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	<description>the web, mobile technology and location based services as I see it</description>
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		<title>Book Recommendations on Data Science</title>
		<link>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2012/01/14/book-recommendations-on-data-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my predictions for this year, I said that data science was going to be big. I case you&#8217;re a new entrant in this field, here are a few book recommendations and they&#8217;re also free (for now) if you have&#8230;  <a href="http://blog.timakinbo.com/2012/01/14/book-recommendations-on-data-science/">continue reading</a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<title>Here comes the Raspberry Pi</title>
		<link>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2012/01/13/here-comes-the-raspberry-pi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I realize there&#8217;s been a lot of excite about Raspberry Pi on several geek channels on the web. I didn&#8217;t realize until I decided to check it out and now I just can&#8217;t contain my excitement. According to the Raspberry&#8230;  <a href="http://blog.timakinbo.com/2012/01/13/here-comes-the-raspberry-pi/">continue reading</a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to hire a programmer when you&#8217;re not a programmer</title>
		<link>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/10/27/how-to-hire-a-programmer-when-youre-not-a-programmer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/10/27/how-to-hire-a-programmer-when-youre-not-a-programmer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read this at the Signal vs Noise blog today and I thought it was worth reblogging with some of my own comments. Everything Matt mentioned in the post couldn&#8217;t be &#8220;truer&#8221; even in a Nigerian context. I remember back&#8230;  <a href="http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/10/27/how-to-hire-a-programmer-when-youre-not-a-programmer/">continue reading</a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<title>Most programmers cant solve this</title>
		<link>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/10/24/most-programmers-cant-solve-this/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/10/24/most-programmers-cant-solve-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pascal Ehigie Aito wrote an interesting blog post this morning and I&#8217;ll suggest visiting his blog to read about the challenge. For those of you who do take the challenge to write a solution, please leave a comment with a&#8230;  <a href="http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/10/24/most-programmers-cant-solve-this/">continue reading</a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Investigations on resumable file uploads</title>
		<link>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/10/08/investigations-on-resumable-file-uploads/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/10/08/investigations-on-resumable-file-uploads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HTML5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.timakinbo.com/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Developer scratch your own itch.&#8221; That&#8217;s usually how it starts. So I took a video yesterday on some flooding around the Ikorodu area in Lagos and I was going to upload it to Facebook directly from my mobile. The file&#8230;  <a href="http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/10/08/investigations-on-resumable-file-uploads/">continue reading</a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>HTML5 and why it matters</title>
		<link>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/09/27/html5-and-why-it-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/09/27/html5-and-why-it-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.timakinbo.com/?p=151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[HTML5 is a promising technology not only on the desktop but also on mobile devices. What I don&#8217;t seem to understand is why Adobe seems to be attacking it and trying to prove the superiority of the Flash platform. Adobe&#8230;  <a href="http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/09/27/html5-and-why-it-matters/">continue reading</a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Installing Python 2.6 on CentOS 5</title>
		<link>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/09/23/installing-python-2-6-on-centos-5/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/09/23/installing-python-2-6-on-centos-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Systems Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CentOS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Django]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[python]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.timakinbo.com/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not such a fan of CentOS but I have to work with it every now and then. I recently was attempting to start deployment of a Django application and was actually amazed when I realized CentOS 5 ships with&#8230;  <a href="http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/09/23/installing-python-2-6-on-centos-5/">continue reading</a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>What mobile application platform?</title>
		<link>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/08/23/what-mobile-application-platform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/08/23/what-mobile-application-platform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackberry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iphone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nokia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.timakinbo.com/?p=110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In conversations with other developers, I often hear all sorts with regards to what platforms to develop mobile applications for in Nigeria. I&#8217;ve always advocated development for the Nokia (Symbian) and BlackBerry platforms (if you are targeting feature phones, J2ME&#8230;  <a href="http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/08/23/what-mobile-application-platform/">continue reading</a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>How it was done &#8211; Nigerian postcode data extraction</title>
		<link>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/07/25/how-it-was-done-nigerian-postcode-data-extraction/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/07/25/how-it-was-done-nigerian-postcode-data-extraction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postcodes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[python]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scraping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I talked about open data and how making the Nigerian postcode data open and more accessible has a wide potential for powering several applications. I&#8217;ve received several comments on Facebook with even more examples on how&#8230;  <a href="http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/07/25/how-it-was-done-nigerian-postcode-data-extraction/">continue reading</a> &#187;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>When unique isn&#8217;t really unique</title>
		<link>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2009/11/24/when-unique-isnt-really-unique/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.timakinbo.com/2009/11/24/when-unique-isnt-really-unique/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, an auto-generated number isn&#8217;t enough and what you really need is a unique identifier. Several people have different techniques for generating their unique identifiers. My favorite has been generating a random number and then hashing it through the md5&#8230;  <a href="http://blog.timakinbo.com/2009/11/24/when-unique-isnt-really-unique/">continue reading</a> &#187;]]></description>
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