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	<description>It&#039;s not rocket science</description>
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		<title>Message formatting in Java</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever kind application you’re working on, you will probably need to create some sort of message more complex than “Hello World!” at some point. Whether it’s a log message, or some text to plonk into your nice UI, you will probably also need to format it in some way to include some variable values, and maybe some embellishments like using the correct words for plural and singular values.

Java provides a number of ways to do this. In this post, we’ll look at a few of them.]]></description>
		<link>http://karlagius.com/2009/12/09/message-formatting-in-java/</link>
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		<title>Scheduling tasks with Quartz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Using the Quartz scheduler to control timed jobs in a Java application.]]></description>
		<link>http://karlagius.com/2009/12/02/scheduling-tasks-with-quartz/</link>
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		<title>Staying on top of the (Google) Wave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Desktop client for Google Wave]]></description>
		<link>http://karlagius.com/2009/11/30/staying-on-top-of-the-google-wave/</link>
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		<title>Revisiting the JavaScript Calendar Control &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adding AJAX based event loading to a jQuery calendar. Rendering events with microformats.]]></description>
		<link>http://karlagius.com/2009/11/25/revisiting-the-javascript-calendar-control-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Object Caching in Java with EHCache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Using EHCache to cache Java objects in an application.]]></description>
		<link>http://karlagius.com/2009/10/07/object-caching-in-java-with-ehcache/</link>
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		<title>Revisiting the JavaScript Calendar Control &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creating a jQuery Datepicker: Adding behaviours to a jQuery date-picker plugin. Part 2 of 3.]]></description>
		<link>http://karlagius.com/2009/09/30/revisiting-the-javascript-calendar-control-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Revisiting the JavaScript Calendar Control &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Converting an old javascript date picker into a leaner, cleaner jQuery plugin. Part 1 of a 3 part series. Part 1: creating the plugin and displaying the picker.]]></description>
		<link>http://karlagius.com/2009/09/23/revisiting-the-javascript-calendar-control-part-1/</link>
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		<title>SHA1 in PHP and MySQL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wrote a brief note on the speed of digests in PHP vs. the speed of the same digest in MySql.
Read it at http://fwebde.com/php/encryption-php-vs-mysql/
Share/Bookmark]]></description>
		<link>http://karlagius.com/2009/09/21/sha1-in-php-and-mysql/</link>
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		<title>New theme for The Simple Part</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite my best attempts at procrastination, it had to happen sooner or later. Stephen Reinhardt’s Light theme, the free version of which has served this blog well and faithfully for the last year and something, has finally been decommissioned. Replacing it is a new theme I clobbered together over the last week. 
One of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karlagius.com/2009/09/13/new-theme-for-the-simple-part/</link>
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		<title>An Up/Down control in jQuery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I needed to write an up/down selector – you know the sort, it’s where you select a number by clicking on an up or down arrow. Since they can be useful for other things besides numbers, I gave it the plugin treatment.
Most of the information about the plugin can be found in its documentation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karlagius.com/2009/08/16/an-updown-control-in-jquery/</link>
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