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	<title>ruzee.com - Steffen Rusitschka</title>
	
	<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog</link>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>timed_fragment_cache on Rails 2.1</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2008/07/timed_fragment_cache-on-rails-21/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2008/07/timed_fragment_cache-on-rails-21/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ruby on Rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/?p=163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With Rails 2.1 cache_erb_fragment has been replaced by write_fragment. This breaks a plugin I really enjoy to use: timed_fragment_cache by Richard Livsey.
It basically allows you to specify an expiry for the fragments you cache, e.g. inside memcache, by adding a &#8220;meta&#8221; fragment for the fragment you store containing the expiry time.
Some usage examples - pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memory Leaks in GetText for Ruby on Rails</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2008/03/memory-leaks-in-gettext-for-ruby-on-rails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2008/03/memory-leaks-in-gettext-for-ruby-on-rails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ruby on Rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2008/03/memory-leaks-in-gettext-for-ruby-on-rails/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Version 1.90.0 of GetText for Ruby has quite some memory leaks in its Rails support files. In my case, the memory Mongrel used increased by 1 MB with each request it served&#8230; Quite amazing that you don&#8217;t really find someone else having the problem&#8230; Well there&#8217;s at least a bug report on rubyforge&#8230;
Monkey-patching gettext.rb with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fat Transparent ShadedBorders</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/12/fat-transparent-shadedborders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/12/fat-transparent-shadedborders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[JavaScript]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan gave the idea and some code for a new ShadedBorder feature. Fat semi-transparent borders:

And thanks alot NewTrax for fixing the hover issues on IE6. It needs a bit more CSS to get going, but will solve any issues. Check out the CSS included in test.html on how to use it.
Ah, right: it&#8217;s version 0.6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ShadedBorder with Gracefull Degradation</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/10/shadedborder-with-gracefull-degradation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/10/shadedborder-with-gracefull-degradation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[JavaScript]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah well, it was raining&#8230; And I&#8217;ll be on holiday for quite some days from Tuesday on - without any computer. So this weekend was kind of the perfect time to hack a little bit on my neat little fun project ShadedBorder.
The result: after version 0.3 yesterday, today comes version 0.4.  The new features:

Graceful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ShadedBorder with Gradients</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/10/shadedborder-with-gradients/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/10/shadedborder-with-gradients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[JavaScript]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new version 0.3 of ShadedBorder supports gradient backgrounds:

Have a look at the updated example.
The new feature is quite intuitive to use. You need some one pixel wide gradient background image with any height you like, which when repeated in x direction gives you your gradient (grad.png). All you need to know is the color [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruby on Rails: gettext + memcache = trouble</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/09/ruby-on-rails-gettext-memcache-trouble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/09/ruby-on-rails-gettext-memcache-trouble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ruby on Rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/09/ruby-on-rails-gettext-memcache-trouble/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest Ruby gettext 1.10.0 gem broke the memcache based fragment caching of the current project I&#8217;m working on. I figured out what the problem was. gettext 1.10.0 tries to localize caching of fragments by kind of appending the Locale.current to the fragment cache key, e.g. &#8220;items/show/1&#8243; becomes &#8220;items/show/1_en&#8221;, &#8220;items/show/1_de&#8221;, &#8230;
This by itself isn&#8217;t a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ellipsis or “truncate with dots” via JavaScript</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/08/ellipsis-or-truncate-with-dots-via-javascript/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/08/ellipsis-or-truncate-with-dots-via-javascript/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[JavaScript]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/08/ellipsis-or-truncate-with-dots-via-javascript/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet Explorer comes with a nice CSS feature for truncating text by appending three little dots: text-overflow:ellipsis. Here&#8217;s a screen shot:

Unfortunately text-overflow:ellipsis is no standard and not supported by Firefox, Opera, etc. With some JavaScript hacking however you can have something similar to IE ellipsis on all browsers. It even degrades gracefully if JavaScript is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/05/berlin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/05/berlin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 01:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Memories. Memories that come into your mind when things happen - reminding you - &#8230; Right now my girlfriend is in Berlin and one of my best friends lives in Berlin.
This one is to Andy and Anna - and to New Zealand where I really met both of them the first time.
It&#8217;s online since almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Align List Items Horizontally with CSS …</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/05/align-list-items-horizontally-with-css/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/05/align-list-items-horizontally-with-css/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 17:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or: &#8220;Cross Browser display:inline-block&#8221;.
If you ever wanted to display a list of items horizontally with a wrap around once the right margin of your page has been reached, you came across a float:left solution. And if you ever tried to line up items with different heights this way, you know how messy things can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random lockups/freezes on nForce4 solved</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/04/random-lock-ups-on-nforce4-solved/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/04/random-lock-ups-on-nforce4-solved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/04/random-lock-ups-on-nforce4-solved/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had trouble with random lockups/freezes on my nForce4 based Asus A8N-SLI Premium mainboard since the beginning. I first thought it was related to my Asus 6600 graphics card - using the open-source nv driver instead of the proprietary Nvidia driver on Linux made things better, but didn&#8217;t solve it completely. The system simply stopped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ShadedBorder on del.icio.us</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/03/shadedborder-on-delicious/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/03/shadedborder-on-delicious/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogosphere]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[JavaScript]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/03/shadedborder-on-delicious/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow - ShadedBorder was top 1 on the del.icio.us main page yesterday&#8230; Thanks everybody!

