var blog = { 
    author: "Burcu Dogan",
    author_dialects: ["Burcu Do\u011fan", "thejbf"],
    author_email: "burcu...@googlemail.com",
    author_representations: ["twitter", "google", "stumbleupon", "friendfeed", "stackoverflow"],

    posts: [
        {
	    title: "Why should developers blog?", /* 7 comments */
            body:
"

If I make an statistical study out of my friends and colleges who are developers, I can barely can say 10% of them are blogging. Is blogging a nightmare, a time waster, a cheap-seat show where bloggers act like significant people for them? I don’t know. I have one prediction: They don’t like writing. These [...]

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	},
        {
	    title: "Maps Development on Android: Registering a Maps API key", /* 2 comments */
            body:
"

Location based applications are  musts on mobile platforms. Android does not have maps natively but Google Maps team is providing an add-on that comes with Android SDK (at least 1.5). In this post, I’m not going to show you how to pop out maps on your little mobile screen, but underline the application signature details [...]

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	},
        {
	    title: "Redis: New Persistent Key-Value Store", /* 1 comment */
            body:
"

Most recently, I’m working on Redis which is a key-value datastore with interesting characteristics. It’s ultra fast and has built in atomic operations to handle concurrent usage. Although everything lives in-memory, Redis syncs with hard disk time to time to serve as permanent storage. Most impressively, downloading Redis and making a working build doesn’t take [...]

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            tags: ["", ""]
	},
    ],
    feed: "http://feeds.feedburner.com/burcudogan",
    copyright: "Writings and the JS object literal template is by Burcu Dogan."
};