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	<title>Jon Raasch's Blog</title>
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	<description>Web development and design blog from Portland based developer Jon Raasch</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>QuickFlip jQuery Plugin</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/quickflip-jquery-plugin</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[QuickFlip is a <a href="http://plugins.jquery.com/">jQuery plugin</a> I wrote that uses a CSS trick to cause a div, paragraph or any other piece of HTML markup to flip like a card. With a result similar to the UI animation on the iPhone, this jQuery plugin is easily integrated into your webpage to make any portion appear to flip and show its back.  When a flip occurs, the front panel is split in half with Javascript. The right and left halves slide into one another, and afterwards the opposite occurs with the back panel. While it’s not as smooth as some Flash animation, it all happens so quickly that it really looks like the panel is flipping over <span class="more-link"><a href="http://jonraasch.com/blog/quickflip-jquery-plugin#more-30" title="Continue reading this entry" rel="nofollow">(more...)</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>normalurl.com: Free URL Redirection</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/normalurl-free-url-redirection-service</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[general web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[analytics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[apache]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[mod rewrite]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MySQL]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There's nothing worse than those long, ugly URLs with twenty variables in the query string.  In recent years there have been a number of websites offering a free service where users can create shorter links to these complex URLs.  While a short URL is great, the links provided by most of these sites are computer generated and impossible to remember.  

This weekend I programmed a simple tool to allow users to create their own links and normalize ugly URLs called <a href="http://normalurl.com">normalurl.com</a>.  Just like other URL rewriting services, this website is completely free and allows anonymous users to easily create new URL redirects.  However this ... <a href="http://jonraasch.com/blog/normalurl-free-url-redirection-service" title="Continue reading this entry" rel="nofollow">(more...)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Handy CSS Cleanup Tool</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/handy-css-cleanup-tool</link>
		<comments>http://jonraasch.com/blog/handy-css-cleanup-tool#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[front-end]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Inevitably, when finishing development of a front-end, I find myself going through the painstaking process of cleaning up extraneous CSS styles.  This style was for debugging, this block was for a page that got nixed, this piece I used when conceptualizing the site another way: I don't think it's possible to develop a website without removing some styles at the end. Dreading another round of CSS cleanup, I considered programming a tool to spider a site and tell me which parts of the stylesheets were used.  It seemed a daunting task so I checked online, and sure enough, someone had already developed it, and far better than I could have. The tool <span class="more-link"><a href="http://jonraasch.com/blog/handy-css-cleanup-tool#more-28" title="Continue reading this entry" rel="nofollow">(more...)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>jQuery Video Game Remake: T&#038;C Surf</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/jquery-video-game-remake-tc-surf-designs</link>
		<comments>http://jonraasch.com/blog/jquery-video-game-remake-tc-surf-designs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[webdev]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cross-browser]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[javascript]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[jQuery]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[old school]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[unobtrusive]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was seven, my all-time favorite video game was T&#38;C Surf Designs for the 8-bit Nintendo&#174; (NES).  Feeling nostalgic this weekend, I developed a version of this old school game using jQuery and Javascript.
Up and Down to move, Left and Right to skate faster or slower, Spacebar to jump


    

 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Simple jQuery Slideshow</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/a-simple-jquery-slideshow</link>
		<comments>http://jonraasch.com/blog/a-simple-jquery-slideshow#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
In the interest of following jQuery&#8217;s motto of &#8220;writing less and doing more,&#8221; let&#8217;s write a simple slideshow using jQuery, JavaScript and a bit of CSS.


    

For starters, our main goal should be keeping the markup as clean as possible:


&#60;div id="slideshow"&#62;
    &#60;img src="img/img1.jpg" alt="" class="active" /&#62;
    [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Performance Tuning Tricks for jQuery</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/5-performance-tuning-tricks-for-jquery</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[object oriented]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post, I wrote that developers should better optimize their JavaScript.  Well, that&#8217;s easier said than done, so I&#8217;d like to get down to the nitty-gritty and talk specifically about optimizing jQuery.  Please note that this is not about performance tuning of the jQuery library, rather it is about better engineering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too much Javascript?  Here comes WebKit and the new Safari</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/too-much-javascript-here-comes-webkit-and-the-new-safari</link>
		<comments>http://jonraasch.com/blog/too-much-javascript-here-comes-webkit-and-the-new-safari#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[general web]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[open source]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Let it not be said that I never fall victim to a web fad: AJAX, jQuery, SEO—I was there with bells on.  So when everyone started hating Flash and doing all web animation with HTML/Javascript, I jumped right on board.  I thought it was just great!  You didn&#8217;t have to lose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dashalytics: Google Analytics for Mac OSX</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/dashalytics-google-analytics-obsession-for-mac-osx</link>
		<comments>http://jonraasch.com/blog/dashalytics-google-analytics-obsession-for-mac-osx#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[general web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[analytics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mac OSX]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re anything like me you open up Google Analytics with your morning coffee, check your email, then reload Analytics, just in case the cache has refreshed. There&#8217;s a new version of an OSX dashboard widget, Dashalytics, that will revolutionize the amount of time you can spend obsessing over minute statistics.  Dashalytics puts Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lumifi - Web Search Without a Web Browser</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/lumifi-web-search-with-a-standalone-application</link>
		<comments>http://jonraasch.com/blog/lumifi-web-search-with-a-standalone-application#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a new search engine being showcased on Apple.com’s widget download page, lumifi® , which, unlike other search engines, does not run through a web browser. With web search being so integral to our computer lives, is it preferable to search through a website or an application?
Lumifi’s  marketing department provides one answer :
“lumifi is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spaces in Mac OSX Leopard - Best Workflow</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/spaces-in-mac-osx-leopard-best-workflow</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[webdev]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[mac OSX]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
At first glance Mac OSX Leopard looks like Tiger with a new, sleeker skinning.  A few new applications are available, and a few others are broken, but overall basically the same thing.  That is, until you discover the Spaces command.


Spaces are great, they&#8217;re like the Expose flyout but taken up a level.  [...]]]></description>
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