Tags: del.icio.us,  shadedborder
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		<title>Open Maps and the Discoverer in You</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/03/open-maps-and-the-discoverer-in-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/03/open-maps-and-the-discoverer-in-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogosphere]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoyed Measuring the World (in German: Vermessung der Welt) by Daniel Kehlmann. It describes how Alexander von Humboldt cartographs southern America and how Carl Friedrich Gauss finds out loads of miracles of the world of mathematics (and later uses these to measure out western Europe). The book is really good in giving you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lemmings in JavaScript</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/03/lemmings-in-javascript/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/03/lemmings-in-javascript/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogosphere]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[JavaScript]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/03/lemmings-in-javascript/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may remember one of the best games of the 90s: Lemmings. I can&#8217;t remember how many hours I&#8217;ve played this neat game - but it must have been quite a lot. I still remember the first levels as if they once have been my home ;-).
The cool thing about Lemmings today is: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Round Robin Database with MySQL</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/03/round-robin-database-with-mysql/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/03/round-robin-database-with-mysql/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/03/round-robin-database-with-mysql/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have loads of continuous data which you have to store and at the same time it is o.k. if old data gets removed after a while, a round robin database is your choice. Those databases allow the user to define a maximum number of records (or maximum number of storage space) and new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>shutdownday.org</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/shutdowndayorg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/shutdowndayorg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogosphere]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/shutdowndayorg/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll participate and leave my machines off on 24th of March!
Tags: shutdownday
]]></description>
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		<title>NY Excuse Mac?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/ny-excuse-mac/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/ny-excuse-mac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/ny-excuse-mac/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I once blogged about NY Excuse by Soulwax. Here it is on Youtube as a Apple Ad Mix. Enjoy it. And no, I&#8217;m not related to Apple in any way. My choice is Ubuntu  - but this song is just tool cool.
Tags: soulwax,  ny,  excuse,  apple,  mac
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		<title>Cropping Images with JavaScript</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/cropping-images-with-javascript/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/cropping-images-with-javascript/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[JavaScript]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/cropping-images-with-javascript/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you have an image on your web page. And you want to crop an area from that image and display it with a given size. And you want to do that, without the server having to do the heavy work. Well then, read on, here&#8217;s a solution. 
First, check out the example.
I&#8217;m using prototype [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developers are Musicians</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/developers-are-musicians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/developers-are-musicians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ruby on Rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/developers-are-musicians/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some random (and slightly interpreted) quotes by Ryan McMinn of unspace.ca, a Canadian project company:

Specs = Speculations
Contracts induce Software that works but sucks
Developing Software is getting a career option
Developers are Musicians

Check out the video - it&#8217;s 15 minutes full of truth  
Tags: agile,  processes,  ruby,  rails
]]></description>
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		<title>RDT and RadRails Keyboard Shortcuts</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/rdt-and-radrails-keyboard-shortcuts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/rdt-and-radrails-keyboard-shortcuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ruby on Rails]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/rdt-and-radrails-keyboard-shortcuts/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RDT together with RadRails on Eclipse is a pretty convenient development environment when doing things in Ruby on Rails. A little unknown are the keyboard shortcuts, which make your day even more productive. Here&#8217;s a list of those:
Ctrl-Alt-T
Jump to the test case of a model or controller and vice versa.
Ctrl-Shift-V
Jump to the view of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching the Machine</title>
		<link>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/teaching-the-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/teaching-the-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogosphere]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruzee.com/blog/2007/02/teaching-the-machine/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are hyperlinking information, giving it semantical meanings, we are teaching the Web, teaching the machine - and the machine is teaching us. We are the Web. Click.
&#8230; I know it was on Digg, del.icio.us, etc. - I just couldn&#8217;t resist, I like it so much  
Tags: internet,  web,  web2.0
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