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	<title>My geek blog - Brian McQuay</title>
	<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com</link>
	<description>My Ruby on Rails experience, web development tips including SEO, and contributions to open source projects</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Which error code is better, 301 or 404?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many sites go through redesigns and in the process URLs change. In particular, most sites we redesign we attempt to use pretty urls that contain keywords for the page. The keywords end up bold in search results if they are in the search terms. The thinking is that the bolding of the keywords increases your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On-site Blog versus Off-site Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/on-site-blog-versus-off-site-blog/136</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/on-site-blog-versus-off-site-blog/136#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think its necessary to go into the benefits of adding a blog to help market your site. Its widely accepted as an easy way to add new keyword rich pages and help out rankings. There are some questions about whether an off-site blog or an on-site blog is better for rankings. When I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ditching Mongrel for mod_rails</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/ditching-mongrel-for-mod_rails/135</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 15:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I build a lot of Rails apps on a regular basis and each one I add to my server takes another bite out of my limited resources. The way I&#8217;ve traditionally setup a new Rails app was using a Mongrel cluster. I found it to be a lot more reliable and faster than the fcgi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rails page caching with Apache and mongrel_cluster</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/rails-page-caching-with-apache-and-mongrel_cluster/134</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/rails-page-caching-with-apache-and-mongrel_cluster/134#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 04:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Apache]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rails page caching is pretty simple to get working usually. If you&#8217;re new to caching in Rails, there&#8217;s plenty of good tutorials out there to get you up and running in no time like this one from Rails Envy. Rails is a resource hog and on my servers I&#8217;ve got about two dozen apps running. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Yahoo shouldn&#8217;t sell out to Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/why-yahoo-shouldnt-sell-out-to-microsoft/133</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/why-yahoo-shouldnt-sell-out-to-microsoft/133#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading a lot of news lately about this Yahoo / Microsoft deal that fell through. Now the latest is that some big share holders are trying to force the deal to go through by replacing Yahoo&#8217;s board. It just goes to show how Wall Street misunderstands the situation. Stocks increased on the run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing Rails model callbacks</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/reducing-rails-model-callbacks/132</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[rails optimization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rails-plugin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working with a client to optimize parts of their Rails application. The problem is that a method in the app does some simple updating of a few model objects but because the model has so many relations it goes through a ton of unnecessary callbacks. There are issues related to data concurrency which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Hillary, and McCain website languages</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/obama-hillary-and-mccain-website-languages/131</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/obama-hillary-and-mccain-website-languages/131#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t really the proper forum to be blogging about political preference, however, I stumbled upon a key difference in the three presidential candidates Obama, Hillary, and McCain with regards to the language they chose to program their campaign websites with. A quick browse through the links on the McCain site shows that they use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quantitative evidence of my SEO effectiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/quantitative-evidence-of-my-seo-effectiveness/127</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/quantitative-evidence-of-my-seo-effectiveness/127#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working with one client for several months now and they are extremely pleased with the results I&#8217;ve produced for them thus far. Here is a snapshot of the monthly analytics data for the site over the past year. You can get a larger view of the graph if you click on the image.

I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Onomojo design services</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/new-onomojo-design-services/126</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/new-onomojo-design-services/126#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been a long time coming but we&#8217;ve finally got our new site design finished for Onomojo. We&#8217;ve also expanded our services to include graphics design, logo design, web design, and a whole slew of other graphics related services. That&#8217;s in addition to the services we already provided which were primarily programming, seo, and marketing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quantitative look at SEO vs. PPC</title>
		<link>http://www.brianmcquay.com/a-quantitative-look-at-seo-vs-ppc/123</link>
		<comments>http://www.brianmcquay.com/a-quantitative-look-at-seo-vs-ppc/123#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been through the ropes when it comes to SEO and PPC advertising (particularly with Google&#8217;s Adwords). Clients come to me either looking for SEO or online marketing solutions. Their objective is obviously to increase their sales and they want it to happen yesterday. The first thing I look at is where a site is [...]]]></description>
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