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		<title>Why I Left a Nice, Cushy Job at a Big Bank for a Startup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that you were lucky enough to find a job at a large, powerful organization that: Has great pay and benefits Has a great boss who actively helps you get better and wants you to succeed Is extremely stable Is challenging and rewarding Would allow you to do many of the things you love to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to Everyone I Worked with at Wells Fargo Dealer Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“There’s always a way – if you’re committed.” – Tony Robbins “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other” – Abraham Lincoln To my IT partners, business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 4 Characteristics of Highly Effective Technical Managers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I&#8217;m also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too&#8230;&#8221; - Bill Lumbergh from Office Space Bad managers and bad management teams are everywhere. Movies and TV are filled with shows that rip on managers and/or put them in a bad light (i.e. Office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Steps to Help You Get Rid of Your Legacy System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Modernization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many modern systems are replaced or undergo major changes every 3 to 5 years. It is very common, however, to see the architecture of a COBOL-based Mainframe application remain largely untouched for 10, 15, even 20+ years! As I explained in my article, The Root of All Evil (in software), legacy systems have a high degree of tight coupling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Every System Should Have an App Marketplace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love my iPhone. &#160;I mean, seriously, I am obsessed. It started off slowly with just Email, Safari, Words, Kindle, Rotowire, Pandora, YouTube and Yahoo! Fantasy Football. Then it picked up some steam with Yelp, Sportacular, Facebook, SiriusXM, PocketGod and MapQuest. Then things really got crazy after adding Twitter, Foursquare, Google+, MobileRSS, Analytics and Pac-Man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Root of All Evil (in software)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are you scared of? &#160;Snakes? &#160;Spiders? &#160;Sith Teddy Bears? &#160;I am pretty&#160;desensitized&#160;having grown up in the era of great horror flicks in the 80&#8242;s (i.e.&#160;Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Friday the 13th, etc.), but there is one thing that never fails to create a pit deep in my stomach. &#160;It is when complex code [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debt Ceiling: A Great Idea for Software Development</title>
		<link>http://jeffwhelpley.com/2011/08/05/technical-debt-ceiling/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=technical-debt-ceiling</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Debt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of talk recently about the U.S. Debt Ceiling.  Before you all hit snooze and click the back button as quickly as humanly possible, I am not going to get into any boring financial discussion.  It&#8217;s just that while I was watching Meet the Press last weekend, I realized that there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 4 Characteristics of Highly Effective Developers</title>
		<link>http://jeffwhelpley.com/2011/07/27/highly-effective-developers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=highly-effective-developers</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Help]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.&#8221; - Stephen Covey It seems like everyone is busy these days.  Especially when you are in IT.  You are constantly being asked to do more and do it more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 3 Reasons Why .NET or Java on a Resume is Practically Meaningless</title>
		<link>http://jeffwhelpley.com/2011/07/18/net-java-resume-meaningless/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=net-java-resume-meaningless</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recruiting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[.NET]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Base Skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resumes are so much fun, aren&#8217;t they? Resumes are fun for job seekers to create and they are loads of fun for employers to review. There is something truly invigorating about boiling a life down to a series of dates, buzz words and career highlights. Who am I? Well, just look at these 2 pages [...]]]></description>
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