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		<title>Amazon needs smarter warnings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had pre-ordered Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 from Amazon a few months ago.  Today, I get an email stating that my credit card that I used to place the order would be expired at the time that the order would be fulfilled.   It was kind of disturbing, because my credit card that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1820921&#038;post=205&#038;subd=coderz4life&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bash: Detecting if Script is Sourced</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a quick way of detecting if your script is being source as part of a larger script or being executed directly: #!/bin/sh [ "$0" = "$(basename $SHELL)" ] &#38;&#38; echo "Script is sourced" And here are some tests: ralph@goten:bin$ ./sourced.sh ralph@goten:bin$ bash sourced.sh ralph@goten:bin$ . sourced.sh Script is sourced ralph@goten:bin$ source sourced.sh Script [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1820921&#038;post=195&#038;subd=coderz4life&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL Query Browser in Ubuntu 12.04</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I going to outright say it: MySQL Workbench completely sucks. It is a convoluted, complicated, steaming pile of bloated nonsense. It is hard to perform a simple query. Worse, the damn thing keeps crashing. I missed the simplicity of MySQL Query Browser. Yet, Oracle deprecated it a while back and Canonical removed the package in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1820921&#038;post=189&#038;subd=coderz4life&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>libgmp.so missing in Ubuntu 10.04?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When programming Haskell, I usually hack in a GHCi interactive session.  So I was surprise when I tried to make a test executable the other day: ralph@vegeta:~/src/haskell$ ghc --make Hello [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Hello.hs, Hello.o ) Linking Hello ... /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgmp collect2: ld returned 1 exit status libgmp is a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1820921&#038;post=181&#038;subd=coderz4life&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>String Similarity Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I submitted a new open source project onto Google Code. It is a Java port of a string similarity library that I wrote years ago. The API is a service that calculates a distance or similarity score between two strings. A score of 0.0 means that the two strings are absolutely dissimilar, and 1.0 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1820921&#038;post=177&#038;subd=coderz4life&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Epic Design Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple tries very hard to do unique designs, but I think my iPod Shuffle 3rd Generation has a serious flaw. It has no control buttons on the unit itself. The controls are embedded inline with the earbuds. The control has a single button operations where a single-click starts and stops playback, a double-click moves you [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1820921&#038;post=170&#038;subd=coderz4life&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lexical Illusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally, I have an issue where my grammar is bad. I can&#8217;t count how many times this problem when I comment my code. I always thought it was a cut and paste issue or a typo, but how come I could never catch it when proofreading? Then, I realized that my problem may be in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1820921&#038;post=162&#038;subd=coderz4life&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Installing clbuild</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 05:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After frustration with using an older version of sbcl and using asdf-install, I decided to try clbuild.  clbuild is a shell script that allows me to keep my lisp environment updated.  It is a little different from asdf-install, because it does not download tarballs, it gets the source code directly from their respective source code [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1820921&#038;post=147&#038;subd=coderz4life&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chromium Tricks for the Lazy Programmer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the cool time-saving features in Chromium (better known as Google Chrome) is the custom search engines. It&#8217;s not a new concept. Mozilla Firefox has similar capabilities, but it feels like a hassle sometimes. You have to physically select the custom search engine in a separate combo box, then enter your search terms. That [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1820921&#038;post=141&#038;subd=coderz4life&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trying Pylons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allan Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I was looking into trying some of the Python web frameworks this past weekend.  I originally started to look into Django and TurboGears, but after seeing nxsy&#8217;s comparison, I decided to try Pylons. My initial thought was that all three have similar goals, but have different approaches. A decent Pylons book by James Gardner [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coderz4life.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1820921&#038;post=137&#038;subd=coderz4life&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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