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	<description>A potpourri of Web Developmemt, Linux, and Windows tidbits and observations</description>
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		<title>PHP Include and Require &#8211; Passing Variables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frequently when you write a php application you have a task or functionality in your code that you will use over and over again.  For example, when verifying form inputs, you would want to make sure that a number is an integer, and eliminate all letters and decimal points.  This is handled by creating an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekgumbo.com/2010/03/07/php-include-and-require-passing-variables/</link>
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		<title>Opera 10.50 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I keep writing about the Opera browser, I can&#8217;t help myself.   Opera Software has put the Opera web browser at the forefront of web browser technology with innovative features, some of which are unique to the Opera browser.   Admittedly the browser technology crowd is an incestuous bunch, and steal ideas back and forth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekgumbo.com/2010/03/05/opera-10-50-released/</link>
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		<title>Resizing the background image with CSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With monitor resolutions getting larger and larger, and with the advent of large screen TV&#8217;s that can double as computer monitors, web developers have a dilemma.  What resolution do you use to build a web site that will look good with all these different resolutions?
It use to be that you built web sites for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekgumbo.com/2010/03/03/resizing-the-background-image-with-css/</link>
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		<title>The php.ini file &#8211; Configuring Sessions in your Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in the last post that there are over 11 different variables in the php.ini file to use to configure how PHP uses sessions in your application.  I thought a post you could use as a reference to help you configure the session portion of your php.ini file might be helpful.
The first problem you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekgumbo.com/2010/03/02/php-ini-configuring-sessions-in-your-application/</link>
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		<title>Increasing the Joomla 1.5 Search Component character limitation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The default character limitation for the native Joomla! Search Module is 20 characters.  Increasing this value requires a bit of Joomla! hacking, and although there are a number of resources for accomplishing this, I could not find any that pertained to the current (or even recent) Joomla 1.5 release.
NOTE:  You should not remove the maxlength [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekgumbo.com/2010/03/01/increasing-the-joomla-search-component-character-limitation/</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu 10.04 &#8220;Lucid Lynx&#8221; is coming!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The next release of Ubuntu, version 10.04, &#8220;Lucid Lynx&#8221; is set for April 29, 2010.  The Alpha 3 version is out, and there is much buzz about what to expect from the next release.
This release is set for long term support which offers bug fixes and security patches for three years for desktops and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekgumbo.com/2010/02/28/ubuntu-10-4-lucid-lynx-is-coming/</link>
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		<title>The PHP $_SESSION array &#8211; Passing Variables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem of storing user information while the user is accessing the web site is solved with sessions in PHP.  Essentially, when the user logs into a web site and enters some information, the server assigns the user a 32 character, random, session ID which uniquely identifies the user.  It stores this ID [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekgumbo.com/2010/02/27/the-php-_session-variable/</link>
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		<title>Moving inside your Application &#8211; Session Varaibles &#8211; An introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our focus for this series of postings has been on the problems associated with getting information from one page to another in a stateless, Internet environment, where nothing is saved from one web page to the next.   How do we pass the items you want to purchase from the form submission page to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekgumbo.com/2010/02/27/moving-inside-your-application-passing-varaibles-an-introduction/</link>
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		<title>Opera and Firefox release new Browser Versions &#8211; a Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opera has just released version 10.10, today, and Firefox recently released version 3.6.  Currently of the popular browsers, Chrome is the fastest, followed very, very closely by Opera, and Safari, with Firefox coming before Internet Explorer, but way back from the rest. 
Chrome is fast, but the interface is different with its top line [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekgumbo.com/2010/02/12/opera-and-firefox-release-new-browser-versions-a-review/</link>
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		<title>PHP Cookies &#8211; Passing Variables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before we set some cookies, let&#8217;s look at the flow of messages and responses between your computer, and the server, where the web pages are stored.  When you click on a link to go to a web site, your browser sends a &#8220;HTTP Header&#8221; request to the server for that web page.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geekgumbo.com/2010/02/06/php-cookies-passing-variables/</link>
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