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	<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net</link>
	<description>Entrepreneurship &#38; Personal Development</description>
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		<title>How to redirect all your pages from www to root domain using ruby on rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I realized today that my current configuration of taskarmy.com and www.taskarmy.com implied that Google considered them as two different domain names. This is bad for SEO for example (plus I had some login issues). So I decided to redirect 301 all the pages coming from www to my root domain taskarmy.com. (By the way, why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/how-to-redirect-all-your-pages-from-www-to-root-domain-using-ruby-on-rails/</link>
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		<title>Five years ago exactly, I started my round the world trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can’t believe 5 years have passed already, time goes fast and seems to be accelerating. To celebrate this fifth anniversary, I have brought back online my travel blog where I reported my adventures during my trip. If you speak French you will be able to learn how I ended up sleeping in toilets at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/five-years-ago-exactly-i-started-my-round-the-world-trip/</link>
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		<title>My talk at BarCamp Auckland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday while doing some Facebook consulting, I was offered/pushed to do a presentation the next day at BarCamp 4. I am posting the slides here for your convenience: UPDATE: That’s pretty cool, my slides got featured on the homepage of SlideShare! Tips from a retired Facebook app developer View more presentations from Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/my-talk-at-barcamp-auckland/</link>
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		<title>Customer Discovery Tools for Lean Startups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Running a lean startup? You will find here a list of tools you can use during the customer discovery phase. Survey and Feedback tools Although people tend to think of Survey Monkey or Survey Gizmo when I mention Survey, I actually think that Google Forms is very good already, and it is free. Google Forms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/customer-discovery-tools-for-lean-startups/</link>
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		<title>How to send an email using Postmark in a C# application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Postmark is a service that ensures the email you send from your application reaches your recipient and not its Spam folder (which will likely happen if you use your own SMTP server or Google’s one). Postmark gives you 1000 emails for free, which allows you to give a try risk-free. So how do you send [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/how-to-send-email-using-postmark/</link>
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		<title>How to build your own widget in Ruby on Rails in 10 minutes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To improve the ranking of my website TaskArmy.com in Google, I decided to provide my users with a widget they can add to their blogs or websites. I will show in this article how I did it in 30 minutes using Ruby on Rails (hopefully you will be able to do it in less than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/how-to-build-your-own-widget-in-ruby-on-rails-in-10-minutes/</link>
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		<title>Tips to kick-start the traffic of your new user-generated content website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are launching a new website but you are facing the chicken and egg problem? You need content to make your website valuable and you need users to add content? I have launched several projects in the last three years, and here are a few tips I have to help you grow your website. Preparation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/tips-to-kick-start-the-traffic-of-your-new-user-generated-content-website/</link>
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		<title>The Marshmallow Challenge, on the importance of prototyping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I found this link on Hacker News about “failing” early and often and the Marshmallow challenge. (I don’t like the term “fail” because everyone has their own definition of failure and success, and what you might see as a failure might be the best experience someone is having and enjoying, instead we could say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/the-marshmallow-challenge-on-the-importance-of-prototyping/</link>
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		<title>Founder Mastermind Breakfasts, how we do it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since last year, I have been organizing some casual breakfast meetings with other entrepreneurs based in Sydney. The next one will be held this Monday (28th June) and we are looking to extend our invitations to new people so it is a good opportunity to share how the event is organized. Why a mastermind meeting? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/founder-mastermind-breakfasts-how-we-do-it/</link>
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		<title>Lean startups, beware the social debt!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is Technical Debt? In the tech world, we are familiar with the concept of technical debt. Technical debt represents areas in the code that makes changing something more time-consuming and hinder the stability of the system. Introducing the Social Debt I would like to introduce you to something I experienced in my online ventures [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/lean-startups-beware-the-social-debt/</link>
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