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	<title>Twinapex Blog</title>
	<link>http://blog.mfabrik.com</link>
	<description>Where creativity meets technology</description>
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		<title>PyDev, Python and system default Unicode encoding problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Python 2 has a thing called &#8220;default encoding&#8221; to automagically encode Unicode strings when they are presented as byte strings. This is evil and has been discussed various times before.
What could be even more evil? Something in your development environment messes this setting set for you, without telling you that. This way you never encounter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mfabrik.com/2010/01/24/aptana-studio-eclipse-pydev-default-unicode-encoding/</link>
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		<title>Creating a drag&#8217;n&#039;drop basket with jQueryUI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have created an example how to create a &#8220;basked&#8221; with jQuery and jQueryUI with the following features

The user can be pick items from the predefined set
Items are dragged and dropped to the basket
The basket value reflects a hidden input

This kind of user interface pattern is suitable for

Shopping carts
Travel planners

The example in fact bears the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mfabrik.com/2010/01/05/creating-a-dragndrop-basket-with-jqueryui/</link>
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		<title>Mobile browser wars: Nokia microB vs. Firefox Fennec</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Begun, this mobile browser war, has. When mobile internet is growing 8x faster than desktop internet everyone wants to have a share of it. In the core of this fight is the mobile browser &#8211; the doorway to the mobile internet.
Usually phone comes with a browser from the phone manufacturer: Safari ships with iPhone, Android [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mfabrik.com/2010/01/02/mobile-browser-wars-nokia-microb-vs-firefox-fennec/</link>
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		<title>Profiling PostgreSQL database</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog post will have some short notes about monitoring and profiling PostgreSQL databases.
pgtop
pgtop provides UNIX top command like user interface for PostgreSQL. pgtop command is available as Perl CPAN module.
How to install Perl CPAN modules as non-root user on Ubuntu (note: when it prompts to run sudo, answer no).
To install pgtop install following CPAN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mfabrik.com/2010/01/02/profiling-postgresql-database/</link>
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		<title>It will be damn big, and damn fast&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phew&#8230; been going thru hundreds of pages just last week released The Mobile Internet Report by Morgan Stanley. Interesting statistics and conclusions to read. I fully agree how those wise people at Morgan Stanley summarized the findings of their research:
Mobile Ramping Faster than Desktop Internet Did and Will
Be Bigger Than Most Think –
5 Trends Converging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mfabrik.com/2009/12/21/it-will-be-damn-big-and-damn-fast/</link>
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		<title>Black Friday was not sad for mobile commerce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[650% growth in a year.. not bad, eh? Well, some might say that starting low makes it easy to grow a lot if measured by percentages. Yes, that&#8217;s true but wasn&#8217;t it so with &#8220;normal&#8221; web, too?
In a recent data reviewed by Dow Jones (via mocoNews), mobile phones are used increasingly to buy things. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mfabrik.com/2009/12/02/black-friday-was-not-sad-for-mobile-commerce/</link>
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		<title>Nokia N900, sports tracking and geotagging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog contains some tips how to use your Nokia N900 smart phone as a &#8220;augmented reality&#8221; sports device.
Sports tracking
Sport tracking is about collecting your sports activity data using GPS and other equipment. After running/cycling/skiing/whatever you see where you have been, how much time it took and how fast you are. In same cases you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mfabrik.com/2009/11/29/nokia-n900-sports-tracking-and-geotagging/</link>
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		<title>PhoneGap ported on N900 (Maemo)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have ported PhoneGap mobile application framework to the new Nokia N900 smartphone and its Maemo operating system. PhoneGap is a framework to build mobile applications easily with HTML and Javascript. With the new Maemo port PhoneGap platform support covers iPhone, Android, Nokia Series 60, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Maemo, making it one of the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mfabrik.com/2009/11/24/phonegap-ported-on-n900-maemo/</link>
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		<title>Do you really think 160 chars tells the story?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still receiving from time to time some marketing SMS messages from different &#8220;clubs&#8221; I have opted in. Been too lazy to opt-out but those messages also works as kind of reminder about the status and state of mobile marketing. Just few weeks ago got a marketing message from one of those clubs (just rough translation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mfabrik.com/2009/11/23/do-you-really-think-160-chars-tells-the-story/</link>
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		<title>Installing Python Imaging Library (PIL) under virtualenv or buildout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have greatly struggled to have PIL library support in isolated Python environments like virtualenv &#8211;no-site-packages.
For example, when installing Satchmo shop under virtualenv:

../bin/clonesatchmo.pyhe Python Imaging Library is not installed. Install from your distribution binaries.

../bin/clonesatchmo.py
The Python Imaging Library is not installed. Install from your distribution binaries.
Though it clearly is there, installed by easy_install PIL command:
ls ../lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL-1.1.7-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg
ArgImagePlugin.py	 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mfabrik.com/2009/11/19/installing-python-imaging-library-pil-under-virtualenv-or-buildout/</link>
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