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		<title>Fixing the Rails 3 Fragment Cache Path</title>
		<link>http://scottiestech.info/2011/07/23/fixing-the-rails-3-fragment-cache-path/</link>
		<comments>http://scottiestech.info/2011/07/23/fixing-the-rails-3-fragment-cache-path/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scottie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say you were using Rails 2.3.x, and you made the (wise) decision to implement heavy fragment caching. Then let&#8217;s say that you updated to Rails 3.x. At that point, you probably noticed that Rails 3 does something seriously annoying with the paths where it caches fragments. In Rails 2, doing this: Gave you a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Need Sprites on Your Web Site</title>
		<link>http://scottiestech.info/2011/03/13/why-you-need-sprites-on-your-web-site/</link>
		<comments>http://scottiestech.info/2011/03/13/why-you-need-sprites-on-your-web-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scottie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the olden days, video games relied heavily upon sprites given the rather severe limitations of computing hardware at the time. You can use this &#8220;old&#8221; technique to reduce the bandwidth load on your server. Most major web sites use them, but you may never have even heard of a sprite. But what exactly is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make Your Rails 2.3 App Work with Ruby 1.9</title>
		<link>http://scottiestech.info/2010/12/16/how-to-make-your-rails-2-3-app-work-with-ruby-1-9/</link>
		<comments>http://scottiestech.info/2010/12/16/how-to-make-your-rails-2-3-app-work-with-ruby-1-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scottie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[encoding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rails]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scottiestech.info/?p=463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're like me, you've got a Rails 2.3.x application running on Ruby 1.8.x - or perhaps Ruby Enterprise Edition. Well, that's all fine and dandy, but Ruby 1.9.2 is about twice as fast as even REE 1.8.7. So, you'll probably want to upgrade to the new version of Ruby. Problem is, you upgrade Ruby and then your Rails 2.3 app starts whining about character encoding problems and possibly other stuff. Nobody seems to have written a one-stop guide to upgrading your Rails app to Ruby 1.9... Until now!]]></description>
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		<title>Scottie&#8217;s SuperDuper CSS Drop Shadow</title>
		<link>http://scottiestech.info/2010/11/07/scotties-superduper-css-drop-shadow/</link>
		<comments>http://scottiestech.info/2010/11/07/scotties-superduper-css-drop-shadow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scottie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scottiestech.info/?p=450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I know this one has been done like 8 bazillion times, but this method of creating a drop shadow on elements in a web page via CSS and a 1 pixel by 1 pixel transparent PNG file actually DOES work. You see, I tried all kinds of different methods of creating drop shadows in CSS, both with and without an image file, and there was always a problem. It would render properly in certain browsers. It would render properly, but it only worked for fixed-width elements on the page. Or, maybe it would only render properly for variable width page elements. Or, the darn thing just didn't work at all. Well, I got tired of all of that, so I decided to make my own version of the CSS drop shadow. It may not be the prettiest, but it works.]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make Rails and PHP Apps Fully UTF-8 Compliant with MySQL</title>
		<link>http://scottiestech.info/2010/08/07/how-to-make-rails-and-php-apps-fully-utf-8-compliant-with-mysql/</link>
		<comments>http://scottiestech.info/2010/08/07/how-to-make-rails-and-php-apps-fully-utf-8-compliant-with-mysql/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scottie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scottiestech.info/?p=429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every web programmer knows that UTF-8 is where it's at these days. Even if you are coding something for only the US market, you're still probably going to run into names, addresses, or whatever with accented characters. You've probably run into the situation where you hope into phpMyAdmin and edit some table row, and what to your wondering eyes should appear, but something like this: "Voici un article franÃ§ais." And yet, when you view the web page and edit the content in your app, it looks and works fine! What's going on here?]]></description>
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		<title>Adding Videos, JavaScript, and Other Goodies to Posts in WordPress MU</title>
		<link>http://scottiestech.info/2010/06/06/adding-videos-javascript-and-other-goodies-to-posts-in-wordpress-mu/</link>
