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		<title>Improve Alexa Ranking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 03:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is in continuation to the previous post &#8211; Does Alexa Ranking impact your advertising decisions?
A series of experiments with my blog&#8217;s Alexa ranking proved even further that we cannot rely on the it for advertising decisions. My rank when I started looking at Alexa 20 days back was &#8211; 21,863,014 and today it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Alexa ranking impact your advertising decisions?</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/recommendations/does-alexa-ranking-impact-your-advertising-decisions-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 20:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to one of my friend who is also a budding entrepreneur about web marketing strategies. He told me about Alexa rankings (www.alexa.com) and said that he looks at those ranking before deciding to advertise on a website. I was curious to know about my own ranking on Alexa but not to propose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Practices for SVN</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/recommendations/best-practices-svn</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://amargautam.com/?p=421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apart from my regular responsibilties as a Senior Software Engineer, I am also the Software Confinguration Manager (SCM). Being a SCM is not always so easy when you have a global team spread accross the boundaries and working in various time zones. Sometimes I get irriatated by the way teams treat a configuration mechanism or tool. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Wave from the Google</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/tech-talks/a-wave-from-the-google</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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This is a must watch video and I recommend this to all developers and students who believe in innovation.
I recently saw this video on the YouTube and thought my developer friends would be really interested in this. This technology from the Google is a brainchild of Lars Rasmussen, Head of Engineering for Google Australia and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you downloading viruses?</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/tech-talks/are-you-downloading-viruses</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought of how dangerous it could be to download any file from the Internet? However, the fear of downloading a virus or a malicious program does not stop us to do so. We need certain things to be downloaded for work or entertainment. 
You may think it sounds absurd in the scenario when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reloading Java ResourceBundle at Runtime</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my friends asked me a few days back for how to reload the ResourceBundle in Java while the program is still executing. The first question is that why do we need to reload a ResourceBundle while runtime.
There could be various reasons for reloading a ResourceBundle in Java. To mention a few -

Your program [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Test Driven Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development techinique that uses short development iterations based on pre-written test cases that define desired improvements or new functions. Each iteration produces code necessary to pass that iteration&#8217;s tests. Finally, the programmer or team refactors the code to accommodate changes. A key TDD concept is that preparing tests before coding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyclic Redundancy Check Failure for Outlook PST</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/recommendations/cyclic-redundancy-check-failure-for-outlook-pst-file</link>
		<comments>http://amargautam.com/recommendations/cyclic-redundancy-check-failure-for-outlook-pst-file#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://amargautam.com/?p=191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I use Outlook personal folder to download my mails from the Microsoft exchange server. This personal folder is in fact a file that has a .pst extension. All my mails are downloaded and stored in this .pst file. Once you copy this .pst file and configure an outlook on another machine with this, you retain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Code for the Geek Decoded&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://amargautam.com/narration/the-code-for-the-geek-decoded</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 07:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amar Gautam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere I did a mistake putting up the geek code for me on my profile. Friends and fellas tried decoding it but I dunno why they didn&#8217;t succeed. So I thought of putting the decodes for the code in the blog (at the demand of my very good friends, though!).The code went like this -&#8212;-BEGIN [...]]]></description>
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