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		<title>S3CMD continued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I&#8217;ve been using the s3cmd more and more lately. s3cmd has a sync and delete command that can actually speed up deletes significantly. If you want to delete a few thousand files or maybe a million instead of taking days with other tools you can blast through deleting s3 objects by running several processes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bluetopazgames.com/?p=164</link>
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		<title>SQL finding duplicate records.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When adding unique indexs to tables to prevent data duplication you discover there are already duplicates in the table you wish to fix/improve. Here&#8217;s a quick way to list records with duplicates. select count( id ) as cnt, id from table group by id having cnt > 1 You still have to go through and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bluetopazgames.com/?p=148</link>
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		<title>Web based chat and shout boxes.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the solutions I've found or have dealt with lately when trying to find the perfect solution to website(s) I'm working on.
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		<link>http://www.bluetopazgames.com/?p=144</link>
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		<title>PHP Performance.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed the performance of my PHP is dog slow. I&#8217;ve since put in some debugging code and performance measuring code. My code might not be as modular or pretty looking but at least it will work in a reasonable amount of time. Object oriented PHP is causing me many performance headaches. It was disgustingly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bluetopazgames.com/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Yum and Git on Centros 4/4.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trying to install software on linux sometimes can be a real pain. Sure yum is great but some hosts such as MediaTemple don&#8217;t have that installed. So here&#8217;s a list of the commands I had to run in order to get Yum installed on a Centros 4.* box in an attempt to install another program: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bluetopazgames.com/?p=137</link>
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		<title>Javascript Libraries and Tools.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some javascript libraries and tools that I find useful: http://jquery.com/ http://www.bitrepository.com/ajax-login-modal-box.html http://tablesorter.com/docs/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bluetopazgames.com/?p=131</link>
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		<title>Perforce/VSS/CSV and Subversion: Mistakes Made</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Bug/Version control software story: I figured I would share one of my most embarassing development stories with the whole wide internet. This happened about 10 years ago and never happened again since so I think I&#8217;ve learned from the mistake. I had been working on a particularly crappy piece of code that no one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bluetopazgames.com/?p=122</link>
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		<title>Javascript prompt() replacements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[javascript prompt() replacement. I wanted a simple to use function to ask the user for some information. The javascript prompt() function seemed like a good way of doing this until you notice the security issues with IE. So I visited google and started looking for replacements. http://www.anyexample.com/webdev/javascript/ie7_javascript_prompt()_alternative.xml Tried it out. Works. Didn&#8217;t like the design. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bluetopazgames.com/?p=121</link>
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		<title>Finding and Removing duplicate data from SQL Tables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an decent article with various methods of finding duplicate data in databases with SQL. http://www.delphifaq.com/faq/delphi/database/f20.shtml Removing duplicate data can be a troublesome task as well. One of the fastest ways to do so involves creating a new table with a unique index to the column you wish to purge of duplicate data. Then you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bluetopazgames.com/?p=120</link>
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		<title>Determine if mod_rewrite is enabled using php/environment vars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A useful way to determine if mod_rewrite is enabled using php/environment vars. I googled this post and thought it was useful. This is useful for anyone switching between windows development + a linux deployment /w mod rewrite. It was on the 2nd or 3rd page of my google results so I&#8217;m putting it here http://christian.roy.name/blog/detecting-modrewrite-using-php]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bluetopazgames.com/?p=119</link>
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