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	<title>Ladislav Martincik - Personal website</title>
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		<title>Updates for Retaste.me</title>
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Retaste.me was a few weeks not delivering any emails. I apologize for it. The site was constantly after 5 requests throttled by delicous. Last week I was finally able talk to delicious developer. He explained me why I got throttled that many times and what to do to prevent it. I applied all their advice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martincik.com/?p=239</link>
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		<title>StackBuffer.com &#8211; awesome StackOverflow interface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just released my new &#8220;exprimental&#8221; project. Its name is StackBuffer.com. StackBuffer.com is web interface for StackOverflow.com API based only on HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. There&#8217;s no backend. Here&#8217;s screenshot how it looks like:
StackBuffer is open source project providing HTML5 and CSS3 interface for StackOverflow API. This project is actually experiment trying to prove [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martincik.com/?p=233</link>
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		<title>Hiring &#8220;Rock Stars&#8221; with the right life philosophy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I&#8217;m working in a team of very smart and talented people, but from time to time I feel like it&#8217;s very contra-productive. All the discussion about the way the software should be written or designed. It&#8217;s exhausting and demotivating! The reason I&#8217;m writing about it is not that I need to only get it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martincik.com/?p=207</link>
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		<title>Bootstraping Chef Server/Client with Sprinkle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like very much Chef tool for server configuration. I think it&#8217;s very good tool and every company doing web development should use it to bootstrap or configure their servers. But the sad truth is that before you can use Chef you need to prepare the machine with manual typing and configuration. And that&#8217;s what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martincik.com/?p=213</link>
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		<title>5 Mentors I admire and I follow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a lot and I listen to audio books whenever I&#8217;m not able to read. Because I&#8217;m doing this almost 8 years I think it would be nice if I share with you what are the people that influenced me and my life. These mentors are also my day to day food helping me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martincik.com/?p=138</link>
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		<title>Replacing Ruby on Rails fixtures with Factories and Builders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my current job we were facing a well known problem called Fixtures. The term Fixtures in context of Ruby On Rails framework is the default way how the testing data are prepared/created before the tests run.
Here&#8217;s the list of important reasons why Fixtures are pain:

Hard to read (YAML format)
Hard to define edge cases
Almost impossible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martincik.com/?p=112</link>
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		<title>Using Null Object pattern with Ruby on Rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While back ago I&#8217;ve released plugin to implement Null Object Pattern. And I&#8217;ve decided to write about it. Mostly because people are not using it or don&#8217;t know it.
What it does?
Instead of using a null reference to convey absence of an object (for instance, a non-existent customer), one uses an object which implements the expected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martincik.com/?p=22</link>
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		<title>Testing your Flex app with new FunFX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I&#8217;ve started to dig in to new funfx gem to transform our old FunFx code and get benefit of new features that new FunFX is providing. The main reasons for moving to new code are:

Support for Firefox, so now we can run tests even on Linux boxes
Support for AdvancedDatagrid
Much better way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martincik.com/?p=20</link>
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		<title>Becaming freelancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of 31 of January, 2009 I&#8217;ll became available as freelancer for 3 days work per week. I&#8217;m interested in doing Ruby and Servers related projects. You can find my online CV at Linkedin.com. My Open source code can be found at Github.com. If you&#8217;re interested, please leave your details in comment and I&#8217;ll contact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://martincik.com/?p=1</link>
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