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	<title>The Blog of Lucien Stals</title>
	<link>http://www.byteclub.net/blog/lstals</link>
	<description>Chronicles of an (former) academic.</description>
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		<title>Warming to SQL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never have loved SQL. But I respect it.
I just managed to save ~30% page load time per page load by writing a better query. That&#8217;s pretty reasonable.
Using a self join meant I was able to get all the information I needed in a single query.
The lesson I&#8217;ve been learning lately, apart from learning about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.byteclub.net/blog/lstals/20080731/warming-to-sql/</link>
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		<title>A List Apart, The Survey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

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		<link>http://www.byteclub.net/blog/lstals/20080731/403/</link>
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		<title>The hand (paw?) of Basement Cat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a quick (and dirty) script to track clicks on links from a directory page at work. It&#8217;s been running for a few weeks now.
I just looked at the current results and saw&#8230;
&#60;ol&#62;
	&#60;li&#62;Careers&#60;/li&#62;&#60;!&#8211; #1 with 6666 clicks &#8211;&#62;
	&#8230;
	&#60;li&#62;Human Resources Forms&#60;/li&#62;&#60;!&#8211; #5 with 666 clicks &#8211;&#62;
&#60;/ol&#62;
Is this evidence of Basement Cat at work?
And is it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.byteclub.net/blog/lstals/20080724/the-hand-paw-of-basement-cat/</link>
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		<title>The Coup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First there was Project Mayhem.
Now there is The Coup.
Ok. Perhaps we need a better name. Feel free to suggest one.
But for some time there have been mumblings and grumblings about the future of ByteClub. Although it pains me to admit it, patronage has been in a steady decline for some time, and now only a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.byteclub.net/blog/lstals/20080721/the-coup/</link>
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		<title>dreaming of version control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I see a beta for Dreamweaver CS4 is out. I haven&#8217;t looked at it yet, but it claims to have native SVN integration. That&#8217;s a big step forward. Of course it would only be useful if somebody would set up an SVN repository here at work. I&#8217;d do it myself, but I don&#8217;t have authority [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.byteclub.net/blog/lstals/20080721/dreaming-of-version-control/</link>
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		<title>wordle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just discovered wordle.
How fun is it?
I tried running Kevin Rudds &#8220;Sorry&#8221; speech through it and was suprised at how small the word &#8220;sorry&#8221; came up in it. And I don&#8217;t recal the word &#8220;Nanna&#8221; being used in the speech yet it&#8217;s got the same weight as &#8220;sorry&#8221;. 
Then I tried a self portrait from my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.byteclub.net/blog/lstals/20080623/wordle/</link>
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		<title>JS Frameworks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using JQuery quite a bit recently and I just love how easy it is get stuff done.
Not necessarily difficult stuff either, but being able to do in three lines of code what would take at least 50 lines for me to write by hand, is very nice. 
I&#8217;ve seen all kinds of very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.byteclub.net/blog/lstals/20080620/js-frameworks/</link>
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		<title>Technorati Profile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technorati Profile

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		<link>http://www.byteclub.net/blog/lstals/20080517/technorati-profile/</link>
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		<title>Web Directions User Experience (WDUX08)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, it took a little while for the Web Directions events to register on my radar. But once they had, I set my sites on getting to one of the conferences. But that goal has taken a little while to realise, and in fact I still haven&#8217;t made it to the Web Directions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.byteclub.net/blog/lstals/20080517/web-directions-user-experience-wdux08/</link>
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		<title>More CF lovin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The code&#8230;
&#60;cfset aList=&#34;12, 14, 15&#34;&#62;
&#60;cfif ListContains(aList, 2)&#62;
    Yeah!
&#60;/cfif&#62;
The assumption&#8230;
The number 2 is not present in the list.
The reality&#8230;
The character &#8220;2&#8243; is present in the list since ListContains() does a substring search.
The reaction&#8230;
Grrrrrrr!
(Apparently I should have been using ListFind)

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		<link>http://www.byteclub.net/blog/lstals/20080407/more-cf-lovin/</link>
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