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		<title>Weekly Release #53 &#8211; Environment bug bites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I encountered one of the more bizarre bugs of my career. Following the release, gaps started appearing on charts. The strange thing was that the data was all in the database; it just wasn&#8217;t coming through the user interface. Unfortunately, for this release, rolling back wasn&#8217;t really an option, so we needed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exortech.com/blog/2009/11/30/weekly-release-53-environment-bug-bites/</link>
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		<title>Videos from weekly deployment talk at Agile Vancouver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I spoke at the Agile Vancouver monthly meeting on the subject of *surprise* Deploying to Production Every Week. Eugene was kind enough to video the talk; so if you&#8217;re interested in catching a replay, it&#8217;s available on Vimeo in five 20 minute segments. Here&#8217;s the first video as a teaser:

Deploying to Production Every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exortech.com/blog/2009/10/30/videos-from-weekly-deployment-talk-at-agile-vancouver/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Release Blog #47: Zero-downtime deployment to test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we deployed 19 times to our test environment (about once for every 4 commits). We were busy making some final refinements to a new feature that we launched last night. We had most of the team working on this feature (Single Feature Release) and the rapid feedback of the regular deploys helped ensure that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exortech.com/blog/2009/10/21/weekly-release-blog-47-zero-downtime-deployment-to-test/</link>
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		<title>Back from Bangalore (and Hyderabad and Mumbai)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I arrived home last night after a quick whirlwind trip to India for the Codechef conference. With three tech talks in three cities in three days, it didn&#8217;t leave much time for sightseeing. But I did have a few days at the end in Bangalore to catch up with friends and former colleagues.
Here are the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exortech.com/blog/2009/09/16/back-from-bangalore-and-hyderabad-and-mumbai/</link>
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		<title>Speaking in India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, I&#8217;m off to India to speak at the CodeChef conference. The conference consists of three talks over three days in three different Indian cities: Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. I will be speaking alongside Lisa Crispin and Bhavin Turakhia. My talk (unsurprisingly) will be on weekly releases and will be quite similar to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exortech.com/blog/2009/09/07/speaking-in-india/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Release Blog #40: Evolving Site Design Using CSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big fan of CSS &#8211; it keeps things looking consistent, it separates structure and design, and it keeps markup clean, simple and maintainable. The greatest strength and weakness of stylesheets is their scope. A large number of pages are typically styled by a single stylesheet. This is great for consistency and reuse, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exortech.com/blog/2009/08/31/weekly-release-blog-40-evolving-site-design-using-css/</link>
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		<title>Frequent Releases Reduce Risk: Talk at VanDev</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I delivered a presentation at the Vancouver Software Developer Network meetup on the relationship between risk and frequent releases. In the presentation I proposed that building the capability to release software frequently (daily or weekly) actually reduces risk and that concerns about frequent releases are founded on a localized understanding of risk. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exortech.com/blog/2009/07/22/frequent-releases-reduce-risk-talk-at-vandev/</link>
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		<title>Agile Vancouver 2009 Conference &#8211; Call for session proposals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have just sent out the call for session proposals for the Agile Vancouver 2009 conference. I&#8217;m really excited about the great list of speakers that we already have confirmed to come to this year&#8217;s conference, including:

Arlo Belshee
Eric Evans
Michael Feathers
Martin Fowler
Michael Hugos
Michael Nygard
Jeff Patton
Mary Poppendieck
Linda Rising
Johanna Rothmann

We are looking for speakers and we welcome you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exortech.com/blog/2009/07/14/agile-vancouver-2009-conference-call-for-session-proposals/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Release Blog #32: When things go down that shouldn&#8217;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, our site sustained a prolonged outage during core business hours. While testing their backup power systems, our data centre provider tripped a breaker leading to a cascade of failures that, among other things, produced a power surge that fried our hardware firewall&#8217;s power supply. The hardware firewall is one of those standard pieces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exortech.com/blog/2009/07/07/weekly-release-blog-32-when-things-go-down-that-shouldnt/</link>
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		<title>Speaking at DevTeach Vancouver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be speaking this Thursday at DevTeach Vancouver about our experiences doing weekly production deployments. Some topics that I will cover:

Creating a weekly release process
Zero down-time deployment
Continuous Monitoring
5 whys
Automated deployment

As I haven&#8217;t been doing .NET development in over a year, I feel like a bit of an impostor at the conference. However, I think that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exortech.com/blog/2009/06/10/speaking-at-devteach-vancouver/</link>
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