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	<title>James Smith • loopj.com</title>
	
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		<title>5 Must Have Wordpress Plugins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I manage a number of wordpress blogs such as this one, and wordpress plugins can really improve the experience. Here are my five favourite wordpress plugins that I can&#8217;t live without!
1. Comments (DISQUS)
Wordpress&#8217; built in commenting sucks. The DISQUS comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by DISQUS. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Preloaders Don’t Show with HTML Anchors</title>
		<link>http://loopj.com/2009/08/05/flash-preloaders-dont-show-with-html-anchors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the Problem?
If you use HTML anchors on your webpages (for example http://www.example.com/index.html#anchor) and also embed flash files, beware of a flash player bug which might cause preloaders on your swf files not to appear!
Why does this happen?
This flash preloader bug (which is still unresolved) means that large swf files with preloaders will not show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfinished TV Web App Looking for New Owner</title>
		<link>http://loopj.com/2009/07/13/unfinished-tv-web-app-looking-for-new-owner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Django]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Python]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is WeGot.tv?
I&#8217;ve been working on a web app in my spare time for a while called wegot.tv, which is intended to help people track their TV viewing online. I recently joined the team at Heyzap and my focus has shifted away from wegot.tv, so I&#8217;m looking for someone to pick up the reigns and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast MySQL Backup Restoration</title>
		<link>http://loopj.com/2009/07/06/fast-mysql-backup-restore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Databases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the Problem?
If you take regular backups using mysqldump, you&#8217;ll know that backing up a large database can often take a few minutes to complete. What most people don&#8217;t think about when creating these type of backups, is that restoring your database from mysqldump backup files takes much much longer.
How Can I Speed Up This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Django Developer’s Views on Rails</title>
		<link>http://loopj.com/2009/05/23/a-django-developers-views-on-rails/</link>
		<comments>http://loopj.com/2009/05/23/a-django-developers-views-on-rails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 02:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Django]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Python]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rails]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
I&#8217;ve recently started work on a Rails project after working on many Django apps in the past couple of years and I&#8217;d like to share my experiences and gripes from my transition. Rather than attempting to analyze all the pros and cons of each framework, I&#8217;m going to try to focus on the transition pain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Python API for TheTVDB.com</title>
		<link>http://loopj.com/2009/05/06/python-api-for-thetvdbcom/</link>
		<comments>http://loopj.com/2009/05/06/python-api-for-thetvdbcom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Python]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Overview
TheTVDB.com is user contributed TV show and episode database which is used by many popular home theatre applications, such as XBMC to look up details of TV shows.
I&#8217;ve written a simple Python interface to their Programmer&#8217;s API which makes it possible for developers to extract the TV data they need from TheTVDB with minimal effort.
Let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>jQuery Plugin: Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry</title>
		<link>http://loopj.com/2009/04/25/jquery-plugin-tokenizing-autocomplete-text-entry/</link>
		<comments>http://loopj.com/2009/04/25/jquery-plugin-tokenizing-autocomplete-text-entry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jQuery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Version 1.1 Released!

Updated the license to jQuery standard GPL/MIT dual license
Moved the plugin to github by popular demand
Escape and tab keys now work (Thanks Dirk Bergstrom)
Can use settings.minChars to specify how many characters need to be type before a search is started (Thanks Dirk Bergstrom)
Can now prepopulate the list by settings settings.prePopulate with an array [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Removing Gaps Under Images In CSS</title>
		<link>http://loopj.com/2008/06/16/removing-gaps-under-images-in-css/</link>
		<comments>http://loopj.com/2008/06/16/removing-gaps-under-images-in-css/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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CSS veterans will probably already know this, but here&#8217;s a fix to a problem which has been bugging me for ages.
Problem:
If you have something like:

&#60;div&#62;
    &#60;img src=... /&#62;
&#60;/div&#62;

You may see a gap below the image on some browsers, a gap which cannot be removed by setting the padding/margins to 0:

Solution:
&#60;img&#62; tags are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Original Microblogger</title>
		<link>http://loopj.com/2008/06/13/the-original-microblogger/</link>
		<comments>http://loopj.com/2008/06/13/the-original-microblogger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

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I&#8217;ve just been reading an article about the diarist Robert Shields, who sadly passed away last year, describing his amazing &#8220;condition&#8221;.
Robert was thought to have hypergraphia, an overwhelming urge to write, and detailed every action of his life meticulously in a collection of diaries. The entries chronicled every 5 minutes of his life.
Every mundane, boring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intruders.tv @ The Next Web 2008</title>
		<link>http://loopj.com/2008/05/01/intruderstv-the-next-web-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://loopj.com/2008/05/01/intruderstv-the-next-web-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 20:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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At the end of March, Jude and I bumped into Vincent and Eugene from intruders.tv at Minibar London where I mentioned that it was a shame we couldn&#8217;t really get to any of the cool web conferences going on in Europe, at which point Vincent mentioned they were looking for someone to do some interviews [...]]]></description>
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