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	<title>Chris Johnston</title>
	<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com</link>
	<description>Web development and design with a little VFX thrown in for fun</description>
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		<title>The importance of User Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I am passionate about is the need for applications to be both usable and aesthetically pleasing for the people using them. If your application does not meet these two requirements then, in my opinion, you have failed. This means that every development team needs UX people. Or as Michael Feathers&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2009/09/14/1062/</link>
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		<title>ioXtreme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have got to get me one of these when they come out. Imagine having all of your programs starting up from scratch with the same speed as if you had maximized them. The ioXtreme is 80GB of high-performance, non-volatile storage in the form of a PCI Express card. 
There are only two problems with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2009/06/08/1057/</link>
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		<title>Designing imperfection into websites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting article on the need to design imperfection into websites in order to make them more human and more accessible.
Elegant Web experiences walk a fine line separating simplicity (yawn) from chaos (huh?). And the rules that govern the quality of the attempt are derived from considerations of natural organization. This can still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2009/05/06/1055/</link>
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		<title>HTML 4.01 or xHTML 1?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dave Shea has decided to move away from implementing websites using xHTML and is using HTML 4.01. His main reason:
I made the switch more because of overall trends. Six years ago, many of us thought XHTML would be the future of the web and we’d be living in an XML world by now. But in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2009/04/29/1053/</link>
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		<title>Time to move beyond 960?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A width of 960 pixels has become the de facto standard for creating fixed-width web sites. Cameron Moll is asking if it is time to move beyond this width, and if so, what do we move to? I personally really like 960 as a width. It makes for easy to read lines of text and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2009/04/28/1051/</link>
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		<title>Multistage deployments with Capistrano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to set up a Capistrano script for deploying to a staging and production server. I found this very well written tutorial showing how to set up the various cap scripts to work with mod_rails (Passenger). 
One note, Capistrano does not copy over the database.yml file. You need to put this in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2009/04/25/1046/</link>
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		<title>Keep CSS layout in layouts not in view pages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When using layouts in Rails, I strongly suggest keeping as much of the container elements in the layout and using content_for to create sections in which content can be placed.
I am working on a site right now that has used the YUI Grids to layout the site (something I highly recommend for anyone designing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2009/04/16/1040/</link>
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		<title>Keep CSS clean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the last few days working with the CSS in an existing web application. It isn&#8217;t pretty. My biggest pet peeve with it is all the special cases that exist. If you find yourself doing a lot of the following you are in for a world of hurt when it comes time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2009/04/14/1038/</link>
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		<title>Filling browser with background colour using YUI Grids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but one thing I have never liked about using Yahoo! UI Grids library is that I could never get a background colour applied to &#60;body&#62; to fill the entire background. It would only go to the bottom of the #doc div. So if that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2009/04/08/1035/</link>
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		<title>Programatically adding tags to contacts in Highrise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been playing with adding tags to contacts in Highrise programatically. Unfortunately, 37Signals has not added this functionality to the API for Highrise so you have to hack it in. Based on a post on adding contacts, the following code will add a single tag to a contact.

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/http'

contact_id = 12345
connection = Net::HTTP.new("your_account.highrisehq.com")
req [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2009/04/03/1028/</link>
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