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	<description>Blog about web development and Internet entrepreneurship</description>
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		<title>Creating embedabble widgets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Distribution of embeddable widgets is a common feature in many web services today. The most well known example is probably google's adsense that allows site owners to add google ads to their sites. Embeddable widgets allow a subset of functionality to be used on third-party sites, greatly increasing possible market reach for a web service [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2010/02/05/creating-embedabble-widgets/</link>
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		<title>Back to business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long hiatus, I'm getting back to blogging on web technologies, startups and other miscellanea. I've just completed a re-design of the site, which I'm proud to say I've done myself (with some finishing touches and advice from my two partners at Lionite).
I'm looking forward to expand discussion on some subjects I've brought up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2010/01/26/back-to-business/</link>
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		<title>How to add semantics to content? embed it in the tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Through reading an interesting post by Chris Dixon titled "To make smarter systems, it's all about the data", I came across another interesting link in one of the comments - the google research blog post on "The unreasonable effectiveness of data". 
The post links to a PDF document written by three Google researchers, and covers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2009/09/02/how-to-add-semantics-to-content-embed-it-in-the-tools/</link>
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		<title>Client development &#8211; think partners, not employers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saying there is a lot of variation in the field of web development would be a huge understatement. You have everything from anonymous freelancers to large known firms, several hundred dollar budgets to several hundred thousand dollar budgets (and more). 
How much does it cost to build a website? what does building a website entails? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2009/07/30/client-development-think-partners-not-employers/</link>
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		<title>What makes a good programmer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some casual surfing led me to this article from a couple of years ago, titled "How to recognize a good programmer". It was a nice read, but as many in the comments pointed out, the criteria the author set forth most likely describe himself and are not really useful as rules-of-thumb on how to recognize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2009/07/22/what-makes-a-good-programmer/</link>
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		<title>Writing specifications for web applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Specifications are an integral part of any web project (or any software project for that matter). Writing good specifications will improve the probability of success for a given project by a great deal.

Why spec?
Specifications encapsulate a project's goals, requirements, features and scope. This is very important for several reasons:
Understanding project requirements
Understanding what a project sets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2009/07/03/writing-specifications-for-web-applications/</link>
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		<title>Multiple row operations in MySQL / PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Multiple row operations are in common use in a normalized application databases as one database entity is often linked to multiple sub-entities (for example a user and his tags). By row operations I'm referring to write queries, namely UPDATE and INSERT queries (DELETE is less interesting so I'll leave it out for now). 
Too often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2009/05/14/multiple-row-operations-in-mysql-php/</link>
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		<title>Finding your web business model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The web as a commercial venue has changed and evolved much in the relatively short time since its inception. As the medium and technology evolved, more and more "real-world" business models became viable for web products. 
Despite this, the application of those business models in the web arena is still very much experimental, and it's [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2009/05/06/finding-your-web-business-model/</link>
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		<title>Lionite relaunched! time to kick back&#8230; and work some more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a long time, we've been feverishly developing beautiful sites for others while our own site was left to rot in mediocrity for lack of time. Now, finally, we've taken the time to properly redesign and relaunch our portfolio website, at http://www.lionite.com:


We went for an illustration-style design. Those characters are actually us (the Lionite team), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2009/04/30/lionite-relaunched-time-to-kick-back-and-work-some-more/</link>
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		<title>Conveying value to clients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Preface: This article was written mostly half a year ago, as I was wrapping up an intense period of freelancing and sub-contracting. It is less relevant for me now, as I'm now an equal partner in a small web firm and my freelancing days are beyond me - however, I thought it might be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techfounder.net/2009/04/05/conveying-value-to-clients/</link>
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