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		<title>Ruby API Wrapper for Rainmaker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve created a Ruby wrapper for the Rainmaker API. Rainmaker is sponsoring a developer contest and I built this gem to assist coders interested in entering. You can find it on RubyGems.org or on Github. My goals when creating this wrapper were to allow developers to use the API in an idiomatic way they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using YSlow to Improve Website Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Optimizing web requests and responses is a multi-faceted endeavor. Using YSlow can help you sort through all the available vectors and quickly identify where your website&#8217;s optimization opportunities lie. Your primary tool in the battle against slow load times and abundant http requests is a Firefox extension, Yahoo&#8217;s YSlow. This component integrates with FireBug. FireBug [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonmwest.com/dev/using-yslow-to-improve-website-performance</link>
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		<title>Using a Vodacom 3G Card on Mac OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in South Africa at the moment and my CDMA phone is useless here. I got a Huawei wireless USB modem from Vodacom to use, but for the first few days I had it I could only get it to work on my virtualized Windows machine. I finally managed to get it working by allowing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonmwest.com/hardware/using-a-vodacom-3g-card-on-mac-os-x</link>
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		<title>Posting a Lead to SugarCRM from Drupal via Webform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was helping a friend solve the issue of capturing a lead to Sugar 5.2 from a form in Drupal 6 and my searching was not turning up a clear answer. This article was a good start but was a bit out of date and missing a couple steps. On the issues page for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brandonmwest.com/dev/posting-a-lead-to-sugarcrm-from-drupal-via-webform</link>
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		<title>Indexing Legacy Data with NHibernate.Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While configuring NHibernate.Search, I ran into an issue while attempting to batch process a million or so legacy records. When I created the index directly from Lucene.Net, things were speedy and working as expected. When I created the index via NHibernate.Search, the indexer was generating way too many index files, numbering into the hundreds of [...]]]></description>
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