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		<title>Android App to Fly on Strand-1 NanoSat Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Black Pepper &#8216;rocket scientist&#8217; has an interesting hobby. He&#8217;s been involved with designing and developing software for amateur satellites for over over 20 years, as a member of AMSAT-UK.
His most recent piece of Open Source work is the development of a Data Warehouse for the FUNcube project, sponsored by the Radio Communications Foundation charity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nexus support for &#8220;LATEST&#8221; version</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent Maven (2.2.1) project some dependencies are specified using &#60;version&#62;LATEST&#60;/version&#62; to lookup the latest release of an artefact in our repository. Nexus is the repository manager and it&#8217;s able to determine the latest version for Maven to download and include in the build.
During some recent changes to the repositories used in Nexus this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Pepper joins ICT Excellence Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having been Highly Commended in the Emerging Technology category at the recent ICT Awards for the ground breaking Companion platform, Black Pepper software has been invited to join the prestigious ICT Excellence Club. 
Adam Wright, Head of Solutions at Black Pepper Software, said: “Being highly commended for an emerging technology award demonstrates the innovative technologies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving a Flex Application via Selenium 2 WebDriver</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Eccleston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acceptance testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selenium 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selenium RC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago my colleague Julia posted an article on acceptance testing a Flex application using Selenium.  Now that Selenium 2 has been released I wondered how easy it would be to achieve the same functionality with WebDriver?
As it turns out it isn&#8217;t all that difficult. The interaction with JavaScript in the Browser has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>User-Centered Design</title>
		<link>http://www.blackpepper.co.uk/posts/user-centered-design/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=user-centered-design</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I attended a panel discussion on User-Centred design, hosted by CASS Business school, in conjunction with Electronic Ink and Wired magazine. My interest comes from working on agile software development projects that spend too many iterations re-working parts of the user interface following feedback from the showcase. This re-work is often described as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agile in the West Midlands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean manufacuring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seven wastes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[west midlands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We recently ran our Agile Workshop &#8220;0 to Agile in 100 Days&#8221; at the Birmingham Science Park Aston, with the simple aim of gauging the level of agile adoption in the West Midlands. Judging by the turn out, and the positive feedback from the participants there&#8217;s definitely agile life out there, and many thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptance Test Driven Development Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 12:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Eccleston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time we looked at how we do acceptance testing at Black Pepper using a domain specific language (DSL) to make the tests more approachable to the business representatives of the project.  In this article I&#8217;m going to look at writing tests using a DSL.
The purpose of a DSL is to allow tests to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptance Test Driven Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Eccleston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acceptance testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/?p=484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At Black Pepper we use test driven development (TDD)  as a matter of course. We enjoy it and see the benefits all the time.  For several years now we&#8217;ve taken this a step further and practised acceptance test driven development (ATDD), and I thought I&#8217;d share the ideas.
The concepts of ATDD are very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to adopt Agile in 100 Days</title>
		<link>http://www.blackpepper.co.uk/posts/how-to-adopt-agile-in-100-days/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=how-to-adopt-agile-in-100-days</link>
		<comments>http://www.blackpepper.co.uk/posts/how-to-adopt-agile-in-100-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agile adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile west midlands]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.blackpepper.co.uk/?p=459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Listening to your peers in the IT community, there are some common issues in providing IT services to corporate clients.

You have multiple development efforts and many project managers
Progress on projects is RAG driven and weekly / monthly in arrears
You have a long term strategic roadmap, but this is not coupled to the actual work being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flex acceptance testing presentation at Flash Midlands user group</title>
		<link>http://www.blackpepper.co.uk/posts/flex-acceptance-testing-presentation-at-flash-midlands-user-group/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=flex-acceptance-testing-presentation-at-flash-midlands-user-group</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kieran Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Pepper Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hudson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I was asked by my friend and ex-colleague Steve Carpenter to present at the Flash Midlands user group. I couldn&#8217;t resist the opportunity to spread the word about acceptance testing for Flex/Flash that we&#8217;ve written about here before (Flex acceptance testing demo, Running Selenium Flex tests in a Hudson job and Flex [...]]]></description>
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