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      <title>Techblog: PatronusCharm 1.1 Beta Release - Midnight CST</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Long overdue, I am finally releasing PatronusCharm 1.1 Beta. This will soon be followed up by 1.1.1 with miscellaneous improvements and changes I felt were unimportant for the 1.1 release. The changes and new features are numerous, and I may forget plenty but here are some highlights.Sphinx SearchSphinx, as you may have seen from my [...]<br />
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      <title>Techblog: 1.0.2 Beta Out Soon(TM)</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Well, my prediction of 1.0.2 Beta coming out months ago obviously didn’t stick. Obviously. I’ve been quite busy with life, but due to extra free time available, it’s possible and likely that 1.0.2 Beta will be rolled out within the week, though perhaps lacking some features will be a worthy addition of features and fixes before 1.0.3 [...]<br />
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      <title>Techblog: Google Gears: Offline Applications</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[What is Google Gears? As defined by the Gears website… Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:  A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server A database, to store and access data from [...]<br />
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      <title>Techblog: Sphinx Search: MySQL Fulltext Search Engine Replacement</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forums.darklordpotter.net/threads/techblog-sphinx-search-mysql-fulltext-search-engine-replacement.10242/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[For PatronusCharm 1.0.0 and 1.0.1, we&#039;ve used the MySQL fulltext search engine. That&#039;s a mouthful, right? MySQL is the database software PatronusCharm utilizes to store all of the data used in PatronusCharm. It stores users, stories, news articles, FAQ items, everything. As you well know, a search engine is needed to pile through this data. As PatronusCharm finds more and more stories to host on its pages, a good search engine is important to continue to allow users to search for the stories...<br />
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      <title>Techblog: New Feature: Document Multi-Uploader</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forums.darklordpotter.net/threads/techblog-new-feature-document-multi-uploader.10181/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[In the past, when uploading stories I’ve noticed how long it takes to upload stories. It’s even worse for authors who are posting previously written stories. Thus I’ve developed (to Shezza’s delight), a way to upload multiple documents. Due to the funky way Javascript reads the Document Object Model, which is the hierarchy of HTML [...]<br />
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      <title>Techblog: XML Syndication</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[XML Syndication is a means of distributing content to other websites and users in a quick and easy format. It can be used to syndicate summaries of content, all content, updates, anything the creator needs to be passed out in a simple to use format. These are commonly known as &#039;feeds&#039;. Most of you use them in some form or another. I&#039;m sure most of you either have a feed reader, or useFirefox addons to do so, or even use iGoogle to load content from your favorite websites. PatronusCharm also...<br />
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      <title>Techblog: PatronusCharm Techblog</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I said that I hate blogs, and it’s true. But with the time that 1.0.2 is taking to develop, I figured I’d keep a running blog of issues, features, and development in general. If you keep an eye out here I’ll point out hidden features, new features, and pieces of the backend you’ll likely never [...]<br />
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      <title>Techblog: Current development: Memcache, Tagging</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forums.darklordpotter.net/threads/techblog-current-development-memcache-tagging.10066/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I, as a developer, have an insatiable urge to optimize, simplify, and speed up my code. There are developers out there that would have no qualms running a query like this every time somebody hit their site. SELECT (SELECT COUNT(userid) FROM users) AS users, (SELECT COUNT(id) FROM reviews) AS reviews, (SELECT COUNT(chapterid) FROM chapters) AS chapters, [...]<br />
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      <title>Techblog: SSL and DLP: Little Known Secret</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forums.darklordpotter.net/threads/techblog-ssl-and-dlp-little-known-secret.10065/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Sniffing I’m not sure about all of you, but I hate using public WiFi access points. Why? They’re quite insecure. You might ask yourself, “What does he mean by that?” Public WiFi access points are a hotspot (pun intended) for people looking to prey on others through packet sniffing. As you surf the internet, you’ll likely [...]<br />
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