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	<title>CyberFOX Software Inc.</title>
	<link>http://cyberfox.com/blog</link>
	<description>Coding, Connections, and Other Bloggy Bits of Goodness</description>
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		<title>An informal survey of Rails web application pricing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings,
This is a very informal, off-the-cuff survey of some web applications in the Rails ecosystem that have varying payment plans, how they present them, and some of the differences among them.  The idea is not to compare the services, but to start to get a handle on how to price services on the web.
Background
I&#8217;m working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cyberfox.com/blog/2009/07/25/68/an-informal-survey-of-rails-web-application-pricing</link>
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		<title>The three kinds of Rails migrations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings,
What alternative do you suggest for using models in migrations? I was in several situations where I had to not only change the underlying db structure but change the contained data, too.
Data changes, especially moving data around, are almost always rake task-worthy in my experience.
The other side of that, populating large amounts of seed data [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cyberfox.com/blog/2009/05/22/54/the-three-kinds-of-rails-migrations</link>
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		<title>Approaching an inherited Rails codebase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings,
[Edit: Since writing this article up back in early March, I've moved on from this job. The folks who are now maintaining it at least know where the pain points are, can run migrations safely, deploy it locally, and to dev servers, and to the main deployment area.  It's a working app, although I never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cyberfox.com/blog/2009/05/21/56/approaching-an-inherited-rails-codebase</link>
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		<title>New Twitter time-tracking tool; not beautiful, but a neat idea.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings,
&#8216;@workon&#8216; is a brutally simple time tracker; it&#8217;s mainly to scratch my own itch, but I&#8217;d like to open it up to others.  Twitter has opened up it to 20,000 API calls per hour, which is 19,800 more than I think it&#8217;ll need.     It&#8217;s a Rails application, listening to email via IMAP in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cyberfox.com/blog/2009/03/25/60/new-twitter-time-tracking-tool-not-beautiful-but-a-neat-idea</link>
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		<title>The JBidwatcher sites are down for power maintenance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings,
The JBidwatcher home page, forums, and svn are all down for a few hours while my hosting service fixes some power problems in their data center.
I&#8217;m really sorry I didn&#8217;t set up a fallback DNS, or something else, beforehand.  Offhand, I don&#8217;t know a good way to handle my sole host being powered off&#8230;
— [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cyberfox.com/blog/2009/03/20/51/the-jbidwatcher-sites-are-down-for-power-maintenance</link>
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		<title>gotAPI Fluid Icon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings,
I&#8217;m definitely not an artist, and there&#8217;s not much to work with from gotAPI.  No logo on the blog, Twitter, and the site&#8217;s main logo is textual.  The favicon is the only piece of abstract iconography to work from, so that&#8217;s what the Fluid icon is based on.

It works for me, because I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cyberfox.com/blog/2009/03/19/44/gotapi-fluid-icon</link>
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		<title>&#8220;We just wanted to choose a really large number.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings,
That quote is from a Treasury spokeswoman, quoted by Forbes, on why the bank bailout will need $700 billion.  A spokeswoman who probably has joined the unemployed today.
There&#8217;s a lot of people suggesting that we should let them all die (including me, in a fit of deep fury, when the bailout first was proposed).  Others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cyberfox.com/blog/2008/09/25/39/we-just-wanted-to-choose-a-really-large-number</link>
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		<title>S. California wants to be&#8230;Western New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings,
So I&#8217;ve had this in my playlist for years,  but shuffle just brought it up again, and the need to push it welled up.  It may only make sense to folks who&#8217;ve lived in New York and California, but&#8230;
Dar Williams &#8211; Southern California wants to be Western New York
It&#8217;s not my usual fare (leaning more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cyberfox.com/blog/2008/06/17/38/s-california-wants-to-bewestern-new-york</link>
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		<title>To fire, or not to fire, &#8216;workaholics&#8217;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings,
There&#8217;s an interesting few blog posts going on about folks who work really hard.  It started from Jason Calacanis&#8217;s article of tips on how to save money when running a startup (many of which are good, but #11 is &#8216;Fire people who are not workaholics&#8230;&#8217;) and that was picked up at the 37signals SvN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cyberfox.com/blog/2008/03/07/37/to-fire-or-not-to-fire-workaholics</link>
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		<title>A son.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings,
I have an important personal announcement!
My wife and I have a baby on the way; he is due in early May!
(The linked post also includes details on what I&#8217;m working on for JBidwatcher2.)
As I say in the post, we&#8217;re incredibly excited, and a bit scared.  It&#8217;s going to be an amazing journey.
I&#8217;ll post more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cyberfox.com/blog/2008/01/02/36/36</link>
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