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	<title>David Bolton Strikes Again</title>
	<link>http://davidbolton.net/blog</link>
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		<title>Components in Rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave a talk at the RORO meeting in Sydney on Tuesday night (Feb 9th, 2010) covering the ideas of desktop development that have been used in web development, and in particular how and why we might think of using components with Rails. In particular, I focused on two Rails based frameworks &#8212; Cells and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidbolton.net/blog/2010/02/components-in-rails/</link>
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		<title>My Programming Journey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat inspired by an old Jim Weirich post &#8212; yes, I&#8217;ve been meaning to do this for a while &#8212; here is a little history about my journey with computers and programming.
My dad worked with computers from before I was born, and we had home computers for as long as I can remember (at one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidbolton.net/blog/2009/11/my-programming-journey/</link>
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		<title>My Tools of the Trade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by MIke Gunderloy&#8217;s &#8220;Tools of the Trade&#8221; post: 
Having just upgraded the hard drive in my laptop, and taken the chance to do a fresh OS install, I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to review almost all my tools. Here is how I get it done:
Hardware

MacBook 13&#8243; 2008 unibody, 4gb, 500gb 7200rpm drive &#8211; I use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidbolton.net/blog/2009/10/my-tools-of-the-trade/</link>
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		<title>Installing Java 1.5/5.0 on Snow Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people are pointing to the OneSwarm instructions for installing Java 1.5 on Snow Leopard (it has been saved 100 times in Delicious.)  While they do work, the following instructions (saved only 24 times in Delicious) here at chxo internets are much easier, and work just as well.  It also feels safer and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidbolton.net/blog/2009/10/installing-java-1-55-0-on-snow-leopard/</link>
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		<title>Using render_to_string in view or helper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suspect some Google searcher is going to find this useful one day&#8230;
In Rails, render_to_string cannot be used in a view or helper, as it&#8217;s an ActionController method, not an ActionView method.  Instead, you can use standard render commands.  But beware, using render :file will set the content type header to the type of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidbolton.net/blog/2009/03/using-render_to_string-in-view-or-helper/</link>
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		<title>Objective C vs Ruby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked yesterday for advice on the best language between Objective C and Ruby to learn for someone new to programming, who is hoping to be employed working with that language in the near future (an important point).  Here&#8217;s my response:
These are two &#8216;hot&#8217; areas generating a lot of buzz here and abroad.
For the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidbolton.net/blog/2009/02/objective-c-vs-ruby/</link>
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		<title>Too Many Options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of posts ago, I mentioned my concern that Merb could add too much flexibility to the Rails world, and that the abundance of options would increase the barriers to entry for new Rails programmers.  Having watched the Rails/Merb 3.0 commits so far, it seems that the aim right now is to fix things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidbolton.net/blog/2009/02/too-many-options/</link>
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		<title>JavaScript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many programmers, I&#8217;ve been using JavaScript for years, without really understanding everything about it. Recently I&#8217;ve been working on a project which is exclusively JavaScript, which is to say exclusively browser DOM manipulation via JavaScript, so I&#8217;ve been doing as much learning as possible.
First, the thing most worth knowing is that browser DOM APIs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidbolton.net/blog/2009/02/javascript/</link>
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		<title>Rails &amp; Merb merge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ruby world is abuzz with the news that Rails &#38; Merb will be merging for version 3 of the Rails framework.  Big news!
We all realized that working together for a common good would be much more productive than duplicating things on each side of the fence. Merb and Rails already share so much in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidbolton.net/blog/2008/12/rails-merb-merge/</link>
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		<title>Thinking Sphinx Yaml</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thinking Sphinx is a beautiful interface to the Sphinx search engine.  One thing that I only saw mentioned in passing was setting up a config/sphinx.yml file.  This is necessary if you want to run multiple sphinxes on varying ports (say, if you were running multiple apps on the one host).  The format is:

development:
  port: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidbolton.net/blog/2008/12/thinking-sphinx-yaml/</link>
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