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	<description>Programming seems to be my existence</description>
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		<title>Just a quick time comparison of PHP&#8217;s preg_replace vs. str_replace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's a short and succinct comparison of running time to replace multiple characters in a given string. I ran the test 20 times each, so the numbers you will find are average running times:

$start = microtime&#40;&#41;;
$str = &#34;23ilrj23oirj23iorj o23irj23klfj23lkjr4ocimior 4r ioj234roij234r io34jrio4jrio34r jio4jr o34jr oi4jr io34 r&#34;;
$new_string = preg_replace&#40;'/[\w2]/',',',$str&#41;;
$end = microtime&#40;&#41;;
echo&#40;$end - $start&#41;;
echo &#34;\n&#34;;
$start = [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ephekt.com/?p=149</link>
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		<title>Rails, jQuery UI (Sortable), and Ordering of Slides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am partly sharing this issue and solution to the world, but mostly just recording somewhere what I came up with. Now, onto the quick read.
A web design client recently asked me to build a web site for him that would allow him to create slide shows of his art work. One of the criteria [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ephekt.com/?p=138</link>
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		<title>Facebook Application: Hello Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago it was my birthday. On that day I was receiving countless e-mails from Facebook notifying me of Happy Birthday messages when I realized many of the messages followed a particular pattern (i.e. "Happy Birthday(!&#124; &#60;name&#62;,&#124; &#60;endearing term&#62;). Don't get me wrong, I enjoy and appreciate all of my birthday wishes. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ephekt.com/?p=133</link>
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		<title>AnswerWise &#8212; The power of humans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks I have run into numerous spiders and being the inquisitive type of person I am I always want to know what I am looking at. Thanks to my senior capstone project at the University of California at Santa Barbara, I finally have an answer to pretty much any question I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ephekt.com/?p=124</link>
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		<title>jQuery &amp; Navigation: sliding sub navs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We've all seen those web sites that have navigation links that, when clicked, slide down a sub navigation. I recently put one together for thatwasmean.com and thought I would take a moment to clean up, generalize, and make easily viewable an example. You can find the working example in my examples directory, here.
To make this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ephekt.com/?p=116</link>
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		<title>Show/Hide ToolTips with jQuery (revisited)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, I got around to putting together a very simple demonstration (no graphics or styling) of using jQuery to show and hide (toggle) tool tips. I have put together I demo you can access at examples/jquery/show_hide_tooltips_ex1. Ctrl+U to view source.
What I have put together in this demonstration:

an on ready document function that tells jQuery when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ephekt.com/?p=111</link>
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		<title>That Was Mean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past few weeks I have been spending a few minutes here and there putting together a catalog web site. Now, you may be asking what kind of catalog system would Mike be working on? Let me fill you in....
It all started with a co-worker, an awesome guy, and a few tasteful jokes. One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ephekt.com/?p=108</link>
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		<title>Ruby Regular Expressions &#8211; Security Risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is a half reminder to elaborate when I have free time... But in short, there is nothing wrong with Ruby regular expressions, except that they behave differently than one might expect (in general and if coming from Perl RegEx).
Here is the dealy, from the Programming Ruby book by Dave Thomas:
The patterns ^ and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ephekt.com/?p=100</link>
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		<title>Validating Emails in Ruby on Rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's time to validate e-mail addresses and you're sitting in a Ruby on Rails application. Fortunately, there are a few methods to tackle such a task, and a combination of them can yield a pretty nice solution.
The first idea is to use some lengthy regular expressions. But why enumerate/describe in regular expressions what we are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ephekt.com/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Google Mail Conversation Threading, and how to prevent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tired of Google mail taking your e-mail and matching it to a gmail conversation incorrectly? Google mail has many cool features, one of which is the e-mail conversation thread view. This view shows e-mails matched based on subject, time, and correspondence grouped together to see a chronological conversation. While this is a neat feature that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ephekt.com/?p=86</link>
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