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	<title>Sam Moffatt @ Pasamio.com</title>
	<link>http://pasamio.com</link>
	<description>Sam Moffatt's Tech Blog: Writings on Technology</description>
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		<title>Today: 10-Mar-2010: Recruitment Training!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost entirely my day was in recruitment training. Starting at 9:30am and finishing around 4pm it was a full on day of training which was something different. Training for it is mandatory and a requirement of recruitment panel membership for interviewing new staff. I&#8217;ve now done it and it is out of the way. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2010/03/11/today-10-mar-2010-recruitment-training/</link>
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		<title>Dec 2009 to Feb 2010 &#8211; A cumulative review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I used to do daily blogs but I got out of that habit, but I really need to work on doing it. Having a daily blog was a good way of me logging down what I was doing so that I could keep it in my mind or for reference later if I wanted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2010/03/09/dec-2009-to-feb-2010-a-cumulative-review/</link>
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		<title>My loathe affair with Optus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So in Australia we have two main telephony providers: Telstra (formerly a state owned monopoly, now privatised) and Optus (owned by Singtel which is itself owned by the Singaporean Government). They provide the most comprehensive coverage for mobile telephony and outside of most major centres are the only reasonably options for 3G coverage (or any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2010/02/01/my-loathe-affair-with-optus/</link>
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		<title>OSDC2009 Presentations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My OSDC2009 Presentations are now up on both the OSDC Website (see http://2009.osdc.com.au/sam-moffatt) and also on my University&#8217;s ePrints site. You can check out the individual papers and their associated presentations on their respective ePrints pages:

Joopal and Drumla: not your usual mashup
Application level replication in Joomla! using graphs

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		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/12/31/osdc2009-presentations/</link>
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		<title>Free Git/SVN hosting providers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my recent presentation at the Joomla! Developers Conference in New York, I emphasised the importance of using a version control system (in particular SVN) to maintain copies of everything. From PSD versions of designs and templates to more traditional items like source code, some form of a version control system is what you need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/12/09/free-gitsvn-hosting-providers/</link>
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		<title>How-To: Setting up depositor reassignment in ePrints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ePrints is one of those projects that I seem to spend a lot of time doing minor tweaks to and changes to help the Library do their job effectively. This shifts from major projects like Author ID to mundane tasks like refreshing their templates and style to match the marketing departments wishes. One of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/09/24/how-to-setting-up-depositor-reassignment-in-eprints/</link>
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		<title>ePrints Author ID</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I&#8217;ve been working on over the last month is the ability to create distinct and unique author identifiers for ePrints. ePrint&#8217;s is a really awesome Perl based repository that the University uses to handle its research papers but whilst it is great at handling ePrints, documents, users and a whole host [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/08/28/eprints-author-id/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Write a blog post about your upgrade&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So today I upgraded Wordpress to its latest security release. I would have liked to use the automatic tool but somehow it forces me to use FTP for some reason unknown to me. So I did it the hard way and unlike Joomla! it asks you to delete files, copy things, make sure you don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/08/08/write-a-blog-post-about-your-upgrade/</link>
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		<title>Joomla! 1.5.14 released, easy updates with JUpdateMan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few hours ago Joomla! 1.5.14 was released and I updated my websites. It&#8217;s a great feeling to be able to update a Joomla! site in under a minute from logging in, to finding and downloading the update to applying it. Check out the latest update manager and download the latest Joomla! release now.
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		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/07/31/joomla-1514-released-easy-updates-with-jupdateman/</link>
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		<title>The reality of employment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are times when 140 characters just isn&#8217;t enough, microblogging works but in this case I have a quote which would be put 86 characters over twitters limits (I tried):
And generally speaking, &#8220;large, deep-pockets organization(s)&#8221; are no more stable than a startup, from the grunt&#8217;s perspective. At any moment, you&#8217;re one spreadsheet away from being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/07/29/the-reality-of-employment/</link>
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		<title>Update Manager 1.5.1 Final Released!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, I&#8217;m happy to announce that I&#8217;ve released the final version of the update manager. I would kindly ask all those who downloaded and installed the beta versions to update to the final release going forwards. There is a small introduction with links to the latest release on my open source consulting site as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/07/27/update-manager-151-final-released/</link>
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		<title>Update Manager 1.5.1b3 Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I edge closer to a release I have what I hope will be the close to final. So far I have one outstanding issue with parsing XML files which I hope to have resolved with an alteration of the XML file. So you can download the Joomla! Update Manager 1.5.1 Beta 3 which now has displays [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/07/26/update-manager-151b3-release/</link>
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		<title>Update Manager 1.5.1b2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some more updates and fixes including a message display system, the ability to force upgrade a site with a full patch and some minor bug fixes. Again, this release requires PHP5.
Download Joomla! Update Manager_1.5.1b2
If you have any issues, feel free to submit comments. So far I have one outstanding issue with some sites with FTP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/07/24/update-manager-151b2/</link>
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		<title>Update Manager updates!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done a major update to the update manager that is distributed with the Advanced Tools pack. I&#8217;ve also released it as an individual download as well that you can get and update your Advanced Tools install or just install individually if you want. However the side effect of this is that I&#8217;ve killed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/07/21/update-manager-updates/</link>
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		<title>Ban IP Address and Range 1.5.2 released!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Progressing forward with my releases, Ban IP Address and Range has just received an update to allow it to redirect to a location instead of just displaying a message. This means you can redirect to a static page somewhere with more details, an image or something similar like that.
As always you can check it out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/07/15/ban-ip-address-and-range-152-released/</link>
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		<title>Migrator 1.5 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today i released an update for my migrator extension to 1.5 due to a fix to a subtle bug that I introduced with the configurable batch sizes that I introduced in Migrator 1.3 release. This is would cause weird SQL duplication for tasks that were suspended due to the timeout avoidance code. The change was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/07/15/migrator-15-released/</link>
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		<title>Understanding versus Knowing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I went through high school we had three segments for our maths and physics exams: we had the basic knowledge part that tested if we new a given fact and could apply it to a straight forward problem, we had the understanding part that tested if we could understand a fact and apply it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/06/28/understanding-versus-knowing/</link>
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		<title>Browser Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in Joomla! Bug Squad today chatting about browsers. Firefox 3.5 is almost ready (I&#8217;m typing on a release candidate with it, I&#8217;ve been using it since beta, I used 3.0 when it was still &#8216;Minefield&#8217;) and Safari 4 has been recently released (another one that I used throughout beta). Each offer improvements [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/06/20/browser-story/</link>
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		<title>Prepaid Mobile Phones in Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It strikes me as annoying that some how prepaid phone users get treated as second class citizens. They historically don&#8217;t have access to half of the features that are offered to those on plans just because you own your phone outright. In addition Australia has locking of phone devices to networks as well and then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/06/18/prepaid-mobile-phones-in-australia/</link>
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		<title>Today: 29-May-2009: An interesting day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was an interesting day. The usual Friday things happened: I came in, read my email and responded to those that required it, we had our 15 minute daily team meeting and I had my half an hour (or so) meeting with my master&#8217;s supervisor about metadata filesystems. Of course the usual occurs with work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pasamio.com/2009/05/29/today-29-may-2009-an-interesting-day/</link>
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