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		<title>serving up python with the quickness</title>
		<link>http://lithostech.com/2010/04/serving-up-python-with-the-quickness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevecrozz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[django]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by Justin Lilly, I spent some time looking at various ways of running python web applications with an eye to performance. Nicholas Piël has done some great work testing and documenting many of them. Gevent looks like a great option as does CherryPy, but uWSGI caught my eye because it provides an nginx module [...]]]></description>
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		<title>switched from drupal to wordpress</title>
		<link>http://lithostech.com/2010/03/switched-from-drupal-to-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevecrozz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if anyone noticed this, but lithostech.com is using a drastically different theme. It&#8217;s just a canned theme like the old one because I&#8217;m not a designer and also can&#8217;t afford one. That&#8217;s not the only difference though. I&#8217;ve also switched from Drupal to Wordpress. Mainly, I made the switch because we&#8217;re considering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>details on the mysterious loan modification</title>
		<link>http://lithostech.com/2010/03/details-on-the-mysterious-loan-modification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevecrozz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[making home affordable]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt many recent home buyers lauded the Federal Making Home Affordable program when it was announced. The program which began in 2009 promised to give some relief to certain homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages. The actual details on what it takes to get a lender to agree to a modification  under this program [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bad job listing number one</title>
		<link>http://lithostech.com/2010/02/bad-job-listing-number-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevecrozz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update Feb 15:
You've gone and made it even worse by adding e-commerce experience as yet another requirement. Have you had anyone apply who's not still in high school? This is still only $2.00 over minimum wage. I can't even get a guy to come lay tile in my bathroom for that price. Now you're just asking for it, I'm putting up a link to <a href="http://fresno.craigslist.org/web/1601957999.html" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/fresno.craigslist.org/web/1601957999.html?referer=');">this shameful job posting.</a>
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I might make this a regular feature because I think pointing out some of these bad job listings in a humorous way may help some businesses figure out how to attract great web developers and designers. I'm hoping this will be both funny and educational. This is an example from Fresno's craigslist. I'm going to copy it here stripping out most of the identifying information to protect the guilty.
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		<title>building a more compelling environment for young professionals</title>
		<link>http://lithostech.com/2010/02/building-a-more-compelling-environment-for-young-professionals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have two good options for internet service at my home in the Fresno High area: AT&#038;T DSL which tops out at 1.5Mbits at my location or comcast which is much faster but can't be unbundled from cable TV service which I don't want and costs almost $80 / month. This is not attractive to a young professional like myself and doesn't score the city any points when trying to attract other young professionals to the area.
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		<title>Open Source is Gaining Momentum in the Mobile Arena</title>
		<link>http://lithostech.com/2010/02/open-source-is-gaining-momentum-in-the-mobile-arena/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevecrozz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[flickr-photo:id=4136613234,size=m]A new development in the mobile operating system market brings an open source convert to the table. As of <a href="http://blog.symbian.org/2010/02/04/symbian-is-open/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/blog.symbian.org/2010/02/04/symbian-is-open/?referer=');">Symbian's announcement</a> today, three of the five major players can now be considered open source systems. This pits Microsoft and Apple's closed systems directly against Google, Palm and Symbian in an epic battle of ideology.]]></description>
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		<title>buy local? how about sell local</title>
		<link>http://lithostech.com/2010/02/buy-local-how-about-sell-local/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevecrozz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[flickr-photo:id=2232319801,size=m]The <a href="http://www.whyibuylocal.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.whyibuylocal.com/?referer=');">central valley buy local campaign</a> probably began with the best of intentions. The idea is simple, get people to pump their hard earned cash right back into the place they live and work. If everyone did this more, the local economy would be much better off. It would be an easy way to stimulate the local economy and we'd all be better off for the benefits in public services funding.

Before I launch into my tirade which I'm particularly jazzed about, let me just start by saying that I actually like buying local and I even like the buy local campaign. I would go so far as to say that the campaign doesn't even come close to covering all the benefits the economy would see if we were all following along.
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		<title>I use ORMs (and so should you)</title>
		<link>http://lithostech.com/2009/12/i-use-orms-and-so-should-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevecrozz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[database]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[flickr-photo:id=3835364867,size=m]This blog entry is directed mainly at the body of web developers who have very little formal training but are trying to improve their own skill sets. As I've matured in my understanding of object-oriented software design, I've come to grips with certain realities. Often, I've found myself doing something that feels 'dirty' or 'hackish'. That's usually because I'm "doing it wrong" as smarter people say to me when I show them my code or describe my problem. When that happens I have two courses of action, but the only one that provides growth and self-improvement is to heed the advice of my mentors (usually a chorus of developers on IRC saying, "you're doing it wrong!").
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		<title>excellent css begins with excellent markup</title>
		<link>http://lithostech.com/2009/09/excellent-css-begins-with-excellent-markup/</link>
		<comments>http://lithostech.com/2009/09/excellent-css-begins-with-excellent-markup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevecrozz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[flickr-photo:id=1438778328,size=m]In the early days of the web (the early '90s), when the first HTML specification was being adopted, CSS did not exist. Web developers and webmasters (do those even exist anymore?) were responsible for delivering their content, design and layout in one package. It worked great and everything was right with the world. That is, until things became more complex. The roaring '90s of the Internet brought new revisions to the HTML specification and new innovations to web browsers which allowed for increasingly complicated design elements and content delivery methods. The ever-increasing complexity made it more difficult to maintain consistent design across large web sites. That's when big stupid web design suites became popular. Software like Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver became almost a necessity just to maintain page templates and edit pages in a wysiwyg format.
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		<title>s3fs for openwrt</title>
		<link>http://lithostech.com/2009/08/s3fs-for-openwrt/</link>
		<comments>http://lithostech.com/2009/08/s3fs-for-openwrt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevecrozz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you've been following along with my wifi radio posts, you may recall my problem of storage for the platform. I chose an ultra-low power and nearly zero storage device for my music collection because I planned to buy an external storage device and serve music from that device. I still think that's a good idea, but I'm too cheap to spring for the kind of device I really want. So I've been experimenting with cloud storage which has a number of big advantages which I won't get into here.

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