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	<title>The Mech - programming blog</title>
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	<description>Python, software development, stock exchange, C#</description>
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		<title>Check for updates: how to download and install a new version of your C# application</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mech</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of the previous tutorials I described a simple solution that allows an application to check if a new version is available. The solution presented there has two major flaws:

while doing the check the main application thread is blocked, thus making the application UI not responsive to user actions
after finding a new version the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to create a simple MSI installer using WiX</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mech</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I was told at work to create an installer for our new product. Till that moment I used to create exe installers with Inno Setup which has many advantages: it&#8217;s easy-to-use, powerfull and (the most important :) ) I used it so many times that creating a new installer is a matter of minutes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Metastock files</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mech</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: a free tool converting Metastock data to text files is available.
Last week I decided to check how my trading system performs while playing on different foreign indexes. First I had to download the test data. I found a web page offering the quotations I was interested in - luckily it wasn&#8217;t expensive.The problem was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding &#8220;Check for update&#8221; feature to your C# application</title>
		<link>http://themech.net/2008/05/adding-check-for-update-option-in-csharp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 15:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mech</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I decided I would add a &#8216;check for update&#8217; option to my Eyes Relax application. This is quite useful feature, especially when you host your application on many hosting servers (like download.com and others). In this case it can be difficult for the user to check if there is a newer version of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eyes Relax 0.1 was released</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 12:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mech</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally I found time to do something useful. A few months ago started to worry about my eyes (I work as a programmer, so I spend a lot of time in front of my computer). A good exercise that can help protecting your eyes is to have a break and focus the eyes on something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello world!</title>
		<link>http://themech.net/2008/04/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mech</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello,
This is my first blog post, so I just wanted to say &#8220;Hello, Internet&#8221; :)
Greets,
mech
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