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	<title>Andy Weston</title>
	<link>http://www.westonsoftware.com/blog</link>
	<description>Snippets of Thought On Software Development</description>
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		<title>Website Marketing Analyzer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I discovered a nice tool recently that helps you target, market and analyze the keywords and effectiveness of your websites &#8230; it is called Web CEO.  It has tools for helping you find good keywords to focus on, for example, it calculates an index called the KEI which represents a ratio of the popularity of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.westonsoftware.com/blog/2007/09/14/website-marketing-analyzer/</link>
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		<title>BlogEngine.NET Open Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a new starter kit available out on CodePlex called BlogEngine.NET that has some very nice features to it.  Its a lightweight blog application written in ASP.NET that has most of the usual features you would expect from a blog.  The source code is a nice reference implementation of an ASP.NET app that uses themes, etc., for rendering.  There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.westonsoftware.com/blog/2007/08/30/blogenginenet-open-source/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. &#8212; MC Escher
Absurd and impossible &#8230; why are all my ideas seeming that way lately?  ;)  &#8211;Andy
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		<link>http://www.westonsoftware.com/blog/2007/08/21/quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Using Silverlight to display books from an Amazon Web Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing around with formatting XAML for Silverlight on the server side and I decided to mash-up some XML from an Amazon web service and get it to display a list of books.  Here&#8217;s a sample page &#8230;

I ran into a few limitations but overall it went pretty well.  The plugin doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.westonsoftware.com/blog/2007/08/15/using-silverlight-to-display-books-from-an-amazon-web-service/</link>
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		<title>Third-party Silverlight controls are starting to emerge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ComponentOne is now showing off demos of it&#8217;s upcoming Sapphire Silverlight controls.  After installing the plugin, click on the Show Me Sapphire button on the carrousel.  The control gallery includes Flashy versions of buttons and listboxes and docking panels.  These are still alpha versions of the controls (a few things don&#8217;t work yet, like the Tab [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.westonsoftware.com/blog/2007/08/13/third-party-silverlight-controls-are-starting-to-emerge/</link>
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		<title>Silverlight Samples Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing around with creating some XAML snippets and I needed a place to post my code so I created this little framework page to display them &#8230; ./silverlight/samples
 I&#8217;d like to create a little XAML Sample Manger in ASP.NET &#8230; if only I can find the time!!! 
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		<link>http://www.westonsoftware.com/blog/2007/08/04/silverlight-samples-page/</link>
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		<title>Anthem.NET - a better AJAX for .NET applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to get started with AJAX for .NET and you are looking around for a platform you should give some consideration to a library I found called Anthem.NET.  Its very easy to setup and works by simply changing the namespace of most of the standard asp controls to &#8220;anthem&#8221; and then telling the control [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.westonsoftware.com/blog/2007/07/21/anthemnet-a-better-ajax-for-net-applications/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.&#8221;  &#8211;Einstein
Guess what, you know that complicated subsystem that you want to build on your next project?  You probably don&#8217;t need all of that.  Keep it simple, dude, but make sure it does the simple things well.  &#8211;Andy
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		<link>http://www.westonsoftware.com/blog/2007/07/12/quote-of-day/</link>
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		<title>Axosoft, some good Project Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on a project recently that could take me about 6months to complete so I started looking around for some project management software to help me out.  Now I loath Microsoft Project.  Not so much because of its features but more so because of the people that I have worked with who have abused [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.westonsoftware.com/blog/2007/06/30/axosoft-some-good-project-management/</link>
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		<title>Web Client Software Factory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out the newest June release of the WCSF, http://www.codeplex.com/websf, it saves tons of time generating the architecture for new projects.  I installed the latest and there is a much-improved installer that helps you grab all of the extras for Visual Studio that you need to get going.  A considerable number.  Very nice.
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		<link>http://www.westonsoftware.com/blog/2007/06/21/web-client-software-factory/</link>
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