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	<title>Elf Sternberg</title>
	<link>http://www.elfsternberg.com</link>
	<description>Done, and gets things smart.</description>
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		<title>Vi&#8217;s &#8220;paren bounce&#8221; feature for Emacs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I need to make clear that I did not invent the code below.  I&#8217;m not sure who did, but the topic of making vi&#8217;s &#8220;paren bounce&#8221; feature work in Emacs came up in a conversation I had the other day, and I&#8217;m posting the chunk of code that&#8217;s lived in my .emacs file since, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elfsternberg.com/2010/03/05/vis-paren-bounce-feature-emacs/</link>
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		<title>Replacing Flash with Javascript: Metacritic&#8217;s slide show with in-image thumbnails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Metacritic is an interesting website with a pretty stylish layout, but one thing that drives me nuts is the use of Flash for a simple slideshow on the home page.  I decided, as an experiment, to try and replace that with one driven by Javascript.
The choice of javascript turned out to be simple: I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elfsternberg.com/2010/03/01/replacing-flash-javascript-metacritics-slide-show-inimage-thumbnails/</link>
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		<title>Amazon&#8217;s CDN is picky.  Django can make dealing with it annoying.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is probably a &#8220;no-duh&#8221; to some people, but I had not known this.  When you upload something to the CDN, you get a url that looks like this:
http://cdn.mycompany.com/images/someimage.jpg
Which is all fine and good.  Django&#8217;s MEDIA_URL is usually suffixed with a closing slash, meaning that if you&#8217;re in the habit of typing something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elfsternberg.com/2010/02/24/amazons-cdn-picky-django-dealing-annoying/</link>
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		<title>LessCss lets me express myself in CSS the way I express myself in Python</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently implemented a new subsite for IndieFlix using LessCss, the Leaner CSS metaframework.  LessCss is a programming language that abstracts CSS out into a hierarchal language, where instead of writing:
#header { ... }
#header img { ... }
You write:
#header {
    ...
    img { ... }
}
Which, believe me, makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elfsternberg.com/2010/02/18/lesscss-lets-express-css-express-python/</link>
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		<title>The most butch website design on the Interwebs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sharper FX
They do nothing but churches.  Black churches, too.  Sharper FX is an 11 on the scale of Manliness.  Watch some of the Flash splash pages.  They&#8217;re amazing.  I love this site.
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		<link>http://www.elfsternberg.com/2010/02/16/butch-website-design-interwebs/</link>
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		<title>The horror of bad website design&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine pointed me to the website of CB Richard Ellis,  a real-estate investment and management house with a big footprint here in the Pacific Northwest.  
Their hiring website is a horror.  No, really, go look, unless you&#8217;re an epileptic.  (Sadly, the effect only seems to be present for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elfsternberg.com/2010/02/16/the-horror-of-bad-website-design/</link>
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		<title>Lesson learned&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I installed the latest version of the Gnome Accessibility Toolkit (Gnome-AT), and while I never quite got it to work the way I wanted to, it didn&#8217;t seem to be doing any harm.  I figured once I got to the point of showing the client the work we&#8217;d talk about accessibility [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elfsternberg.com/2010/02/15/lesson-learned/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two,&#8221; rule for web applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Functional.  Elegant.  Foolproof.  Pick two.
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		<link>http://www.elfsternberg.com/2010/02/14/fast-cheap-good-pick-rule-web-applications/</link>
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		<title>What went wrong at ${Job Sept&#8217;09-Oct&#8217;09}</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gwaredd Mountain writes:
Microsoft has published empirical data that shows that the process overhead for TDD increases the development effort by 15% &#8211; 35%. Despite the many positive benefits from TDD, we cannot possible consider anything that adds an extra 35% effort to produce artefacts the customer will never see as lean. Amazingly, people still try [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elfsternberg.com/2010/02/09/wrong-job-sept09oct09/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress or Joomla?  Mutter mutter mutter&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, talk about a niche market ready for exploitation.
I was talking a client today, and my first question to her was the first question I try to get most of my clients to answer: &#8220;If you don&#8217;t do this, if you don&#8217;t spend the money and the time, what&#8217;s the worst that could happen?&#8221;
&#8220;The worst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elfsternberg.com/2010/02/05/wordpress-joomla-mutter-mutter-mutter/</link>
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