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	<title>VendAsta Blog &#187; Michael A. Charles</title>
	<link>http://blog.vendasta.com</link>
	<description>Saskatoon software developers</description>
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		<title>Blogging Friday demos (and a field trip).</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was supposed to be Jeff Tomlin&#8217;s turn to order our Friday lunch, but he and his family are off kissing the cod in Newfoundland. Luckily, Jeff&#8217;s desertion coincided with Saskatoon&#8217;s annual festival of greasy food eaten off paper plates, Taste of Saskatchewan. So we all car-pooled downtown, circled for a while to find parking, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vendasta.com/2010/07/26/blogging-friday-demos-and-a-field-trip/</link>
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		<title>Blogging Friday demos again (now with pictures and music).</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeff R. was responsible for ordering Friday&#8217;s lunch, and he expanded our gustatory boundaries with an exotic delicacy known as &#8220;pizza&#8221; (pronounced PEET-sa).
After lunch, as we sat around belching and patting our bellies, Allan demonstrated a video game called DJ Hero, a variant of the Guitar Hero / Rock Band concept that replaces toy guitars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vendasta.com/2010/07/19/blogging-friday-demos-again-now-with-pictures-and-music/</link>
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		<title>Blogging Friday demos.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a company that&#8217;s only been around since 2008, VendAsta has a pretty strong sense of tradition. Since we arrived in our current office space two years ago, we&#8217;ve all gathered in the boardroom for lunch every Friday. Each week a different person is responsible for ordering a meal for the group. Last week it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vendasta.com/2010/07/12/blogging-friday-demos/</link>
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		<title>VendAsta developers geek out for a worthy cause.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend we turned over our offices to a bunch of scruffy hippies dedicated to &#8220;helping those in need by doing what they love&#8221;.
&#8220;What they love&#8221; is designing software, and their specific method of helping those in need is to build iPhone apps, sell them for $1.99 at the App Store, and give the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vendasta.com/2010/06/01/vendasta-developers-geek-out-for-a-worthy-cause/</link>
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		<title>VendAsta in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason, Blair, Kevin, and Mike are down at the Google I/O Conference right now. You can find them in the Developer Sandbox demonstrating the asynctools toolkit we developed for making asynchronous queries in Google AppEngine. This is the technology we&#8217;re using to mash together social graphs for our MashedIn platform.
The MashedIn team has created a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vendasta.com/2010/05/19/in-the-developer-sandbox-at-google-io/</link>
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		<title>UniversalBusinessListing.org and VendAsta Partner on Reputation Management.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The companies announce a strategic partnership to deliver reputation intelligence and business listing syndication to advertising and media industries that service small and medium businesses.
Saskatoon, SK and Charlotte, NC, April 19, 2010 &#8211; UniversalBusinessListing.org (UBL) and VendAsta Technologies today announced a strategic partnership to offer reputation management services integrating their product offerings.
UBL has become a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vendasta.com/2010/04/19/universalbusinesslisting-org-and-vendasta-partner-on-reputation-management/</link>
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		<title>Flutter Shows You Who&#8217;s Nearby, How You&#8217;re Connected To Them.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A newly released mobile application reveals connections to other users in the vicinity.
Saskatoon, SK, April 14, 2010 – Flutter, released today by the MashedIn development team, could be used by those looking to network at conferences, break the ice at social events, or find out whether they know someone in an unfamiliar city.
Flutter (www.mashedin.com/flutter) examines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vendasta.com/2010/04/14/flutter-shows-you-whos-nearby/</link>
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		<title>VendAsta wows the Google App Engine world with asynctools.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to write this for dummies like me. More technically-adept readers should just go read this post by Jason Collins.
For the last couple months there have been murmurs around the office that one of our developers, Kevin Pierce, was up to something pretty amazing. Those of us who don&#8217;t know JavaScript from a jack-in-the-box [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vendasta.com/2009/08/18/vendasta-wows-the-google-app-engine-world/</link>
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