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	<title>Venky's World</title>
	<link>http://www.venkydude.com</link>
	<description>Technology,movies,music,life and everything else</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Programmatically retrieving the IMEI or ESN number for mobile devices and the peculiar problem in doing this with windows mobile.</title>
		<link>http://www.venkydude.com/?p=31</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While writing commercial applications which require some sort of licensing/copy protection/user duplication prevention ,developers need to have a method for retrieving any unique id associated with a device.For most practical purposes this unique id is the IMEI(International Mobile Equipment Identity) or the ESN(Electronic Serial Number)of the mobile device.On all phones this can be retrieved by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from slumber&#8230;..!</title>
		<link>http://www.venkydude.com/?p=30</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot that has kept me out of action for the past 3 years,personal as well as professional.I&#8217;ve grown older professionally and personally(my receding hairline is a testament to it!).I&#8217;ve restarted the blog because i believe that i have a lot to offer in terms of my perspective on technology.So here it is hoping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library woes</title>
		<link>http://www.venkydude.com/?p=26</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Technology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most annoying things while working with code libraries is the lack of documentation&#8230;it&#8217;s almost as if, the more usefull the library the lesser documentation available on it.. 2 classic cases that stood out for me was while using OpenSSL and zlib.OpenSSL takes the cake though, a lot of things are left to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jingle and Gtalk</title>
		<link>http://www.venkydude.com/?p=25</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2006 06:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gtalk was supposed to go interop with the release of libjingle..well from my experience that doesn&#8217;t seem to be the case exactly.The protocol which gtalk uses for signalling is not the same as the JEP specification for jingle(JEP- 0167) which causes my server  to reject all requests coming from a gtalk user  &#8230;
So much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jabber all the way</title>
		<link>http://www.venkydude.com/?p=24</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 03:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Technology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been about 5 months since i started working on xmpp/jabber,and i&#8217;ve been sold hook line and sinker!!!.I don&#8217;t know if jabber/xmpp is the future of IM but it sure looks like with Google already jumping into the bandwagon.
So what have i implemented in xmpp so far ..hmm. let&#8217;s see
XMPP core,XMPP-IM and presence and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back :)</title>
		<link>http://www.venkydude.com/?p=21</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
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