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Dear Apple: It's Time to Listen to the Canary in the Coal Mine

Apple's heavy-handed tactics regarding its iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch app store are starting to tick off developers writers – and this could create problems.

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6 Things I Learned As an Exhibitor at SXSW Interactive 2010

Let me deliver these valuable lessons unto you.

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Improving the Performance of Zend Cache

Here's a simple option you can enable to improve the performance of Zend Cache. I'm including code for usage with concrete5, but this option is available to any application using Zend Cache.

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Building a Custom RSS Feed Using Single Pages, Controllers, and the Page List class.

The page list block handles RSS feeds, but what if you need a bit more control? Do you want a prettier URL than the one the page list block generates? Check out this tutorial on a custom RSS feed.

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The Apple iPad and The Era of Ubiquitous Computing

The tech industry has been quick to label Apple's latest creation a pariah. Here's why they're wrong.

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Creating a Simple concrete5 Wrapper Custom Block Template (Without Duplicating Code)

concrete5's custom block templates are powerful - but what if you want the entire functionality of the original block's view template, just wrapped in something else? I'll show you how to make that happen.

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Optimizing your concrete5 Website for the iPhone

Download an iPhone-optimized concrete5 theme, and learn how to automatically display it to mobile Safari on the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

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5 Easy Ways to Speed Up a concrete5 Site

Eek out some more performance out of your site, without pulling your hair out.

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The Path of Least Resistance

In 2009 I vowed to write and record an album completely by myself – and I did it (although at six songs it's really more of an EP than anything else.)

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Arctic Blast

Recorded in Christmas 2008, as a response to the ridiculous hype over abnormal wintery weather conditions here in Portland, OR.

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How to Build a Concrete5 Theme

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The Real Reason for the MacBook Air

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A First Look at OpenSocial

How does it work, what can it do, and what can it not?

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Gmail Now Offering IMAP

The best webmail just gets better.

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The Next Great Apple Fan Implosion is One Month Away

Dispelling some rumors about a touch screen iPod.

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