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	<title>Just as I had suspected &#187; Technical</title>
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		<title>An Approach to Exception Handling</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/10/05/an-approach-to-exception-handling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[In response to this post, also posted here, asking about guidelines different developers have come up with....  I actually started a response on the site, then realized I was typing an entire essay into a little comment box.]
Guideline #1: Never discard exception information.
You might either wrap the exception and throw the wrapper, or log it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support Firefox, through Internet Explorer</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/10/02/support-firefox-through-internet-explorer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/10/02/support-firefox-through-internet-explorer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Internet Explorer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a web developer (or if you have to use websites that are still IE-only) you might spend time browsing in both Firefox and IE.
You may also have noticed that when you use the toolbar search box in either one, the browser tacks a few extra parameters onto the Google search URL&#8230; so they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding getting flashed by Dilbert</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/04/25/avoiding-getting-flashed-by-dilbert/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/04/25/avoiding-getting-flashed-by-dilbert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bookmarklet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dilbert]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[flash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading the Dilbert comics online for years, always from the archive page &#8211; the home page was just overwhelmingly cluttered by ads, and it required extra clicks to see previous comics when I&#8217;d missed a few days.
So when the central Dilbert site switched to a super Flash-heavy format for their homepage (including the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disconnected ShareThis plugin for Wordpress</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/17/disconnected-sharethis-plugin-for-wordpress/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/17/disconnected-sharethis-plugin-for-wordpress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[clean]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[plugin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[redirect]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ShareThis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/17/disconnected-sharethis-plugin-for-wordpress/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I see the ShareThis plugin on tons of Wordpress blogs &#8212; and with reason, because the presentation is quite nice.  You don&#8217;t have to take up a chunk of the screen listing all of the different social networks (and they keep multiplying&#8230;) or offering the option to email this post to a friend; instead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>404 pages on 1&#038;1 webhosting: complaint and solution</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/16/404-pages-on-11-webhosting-complaint-and-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/16/404-pages-on-11-webhosting-complaint-and-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[1&amp;1]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[404]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[custom error pages]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[web hosting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/16/404-pages-on-11-webhosting-complaint-and-solution/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an unpleasant surprise today when I was testing a new site I&#8217;m setting up using 1&#38;1 web hosting&#8230; I mistyped the URL, and lo and behold, instead of showing any kind of useful error page for the 404, the server neatly redirected my browser to a completely different URL, &#8220;domparking.php&#8221; at the &#8220;sedoparking.com&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The data (u&#124;dys)topia</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/09/the-data-udystopia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/02/09/the-data-udystopia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[data]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dystopia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[utopia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Take one simple conversation with a neighbor, add a few late night walks in the dark, and it develops into a complete utopian/dystopian vision of the not-so-distant future.
First, the conversation: we were talking about everyday marital strife, and she mentioned how her husband wants to redo the roof himself &#8212; it&#8217;s a relatively straightforward project, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Database Naming: A response</title>
		<link>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/25/database-naming-a-response/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.robwhelan.com/2008/01/25/database-naming-a-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[database]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Note to non-technical types: skip this one.  It contains no entertainment value whatsoever.]
 I read an interesting article linked from DZone today, proposing a naming approach for database tables and fields.
What was a little startling to me, though, is that it was clearly a carefully-considered approach, but I disagreed with almost every single conclusion [...]]]></description>
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