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	<title>Scenes from the Engine Room</title>
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	<description>Where the * is Scotty?</description>
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		<title>Building a better AutoMap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ePublisher includes tools to create designs (Pro), stamp them out (Express), and automate builds (AutoMap).  The thing is, AutoMap, as it exists today, is not always the right fit for our users.  It offers more capability than some folks will ever leverage.  For them, AutoMap is simply too expensive.  Others make extensive use of AutoMap&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.webworks.com/allums/2010/04/27/building-a-better-automap/</link>
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		<title>Is anybody out there there?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Market research is tricky business.  Knowing how to help your current customers is an easy affair (Focus, Focus, Focus).  Keep your ears open and they will tell you what they need.  Finding something new that both your current customers and potential customers find exciting is quite a bit more difficult.  I can&#8217;t ask a customer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.webworks.com/allums/2010/04/02/market-directions-is-anybody-out-there-there/</link>
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		<title>Sketching the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I, like most folks, am fascinated by the future.  The reason is pretty clear.  All present possibilities may become realities in the future.  Years ago, I was happy to wait for others to create a future for me (Thanks Steve!).  I began creating a future for myself back in college; began shipping a future to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.webworks.com/allums/2010/02/23/sketching-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Keeping Pace with ePublisher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back a few weeks ago, I wrote &#8220;2009.4 and the missing feature&#8220;.  Customers gave that post some great feedback. People seemed to understand our goals for end-of-year releases.  It made sense to them that we dedicate time in our annual release cycle to focus solely upon stability.
As validating as it was to receive that feedback, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.webworks.com/allums/2010/02/05/keeping-pace-with-epublisher/</link>
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		<title>Focus, Focus, Focus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It never fails.  We ship the quarterly ePublisher release and the challenge begins anew:
What are we going to ship THIS quarter?
Marketing is analyzing, Sales is requesting, and Support is demanding.  And on the other side of those groups are our customers.  Some, we will delight. Others will curse our names, shocked to find that we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.webworks.com/allums/2010/01/27/focus-focus-focus/</link>
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		<title>Bugs and Car Talk Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bugs!  Isn&#8217;t that a great topic to blog about?  Well, maybe not.  Still, I wanted to talk about this subject because we&#8217;ve been missing out on an opportunity to learn from each other, make people happy, and improve ePublisher.  There is one catch.  Making this change happen requires a partnership between WebWorks.com and you.

A partnership [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.webworks.com/allums/2010/01/15/bugs-and-the-car-talk-syndrome/</link>
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		<title>2009.4 and the missing feature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life here in the Engine Room continues on as always; a combination of brimming potential and vexing challenges.  I love creating new things.  I love to solve problems. Sometimes I get to do both at once. But not this time.
You see, we&#8217;re preparing to ship ePublisher 2009.4.  And 2009.4 isn&#8217;t about features.  It&#8217;s about making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.webworks.com/allums/2010/01/08/2009-4-and-the-missing-feature/</link>
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		<title>Contracts, Commitments, and &#8230; !@#$?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About two weeks ago, on Wednesday, August 5, I had an &#8220;unfun&#8221; conversation.  One that I and every engineer here at WebWorks.com labored to avoid.  Our contract licensing system encountered a glitch and a customer was left in a lurch.
Where are my keys!?!
Gulp!

Back in 2008, the Development team was tasked by management to improve the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.webworks.com/allums/2009/08/17/contracts-commitments-and/</link>
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		<title>2009.2 &#8211; Confluence and Continuous Improvement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whew!
We&#8217;re putting a bow on our 2009.2 release and prepping it to roll out next week.  ePublisher 2009.2 includes support for FrameMaker 9 and a new wiki format, Atlassian&#8217;s Confluence.  We&#8217;re a bit delayed from our original ship date of 2009-06-30.  This was caused first by our Q1 slip implementing our new contract licensing service.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.webworks.com/allums/2009/07/22/20092-confluence-and-continuous-improvement/</link>
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		<title>Just a few more to go&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re down to 85 key assets on 40 accounts left to review.  The sales team has been plowing through the list and done a great job so far.  About half the list is comprised of international accounts which may require feedback from our partners to get right.
Thank you for your feedback and patience as we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.webworks.com/allums/2009/05/08/just-a-few-more-to-go/</link>
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