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		<title>Cut and Paste Job Requirements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I got an email for a job today which had the following line: Plans, conducts, and coordinates programming application activities. Analyzes, designs and implements business application computer software that contains logical and mathematical solutions to business problems, questions or processes. I decided to Google that phrase (the whole phrase). There were a ton of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coderguy.com/2010/07/cut-and-paste-job-requirements/</link>
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		<title>Joomla Check a User&#8217;s Status with Ajax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I found myself needing to know if a user was logged in to my Joomla site via javascript.  To accomplish this I did the following steps: 1. Add check function to user controller Open up &#60;your root joomla dir&#62;/components/com_user/controller.php and add the following function: public function check() { global $mainframe; $user =&#038; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coderguy.com/2010/06/joomla-check-a-users-status-with-ajax/</link>
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		<title>jQuery Ajax Call Return Value</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found myself needing a really quick way to do an ajax call and get the value returned to a single var. I did a lot of searching and found a lot of convoluted responses that involved callbacks.  Using callbacks would be overkill for what I was doing. After much searching I finally found this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coderguy.com/2010/06/jquery-ajax-call-return-value/</link>
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		<title>Trying out Nginx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I have heard about nginx (engine x) as a great alternative to apache. Apache is a very robust web server. Nginx is a very minimal server. It doesn&#8217;t to a lot of stuff, but that is fine because it does the things I need it to do. Being a PHP developer the big hurdle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coderguy.com/2010/02/trying-out-nginx/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Surveillance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I just installed nagios on my server at work. I configured it to check our companies websites every 5-10 minutes. I even got a couple of the sites setup to check if it was able to log in via the web inject plugin. That&#8217;s not really that or earth shattering. Things got interesting when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coderguy.com/2010/02/twitter-surveillance/</link>
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		<title>Show Forgein Keys in MySQL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a handy query I found the mysql reference manual for how to see all the foreign keys in a database: SELECT ke.referenced_table_name parent, ke.table_name child, ke.constraint_name FROM information_schema.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE ke WHERE ke.referenced_table_name IS NOT NULL ORDER BY ke.referenced_table_name;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coderguy.com/2009/11/show-forgein-keys-in-mysql/</link>
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		<title>Couchdb CURL gotcha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this is one of those stupid little development issues that eats up an hour of your time.  I am documenting this in hopes that it will save someone from wasting an hour of your time. I am learning couchdb and using curl to interact with it&#8217;s RESTful api.  I wrote a view and was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coderguy.com/2009/10/couchdb-curl-gotcha/</link>
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		<title>Learning to Test: Email Signup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background A big part of the DSNews.com website is its Daily Dose. The Daily Dose is a daily email that includes the top 4 stories on the site. We send it out to a lot of people and it is opened and people click through to stories. Before the re-launch in August, this email was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coderguy.com/2009/09/learning-to-test-email-signup/</link>
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		<title>Learning to Test: Images vs Text</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently redesigned DSNews.com.  We had a tight deadline so some of the polishing elements have been added on over time.  Rather than add them in a careless manner, I decided to develop my testing skill set by always introducing new elements with a 2 or 3 variation test. The first new feature to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coderguy.com/2009/09/learning-to-test-images-vs-text/</link>
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		<title>Get the Mime Type of a File</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you would like to know the mime type of the file you can use the file command with the -i -b options.  Example: &#62; file -i -b 20090731.flv application/octet-stream]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coderguy.com/2009/08/get-the-mime-type-of-a-file/</link>
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