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	<title>Edinburgh web design and marketing articles, musings - Blot Design, Edinburgh</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Paypal - an alternative for payment processing?</title>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/paypal-an-alternative-for-payment-processing</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last 12 months we&#8217;ve done quite a few e-commerce integrations with the Paypal service and found that its payment processing interface has come a long way from the old one-way &#8216;Buy Button&#8217; type of integration.
Originally, you used Paypal as an electronic &#8216;wallet&#8217;.  You needed to create an account, then deposit funds into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOWA to the Future</title>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/fowa-to-the-future</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>general notes</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blot attended the Future of Web Applications (FOWA) event this month, and very interesting it was.  Held at the Sun Microsystems building in Linlithgow, FOWA is an event for the web developer community that looks at what&#8217;s happening in the industry and what might happen in the future.

This is the first year that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle and MySQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do Google, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Nokia have in common?  The answer is they all use the MySQL database for data storage.

MySQL is used by all sorts of web sites, services and applications, including the Blot range of software.  There&#8217;s a couple of reasons for this.  First it is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email - the bane of web design companies</title>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/email-the-bane-of-web-design-companies</link>
		<comments>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/email-the-bane-of-web-design-companies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>general notes</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email has become an essential part of most people&#8217;s life, it&#8217;s hard to remember what it was like before we had it.  You&#8217;d think by now it would be a pretty smooth running thing, but it is the absolute bane of web designer&#8217;s lives.  What is essentially a simple and straightforward service can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helvetica - not for web!</title>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/helvetica-not-for-web</link>
		<comments>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/helvetica-not-for-web#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a beautiful font Helvetica is.  It is available in so many different flavours too - the designer is spoiled for choice.  However, designers, especially Mac designers, need to be aware that Helvetica looks terrible on Windows.

We do quite a bit of collaborative work with other design companies and often they produce work [...]]]></description>
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