originally uploaded by SimonMcC]]></description>
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		<title>BarCampBelfast &#8211; planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BarCampBelfast-planning Originally uploaded by SimonMcC]]></description>
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		<title>DavyMac&#8217;s iPhone Photography talk at BarCamp Belfast 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DavyMac&#8217;s iPhone Photography talk at BarCamp Belfast 2010 Originally uploaded by SimonMcC]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mccartney.ie/wordpress/2010/05/davymacs-iphone-photography-talk-at-barcamp-belfast-2010/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=davymacs-iphone-photography-talk-at-barcamp-belfast-2010</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s changed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Johnston commented recently that the recent surge in activity in the community side of the local tech &#38; business scene could be &#8220;the &#8216;real&#8217; end of the &#8216;Troubles&#8217;?&#8221;.  It&#8217;s definitely a positive thing, I&#8217;m delighted the next generation of technologists in Northern Ireland has a growing &#38; diverse community around them.  Something that was [...]]]></description>
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