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	<title>McKinney Station</title>
	<link>http://www.mckinneystation.com</link>
	<description>Ruby on Rails web application development for Dallas/Fort Worth and all of North Texas.</description>
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		<title>LESS, CSS Frameworks, and Rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been a fan of the CSS frameworks for a while now.  I started with YUI and now use Blueprint or 960.gs on a regular basis.  What I never liked about the frameworks was the need to add all of the extra classes to the HTML markup.  It seemed messy, wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mckinneystation.com/2009/09/02/less-css-frameworks-and-rails/</link>
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		<title>Rails respond_to Made It Too Easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a spike in traffic (1-2 visits/day to 30-40 visits/day) over at CatechizeMe.com.  Someone out on the internet came across it, found it useful, and linked to it.  Yay!
With this new traffic, came some new requests for features.  The first was a request for a Google Gadget.  I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mckinneystation.com/2009/07/13/rails-respond_to-made-it-too-easy/</link>
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		<title>Basejumper &#8211; Yet Another Starter Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I do not hide the fact that I like to try out new ideas by building lots of little applications.  One thing I find myself doing is recreating many of the same pieces for each application.  So I finally gave in and built a default template for the way I like all of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mckinneystation.com/2009/02/22/basejumper-yet-another-starter-application/</link>
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		<title>Adding an iPhone Interface to an Existing Rails Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been gradually adding new features to my StagingTracks.com website.  Really, it is a place where I can try out new things outside the office.  I have upgraded the UI to be a little cleaner by using the Blueprint CSS framework.  It was a easy way to normalize the CSS across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mckinneystation.com/2009/02/20/adding-an-iphone-interface-to-an-existing-rails-application/</link>
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		<title>Deploying Sinatra Apps on Dreamhost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I LOVE creating small apps as a way of trying out new things.  The problem is that I rarely deploy them anywhere.  Many end up sitting in my /workspace directory until I decide I need to reclaim the space and probably won&#8217;t work on it ever again.
Recently, the Dallas Relevance folks have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mckinneystation.com/2008/10/09/deploying-sinatra-apps-on-dreamhost/</link>
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		<title>Using Google Charts with Rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With one of my recent microapps, UnscientificPolls.com, I wanted to show the polling data in more interesting ways than just the vote counts.  Charting was the logical conclusion, but how do it was a more difficult decision.
Some of the criteria I had for choosing the charting solution included: ease of use (it is  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mckinneystation.com/2008/08/22/using-google-charts-with-rails/</link>
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		<title>CSS Mockups for Ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally I need to mockup where the ads are going to go in an application (it has to pay for itself somehow, right?).  Rather than putting the ads into the application while I am still doing development, I use some simple CSS to put a placeholder where the ads will go.  In Rails, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mckinneystation.com/2008/08/15/css-mockups-for-ads/</link>
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		<title>Things I Really Like</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a few years of a very boring layout for the McKinney Station website, I have added a few items in the sidebar to show that I actually do things around here.  It&#8217;s not much, but it is a start.  You can follow me on Twitter, check out my projects on Github and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mckinneystation.com/2008/08/15/things-i-really-like/</link>
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		<title>Microapps Encourage Hacking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo by Jeff Belmonte
I am back from RailsConf 2008 and two of my favorite talks were &#8220;Microapps for Fun and Profit&#8221; by Erik Kastner and &#8220;23 Hacks&#8221; by Nathaniel Talbott.  I have recently been toying around with creating small little apps where I can try out new ideas and sharpen my skills.  
One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mckinneystation.com/2008/06/03/microapps-encourage-hacking/</link>
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		<title>test/spec docs for Rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo by Kriston Lewis
I am a big RSpec fan.  But occasionally, I work on projects that use test/spec.  When I want output the spec documentation with RSpec, I just use rake spec:doc.  With test/spec, I couldn&#8217;t find such a thing.  So I made one and stuck it in lib/tasks/test_spec.rake

Rake::TestTask.new(:specdox) do &#124;t&#124;
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mckinneystation.com/2008/02/24/testspec-docs-for-rails/</link>
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