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	<link>http://ethancodes.com</link>
	<description>Programming by Ethan Georgi</description>
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		<title>Mapping Ryan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently my brother got a SPOT emergency beacon. One of the features is a non-emergency &#8220;check in&#8221; feature. He hits a button and it logs his location. Turns out, that log has an RSS feed. So I built an application to take the feed and put the items in a database. Then I build a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethancodes.com/2010/03/mapping-ryan/</link>
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		<title>Hardcoded</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to say a little something about hardcoding values. Don&#8217;t.
Here is my example. You have an online application. It has 13 pages. You have a pointed that says what page the user is on. When that pointer gets to 14 it means the user is done and they get a summary page. That&#8217;s okay. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethancodes.com/2010/03/hardcoded/</link>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on Wordpress Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I seem to train a lot of our clients in Wordpress, so I thought I&#8217;d write something up. Copy/Pasted here, for your entertainment.

In my experience, most people think Wordpress training is going to be terribly complicated. Usually, they don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; computers and don&#8217;t expect to understand a content management system, either. Once they see how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethancodes.com/2010/03/some-thoughts-on-wordpress-training/</link>
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		<title>Simple jQuery Accordion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent an hour trying to get the jQuery UI accordion to work and it just wasn&#8217;t right. So I wrote my own. And then, the next day, I made it simpler.
Get the files here.
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		<link>http://ethancodes.com/2010/02/simple-jquery-accordion/</link>
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		<title>Automatic Highslide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Assumes you are familiar with jQuery and Highslide&#8230;

// prep &#34;a img&#34; for highslide
$&#40;'a'&#41;.each&#40;function&#40;&#41; &#123;
  if &#40;$&#40;this&#41;.children&#40;'img'&#41;.length &#62; 0&#41; &#123;
    $&#40;this&#41;.addClass&#40;'highslide'&#41;;
    this.onclick = function&#40;&#41; &#123;	return hs.expand&#40;this&#41;; &#125;
  &#125;
&#125;&#41;;

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		<link>http://ethancodes.com/2010/02/automatic-highslide/</link>
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		<title>Rotating Images on the Home Page with Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Building on ideas I posted earlier, I&#8217;ve come up with a clever way to allow users to manage the images that appear in a rotating-image-block.
Upload the images into a page. I called my page &#8220;Rotating Images for the Home Page.&#8221; Then, in your template, fetch the contents of that page and format them for display. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethancodes.com/2010/02/rotating-images-on-the-home-page-with-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Making Blocks of Content on the Home Page Editable in Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A popular home page design is a sort of newspaper layout, with lots of little blocks of content. An example of that is this website we did for Gilda&#8217;s Club.

What we want to do is make the &#8220;Mission&#8221; block, in the middle right, editable through Wordpress. It&#8217;s actually pretty easy to do.
1. Create a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethancodes.com/2010/02/making-blocks-of-content-on-the-home-page-editable-in-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Chart API</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few days I&#8217;ve been playing with Google&#8217;s Chart API. It&#8217;s much simpler than their other APIs. This is pretty close to dirt simple. My only &#8220;complaint&#8221; is that a lot of the variable names are a bit obscure. I&#8217;m unlikely to remember that chxl means chart axis labels. So I started writing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethancodes.com/2010/01/googles-chart-api/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress 2.9, Post Thumbnails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the cool new things about wp2.9 is support for post thumbnails. What this means is that you can associate an image with a post, as a thumbnail for that post.
Previously I have had to write all kinds of code to pull the first image embedded in the body of the post, resize it, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethancodes.com/2010/01/wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnails/</link>
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		<title>Some Thoughts On Browser Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody likes to do browser testing. Nobody wants to do it. It&#8217;s like cleaning your room. You keep hoping that if you put it off long enough it will go away. So the first thing to understand is that browser testing MUST be done. Suck it up.
That said, there are things you can do to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethancodes.com/2009/12/some-thoughts-on-browser-testing/</link>
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