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	<title>Doug McInnes</title>
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	<description>Chuckle and Chortle</description>
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		<title>HTML 5 Asteroids on the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve added touch controls to the HTML 5 Asteroids game that will only appear when you&#8217;re running it on an iPad.  The game will expand to fill the whole screen for maximum asteroid blasting action.  Orient your iPad in landscape fashion!
Play It!
 
There are a couple caveats (warning some nerdy content ahead):
Tunneling Effect
On the iPad the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dougmcinnes.com/2010/05/24/html-5-asteroids-on-the-ipad/</link>
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		<title>HTML 5 Asteroids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some  months I&#8217;ve been playing around with HTML 5&#8217;s Canvas element because I was curious about it, especially after seeing it run Flash.  I hacked at it for a  while then realized I had produced an Asteroids game.
Play It!
 
The source code is up on GitHub!
The Canvas element is super cool.  Basically all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dougmcinnes.com/2010/05/12/html-5-asteroids/</link>
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		<title>Ruby Vim Fu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This last Thursday Alf and I gave a talk at LA Ruby on Vim, in particular how we use Vim to edit Ruby code.  Giles asked us to present on Vim months ago and we finally got around to doing it.
I think it went well considering we probably spent more time figuring out the background [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dougmcinnes.com/2010/04/11/ruby-vim-fu/</link>
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		<title>Ruby Single Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I, like many developers, do my best to follow the practice of Test Driven Development (TDD).  In practical terms this means you write a test to test your code before you write the code itself.  This approach forces your mindset into having a clearer sense of how the code will be used since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dougmcinnes.com/2009/02/16/ruby-single-test/</link>
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		<title>Javascript Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
 I&#8217;ve been a busy bee releasing stuff into the wild lately.  Most of them have been Ruby on Rails plugins but I&#8217;ve also been doing some Javascript work.  Here&#8217;s two tidbits that I developed at the Los Angeles Times.
Inplace_preview
Inplace_preview is the first.  It monkeypatches Scriptaculous&#8216; InPlaceEditor to give it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dougmcinnes.com/2008/11/13/javascript-love/</link>
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		<title>Couple of Railsy Tidbits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made a post on the Gem Install That blog detailing the simple_admin plugin which adds a simple authentication scheme to your Ruby on Rails application.  It stores usernames and passwords in a YAML file to make it extra easy.
Reid also posted on Gem Install That about another plugin we worked on, Subselector, which extends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dougmcinnes.com/2008/11/10/couple-of-railsy-tidbits/</link>
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		<title>cached_resource</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another Ruby on Rails plugin that I&#8217;ve developed at the Los Angeles Times is cached_resource.
In a nutshell cached_resource automagically caches ActiveResource response objects in a memcached instance.  The plugin requires cache_fu for memcached configuration goodness.  See also: Kickin&#8217; ass with cache-fu.
The code for cached_resource is also up on GitHub along with a many other Los [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dougmcinnes.com/2008/10/30/cached_resource/</link>
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		<title>Craken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of hopefully many (a few?) Ruby on Rails plugins I&#8217;ve created as a developer for the Los Angeles Times.
This one is called Craken.  In a nutshell it manages and installs rake-centric cron jobs.  Coupled with Capistrano goodness it is the answer to your recurring task needs in Rails.
It&#8217;s up on GitHub: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dougmcinnes.com/2008/07/14/craken/</link>
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		<title>LED Flowerpot</title>
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The LED Flowerpot!
This is a little project I built as a gift for the Wife for the combined 5-year being together anniversary/Valentine&#8217;s Day.  I did most of the work on the weekends, soldering and gluing in the back yard out of sight from prying wifey eyes.
The circuit is not terribly complicated, it&#8217;s a modified [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dougmcinnes.com/2008/04/10/led-flowerpot/</link>
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		<title>Barack Obama on Religion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re going to see any Obama video see this one.  I thought I liked him before!

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		<link>http://dougmcinnes.com/2008/02/10/barak-obama-on-religion/</link>
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