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		<title>Microsoft Cleartype Breaks the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2012/01/microsoft-cleartype-breaks-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Trauzzi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the news that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 has - finally - fallen to 1% of U.S. browser share, the modern internet is now coming to grips with the next problem from the folks down in Redmond...]]></description>
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		<title>iOS5 First Impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Trauzzi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I jump in head first with my iPad2 to see what kind of changes and improvements Apple has decided to make to their mobile operating system.]]></description>
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		<title>Symfony 1.4, Component Caching and SOAP</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/08/symfony-1-4-component-caching-and-soap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/08/symfony-1-4-component-caching-and-soap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Trauzzi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found myself having to get some data from a SOAP service onto a Symfony 1.4 site.  Learn about SOAP-RPC as well as how I accomplished this.]]></description>
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		<title>Bacula Server Backup Complexities</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/08/bacula-server-backup-complexities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/08/bacula-server-backup-complexities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Chatelain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bacula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[File Backup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[File Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rsync]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Server Backup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage Device]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vchanger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Pool]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bacula is a very powerful backup managing product. Free (as in beer and speech), and quite mature. I recently had the task of setting up proper backups of a new server to a backup server. The way we wanted to do it caused a lot of complexity. I needed to minimize bandwidth use, minimize disk use, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compressing Transparent PNGs for the Web</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/08/compressing-transparent-pngs-for-the-web/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/08/compressing-transparent-pngs-for-the-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Dart</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quantizing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is a very exciting day: HTML5 Boilterplate v2 came out and I discovered that transparent PNGs don&#8217;t have to be massive. There was one change from h5bp from v1 to v2 that would be easy to overlook: &#8220;We feel tools like imagealpha and pngquant, and techniques like using 8-bit PNGs are more useful than using stopgap fixes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Designers Toolbox</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/06/a-designers-toolbox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/06/a-designers-toolbox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Savoie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools, Tips and Tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[icons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top 5]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s rare that a project passes by my desk at The Web Shop that couldn’t benefit from the use of external resources. Whether that might be inspiration, stock photography, an icon pack, or an interesting color swatch, I’m all for utilizing available resources. In this post I’d like to highlight my top 5, enjoy! Smashing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Responsive Web Design?</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/04/what-is-responsive-web-design/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/04/what-is-responsive-web-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Savoie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tools, Tips and Tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Your website is being viewed on a huge variety of resolutions, whether your design is ready for it or not. Every day mobile devices are becoming more connected and commonly used to browse the internet. In the past, website owners would strive to have their website displayed the same on as many screens as possible. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What we can learn about Social Media from Hockey</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/04/what-we-can-learn-about-social-media-from-hockey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/04/what-we-can-learn-about-social-media-from-hockey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools, Tips and Tricks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/?p=2458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year again when the top 16 teams in the NHL begin their playoff quest to become Stanley Cup Champions. With my beloved Vancouver Canucks in the running to take home this important trophy, I’ve noticed that there are a few tips that social media users can take away from hockey. Make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing a RAID1 While the Server is Live</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/04/growing-a-raid1-while-the-server-is-live/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/04/growing-a-raid1-while-the-server-is-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Chatelain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux System Administration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently ran into a problem that most of us are very familiar with: the fileserver has nearly run out of storage space! There were a few things compounding the upgrade. The server has only two SATA ports Both SATA ports were in use by the existing RAID1 so I could not connect another RAID [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Blog Production Primer</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/03/video-blog-production-primer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/03/video-blog-production-primer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Nedecky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can start video blogging for a small investment. But to achieve a professional look and feel, you’ll need to experiment and observe certain fundamentals. Here are some tips for choosing the right equipment, and setting up a simple, well crafted shot. Equipment Camera: Any mid-range consumer HD camcorder will do. $1000 is more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simplifying the drawing of forms in Symfony</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/02/simplifying-the-drawing-of-forms-in-symfony/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2011/02/simplifying-the-drawing-of-forms-in-symfony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Dart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tools, Tips and Tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[symfony]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/?p=2263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Implementing forms in 2011 is still a challenge, even with a framework like Symfony helping you along. sfForm is great for defining widgets and validators but it sucks at outputting practical markup. Practical Markup For me, the ideal markup for a form field looks like: This gives me a lot of flexiblity for styling. Unfortunately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Page Photos Tab Disappeared</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2010/12/facebook-page-photos-tab-disappeared/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2010/12/facebook-page-photos-tab-disappeared/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Shepherd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools, Tips and Tricks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/?p=2082</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of my work here at Web Shop I help create and manage a number of Facebook Pages for businesses looking to connect with their clients and fans. Facebook pages offer countless ways to customize your presence on Facebook through countless third party applications such as the FBML (Facebook Markup Language) application and also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website Design &#8211; Right in the Browser</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2010/10/website-design-right-in-the-browser/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2010/10/website-design-right-in-the-browser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Bernardic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tools, Tips and Tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/?p=1846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several of my colleagues at the Web Shop have recently independently stumbled upon a couple of articles that talk about an innovative concept: Designing websites right in the web browser. The topic managed to find its way into several conversations here over the last little while, and I thought I would keep the conversation going, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;New Twitter&#8217; and Branded Twitter Background Dimensions</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2010/09/new-twitter-and-your-branded-twitter-background-dimensions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2010/09/new-twitter-and-your-branded-twitter-background-dimensions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Savoie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools, Tips and Tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Background]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Savoie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interface]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wallpaper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, I was finally provided access to ‘New Twitter’, a big step forward in functionality, layout, and organization. I suppose with such a large majority of Twitter users accessing Twitter via 3rd party programs, some inspiration for a new Twitter may stem from the desire to pull users back to the companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IE6: The End is Nigh &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<link>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2010/09/ie6-the-end-is-nigh-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/2010/09/ie6-the-end-is-nigh-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Chatelain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tools, Tips and Tricks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thewebshop.ca/blog/?p=1815</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d give an update on how the world is doing with ditching Internet Explorer 6. Between August 2009 and  August 2010, IE6 usage has dropped from nearly 18% down to 8%. This is great news! IE6 usage has finally dropped lower than the &#8220;other&#8221; category of browsers. For more numbers, see here: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-200908-201008 [...]]]></description>
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