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		<title>Mercurial Web with FastCGI &amp; Nginx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I’ve finally decided to make the switch to a distributed source control system.&#160; The benefits are well-documented, and I&#8217;ve grown weary of Subversion.&#160; After some research, I decided Mercurial would be best for me.&#160; Since I have OCD, and I wanted to push via HTTP to my remote repository, I did some homework and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geeksharp.com/2010/01/20/mercurial-web-with-fastcgi-nginx/</link>
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		<title>Windows + Ruby Native Gems (1.9.1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back I posted about getting the ruby-debug-ide gem installed in Windows under Ruby 1.8.6.&#160; In that post I outlined how hacking a header file and using the Visual C++ 2008 compiler could be leveraged to get the gem built and installed properly.&#160; Well, after a helpful comment from a reader and watching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geeksharp.com/2010/01/18/windows-ruby-native-gems-1-9-1/</link>
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		<title>Switching to OSX Full-Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been stuck for a while now.&#160; There are so many amazing technologies and frameworks out there, and I’ve finally decided to devote some serious time to one of the best (in my opinion) which is Rails.&#160; I know I’ve talked about this in the past, and, frankly, I’ve been either too busy or too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geeksharp.com/2010/01/14/switching-to-osx-full-time/</link>
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		<title>Installing Ruby-Debug-IDE on Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I’ve been trying to find a good development environment for Rails on windows.&#160; I’ve tried several different environments, but so far, I haven’t found that sweet spot, yet.&#160; My latest trial environment is utilizing the new NetBeans version 6.8.&#160; I’ve used NetBeans in the past for PHP projects and I was very happy with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geeksharp.com/2009/12/18/installing-ruby-debug-ide-on-windows/</link>
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		<title>Nginx and Rails and PHP, Oh My!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you could probably guess, my blog (and several sites of my friends) are hosted on a lovely Linux VPS provided by Linode.  I honestly can’t say enough nice things about the service and reliability I’ve received from Linode (and no they don’t pay me to speak highly of them!).  But that’s not really the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geeksharp.com/2009/12/09/nginx-and-rails-and-php-oh-my/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Web Platform Installer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back I wrote about my experiences installing SQL (and additionally .NET 3.5 SP1) on a Windows Server 2008 VPS.&#160; For various reasons I decided not to keep the VPS server at the time (mostly because of the cost, and the fact that I didn’t really have a strong need for it).&#160; Recently, however, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geeksharp.com/2009/11/29/microsoft-web-platform-installer/</link>
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		<title>Learning Rails (and Ruby too!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple days I’ve been reading what’s shaping up to be an excellent book about Ruby on Rails called “Agile Web Development with Rails (Third Edition).”&#160; This book takes a practical approach to teaching Rails by building a demonstration shopping cart application called “Depot.”&#160; I must say that, so far, learning Rails has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geeksharp.com/2009/06/06/learning-rails-and-ruby-too/</link>
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		<title>MySQL Password Hashing in .NET</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was surfing through StackOverflow today, I noticed a question that got me thinking.&#160; This developer had been working with a classic ASP application that used MySQL for it’s backend database.&#160; The project on his plate was to convert this application to ASP.NET with MS-SQL as the database.&#160; The only problem he encountered was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geeksharp.com/2009/05/15/mysql-password-hashing-in-net/</link>
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		<title>.NET 3.5 SP1 on a Windows 2008 VPS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I’ve been debating moving my site over to a Windows VPS.&#160; If I make this move, I’m hoping to take advantage of the new features available in Windows Server 2008 as well as .NET 3.5 SP1 and IIS 7.&#160; After some preliminary research, I decided to give KickAssVPS.com a try.&#160; Within a few hours [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geeksharp.com/2009/05/05/net-35-sp1-on-a-windows-2008-vps/</link>
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		<title>Delicious Toolbar Icon Woes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I’ve begun using the popular bookmarking service <a href="http://www.delicious.com" target="_blank">Delicious</a>.  One of my favorite features of this service is that I can install the associated <a href="http://delicious.com/help/quicktour/firefox" target="_blank">Firefox add-on</a>, and this enables a handy bookmarks toolbar that stays synchronized between my home and work computers.  Recently, however, I’ve noticed a strange incompatibility with the theme I use in Firefox.  For some reason, while using the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4129" target="_blank">myFireFox theme</a>, the icons placed in the favorites bar are sometimes improperly sized which makes for a relatively ugly experience.  Read more to see the rest!]]></description>
		<link>http://geeksharp.com/2009/04/17/delicious-toolbar-icon-woes/</link>
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