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		<title>CoffeeScript makes Jasmine so much better</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Bookr we are moving our JavaScript to CoffeeScript mostly with the intent of making things more readable. I took some time out this weekend to familiarize myself with it by working through our code and doing some of the conversions. I&#8217;m not convinced that everything is more readable (example below) but it does make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ballardhack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9156578&amp;post=279&amp;subd=ballardhack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Customizing the Android EditText behavior with Spans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Wadsack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While working with PhotoRocket, I designed a different edit experience for their Android app to treat contacts similarly to the other PhotoRocket client apps. Specifically, I wanted the EditText control to render contacts using their &#8220;friendly name&#8221; and to treat those as a single entity for navigation and delete. As you can see in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ballardhack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9156578&amp;post=259&amp;subd=ballardhack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Android: Hide a view when the soft keyboard is showing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Wadsack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This took far too long to find, mostly because the documentation doesn&#8217;t make sense (to me) and because the one hit on the android-developers list looked like the wrong answer, when it fact it&#8217;s right. On the NPR News for Android app, we have a player at the bottom of the screen. This is handled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ballardhack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9156578&amp;post=249&amp;subd=ballardhack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chipotle and Black Bean Enchiladas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Wadsack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight L made enchiladas for some friends. We just got back to town and we made this up out of what was in the cabinet and fridge. It was pretty good and we didn&#8217;t even have to go to the store. The Upshot Tasty and enjoyed by all. Adding the chipotle to the slow cooker [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ballardhack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9156578&amp;post=225&amp;subd=ballardhack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots and the New Android AVD Manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Wadsack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So one of the biggest pains to mobile development with emulators is that starting up the emulator takes forever. Android tools version 9 addressed this finally by letting you take a snapshot of the emulator, just like you would do with a virtual machine. Here&#8217;s how I got my emulators really snappy. First on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ballardhack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9156578&amp;post=242&amp;subd=ballardhack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adding a custom jQuery-UI control to Formtastic in Ruby on Rails</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Wadsack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While working on OnCompare, over the last month, one of the controls we wanted to support was a slider, that let you choose between a range of values, as you can see in the example at right. jQuery-UI provides a slider control and Ruby on Rails already has jQuery built in (we&#8217;re using Rails 3). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ballardhack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9156578&amp;post=230&amp;subd=ballardhack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Test Data for Rails Apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Wadsack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[automated testing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a guest post over at 3 Weeks to Live on our progress in building data sets for testing OnCompare under Ruby on Rails. The biggest challenge has been generating a large number of records, but I think we can do that with loops and factory_girl: The other place to use large data is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ballardhack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9156578&amp;post=221&amp;subd=ballardhack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OnCompare: Can we build a company in three weeks?</title>
		<link>http://ballardhack.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/oncompare-can-we-build-a-company-in-three-weeks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Wadsack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneur]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m in the middle of an interesting experiment. A group of guys I know invited me to join them for a 3-week run to try to build a technology company. That means software, market and customer base in three weeks. The product we&#8217;re working on, OnCompare, will allow you to rank and find on-line [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ballardhack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9156578&amp;post=214&amp;subd=ballardhack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enchiladas a Hundred Ways: Recipe 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Wadsack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been making enchiladas for years and enjoy it. It&#8217;s always a favorite, but the irony is that my &#8220;world renowned enchiladas&#8221; change with each time I make it. Some are green, most are red. Some are vegetarian, often they have chicken. So, here&#8217;s the start of cataloging of all my variations. This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ballardhack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9156578&amp;post=204&amp;subd=ballardhack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opscode Chef makes operations fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Wadsack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, I did some time helping companies plan and build networks and computer infrastructure. Since then, in several companies, I&#8217;ve done my share of operations and IT work, but more recently I&#8217;ve found that I prefer to delegate that work to someone who finds it more interesting. I&#8217;ll be honest; I find the ever-changing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ballardhack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9156578&amp;post=194&amp;subd=ballardhack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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