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	<description>B-lib - Notes &#38; Tutorials on Delicious Bytes of Technology</description>
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		<title>Gentoo Linux &#8211; Wallpapers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you looking for my Gentoo Wallpapers, they can be found here.
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		<link>http://www.bwigg.com/2010/02/gentoo-linux-wallpapers/</link>
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		<title>Magento Sidebar Categories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following will display a list of categories in your store in your right sidebar.
Layout
Alter page.xml so that the default handle's right block contains the following:

&#60;block type=&#34;catalog/navigation&#34; name=&#34;category.listing&#34; template=&#34;catalog/navigation/categories.phtml&#34; /&#62;

My final right block looks as follows

&#60;block type=&#34;core/text_list&#34; name=&#34;right&#34; as=&#34;right&#34;&#62;
	&#60;block type=&#34;catalog/navigation&#34; name=&#34;featured&#34; template=&#34;catalog/featured_random.phtml&#34; /&#62;
	&#60;block type=&#34;catalog/navigation&#34; name=&#34;category.listing&#34; template=&#34;catalog/navigation/categories.phtml&#34; /&#62;
&#60;/block&#62;

Template
Create the file template/catalog/navigation/categories.phtml and paste in the following

&#60;div [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bwigg.com/2010/01/magento-sidebar-categories/</link>
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		<title>Magento Sidebar Featured Products</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This tutorial will explain how to add a featured product to the sidebar. In this example we will add the featured product to the right sidebar. The steps we will follow are as follows.

Create a new category in the magento admin area to contain our featured products.
Add the block calls to the XML Layout
Create the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bwigg.com/2010/01/magento-featured-products-in-sidebar/</link>
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		<title>Pragmatic Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to be a pragmatic programmer, or to program pragmatically? Generally speaking, acting pragmatically or being pragmatic means to act practically. Taking things for what they are, don't make  things more difficult then they have to be. Take these ideals and apply them to development and you can be a very efficient, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bwigg.com/2010/01/pragmatic-development/</link>
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		<title>Interviewing Your Future Employer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interviews can be stressful and daunting, but using them to your benefit could reveal many interesting traits about your potential employer! Use this list to get some ideas for questions to ask while you're interviewing your next employer.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bwigg.com/2010/01/interview-questions-for-the-employer/</link>
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		<title>Subversion: Continuous Integration with a PHP Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract
This tutorial explains how to update a staging site whenever there is a commit to the SVN repository. This assumes basic knowledge of Subversion, Apache and C and that the staging site is running a working copy checked out from the repository.
Problem &#38; Solution

When working close with designers or other non-coders it's often most productive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bwigg.com/2009/10/subversion-continuous-integration-with-a-php-application/</link>
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		<title>Subversion: Repository on Subdomain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tutorial explaining how to setup a Subversion repository on a subdomain using Apache2.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bwigg.com/2009/10/subversion-repository-on-subdomain/</link>
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		<title>Subversion: Commit Emails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a tutorial on how to setup Subversion to email a team when there is a commit to the repository.
Subversion Hooks
Hooks are what Subversion executes upon certain events. Within your SVN directory you should see the following items

README.txt
conf
dav
db
format
hooks
locks

Go into the hooks directory and you will see a bunch of files ending in .tmpl. These [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bwigg.com/2009/10/subversion-commit-emails/</link>
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		<title>Paperclip &#8211; Customizing Paths and URLs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To customize the paths and urls of paperclip objects in your rails app you need to modify both the :path and :url options for  has_attached_file in your models. Here's an example...
 


class SomeModel &#60; ActiveRecord::Base
&#160;
  has_attached_file :image_one,
    :path =&#62; &#34;public/system/:class/:id/:filename&#34;,
    :url =&#62; &#34;/system/:class/:id/:basename.:extension&#34;
&#160;
  has_attached_file :image_two,
   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bwigg.com/2009/10/paperclip-customizing-paths-and-urls/</link>
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		<title>Ruby Script to Check Site Availability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I've been looking around for scripts to check the availability of websites I'm hosting, then email me a status message if there is anything I should be worrying about. There are many services out there, but none are free. Fortunately this kind of thing can be done with a little ruby script and cron [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bwigg.com/2008/10/ruby-script-to-check-site-availability/</link>
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