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So I recently decided to upgrade to Wordpress 2.1 (was running Wordpress 1.5.1.3). I was able to do it rather painlessly, so I figured I’d share just in case others wanted to know.
1. Go grab the Wordpress XML Export . Follow the instructions to put wp-xmlmigrate.php into your wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Open up wp-xmlmigrate.php and head […]

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Recently at work we’ve started up a “book club” of sorts (I’ll take the blame for it). The idea is that we cooperatively come up with material to review and then discuss it once a week to see how it can perhaps fit in to making us better.
I’m hoping it’s going over as well […]

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“Being productive isn’t something that just happens. You don’t just sit down and be productive. Real productivity takes time. It’s a process. You make your way into it. Sometimes it takes 15 minutes or a half hour or an hour or more to really get in that zone. And when you’re in that zone you […]

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I did this quite awhile ago, but with the race season in full swing, I thought I’d bring it up.
Velonews RSS feeds generated by scraping the specific sections of their site and put into separate RSS files.
Dare I go out and do more sites?
Enjoy.

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We’re going through interviews here, and one of the coding questions we decided to run with was
“Write a method to reverse a list”
There is of course an obvious way to do this, and perhaps a little less obvious way.
I was explaining the less obvious way (well, ok what I would consider the less obvious way).
This […]

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The invention is a battery comprised of an electrical current collector constructed of carbon or lightweight graphite foam. This foam exhibits a sizeable increase in surface area for chemical reactions to take place and eliminates the need for heavy lead plates found in traditional batteries. The graphite material resists corrosion and sulfation build-up, thus contributing […]

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So I’m in the process of doing a refactor of some code and I thought I’d share a little on where it is going.
I’m morphing some code into a server that serves requests from a web browser. The idea being that it is a “client” but you access your UI from a web browser.
This is […]

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It’s time for another script to put out. This time I thought I’d be fun to see what I could do in an hour, sort of a code jam style effort.
Google Base was released last week so I thought I’d write up a little syncer script that you could just shuffle items into a […]

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Bill Venners: What’s the DRY principle?
Dave Thomas: Don’t Repeat Yourself (or DRY) is probably one of the most misunderstood parts of the book.
Bill Venners: How is DRY misunderstood and what is the correct way to understand it?
Dave Thomas: Most people take DRY to mean you shouldn’t duplicate code. That’s not its intention. […]

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You’d want to do more than just cycle through the keys in the core method of course, and I do but I’ve cut that bit out and just left the juicy bits.
I’m a big fan of wrapping.

public string GetFullNameForFoo() {
return GetFooData( new string [] {”firstName”, “lastName”} );
}

public string GetUserNameForFoo() {
[…]

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