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	<title>How they Discovered Something Worth Knowing</title>
	<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog</link>
	<description>reflections on life, technology and brownies</description>
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		<title>My Talk on Rails3 for Rails2 Programmers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last nite I gave a presentation at houston.rb about Rails3 for the person doing Rails2 currently.   Lots of folks showed up and the good folks from Squegee bought pizza.   A good time was had by all.  Lots of people wanted a link to the slides so I have included them here]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2010/05/my-talk-on-rails3-for-rails2-programmers/</link>
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		<title>Running HTTPS in your Rails Development Environment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are building a rails application that requires SSL for parts of your site, you are probably going to use the SSL requirement plugin. But that alone isn&#8217;t going to allow you to run your code in development. You can easily see this after you enable the SSL Requirement plugin (suddenly nothing will work). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2009/09/runnning-https-in-your-rails-development-environment/</link>
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		<title>Announcing the migrate_war Rails plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The MigrateWar Rails plugin makes it easy to create database schema on deployment machines when you deploy via JRuby/War Files. This is especially helpful on Windows machines, where you cannot use Capistrano easily. Capistrano is a powerful deployment tool that is considered &#8216;state of the practice&#8217; by anyone deploying Rails applications to Unixy type systems. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2008/04/announcing-the-migrate_war-rails-plugin/</link>
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		<title>Ruby on Rails Contractor:   I am Available! (One of the Advanced Rails Recipes Book contributors )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just posted this to craigslist: I am web developer who specializes in Ruby on Rails contracts and works remotely from my home office. Currently looking for new projects, I&#8217;m open to conversations about new contract possibilities. My company is Silverchair Solutions, an agile web development consultancy. I have over 13 years of web development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2008/04/ruby-on-rails-contractor-i-am-available-one-of-the-advanced-rails-recipes-book-contributors/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m an Author!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok its been awhile since this occurred, but I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t mention that I have been included as one of the authors of the Pragmatic Studio&#8217;s Advanced Rails Recipes Book. I contributed a chapter on creating Wizards. You can check it out here. Basically I leveraged actsasstate_machine to pull this off. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2008/04/im-an-author/</link>
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		<title>Using your website url as your OpenID</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an OpenId, I have found it useful. But frankly its just another thing that I have to remember. Somthing that I can&#8217;t forget is my website url. What if you could set up some kind of cool forwarding that allows me to use my website url as my OpenID? Well&#8230; you can. Actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2008/03/using-your-website-url-as-your-openid/</link>
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		<title>Automating Cocoa Deployments with Sparkle and Xcode</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who live in the rails world, fantastic tools like Capistrano have made deployment drop-dead simple. And since I do some Cocoa work I found myself wanting some of that same capistrano-esqe love in my Cocoa deployments. The Sparkle framework handles most of this for you, but in its vanilla implementation requires [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2008/03/automating-cocoa-deployments-with-sparkle-and-xcode/</link>
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		<title>State Transition Diagrams for acts_as_state_machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been using the wonderful acts_as_state_machine plugin for lots of cool stuff in my rails applications. The problem that I have run into though, is visualizing the state transitions that I have created. Typically, when I first learned about state machines back in Electrical Engineering days, we drew cool diagrams with bubbles to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2008/03/state-transition-diagrams-for-acts_as_state_machine/</link>
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		<title>Remote Access to your mac via Back To My Mac (Leopard)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok I know there are a million ways to do this &#8220;by hand&#8221;, but if you have a .mac membership this is for free basically&#8230; automatic remote access to your machines on the internet via your .Mac account. If you look carefully under the .Mac settings for Leopard, there is a &#8220;Back To My Mac&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2007/11/remote-access-to-your-mac-via-back-to-my-mac-leopard/</link>
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		<title>OSX Leopard, RSpec Autotest Growl/growlnotify Workaround</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Upon loading up the new release of OSX 10.5 (Leopard), I was very frustrated to find that Growl notifications no longer work when using Autotest. Apparently growlnotify, the command line app which makes the magic happen, isn&#8217;t compatible. Read on to see how I got this work It turns out that there is another way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2007/10/osx-leopard-rspec-autotest-growlgrowlnotify-workaround-2/</link>
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