		<comments>http://scottiestech.info/2010/06/06/adding-videos-javascript-and-other-goodies-to-posts-in-wordpress-mu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scottie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[javascript]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may recall my earlier post Adding JavaScript to WordPress Posts without a Plugin. In that post, I talked about how to add JavaScript for, say, embedding a video without having WordPress "sanitize" your code... and without any plugins! WordPress MU, the version of WordPress that allows multiple blogs to be run under one WP installation, uses a different content sanitizer. In fact, it's so seriously anal that it blows away not only JavaScript, but all kinds of other HTML tags in your posts that the regular WP leaves untouched! Bad juju. So, here's how to convince WordPress MU to play nice with the HTML in your posts...]]></description>
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		<title>Installing ImageMagick from Source on Ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://scottiestech.info/2010/05/18/installing-imagemagick-from-source-on-ubuntu/</link>
		<comments>http://scottiestech.info/2010/05/18/installing-imagemagick-from-source-on-ubuntu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 13:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scottie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imagemagick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scottiestech.info/?p=399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like Ubuntu Server. I really like apt-get, because I don't have to do any work at all to install stuff. It's a piece of cake. Unfortunately, sometimes installing using apt-get doesn't work, or maybe the version of the software I need on the Ubuntu repository isn't the latest and greatest. In such cases, there's only one option left: installing from source. I recently had the opportunity to install the latest version of ImageMagick on an Ubuntu server, and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be!]]></description>
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		<title>Avoid the Number 1 CSS Mistake: a, a:visited</title>
		<link>http://scottiestech.info/2010/01/18/avoid-the-number-1-css-mistake-a-avisited/</link>
		<comments>http://scottiestech.info/2010/01/18/avoid-the-number-1-css-mistake-a-avisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scottie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scottiestech.info/?p=334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to hate CSS. I mean, I really, really hated working with CSS at all. Then, one day, I was forced to actually learn it well to design a new web site. It was rough, but I survived. There was one little problem: the vast majority of examples I found included a little bit of code that will royally screw up all your hyperlinks. So, this post is about how to avoid the #1 CSS mistake: a, a:visited.]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing the &#8220;ActionMailer: Hostname not match server certificate&#8221; Error</title>
		<link>http://scottiestech.info/2009/12/21/fixing-the-actionmailer-hostname-not-match-server-certificate-error/</link>
		<comments>http://scottiestech.info/2009/12/21/fixing-the-actionmailer-hostname-not-match-server-certificate-error/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scottie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scottiestech.info/?p=316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have a Rails app that sends e-mails, you are probably using ActionMailer. Unfortunately, starting with Rails 2.2.2, you may have encountered a wonderfully annoying little error that looks like this:

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError (hostname was not match with the server certificate)

The are quite a few sites out there that give monkey patches for this problem, but those aren't very useful because the next time you upgrade Rails, the monkey patch gets obliterated and you're back to square 1. And then you have to remember how you monkeyed with the it last time to get it working. Ug... Instead, fix it the right way!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>jQuery AJAX Form Submit for Dummies</title>
		<link>http://scottiestech.info/2009/12/14/jquery-ajax-form-submit-for-dummies/</link>
		<comments>http://scottiestech.info/2009/12/14/jquery-ajax-form-submit-for-dummies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scottie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[javascript]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scottiestech.info/?p=312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So you've decided to be supercool and use jQuery. That was a wise decision you made, because jQuery totally rocks. Especially in Rails apps, jQuery makes life a LOT simpler. Yes, you have to learn some JavaScript and some quasi-new syntax, but it's still seriously powerful and convenient. There's only one problem: if you're like me (i.e. JavaScript-impaired), you just couldn't get your forms to submit via an AJAX call. And so, without further ado, I present to you jQuery Form Submission for Dummies!]]></description>
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