<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Robert Elwell, Engineering Leader</title><description>Robert (Bob) Elwell is a software engineering leader in Atlanta, GA, specializing in scaling distributed systems, search infrastructure, and the organizations that build them.</description><link>https://robertelwell.info/</link><item><title>Brewing Success: Making the Most of Annual Reviews</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2024-02-10-annual-reviews/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2024-02-10-annual-reviews/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hiring For Growth: Tips for Engineering Managers</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2024-01-09-hiring-tips/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2024-01-09-hiring-tips/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building a Recipe App on Vultr&apos;s 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GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MediaTakeOut Headline Generator Now a Bot</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2013-03-13-mediatakeout-twittenow-a-bot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2013-03-13-mediatakeout-twittenow-a-bot/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Upgrade to Solr 4.1 and Save Space</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2013-01-30-upgrade-to-solr-4-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2013-01-30-upgrade-to-solr-4-1/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My Intro to Solr Video Series Out Now on Packt Publishing!</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2013-01-17-packt-solr-videos/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2013-01-17-packt-solr-videos/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MediaTakeOut Headline Generator to Be Showcased at PyCon 2013</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-12-05-mediatakeout-pycon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-12-05-mediatakeout-pycon/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wikia is now on GitHub!</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-10-20-wikia-is-now-on-github/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-10-20-wikia-is-now-on-github/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MediaWiki Platform Development: More than Wikipedia</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-10-15-mediawiki-more-than-wikipedia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-10-15-mediawiki-more-than-wikipedia/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Daps: Advanced-release LDAP support for Symfony2</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-09-26-daps-ldap-symfony2/</link><guid 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Live on Wikia!</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-05-09-search-v2-now-live-on-wikia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-05-09-search-v2-now-live-on-wikia/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MTO ON BLAST: A language model for a gossip blog</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-04-30-mto-on-blast-a-language-model-for-a-gossip-blog/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-04-30-mto-on-blast-a-language-model-for-a-gossip-blog/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The English Language: A Fractal of Bad Design</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-04-10-english-fractal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-04-10-english-fractal/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Search Haters Gonna Hate?</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-04-05-search-haters-gonna-hate/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-04-05-search-haters-gonna-hate/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What I&apos;m Up To Lately</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-01-24-what-im-up-to-lately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2012-01-24-what-im-up-to-lately/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SLA-Driven Development</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2011-09-28-sla-driven-development/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2011-09-28-sla-driven-development/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Novel Methodologies for Distributed Development Teams</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2011-09-02-distributed-development-methodologies/</link><guid 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00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Moving to Git: How to wrap up your SVN project</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2011-01-13-git-svn-wrap-up/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2011-01-13-git-svn-wrap-up/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Integrating MAMP with VMWare Fusion without an Internal DNS</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-12-10-mamp-vmware/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-12-10-mamp-vmware/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A short public service announcement on variable variables in PHP: Do the dumb thing first.</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-10-21-dumb-thing-first/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-10-21-dumb-thing-first/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Site redesign!</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-10-11-site-redesign/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-10-11-site-redesign/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Many Faces of a QA Specialist</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-09-21-faces-of-qa/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-09-21-faces-of-qa/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Big News!</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-09-16-big-news/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-09-16-big-news/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Passed the MySQL CMA Exam!</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-08-20-passed-the-mysql-cma-exam/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-08-20-passed-the-mysql-cma-exam/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Studying for the CMA</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-08-19-studying-for-the-cma/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-08-19-studying-for-the-cma/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blog Inauguration!</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-08-18-blog-inauguration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-08-18-blog-inauguration/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Face_Service_Face, a just-for-fun ZF-style implementation of the Face.com API</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-07-23-face_service_face/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-07-23-face_service_face/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Partial vs. Helper in the Zend Framework: When to use which?</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-07-16-zend-partial-vs-helper/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-07-16-zend-partial-vs-helper/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stack Overflow Fatigue?</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-06-29-stack-overflow-fatigue/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-06-29-stack-overflow-fatigue/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Now with double the certifications</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-06-16-now-with-double-the-certifications/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-06-16-now-with-double-the-certifications/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Overhaul of Offers.com includes move to faster search</title><link>https://robertelwell.info/blog/2010-05-28-offers-dot-com-overhaul/</link><guid 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