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	<title>Hints and Kinks &#187; Technical HOWTOs</title>
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		<title>Dailed-in Rails script/console with pretty printing and history</title>
		<link>http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/dailed-in-rails-scriptconsole-with-pretty-printing-and-history-892.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edit (as root) your /etc/irbrc: # Some default enhancements/settings for IRB, based on # http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/Irb/TipsAndTricks &#160; unless defined? ETC_IRBRC_LOADED &#160; # Require RubyGems by default. require 'rubygems' &#160; begin require &#34;ap&#34; IRB::Irb.class_eval do def output_value ap @context.last_value end end rescue &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/dailed-in-rails-scriptconsole-with-pretty-printing-and-history-892.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Simple MySQL backup to gmail on Ubuntu/Debian</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Backing up your MySQL database (if it&#8217;s a reasonable size, like &#60; 100s of MB) can be done with a cronjob that runs mysqldump, gzip, and mpack. First set up your server to use gmail as the Mail Transfer Agent: &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/simple-mysql-backup-to-gmail-on-ubuntudebian-882.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>HOWTO enable the query log on MySQL on Mac OS X</title>
		<link>http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/howto-enable-the-query-log-on-mysql-on-mac-os-x-876.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 03:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tailing the MySQL query log in real time can be a lifesaver for any developer, and it&#8217;s pretty easy to do: Make a file for the mysqld process to write to: sudo touch /var/log/mysql-query.log sudo chown _mysql /var/log/mysql-query.log If you&#8217;ve &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/howto-enable-the-query-log-on-mysql-on-mac-os-x-876.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to view only unread gmail conversations</title>
		<link>http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/how-to-view-only-unread-gmail-conversations-866.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 04:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gmail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gmail doesn&#8217;t have an obvious way to only look at conversations that are unread. If you don&#8217;t &#8220;archive&#8221; conversations out of your inbox, it can get pretty crufty. It&#8217;s easy add a bookmark to just view unread conversations, however: For &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/how-to-view-only-unread-gmail-conversations-866.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Installing Phusion Passenger on Ruby 1.9.1, Nginx, &amp; Ubuntu 10.04</title>
		<link>http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/installing-phusion-passenger-on-ruby-1-9-1-nginx-ubuntu-10-04-861.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 23:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nginx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phusion passenger]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting ruby 1.9.1 and nginx and passenger and ubuntu to all play nicely is fairly straightforward, but it&#8217;s not just &#8220;apt-get&#8221; and &#8220;gem install&#8221; lovin&#8217;. Making ruby 1.9.1 the default ruby is OK. Follow these steps: Install ruby 1.9.1 sudo &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/installing-phusion-passenger-on-ruby-1-9-1-nginx-ubuntu-10-04-861.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Set up JAVA_HOME to track Java Preferences.app on Mac OS X</title>
		<link>http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/set-up-java_home-to-track-java-preferences-app-on-mac-os-x-847.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mac OS X&#8217;s Java Preferences.app has a pane for switching between versions of the JDK, but I just found out from a coworker (thanks, Mike!) that you can make your shell match that preference easily &#8212; just add this to &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/set-up-java_home-to-track-java-preferences-app-on-mac-os-x-847.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>HOWTO install etherpad on ubuntu 9.10</title>
		<link>http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/howto-install-etherpad-on-ubuntu-9-10-811.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[etherpad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karmic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Etherpad was opensourced by google, and has some generic installation instructions. Here&#8217;s the translation for Ubuntu Karmic Koala (release 9.10): Install the prerequisites: sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.1 mercurial sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin cd /tmp wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-J/mysql-connector-java-5.1.12.tar.gz/from/http://mysql.he.net/ wget http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/distrib/files/scala-2.7.7.final.tgz sudo mkdir -p &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/howto-install-etherpad-on-ubuntu-9-10-811.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Simple spring integration testing</title>
		<link>http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/simple-spring-integration-testing-801.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development Mantras]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring has had a really nice unit test framework available for a while now, but the documentation can be a bit daunting. Here&#8217;s a super-simple example of adding dependency injection to an integration test: Here&#8217;s .../src/main/resources/spring.xml: &#38;lt;?xml version=&#38;quot;1.0&#38;quot; encoding=&#38;quot;UTF-8&#38;quot;?&#38;gt; &#38;lt;beans &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/simple-spring-integration-testing-801.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to fix the wifi on a HP Mini 110 Netbook running Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)</title>
		<link>http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/how-to-fix-the-wifi-on-a-hp-mini-110-netbook-running-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-773.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Installing Karmic Koala from a USB drive proved to be a bit less than effortless. First off the http and ftp servers for the netbook-reloaded ISO images were really slow, and for some odd reason there aren&#8217;t any bittorrent links &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/how-to-fix-the-wifi-on-a-hp-mini-110-netbook-running-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-773.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Speed up Firefox!</title>
		<link>http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/speed-up-firefox-751.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Firefox on Mac was getting pretty lethargic &#8212; almost a minute to spin up, and multiple seconds to just open a new tab. I installed the new beta of Google Chrome, and remembered how nice a speedy browser was. &#8230; <a href="http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/speed-up-firefox-751.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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