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		<title>Accessing AWS SimpleDB from PHP</title>
		<link>http://thetalecrafter.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/accessing-aws-simpledb-from-php/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, as I built part of my App Server for Distributed Systems Design, I hit another stumbling block. The library that Amazon provides in PHP for accessing SimpleDB requires PHP 5.2. I should have known that I need to use the latest version.
Not only did Amazon&#8217;s library not work for me, but it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalecrafter.wordpress.com&blog=3410853&post=43&subd=thetalecrafter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JSON and POST in PHP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[file upload]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve been trying to do Lab 2 without having to modify my ami or change my apache configuration, I&#8217;ve found some nice helpers.
First, trying to encode and decode JSON in PHP 5.2 is easy&#8230; you just use the built in functions json_encode() and json_decode(). However, my Fedora ami is only running PHP 5.03. So, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalecrafter.wordpress.com&blog=3410853&post=37&subd=thetalecrafter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Distributed System Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Distributed System Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is my last semester at BYU, and I am taking Distributes System Design. As I go through the preocess of creating (with my classmates) a distributed web application, I will be logging my progress and experiences here.
P.S. &#8211; Happy Civil Rights Day! I&#8217;m using this holiday to catch up on my homework.
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		<title>Discontinuance</title>
		<link>http://thetalecrafter.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/discontinuance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thetalecrafter.wordpress.com/?p=28</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope I am not disappointing too many people, but I don&#8217;t feel strongly enough about this blog and I don&#8217;t have enough I want to say to blog on a regular basis.
If you are interested in reading things my wife and I write, we have a blog at vanwagoner.wordpress.com.  It will likely be mostly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalecrafter.wordpress.com&blog=3410853&post=28&subd=thetalecrafter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barefoot (Revisited)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 03:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barefoot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I thought more on the topic of Internet security and privacy, I decided to revisit the image of going barefoot on the net.  This time, however, in the form of a poem.  Here it is:
Barefoot
I stand barefoot in the dark
On the brink of the unknown
I see not to the left or to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalecrafter.wordpress.com&blog=3410853&post=27&subd=thetalecrafter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Great Northwest</title>
		<link>http://thetalecrafter.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/welcome-to-the-great-northwest/</link>
		<comments>http://thetalecrafter.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/welcome-to-the-great-northwest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 00:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thetalecrafter.wordpress.com/?p=26</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Julie, Abby, and I have left Provo for the summer.  I have started an internship as a Software Developer with Amazon.com.  We are living in downtown Seattle, and are still recovering from culture shock.  Hopefully, I will soon get back to writing regularly.
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		<title>Growing Software</title>
		<link>http://thetalecrafter.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/growing-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the TaleCrafter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics and Computers in Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Agile methods have proven time and again to produce better software quicker. Extreme programming, iterative development, and release early release often provide the designers and developers with more and better feedback from customers.
I recently helped develop a custom software package, and I learned very quickly into the project that knowing upfront what the product needed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalecrafter.wordpress.com&blog=3410853&post=24&subd=thetalecrafter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>@mbience a Cappella</title>
		<link>http://thetalecrafter.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/ambience-a-cappella/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the TaleCrafter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[16 tons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a cappella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[in the still of the night]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacob Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kiss the girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trevor Watts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thetalecrafter.wordpress.com/?p=23</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In high school some friends and I made an a cappella group called Ambience. My brother Jacob was our 1st tenor, I sang 2nd tenor, Jacob Morris sang baritone, and Trevor Watts sang bass. We traded parts often, too. We weren&#8217;t that good, 	but we did have a lot of fun. Below are a few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalecrafter.wordpress.com&blog=3410853&post=23&subd=thetalecrafter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright and the Right to Copy</title>
		<link>http://thetalecrafter.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/copyright-and-the-right-to-copy/</link>
		<comments>http://thetalecrafter.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/copyright-and-the-right-to-copy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the TaleCrafter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics and Computers in Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The battle for control over mass-reproducible media is still far from over. The record companies are still not ready to embrace the way music can be distributed in our connected world. Now though, most people are tired of the debate. Back in 2003, Orson Scott Card wrote an interesting article about the competitors in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalecrafter.wordpress.com&blog=3410853&post=22&subd=thetalecrafter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Are Hooked</title>
		<link>http://thetalecrafter.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/why-we-are-hooked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the TaleCrafter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics and Computers in Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As people have slowly discovered the Internet, many have found they are spending more time online than they have available. Along with the overwhelming wealth of knowledge on the Internet, is the ability to connect with other people. This connection, in my opinion, is what hooks us. If you look in gaming, it is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalecrafter.wordpress.com&blog=3410853&post=21&subd=thetalecrafter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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