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		<title>Reinvent!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I read a passage in the Steve Jobs Bio recounting a conversation between Steve and Mike Markkula as Steve was contemplating his return to Apple.  The passage was about reinventing a company, and struck me as very poignant as I had just spoken to my team a few weeks ago at our 2012 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple the winner in HTC suit, or are they?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, a decision was reached in the Apple/HTC lawsuit in which Apple claimed infringement on 10 patents.  In the sound bite headlines making news yesterday, one could walk away with the impression that Apple emerged victorious and HTC (plus all other android phone manufacturers by proxy) would be severely impacted in their ability to produce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/apple-the-winner-in-htc-suit-or-are-they/</link>
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		<title>Leading through a talent crunch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, an article appeared in our local paper that has everyone buzzing over a talent shortage in Austin. I agree a talent crunch may be looming in the near term, and we&#8217;ve been working to prepare for it. Rather than describe some of our recruiting strategies here for continued growth through this crunch, I thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/leading-through-a-talent-crunch/</link>
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		<title>Devops &#8211; the challenges go deep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, one of my team members forwarded me a link to this blog by Savio Rodrigues, entitled Why devops is no silver bullet for developers.  It&#8217;s a well written blog and Savio makes some good points, namely that environments that the Devops team hopes to build on need to be standardized. He comes so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/devops-the-challenges-go-deep/</link>
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		<title>Amazon S3 Cloud backup for the somewhat tech savvy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a tragedy hit one of the members on my team where he lost his home.  Our team has rallied around him and his family and have done what we can to help &#8211; that&#8217;s just the kind of people I&#8217;m fortunate enough to work with.  In talking to him, one of his regrets is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/amazon-s3-cloud-backup-for-the-somewhat-tech-savvy/</link>
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		<title>Thanksgiving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is unquestionably one of my favorite times of the year &#8211; surrounded by family and tradition, all the memories of Thanksgivings past flood back over me.  I am so Thankful for my amazing family, that I have been able to celebrate another year full of joy and challenges, seeing my daughters grow up and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/thank-you/</link>
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		<title>We will never forget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember like it was yesterday.  It was a Tuesday.  We were having our leaders meeting as we did every Tuesday at 9am back then.  I recall Matt walked in a little late and feeling a little irritated as I was preoccupied with the issues of that software project when he says &#8220;something’s wrong, have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/we-will-never-forget/</link>
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		<title>Reaching the Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was an especially good day.  Few things can compare to seeing the combined efforts of a large team who has worked so hard together towards a shared vision finally reach that goal.  Like hikers on a long trek finally reaching the summit, today we took time to survey the terrain we conquered, thought a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/reaching-the-summit/</link>
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		<title>Google buys Motorola Mobility &#8211; What an interesting Monday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Already on a tear by far surpassing Apple in market share for smart phone devices, Google today announces the acquisition of Motorola Mobility. What a software company will do with all these hardware handset assets is interesting, but the strategic move of defending their intellectual property turf by buying 20,000+ patents is shear genius. Nice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/google-buys-motorola-mobility-what-an-interesting-monday/</link>
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		<title>Memorial Day Thoughts from the Colonel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wanted to share with everyone a Memorial Day message from my Father to his family and friends&#8230; Today is Memorial Day 2011.  For those veterans who have served and those active duty who still serve, this is a significant and meaningful day.  I fully understand that Memorial Day is not one dimensional, having totally different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/memorial-day-thoughts-from-the-colonel/</link>
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		<title>A lesson in mis-management, PlayStation3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is fascinating; I just couldn&#8217;t stop reading it:  http://www.neowin.net/news/the-turbulant-times-of-the-playstation-3. I have a lot of respect for Sony, but this is a classic story of the downside of closed systems, blunders that are so easy to make when trying to lock down proprietary systems, and the exact wrong way to respond to the market.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/a-lesson-in-mis-management-playstation3/</link>
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		<title>Update &#8211; adding Exchange to the Acer A500</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using the Touchdown app for the past week and it is working pretty well.  Its also possible to replace the stock Email application according to this post on the XDA forums: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058401 .  You need to root your system, then change the permissions for the /system/apps directory with a command that looks similar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/update-adding-exchange-to-the-acer-a500/</link>
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		<title>Acer A500 Root Step-By-Step Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Super easy to gain root access to your A500.  Here&#8217;s the step-by-step guide to rooting your A500 with Honeycomb.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/acer-a500-root-step-by-step-guide/</link>
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		<title>ACER A500 Android Tablet vs iPad inital impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Acer A500 Iconia Honeycomb Android Tablet goes head to head with the iPad2]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/acer-a500-android-tablet-vs-ipad-inital-impressions/</link>
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		<title>Sprint Complete!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a prior post, I wrote about the relentless pace at which our Agile development moves, especially as it is teamed with delivery of software as a service (SaaS).  One of the consequences of this speed of constant delivery is that there’s never time to go back and “clean up” any of those important but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/sprint-complete/</link>
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