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		<title>Breaking down the PayPal API</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PayPal is the most popular platform for receiving online payments. The relative ease of opening a PayPal account and receiving payments compared to opening a merchant account for a traditional payment gateway is the number one reason, and another is the comprehensive API they provide for their payment services. Foreclosure: The PayPal API is amongst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2011/04/23/breaking-down-the-paypal-api/</link>
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		<title>Finding co-founders &#8211; Technical founder POV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, a prelude - though I've mostly written technical articles on this blog, it's called techfounder for a reason - it was my original intention to also talk about startups from the view-point of the technical founder. I have been involved in several ventures so far in this role (currently at Binpress), each giving me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2011/04/16/finding-co-founder-technical-founder-pov/</link>
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		<title>Database optimization techniques you can actually use</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just saw an article on Smashing Magazine titled "Speeding up your website's database". I love Smashing's contribution to the webdev community, but their articles are getting longer and more basic at the same time. I understand the need for simplicity because of the wide audience of Smashing Magazine, but I'd wish they'd give something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2011/03/25/database-profiling-and-optimizing-your-database-the-generic-version/</link>
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		<title>(mis-)Adventures with Amazon Simple Email Services (SES)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has recently launched a new service as part of its web-services offerings - Amazon Simple Email Service (or SES for short), an HTTP API for sending Emails. The main selling points are Amazon's usual scalability power, as well as a relatively low price point for sending Emails (10 cents per 1000 Emails, not counting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2011/03/23/mis-adventures-with-amazon-simple-email-services-ses/</link>
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		<title>Last call for the Binpress programming contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Binpress programming contest is entering the last stretch - 10 days left until the end. Over $40,000 in prize value is still up for grabs - request an invitation and get your submission entered. A short recap - my startup, Binpress - a marketplace for source-code, is running a programming contest for best submission [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2011/02/15/last-call-for-binpress-programming-contest/</link>
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		<title>My take on Quora vs. Stackoverflow, or substance vs. social</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quora, a hot Q&#38;A startup has been gaining traction at an astounding rate for a while now. Though not a frequent user, I was impressed by the many candid answers from some of the biggest names in our industry (IT). A lot of inside information and perspective can be found there, and it's a credit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2011/02/01/my-take-on-quora-vs-stackoverflow-or-substance-vs-social/</link>
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		<title>Binpress launched and a programming contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm excited to announce that we launched Binpress (I'm a co-founder), a marketplace for source-code where web developers can buy and sell source-code from each other. To kick start our launch, we've organized a programming contest with over $40k in cash and prizes, sponsored by companies such as Google, Amazon, PayPal and Zend. Check out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2011/01/28/binpress-launched-and-a-programming-contest/</link>
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		<title>Zend Framework dependency manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reusing Zend Framework based code can be a bit of a pain - you do not want to include the entire framework just for a few classes, yet tracking down the dependencies needed to run your code can be time consuming and it's hard to tell if you aren't missing anything. To overcome those issues, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2010/11/02/zend-framework-dependency-manager/</link>
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		<title>Software licenses for dummies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The legal aspects of selling software are, for the most part, pretty vague for most developers. During preparations for launching our software market, Binpress, I absorbed a lot of information from our very good copyright  attorney and got to understand much better the nuances of software licensing. Here are some of the lessons I learned. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2010/10/05/software-licenses-for-dummies/</link>
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		<title>For how long will Microsoft hold back the web?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's 2010. Despite rumors to the contrary, the web is not dead. In fact, it is thriving more than ever (unless bandwidth consumption is your main metric). Yet, it is standing at a crossroads. The web is served primarily through web-browsers (Desktop or otherwise), and as such is very dependent on their capabilities. As developers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2010/09/29/for-how-long-will-microsoft-hold-back-the-web/</link>
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