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		<title>Face the Face</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing with new features in html5 recently &#8211; there are lots of things getting a bit of media coverage, but the wider support of embedded fonts really caught my eye.  By including an @font-face entry in your css file, and the appropriate font files on a server somewhere, you can get really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trouble.net.au/blog/korny/2010/04/10/face-the-face/</link>
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		<title>Android shortcut for sending mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m blogging about this because the second time I needed to make a mail shortcut, I couldn&#8217;t remember how &#8211; so if I blog it, I can always come here when I need to do it again!
I&#8217;m using a couple of different applications that allow you to update them by e-mail &#8211; mostly, task management [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trouble.net.au/blog/korny/2010/03/26/android-shortcut-for-sending-mail/</link>
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		<title>Conclusions on CoffeeScript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, having played with CoffeeScript for a few days, I think it&#8217;s a wonderful thing &#8211; but for the moment, at least, I&#8217;m going back to JavaScript, with some regret.

It&#8217;s a fabulous, clean, simple language &#8211; I love the terseness of the code:

class TagPanel
  constructor: (width, height, paper) -&#38;gt;
    @width: width
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trouble.net.au/blog/korny/2010/03/02/conclusions-with-coffeescript/</link>
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		<title>Playing with CoffeeScript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been fiddling with Coffeescript, a nifty language for writing Javascript &#8211; well, really it&#8217;s more like a pre-compiler than a language; it compiles directly to readable javascript (including comments!) and generally one Coffeescript statement produces one javascript statement.
So why would you use it?  Because it bypasses some of the horribleness of Javascript syntax, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trouble.net.au/blog/korny/2010/02/25/playing-with-coffeescript/</link>
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		<title>Simple ruby wrapper for Delcom build lights on Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t particularly new &#8211; I wrote this code a while ago, but it never got &#8220;finished&#8221; so I never wrote it up&#8230;
Many agile dev teams use Delcom USB build lights:
http://delcomproducts.com/productdetails.asp?productnum=804005
Coding for these is apparently quite complex&#8230; unless you are on a recent-ish Linux machine, in which case it&#8217;s amazingly trivial.

When you plug the light [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trouble.net.au/blog/korny/2010/02/12/simple-ruby-wrapper-for-delcom-build-lights-on-linux/</link>
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		<title>Behaviour Driven Development with Cucumber and Selenium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Please note - if you are familiar with BDD, Cucumber, or Selenium, parts of this may be a tad basic - but I thought it was worth writing a from-scratch guide for those to whom this is unfamiliar territory...]
What is Behaviour Driven Development?
BDD is a new-ish term used as a contrast to Test Driven Development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trouble.net.au/blog/korny/2009/11/03/behaviour-driven-development-with-cucumber-and-selenium/</link>
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		<title>Refactoring my blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve been reading again (always a bad move) &#8211; first Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, which talks about the 10,000 hour rule.  He theorises that to truly master something, you need to spend 10,000 hours practising it.
I&#8217;m an old-school geek &#8211; I started coding in year 7 on my sister&#8217;s university account, in Basic; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trouble.net.au/blog/korny/2009/10/04/refactoring-my-blogs/</link>
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		<title>Curved corner images in rmagick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RMagick is a great ruby library for image manipulation &#8211; it&#8217;s basically a wrapper around the venerable ImageMagick libraries.  There are some complexities around installing it on some platforms, and you have to be careful with garbage collection, but it&#8217;s still very easy to use and very powerful.
The curved corner images I used in previous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trouble.net.au/blog/korny/2008/07/20/curved-corner-images-in-rmagick/</link>
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		<title>Sigh &#8211; ie6 defeats my cunningness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, my previous post and linked page seems to work nicely.  (I did fix a minor glitch in ie7)
However, since then I&#8217;ve done some more reading &#8211; and my conclusion is, don&#8217;t do what I did &#8211; ie6 png transparency is just too risky.  Have a read of the discussion at http://blogs.cozi.com/tech/2008/03/transparent-png.html?cid=106552420 &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trouble.net.au/blog/korny/2008/07/06/sigh-ie6-defeats-my-cunningness/</link>
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		<title>Curved Corners with transparent png background on IE6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing in the wonderful world of css &#8211; partly for work, and partly for fun.
I wanted to have fluid sized, png-based, rounded-corner dialogs for a web site.  This is something that has been solved many times, but not (as far as I can see) for internet explorer 6 &#8211; which still has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trouble.net.au/blog/korny/2008/06/11/curved-corners-with-transparent-png-background-on-ie6/</link>
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