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		<title>Creating a Custom Feed in WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever find yourself wanting to create a custom feed of your WordPress managed website? Lucky for you they have the handy add_feed hook that allows you to define as many feeds as you want, Just be careful not to duplicate any existing feeds. I personally find myself using this feature to output xml of data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to obtain the full absolute path of the exectuing shell script without readlink</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One issue that I always come across when creating a shell script is referencing files dynamically based on the location of the shell script. A hack I often used was to pass the script&#8217;s path to the script on execution because the readlink command was not available to me. However recently I have revisited this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dynamically generating the Java Classpath within a shell script</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resources.mdbitz.com/?p=1447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the main maintenance issues with running a Java application from a shell script is keeping your classpath up-to-date with the new and updated jars. To make things more difficult you can&#8217;t specify a folder as the classpath as it doesn&#8217;t include the jars in it only .class files. However through the use of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Save and Write To and From a File in Visual Basic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Close]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resources.mdbitz.com/?p=1241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A common task when creating a form based windows application is to allow a user to save their information and to also load saved information. In this short tutorial I will show you the basic steps to save a form&#8217;s information to a file and then load up the contents of the saved file. Saving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multiplying a Database Column&#8217;s Values</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SQL]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most individuals I find the built int SUM function of SQL very helpful when performing computations. Recently however I found myself wondering how to compute the product of a result set grouped by some factor, and I found myself slightly at a lost as no Product function exists. Fortunately for us we can use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips &amp; Tricks: How to perform String Concatenation in Visual Basic</title>
		<link>http://resources.mdbitz.com/2010/03/tips-tricks-how-to-perform-string-concatenation-in-visual-basic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resources.mdbitz.com/?p=1244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Visual Basic allows multiple methods for concatenating Strings. The simplest and most easily recognized method is using the + operator which will perform the concatenation of Strings. However if you want to concatenate two numbers together you will first have to convert them to Strings to use the + operator. To enable you to specify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing your files and folders through the command prompt</title>
		<link>http://resources.mdbitz.com/2010/03/managing-your-files-and-folders-through-the-command-prompt/</link>
		<comments>http://resources.mdbitz.com/2010/03/managing-your-files-and-folders-through-the-command-prompt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resources.mdbitz.com/?p=1179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remembering the correct command prompts across different platforms can be confusing. To make things easier on myself I have compiled a short list of the commands and their options that are commonly used to create and delete files and folder in DOS. Including how to delete a folder and all its contents. How to Delete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating User Friendly and Twitter Friendly links with TinyURL</title>
		<link>http://resources.mdbitz.com/2010/03/creating-user-friendly-and-twitter-friendly-links-with-tinyurl/</link>
		<comments>http://resources.mdbitz.com/2010/03/creating-user-friendly-and-twitter-friendly-links-with-tinyurl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resources.mdbitz.com/?p=1157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Often we forget that although we want our URLs to be SEO friendly and contain information about the current page. Because of this URLs can become very long and cumbersome to the user and to other applications which allow a limited amount of text like Twitter. For example the URL to this article is http://resources.mdbitz.com/2010/03/creating-user-friendly-and-twitter-friendly-links-with-tinyurl, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t use Design Patterns just because you can, you Cargo Cult Programmer</title>
		<link>http://resources.mdbitz.com/2010/03/dont-use-design-patterns-just-because-you-can-you-cargo-cult-programmer/</link>
		<comments>http://resources.mdbitz.com/2010/03/dont-use-design-patterns-just-because-you-can-you-cargo-cult-programmer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever stumbled across a project and just think to yourself why does this class exist, or more specifically why did they use this design pattern? Recently I happened across one of those projects, in it the project used a Factory class that&#8217;s purpose was to instantiate and return a single class. In essence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to perform a batch delete in T-SQL</title>
		<link>http://resources.mdbitz.com/2010/03/how-to-perform-a-batch-delete-in-t-sql/</link>
		<comments>http://resources.mdbitz.com/2010/03/how-to-perform-a-batch-delete-in-t-sql/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Database maintenance can be a full -time job when working within a large corporation. Cleanup or deletion of records can especially be time-consuming and error prone when dealing with large data tables with millions of records. Often developers will try to run a basic delete statement without knowing about batching or truncating the activity log. [...]]]></description>
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