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		<title>Getting MySQLdb For Python Working on Snow Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just getting into Python and Django programming so I&#8217;ve been tinkering with the tutorials online to get familiar with it.  I develop on a Macbook running 10.6.x and the pre-installed Python was working just fine for me until I needed to connect to MySQL for some of the Django work.  To do this you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wiffu.com/getting-mysqldb-for-python-working-on-snow-leopard/</link>
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		<title>Using Unicode To Increase Information Density in Tweets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quite a while back I grabbed the twitter handle @pdxweather with plans to broadcast the local weather over it.
I first thought I would send out a daily broadcast for today&#8217;s weather and tomorrow.  Being Portland, Oregon, I&#8217;m centering around the &#8220;Chance of Rain&#8221; for those days at least as a starting point. This has proven [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wiffu.com/unicode-to-increase-information-density-in-tweets/</link>
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		<title>Installing Git Manpages on Snow Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Using Git do you get this frustration:
$ git help pull
No manual entry for git-pull

If so, there is an easy fix
First, note the git version you are using
$ git --version
git version 1.6.4.2

Then download the appropriate tarball from kernel.org
curl -O http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-{YOUR VERSION}.tar.bz2

Then determine your manpath for /usr/local (here it is /usr/local/share/man, yours may be different)
$ cat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wiffu.com/installing-git-manpages-on-snow-leopard/</link>
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		<title>10 Minutes to a Leaner LAMP stack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For this quick article I am only going to quickly cover the A and the M of the LAMP stack.
The Setup
Assumptions: You have root on the server in question or you at least have enough server access to effect the configuration of Apache and MySQL.
The test server setup:

A Virtual Private server running on Rackspace cloud
Ubuntu 9.04 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wiffu.com/10-minutes-to-a-leaner-lamp-stack/</link>
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		<title>Some Experiments with Canvas Drag and Drop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been toying around with canvas tag and learning the ins and outs of Drag and Drop
I created a little proof of concept app that allows you to add markers to an image.  The meta about the markers (relative location, marker symbol, desc, color, etc) are stored in a DB on another server using JSONP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wiffu.com/some-experiments-with-canvas-drag-and-drop/</link>
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		<title>ipad: My impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sexy little (well medium i guess) device.  As a software developer though I cannot see it replacing my laptop (currently a msi u123).  I don&#8217;t see writing code on a ipad.
Also, it would not be replacing my phone.  I guess we will be able to use skype (or skype-like services) on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wiffu.com/ipad-my-impressions/</link>
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		<title>vnstat : excellent networking tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently found myself considering moving one of our servers to the Rackspace Cloud.  I needed to get an estimate of the cost for bandwidth usage.
I remembered I had installed vnstat on that server when it was deployed.  This made the bandwidth calculation completely simple:
Just have vnstat give me the bandwidth sliced by Month:
$ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wiffu.com/vnstat-excellent-networking-tool/</link>
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		<title>Your First PHP Development Environment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m teaching a PHP/MySQL course at the local community college this fall.  First order of business is to get everyone set up with a PHP development environment.  I decided to go ahead and post the strategy for the course as a post here in case it may be helpful others just starting out in PHP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wiffu.com/your-first-php-development-environment/</link>
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		<title>Portland Restaurant Health Map</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by Toby Segaran’s creation of a heat map of restaurant health inspection scores for San Francisco, I set out to do the same for Portland, Oregon.  I was able to scrape establishment records from the existing Multnomah County Food Establishment Inspections Search.  Then I got lat/longs for those addresses using Google’s geocode API.  Using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wiffu.com/portland-restaurant-health-map/</link>
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		<title>SOLR : very impressive lucene based search tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very impressed with Solr and the development community behind it. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
1.5 days of research, submitted bug and resulting immediate patch and I have a fully functional search engine for a project at work.
If you&#8217;ve ever thought it would be nice to have your very own google type appliance, I highly recommend you check out solr [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wiffu.com/solr-very-impressive-lucene-based-search-tool/</link>
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