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	<description>Everything Leif M. Wright</description>
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		<title>Perl is like using a hand saw</title>
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I love Perl. I really do. But it's been six years since I used it with any frequency, and re-learning it is a pain in the ... well, it's a pain.
I spent the better part of today writing a Perl program with the simple task (ha) of taking a raw text file of the Bible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leifwright.com/?p=358</link>
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		<title>Creating a flexible data model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's say you're writing a program to access and read the Bible. Let's just say.
Sounds simple (and it is simple, by the way, no matter what programming language and IDE you're using). The hard part is making it useful for the end user. Anyone can program a Bible reader. It was one of the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leifwright.com/?p=353</link>
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		<title>Core Data: Jeesh!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working on iBible 3, and I'm using a framework from Apple called Core Data. Long story short, it makes the handling of data in an application a lot smoother and simpler, but the learning curve is high.
Since I started programming (back with BASIC, then Perl. Get off my lawn, you!) reading data from disk and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leifwright.com/?p=351</link>
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		<title>Reboot: iBible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I haven't touched iBible since 2003. That's right; seven years. Initially, I wrote iBible in RealBasic because RealBasic offered an IDE that compiled applications for both Classic and OS X platforms. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, nevermind. It's not important. I just felt like I needed to justify why I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leifwright.com/?p=349</link>
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		<title>I forgot a few sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the post below, I forgot to add a few sites I've done.
These sites are not as flashy as other sites, but they are stuff I've done for my customers, so here you go:

This is my church's site. It's a simple site with a simple design, but that was kind of the idea.

This is another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leifwright.com/?p=347</link>
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		<title>Date fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found early on, back when I was programming with Perl, that dealing with dates is a pain in the ass.
It has to do largely with our calendar system, which is screwed royally because of leap years, short months, etc.
So when I needed to detect if one item was older than the other, I came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leifwright.com/?p=340</link>
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		<title>Detecting browser in php for css</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In designing websites, I've discovered that the old problems with Internet Explorer are still around, mainly that you can code a beautiful website only to discover that Internet Explorer doesn't support the coolest things you've done.
The reasons behind this are multiple, but the short version is that Microsoft wanted to own the Internet, so it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leifwright.com/?p=326</link>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve been doing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I shut this blog down on Jan. 28, 2010 because I got fired at the Muskogee Phoenix and started a new business.
I got fired because I made a joke about a politician on this blog on my own time. The "free speech" advocate Muskogee Phoenix didn't agree with my position on that particular politician, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leifwright.com/?p=314</link>
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		<title>Blog gone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for your interest, but this blog has been taken down. Thanks again.
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		<link>http://leifwright.com/?p=311</link>
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