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		<title>Humorously informative Rails logging</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll just leave this here: (To use, put this code in an initializer in config/initializers and restart. Provides highly-readable, timestamped, colorized logging for your rails app.)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cbpowell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9943723&amp;post=853&amp;subd=cbpowell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s even used by the big boys&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote Wild Blue Flight Tools to appeal to General Aviation pilots, so you&#8217;ll understand how pleased and proud I was to get a really fantastic email from a 747-400 First Officer, who noted: Your app got tested in &#8220;my&#8221; 747-400 on my last trip. Most functions worked well! Plus it fits neatly above the gear handle. He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cbpowell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9943723&amp;post=847&amp;subd=cbpowell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Wild Blue Flight Tools for iPad &amp; iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I set out to write Wild Blue Flight Tools, it was, as they say, to &#8220;scratch an itch.&#8221; I wanted a solid, stable set of computerized tools to remove the drudge-work from everyday in-flight calculations and activities. I knew that this would help me be a better pilot, a more efficient pilot, and do my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cbpowell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9943723&amp;post=839&amp;subd=cbpowell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, is that kitchen timer TSO&#8217;d?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris P.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this picture of the space shuttle Atlantis this morning, and it made me smile. Chris Ferguson, STS-135 commander, is pictured on the flight deck, surrounded by sophisticated, highly techn&#8230; hey wait! That&#8217;s a kitchen timer!  Not just any kitchen timer, but the very one that we have in our own kitchen: My personal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cbpowell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9943723&amp;post=830&amp;subd=cbpowell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Doxygen code snippets for Xcode 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred McCann has two great blog posts describing how to document  your Objective-C code with Doxygen, a popular and standardized documentation system for C, Java and other languages. His posts are extremely well-written and definitely worth a read; he takes you all the way from a basic introduction to Doxygen to generating the Doxyfile output. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cbpowell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9943723&amp;post=816&amp;subd=cbpowell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MacRuby notes series: code snippets in Xcode 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you use TextMate&#8217;s &#8220;code snippets&#8221; feature to insert commonly-used templates of Ruby code, you&#8217;ll be pleased to see that Xcode has a similar facility for MacRuby. It comes pre-populated with a variety of Objective-C snippets, but it&#8217;s easy to add your own Ruby snippets. If you read my article on Beautiful standardized RDoc comments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cbpowell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9943723&amp;post=792&amp;subd=cbpowell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MacRuby notes series: taking the pain out of Core Data (part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 19:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Part 1 we addressed the current state of Core Data programming in MacRuby, and discussed some of the problems and challenges facing Rails programmers accustomed to ActiveRecord. Now let’s address some solutions. First, some necessary terminology. These are Core Data concepts that you must be familiar with before you’ll be effective at Core Data persistence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cbpowell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9943723&amp;post=761&amp;subd=cbpowell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MacRuby notes series: taking the pain out of Core Data (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://cbpowell.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/macruby-notes-series-taking-the-pain-out-of-core-data-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 19:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing my &#8220;MacRuby notes series,&#8221; in the first post of which I discussed some observations of MacRuby from a Rails programmers perspective&#8230;let&#8217;s talk about data persistence using Core Data.  Remember: this article series aims to help Rails programmers work with MacRuby. Read it in that light, not as an indictment of Core Data. Core Data [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cbpowell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9943723&amp;post=750&amp;subd=cbpowell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MacRuby notes series: a Rails guy&#8217;s perspective; or, &#8220;hic sunt dracones&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 15:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris P.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MacRuby]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The MacRuby framework is a fresh and exciting way for us Ruby developers to build native Mac OS X applications. MacRuby marries one of today&#8217;s most flexible and streamlined programming languages with the power of Apple&#8217;s OS X core technologies; with it we Rubyists can for the first time construct fully compiled, Apple App Store-eligible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cbpowell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9943723&amp;post=740&amp;subd=cbpowell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You should be proficient in these unusual IFR operations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris P.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Unusual&#8221; is a subjective word, but there are many instrument-rated pilots who never encounter these types of operations. If you fly IFR irregularly, perhaps only from towered airport to towered airport, then having this knowledge and being proficient in its use will add to your IFR toolbelt and keep you prepared for different situations. Getting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cbpowell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9943723&amp;post=715&amp;subd=cbpowell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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