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		<title>Getting Back To My Roots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This spring has been a great opportunity to get out into my yard and do some much needed maintenance.   In the past I would have hired someone to come out and take care of these things for me, but this year I have been consciously seeking out home maintenance activities that I can find enjoyment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justindujardin.com/blog/?p=1155</link>
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		<title>Implicit Types (var) in C#</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After some thought I&#8217;ve come up with two simple rules to go by when using implicitly typed variables to make sure that you don&#8217;t end up seeing their nasty, code obfuscating side.  But I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself, first the important question that someone is bound to not be asking right about now:
What are Implicit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justindujardin.com/blog/?p=1017</link>
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		<title>Canvas Element Positioning Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[C# and Silverlight provide a rich set of layout controls that can be used in constructing elegant user interfaces, including a do-it-yourself Canvas class that allows you to manually position elements on it&#8217;s surface.
Positioning Elements in Code

With a Canvas you&#8217;re almost always going to want to have some code that positions the child elements.  To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justindujardin.com/blog/?p=1076</link>
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		<title>Custom Metadata tags in C# code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some dynamic languages like C# and ActionScript allow you to put metadata inline with your code.  Metadata can be a really cool way to make extra data available to you at runtime.  To make full use of it, you need to know how to specify this metadata and then how to access it.
MetadataSample.cs
The sample below [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justindujardin.com/blog/?p=983</link>
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		<title>Silverlight 3, LINQ, and Bing! Oh, my!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I talked about Silver Shorts and showed off my example Bing Image search application.
For this post I want to go over the code that I created for doing a Bing image query, to demonstrate just how powerful and concise Silverlight 3 C# code can be.  To truly appreciate this, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justindujardin.com/blog/?p=724</link>
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		<title>Project Silver Shorts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I decided to install the Visual Studio 2010 RC for the purposes of messing around with  C#, Silverlight 3, and all the new WPF goodness that came with it.  I only intended  to dabble for a day or so, but ended up having my entire week consumed in what seemed like a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justindujardin.com/blog/?p=764</link>
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		<title>Valentinius J Daysworthy, Kidnapper of realistic expectations, Devourer of self-esteems par excellence, at your service.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think Love is a wonderful thing that should be celebrated, and to that end I&#8217;d like to wish all the lovers out there a great day with their significant others.
Confusing Love and Happiness

I take issue today with the institution of Valentines Day, which masquerades as a supporter of love, happiness, and all things good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justindujardin.com/blog/?p=684</link>
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		<title>Holy Mars Orbiter, Batman!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In August  of 2005 NASA launched the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,  In March of 2006 it arrived at Mars and began to study the terrain and atmosphere in great detail.  Over the last 4 years the MRO has gathered more data on Mars than the sum of all other missions to Mars combined[2].
Today let&#8217;s take a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justindujardin.com/blog/?p=561</link>
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		<title>Yo-Yo Ma : Appassionato</title>
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It&#8217;s not often that I feel compelled to write and about music, but every once in a while something stands out as being so worthy of praise that it would almost be a crime not to.   After months of listening and consideration, I believe that Yo-Yo Ma&#8217;s Appassionato is just one such thing.
In a collection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justindujardin.com/blog/?p=511</link>
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		<title>Kandel on Memory Storage</title>
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In response to a blog post I wrote recently, a friend kindly pointed out that I seemed to have overlooked the work of Dr. Eric Kandel and others with respect to molecular changes that occur in neurons during learning.  In 2000 Eric Kandel was awarded the Nobel Prize along with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justindujardin.com/blog/?p=489</link>
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