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		<title>The Beginning of the End of the App Bubble</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the recent announcements of the Windows 8 App Store and the Facebook App Center, it seems like we are a couple of years out from everyone doing a 180 on the love fest for the app. I think the bubble is going to burst and hackers will lead a revolt against the App. From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 7 Categories of Website Optimization</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[high performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[html5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john phamvan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memcached]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[payoff.com]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent NY Times article about the importance of website performance, a couple of Google engineers talked about how users may choose one website over another because of a 250 millisecond difference in page load time. 10 years ago website users didn&#8217;t mind waiting 4 &#8211; 6 seconds for pages to load, but that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just-in-Time Expertise: My Secret Weapon for Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AnyFu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donn Felker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Just-in-Time Expertise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Vincent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesh01]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TechZing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know everything. Actually, let me rephrase that. I don&#8217;t know very much. Despite that, I somehow manage to get things done from time to time. From an external observer, it may appear that any success I have comes from some special ability for a particular job or task. However, the reality is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transitioning to Lean Startup at MESH01</title>
		<link>http://jeffwhelpley.com/2012/02/29/lean-startup-mesh01/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lean-startup-mesh01</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lean Startup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hubspot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesh01]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moneyball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wear Testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Baseball isn&#8217;t just numbers, it&#8217;s not science. If it was then anybody could do what we&#8217;re doing, but they can&#8217;t because they don&#8217;t know what we know. They don&#8217;t have our experience and they don&#8217;t have our intuition&#8230;there are intangibles that only baseball people understand.&#8221;  - Grady Fusion to Billy Beane in Moneyball Moneyball is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Left a Nice, Cushy Job at a Big Bank for a Startup</title>
		<link>http://jeffwhelpley.com/2012/01/09/from-big-bank-to-startup/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=from-big-bank-to-startup</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gail Liebhaber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glengarry Glen Ross]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jason Roberts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo Dealer Services]]></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>
		<link>http://jeffwhelpley.com/2011/12/29/open-letter-wells-fargo-dealer-services/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=open-letter-wells-fargo-dealer-services</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo Dealer Services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jeffwhelpley.com/?p=435</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://jeffwhelpley.com/2011/10/13/highly-effective-managers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=highly-effective-managers</link>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[effective technical manager]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hubspot experimentation framework]]></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>
		<link>http://jeffwhelpley.com/2011/09/03/legacy-modernization-marketplace/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=legacy-modernization-marketplace</link>
		<comments>http://jeffwhelpley.com/2011/09/03/legacy-modernization-marketplace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Modernization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[App Marketplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legacy 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>
		<link>http://jeffwhelpley.com/2011/08/25/app-marketplace/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=app-marketplace</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[API Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[App Marketplace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hubspot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jeffwhelpley.com/?p=164</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://jeffwhelpley.com/2011/08/17/tight-coupling-evil/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tight-coupling-evil</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Whelpley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dark side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loose coupling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tight coupling]]></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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