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	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Erlang: another step forward</title>
		<link>http://monogroncho.com/2008/11/erlang-another-step-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ulises</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I posted here that I was trying to learn Erlang. My first encounter with the language had been quite a number of years back and thanks to a dear friend who was my teacher at the time and I must admit it hadn&#8217;t been the happiest of all my encounters.
It seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Django gotchas - part 2</title>
		<link>http://monogroncho.com/2008/10/django-gotchas-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ulises</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://monogroncho.com/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with my posts on Django gotchas, this article is devoted to writing your custom authentication module. There are plenty articles out there (like this and this) dealing with this topic and even the wonderful Django documentation explains how to do it very well. However I wasn&#8217;t able to find an article that dealt with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Django gotchas - part 1</title>
		<link>http://monogroncho.com/2008/10/django-gotchas-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ulises</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://monogroncho.com/?p=91</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the last month I&#8217;ve been immersed in Django almost full time in my job (almost as I had a small glitch in which I had to develop a C# application for a PDA). During this last month I came across several, as I call them, Django gotchas and I will try to document them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good news</title>
		<link>http://monogroncho.com/2008/09/good-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ulises</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://monogroncho.com/?p=77</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my job I have been learning and programming in C# for the past 4 weeks. It&#8217;s been sort of &#8230; interesting let&#8217;s say. My main task was to enhance/improve/fix an in-house application used mainly for logging support jobs (I work for a company that does IT support) however it has the capabilities of managing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to the Open Telecom Platform @ spawn_link</title>
		<link>http://monogroncho.com/2008/09/introduction-to-the-open-telecom-platform-spawn_link/</link>
		<comments>http://monogroncho.com/2008/09/introduction-to-the-open-telecom-platform-spawn_link/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ulises</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://monogroncho.com/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently started dabbling with Erlang and one of the things that I still have to fully grok is OTP. The Open Telecom Platform (OTP) is, allegedly, one of the strongest selling points of Erlang as it provides you with a structure to create fault tolerant, highly available applications &#8230; for free. Go figure.
In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forcing indentation: yes, it is a good thing</title>
		<link>http://monogroncho.com/2008/09/forcing-indentation-yes-it-is-a-good-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://monogroncho.com/2008/09/forcing-indentation-yes-it-is-a-good-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ulises</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://monogroncho.com/?p=51</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At work I'm trying to get some of my colleagues to give Python a try. Every time I bring up the subject I have to hear things like but there are not brackets ... and what's up with the forced indentation?

Needless to say I always reply that indentation is good as the end result is usually code that is easier to read and that once you have blocks of code defined by their indentation level you don't need brackets anymore. But no, they will have none of that.]]></description>
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		<title>C# scopes &#8212; am I missing something here?</title>
		<link>http://monogroncho.com/2008/08/c-scopes-am-i-missing-something-here/</link>
		<comments>http://monogroncho.com/2008/08/c-scopes-am-i-missing-something-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ulises</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://monogroncho.com/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time I checked, the scope of a variable drew the line after which it ceased to exist. For instance, in Java, when you defined a variable in a for loop, the minute the loop was over the variable ceased to exist...]]></description>
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		<title>Fiddling with an Internet Tablet (Nokia)</title>
		<link>http://monogroncho.com/2008/08/fiddling-with-an-internet-tablet-nokia/</link>
		<comments>http://monogroncho.com/2008/08/fiddling-with-an-internet-tablet-nokia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ulises</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://monogroncho.com/?p=41</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I bought an old internet tablet. More specifically a Nokia 770. I bought it mainly because it runs GNU/Linux and I wanted to play with it.
Needless to say the first thing I tried to do was to replace the distribution that comes with it (rolled by Nokia engs.) and put a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sampling from a given probability distribution</title>
		<link>http://monogroncho.com/2008/08/sampling-from-a-given-probability-distribution/</link>
		<comments>http://monogroncho.com/2008/08/sampling-from-a-given-probability-distribution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ulises</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[algorithms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[probability distribution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sampling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://monogroncho.com/?p=7</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a project I&#8217;m working on I&#8217;ve come across the necessity to sample a vector of values from a Dirichlet distribution.
I don&#8217;t know you, but during my undergraduate degree we were never taught how to write code to do this type of stuff, i.e. sampling from different probability distributions, etc. Fortunately Wikipedia, being a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dumb search</title>
		<link>http://monogroncho.com/2008/08/dumb-search/</link>
		<comments>http://monogroncho.com/2008/08/dumb-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ulises</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://monogroncho.com/?p=3</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been thinking about for a while.
Most papers in the Information Retrieval field begin with a sentence along the lines of &#8220;In this era of information overload the need for better search mechanisms is evident.&#8221;. Or something. Indeed there is an information overload. This situation is actually worse because it isn&#8217;t any kind [...]]]></description>
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