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		<title>Blank Post Editing Screen (WSOD) in WordPress 2.8</title>
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Since, it took me over an hour to diagnose and fix this issue in one of my own Wordpress installations, I thought I would write up a quick how-to on the solution to this issue to hopefully save others in wasting their own time.
Symptom:
Accessing the Edit screen via Wordpress Admin showed a blank screen in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2009/11/23/blank-post-editing-screen-wsod-in-wordpress-2-8/</link>
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		<title>Tutorial: Dynamic slideshow with PHP &amp; JQuery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
			
				
			
		
When I set out to add database driven player info at NuggetsHoops.com, I knew that I wanted to include code that would display some of the many images that I had set aside for each NBA player. I also knew that I would continue to add new pictures. Application code that could easily display old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2009/03/16/tutorial-dynamic-image-slideshow-with-php-jquery/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
			
				
			
		
One of the best presents a web developer can receive thru-out the year has arrived in December each of the last four years. 
If you have been a web developer during that span, you most likely are already aware, but just in case, I will share with you:
2008 24 Ways
Each year, a new web themed tip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/12/24/merry-christmas-and-happy-holidays/</link>
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		<title>Evernote rocks!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
			
				
			
		
Evernote is a free service that allows you to &#8220;remember everything&#8221;.
Think of it as a backup for your brain. With desktop, mobile, and web based interfaces, along with state-of-the-art OCR capabilities, it is literally possible to record nearly anything you see each day and have it automatically cataloged so that is is accessible and searchable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/10/30/evernote-rocks/</link>
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		<title>Progressive Enhancement with jQuery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
			
				
			
		
While I work on finishing up an overdue post on the amazing An Event Apart San Francisco conference I attended last week, I thought I would at least write about one of the many new concepts that was discussed.

Progressive Enhancement (PE) is the concept of adding functionality or enhancements to the presentation and behavior of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/08/29/progressive-enhancement-with-jquery/</link>
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		<title>Attending An Event Apart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
			
				
			
		
Thanks to my awesome employer &#8211; ProBuild, I&#8217;ll be attending the web standards and best practices conference &#8211; An Event Apart, in San Francisco next week.
Many of the speakers are pillars in the web standards and development community &#8211; Dan Cederholm, Eric Meyer, Tantek Celik, and Jeffrey Zeldman, and I look forward to meeting them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/08/14/attending-an-event-apart/</link>
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		<title>Using Microformats to simplify registration forms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
			
				
			
		
GetSatisfaction.com is a community website that encourages conversation between consumers and companies.
Their registration form is a clever, real-world example of how microformats can make life easier on the web.
If you&#8217;ve already registered with flickr.com, technorati.com, twitter.com, or any of several other sites, you can enter your id for that website off to the right of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/06/19/using-microformats-to-simplify-registration-forms/</link>
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		<title>Firefox 3 is here &#8211; where&#8217;s the microformats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
			
				
			
		
With the final version of Firefox 3 due out next week, you might be wondering&#8230; what happened to the promise of built-in Microformats support?
Unfortunately, there was never a consensus on how they should be exposed in the UI, so they didn&#8217;t get added. Not a total loss though, as they did add a microformats API [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2008/06/13/firefox-3-is-here-wheres-the-microformats-support/</link>
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		<title>Coding quick reference guides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
			
				
			
		
Web developers need to have a tons of languages and syntaxes in their short term memories &#8211; HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Microformats, Regular Expressions &#8211; its a lot to know and remember.
When I studied for big exams in college, my favorite technique was to create an all encompassing one-page sheet with everything I needed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2007/10/05/coding-quick-reference-guides/</link>
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		<title>What are Microformats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
			
				
			
		
A Microformat is a bit of syntactic HTML and CSS for the purpose of making data on your webpage readable by both humans and machines.
There are currently four popular and well-defined microformats:

hCalendar &#8211; a description of time based events
hCard &#8211; business card style information about a person
hReview &#8211; used to represent reviews of movies, books, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2007/04/26/what-are-microformats/</link>
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