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		<title>Google Geocoding with CakePHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has some pretty neat toys for developers and CakePHP is a pretty friendly framework to quickly build applications on which is well supported. That said, when I went looking for a Google geocoding component, I was a little surprised to discover that nobody had created one to do the hand-shakey business between a CakePHP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Inconveniences Matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was working on integrating oAuth consumers into Noisophile. This is the first time I had done something like this so I was reading all of the material I could to get the best idea for what I was about to do. I came across a blog post about oAuth and one particular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Know Thy Customer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been tasked with an interesting problem: encourage the Creative department to migrate away from their current project tracking tool and into Jira. For those of you unfamiliar with Jira, it is a bug tracking tool with a bunch of toys and goodies built in to help keep track of everything from hours to subversion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When SEO Goes Bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My last post was about finding a healthy balance between client- and server-side technology. My friend sent me a link to an article about SEO and Google&#8217;s &#8220;reasonable surfer&#8221; patent. Though the information regarding Google&#8217;s methods for identifying and appropriately assessing useful links on a site was interesting, I am quite concerned about what the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balance is Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year I discussed progressive enhancement, and proposed that a web site should perform the core functions without any frills. Last night I had a discussion with a friend, regarding this very same topic. It came to light that it wasn&#8217;t clear where the boundaries should be drawn. Interaction needs to be a blend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coding Transparency: Development from Design Comps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I am an engineer first and a designer second in my job, more often than not the designs you see came from someone else&#8217;s comp. Being that I am a designer second, it means that I know just enough about design to be dangerous but not enough to be really effective over the long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inclusive or Exclusive Web?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you start working on a website or application, what is your goal? In the current state of the web, there are many ways you can carry your user but, in the end, you must choose web inclusive or web exclusive. Sites with rich APIs which interact with the world around them are web inclusive. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Usabilibloat or Websites Gone Wild</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always great when you have the opportunity to built a site from the ground up. You have opportunities to design things right the first time, and set standards in place for future users, designers and developers alike. These are the good times. More often than not, sites are already built and deployed for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisstead.com/archives/300</link>
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		<title>Thinking in Pieces: Modularity and Problem Solving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am big on modularity. There are lots of problems on the web to fix and modularity applies to many of them. A couple of posts ago I talked about content and that it is all built on or made of objects. The benefits from working with objectified content is the ease of updating and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisstead.com/archives/292</link>
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		<title>Almost Pretty: URL Rewriting and Guessability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Through all of the usability, navigation, design, various user-related laws and a healthy handful of information and hierarchical tricks and skills, something that continues to elude designers and developers is pretty URLs. Mind you, SEO experts would balk at the idea that companies don&#8217;t think about using pretty URLs in order to drive search engine [...]]]></description>
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