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	<title>George Truong</title>
	<link>http://www.georgetruong.com</link>
	<description>Software Engineer, Internet Developer, Entrepreneur</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:32:17 +0000</lastBuildDate>
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		<title>Error running Rails v2.3.5 on Thin v1.2.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be a bug in Thin that keeps erroring out when you try to run &#8220;thin start.&#8221; It would complain that the Rails 2.3.5 gem is not installed even though it shows up on a &#8220;gem list&#8221; command. It seems like the problem has something to do with the way Thin handles Rack. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgetruong.com/2010/01/26/error-running-rails-v235-on-thin-v125/</link>
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		<title>Silverpop Ruby on Rails Plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Our team at ShoeDazzle.com has just switched our emailing providers to Silverpop. Unfortunately, there weren&#8217;t any existing Ruby projects that integrated with Silverpop&#8217;s XML API. After several weeks of development, I have finished a simple, but working framework to generate the XML code for Silverpop&#8217;s Engage and Transact service. XML code can be submitted through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgetruong.com/2010/01/15/silverpop-ruby-on-rails-plugin/</link>
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		<title>How to salt and hash user passwords in PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just reading <a href="http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2009/08/22/4chan-hacked-facebook-pictures/">this article</a> the other day about how 4chan hackers compromised a Christian singles dating site. They went on to use the emails / passwords gathered to launch an attack on these users Facebook accounts. On Facebook, they posted a lot of not safe for work pictures and wrote many profane status updates. 

This got me thinking about a lot of projects where I had to correct and secure web applications that store plain text passwords. Perhaps I'm just paranoid, but it baffles me how many projects out there maintain this process.

Hopefully, this script can be helpful to some who are a bit paranoid with their user data.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgetruong.com/2009/09/02/how-to-salt-and-hash-user-passwords-in-php/</link>
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		<title>MySQL - Using the &#8220;IN&#8221; clause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was helping someone debug a slow query today when I noticed a common mistake that a lot of developers do. He was trying to get a list of users given a list of user id numbers.
The query looks something like this:

SELECT * FROM users
WHERE
  id = 1 OR
  id = 2 OR
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgetruong.com/2009/08/26/mysql-using-the-in-clause/</link>
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		<title>ShoeDazzle.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The World's Premier Shoe Society. Visit <a href="http://www.shoedazzle.com" target="_blank">ShoeDazzle.com</a>.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgetruong.com/2009/08/19/shoedazzlecom/</link>
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		<title>IASG.com is live! Farewell Extract Value team.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
After months of development and incubation, the team at Extract Value was able to release IASG to the world this weekend. I am so proud of the team and the company for pushing out such an amazing, unique, and rich product for the finance industry.

Unfortunately, this release is a bit of a bitter sweet moment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgetruong.com/2009/06/15/iasgcom-is-live/</link>
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		<title>How to submit a form with AJAX in jQuery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AJAX has been the new hotness in web development and the recent web 2.0 craze. By carefully utilizing AJAX, web designers and developers can create a seamless and smooth user experience. Users can continue interacting with a page without breaking the experience with page reloads or redirects.
Lately, I have been asked by many of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgetruong.com/2009/06/11/how-to-submit-a-form-with-ajax-in-jquery/</link>
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		<title>A simple forum using Kohana PHP and ORM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a simple forum site I wrote in a couple of hours using Kohana, a lightweight PHP MVC framework. The purpose of writing this application is to prototype ORM usage and speed in a semi-realistic application.
I will also be writing a how to tutorial in the next couple of days based on this application.

To install [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgetruong.com/2009/06/10/a-simple-forum-using-kohana-php-and-orm/</link>
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		<title>Hello world!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After several days of setting up my server with Slicehost and sweating over all the minor details, I am happy to release my website to the internet.
I envision this site to be a space where I can share my thoughts and expertise on software / web development with the rest of the community. Please stay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgetruong.com/2009/06/08/hello-world/</link>
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		<title>IASG.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IASG.com is the largest, most comprehensive database of Managed Futures and an advanced yet easy-to-use platform for building portfolios of Commodity Trading Advisors. Visit <a href="http://www.iasg.com" target="_blank">live site</a> or <a href="http://www.iasgbeta.com" target="_blank">beta site</a>.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgetruong.com/2009/06/05/iasgcom/</link>
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