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	<title>Andrew Gertig</title>
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	<description>On Technology and Society</description>
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		<title>A simple Rails 3 and Backbone.js screencast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick screencast on how to use Backbone.js with a Ruby on Rails application. The screencast covers the simple example of submitting a form, saving the data to the database, and displaying the records in a table. The repo for the backbone-demo app I created for the screencast is on github. [UPDATE: if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making your Rails web app invite only using devise_invitable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many sites and applications that begin their lives as &#8220;invite only.&#8221; This can be a very effective method of creating a sense of scarcity and at the same time build in a certain amount of curation to your user base. A good current example of a site that is still invite only is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get Compass to work on Heroku</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compass is a Ruby gem that provides a stylesheet authoring framework based on Sass. It is an awesome way to generate CSS. I ran into some trouble getting my Ruby on Rails application to run on Heroku until I cam across a Gist by Michael van Rooijen which I have added to a bit to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A CSS tag I have never seen before</title>
		<description><![CDATA[word-spacing I have never seen this CSS tag before today, but it turns out it is useful for a number of different things. Its primary usage is for, as the name suggests, setting the space between words in such things as p (paragraph) elements. The usage that I found for it was to remove the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Moment for delaying jobs in a Rails 3 app</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently needed to schedule delayed tasks in a web app that utilizes the Twilio SMS API, this is a discussion of how I handled that situation. My plan was to host my app on Heroku as I normally would until I realized that using the delayed_job gem on Heroku was where you had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why “The Daily” will fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily will fail because it is not any better than USA Today&#8217;s, The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s, Wired&#8217;s, or ANY of the other magazine/newspaper&#8217;s apps. If I have to see a spinner for more than 10 seconds I will close your app. If I have to see one for more than 20-30 seconds I will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Spine Surgery to Web Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Friday I quit my job as a Spine sales representative and starting Monday will be pursuing my dream of co-founding an internet startup company. One of the few things I didn&#8217;t like about the old job was that I couldn&#8217;t really talk about it in a public forum, like a blog. Being a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to hack a marathon if you aren’t a runner.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[UPDATE: Please do not take this post as a recommendation for you to try to do what we did. Thanks, hope you enjoy!] A few years ago I ran the San Francisco marathon without training and finished it in 4 hours and 28 minutes. Most people don&#8217;t believe me when I tell them I did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I’m not getting the Verizon iPhone 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Verizon iPhone is launching for current Verizon customers on Feb 3rd and I will not be one of the people in line to get it. I have an iPad and I am addicted to it so don&#8217;t call me an Android fanboy when I tell you that the number one reason I don&#8217;t want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Competition is inevitable. If you are in a job in which you never feel as though you are competing with another entity, then: 1. You are in a monopoly, and 2. Your job will eventually become exceedingly boring. Many people think that they don&#8217;t like competition or that they are not competitive people, but that [...]]]></description>
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