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	<link>http://www.petermac.com</link>
	<description>Australian freelance programmer and website design</description>
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		<title>Hey Gerry, Where’s the ‘Add to Cart’ button?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure to work on a project for Sausage Software in Melbourne back in 1999. It was called Business In A Box and was designed to enable local retailers put their business online i.e. introduce a catalogue of products with options to the internet. There was no programming involved on the part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petermac.com/hey-gerry-where%e2%80%99s-the-%e2%80%98add-to-cart%e2%80%99-button/</link>
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		<title>Installing MySQL gem on OSX 10.6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully this will be a time saver for anyone else who goes through the following pain. I have a brand spanking new OSX 10.6 installation. I installed mysql 5.5.9-OSX10.6-X86 (because I thought everything was still i386 based&#8230;watch this space!) I installed RVM and installed ruby 1.92 under RVM control. I then do a &#8216;bundle install&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petermac.com/installing-mysql-gem-on-osx-10-6/</link>
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		<title>Recovering the root password</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A client who shall remain nameless recently required the installation of some spam filtering software (spamassassin) on their linux mail server. Not a problem I thought. &#8220;All I need is root access&#8221; I said. &#8220;Huh&#8221; he said. Turns out the their system administrator of 5 years had left to go travelling around Europe and no-one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petermac.com/recovering-the-root-password/</link>
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		<title>Joomla out of memory error with exception.php</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just suffered a strange out of memory exception with one of my Joomla sites. All the posts I read indicated that I needed to allocate more memory in my php configuration &#8211; crazy I thought &#8211; I already had 64MB allocated. There must be something more fundamentally wrong for this nasty gremlin to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petermac.com/joomla-out-of-memory-error-with-exception-php/</link>
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		<title>Setup Git Local and Remote Repositories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a remote worker or, like me get some work done on the train on the way to/from your office, you&#8217;ll appreciate the need for set up of a local and remote source code repository, This allows you to develop using your laptop/netbook, check in your changes locally and when you arrive at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petermac.com/setup-git-local-and-remote-repositories/</link>
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		<title>msi wind u100, ubuntu and wireless grrrr!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Up until earlier this week, I had my lovely little netbook working nicely with Ubuntu 8.04 and a 90% satisfaction rate with the network manager utility. I could connect to my home network, office network and with abit of hassle, other free wifi spots. I started to get a message that my version of ubuntu [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petermac.com/msi-wind-u100-ubuntu-and-wireless-grrrr/</link>
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		<title>Rails 3, jQuery and multiselect dependencies part 2.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is a follow up to another article on this website which focuses on using jQuery to manage the processing of multiple inter-dependent select lists on a single web page. I had a number of requests to explain the data model in a bit more detail so here goes. I have worked on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petermac.com/rails-3-jquery-and-multiselect-dependencies-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Scaling images in batch mode</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have lots of folders with images uploaded from digital cameras. Average image size is 3MB which is way too large for uploading to web based image sites. What I need to do is to rescale the images but doing them one at a time is a pain so I wrote a little script to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petermac.com/scaling-images-in-batch-mode/</link>
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		<title>Photos</title>
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		<link>http://www.petermac.com/the-cats/</link>
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		<title>Is your customer Agile?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My customers don&#8217;t build software systems for a living. If they did I guess they wouldn&#8217;t need my services. I don&#8217;t fix cars for a living but you can imagine the look of perplexity on my face when a mechanic tells me the slipped diff needs replacing and the alternator bushels are worn right down. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petermac.com/is-your-customer-agile/</link>
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