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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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		<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>Write Informative Content the #1 Rule to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resources.mdbitz.com/?p=1186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) you will find numerous tips &#038; tricks on how to increase your page ranking. When it is all said and done the most important thing you can do is write unique and informative content. Regardless of the Keyword Stuffing or shear number of articles, the best way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t use Design Patterns just because you can, you Cargo Cult Programmer</title>
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		<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>Java Code Snippets: Performing a Single line or Inline if else statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resources.mdbitz.com/?p=1047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason I have the utmost trouble remembering how to do a single line or inline if else statement. This article is mainly for myself so hopefully I will remember the next time I want to do an inline if else statement. The usual format for performing an if else statement is: if&#40; $val1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Tips &amp; Tricks: How to use conditional tags to create custom sidebars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resources.mdbitz.com/?p=1005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress has many nice built in features and helper functions for us to use in our websites. Some of the basic conditional functions like is_page, is_single, and is_home are perhaps the most versatile and useful to developers and site owners. These functions simply return true or false for if you are on a page, post, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Tips &amp; Tricks: How to split a post into multiple pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resources.mdbitz.com/?p=980</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When writing a post to your WordPress powered blog or website have you ever wished you could split it up into multiple pages? The good news is that you can WordPress comes by default with the ability to create paginated posts by use of the Page-Link tag. This tag notifies WordPress that the following content [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Tips &amp; Tricks: How to utilize custom fields to enhance your blog posts and main page</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resources.mdbitz.com/?p=956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Very often when developing a WordPress powered blog or website you may find that you need to add custom features. One of the most common feature requests that I have come across is to add an image to the excerpts that get displayed on the main posts/articles page. Some people will try to utilize the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips &amp; Tricks: Don&#8217;t use UPPER or LOWER function in optimized queries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a certain project at work evolves I find that more and more of my time is spent on optimizing the T-SQL queries that are utilized. Recently I have come across the issue that an index was not getting utilized in a sql query when I was using the UPPER or LOWER function to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Tips &amp; Tricks: How to use get_posts &amp; get_pages to create custom navigations</title>
		<link>http://resources.mdbitz.com/2010/02/wordpress-tips-tricks-how-to-use-get_posts-get_pages-to-create-custom-navigations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MDBitz - Matthew Denton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[custom archive]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resources.mdbitz.com/?p=924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In addition to using the wp_get_archives function to display archives, WordPress provides a multitude of other functions that you can use to suit your navigational needs. Two similar functions that come to mind are get_posts and get_pages. The get_posts function returns all the posts that match your criteria while get_pages returns pages. To illustrate how [...]]]></description>
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