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	<description>Likes house music and sometimes being alone.</description>
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		<title>Novelties &amp; Traditions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s the third annual Friendsgiving, a Thanksgiving-like pre-Thanksgiving event for a bunch of people who like each other; hence, Friendsgiving. Thanksgiving&#8217;s always been my favorite holiday so I&#8217;m more than happy to celebrate it twice a year. The first two Friendsgivings took place at my house, but because in the spring I traded my room [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://williamjohnbert.com/2011/11/novelties-traditions/</link>
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		<title>Gender, programming, and the power of language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interlude from the recent trend of hardcore Django action: When I spoke with a female intern this summer, she recounted how, in 2006, the GNOME Project, a free and open source software project, received almost 200 Google Summer of Code applicants. All of them were male. When GNOME advertised an identical program for women, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://williamjohnbert.com/2011/08/gender-programming-and-the-power-of-language/</link>
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		<title>django-social-auth: Installing and troubleshooting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to django-registration, I was able to build a working account registration/login system pretty easily. But I wanted to give users the ability to use their existing accounts through popular services such as Facebook, Twitter, etc., rather than have to create yet another account. Here&#8217;s how I did it. Sorting Through the Choices There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://williamjohnbert.com/2011/08/django-social-auth-installing-and-troubleshooting/</link>
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		<title>How to: Unit testing in Django with mocking and patching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background For Readsr, I need to track events that recur on a particular day of the week (e.g., first Sunday of the month, third Friday of the month). I created a DayOfWeek model to store any particular event&#8217;s day of the week. It contains a method next&#95;day&#95;of&#95;week() to return a datetime.date object set to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://williamjohnbert.com/2011/07/how-to-unit-testing-in-django-with-mocking-and-patching/</link>
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		<title>Simple Django Event Calendar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background I&#8217;ve been teaching myself Django by writing a web app that tracks reading series in cities: Readsr. A reading series is a kind of recurring event. It defines a time, location, and recurrence rule such as first Monday of the month. Writing a list view to display upcoming readings was easy, but I also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://williamjohnbert.com/2011/06/django-event-calendar-for-a-django-beginner/</link>
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		<title>Marshall, Barnard, Laurel, Marshall</title>
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		<link>http://williamjohnbert.com/2011/05/marshall-barnard-laurel-marshall/</link>
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		<title>Poetry for the President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since March, I&#8217;ve been working with DC students from several high schools, including Duke Ellington, Ballou, Wilson and Bell, in evening poetry workshops at 826DC. A bunch of us have been helping out—Mike Scalise, Adam Pelligrini, and Sally Keith (the last two being actual poets, while Mike and I, both prose writers, were faking it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://williamjohnbert.com/2011/05/poetry-for-the-president/</link>
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		<title>Spring, spring, spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring is the rarest of seasons in DC, but it looks like we get a few days of it this week. This could not be happening at a better time. The protracted move from Columbia Heights/Baltimore/Tucson to Capitol Hill is over. The art show has wrapped. Work is still way busy, but next week I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://williamjohnbert.com/2011/05/spring-spring-spring/</link>
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		<title>New story, and other updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really thrilled to have a story, &#8220;Winner,&#8221; in the very first issue of Anomalous Press. It was released on the Ides of March, so I&#8217;m a bit tardy announcing it here—it&#8217;s been a busy March so far. The issue includes work from many better writers than me, including a poem and two translations from my friend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://williamjohnbert.com/2011/03/new-story-in-anomalous-press/</link>
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		<title>Stuff: Happening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I updated more regularly, I would have written entire posts about the following things. AWP 2011 came and went blazingly fast. I saw many people I&#8217;ve missed dearly, and missed many people I would&#8217;ve liked to see. The second workshop with the Bell Poetry Club for 826DC, this time diving into the poem-as-extended-metaphor, went [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://williamjohnbert.com/2011/02/stuff-happening/</link>
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