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		<title>Custom sorting order in LINQ (ORDER BY WEIGHTING)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have developed a C# LINQ extension method to allow very flexible ordering by assigning weightings to the sort keys of the elements to be ordered. I was inspired by the functionality offered by SQL Server&#8217;s ORDER BY CASE WHEN:

ORDER BY
CASE SEASON
    WHEN 'WINTER' THEN 1
    WHEN 'SPRING' THEN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daniel-skinner.co.uk/custom-sorting-order-in-linq-order-by-weighting/18/03/2009</link>
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		<title>String.Capitalize in C# (PHP&#8217;s ucwords in C#)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been playing around with C# recently and found the need for functionality similar to that provided by PHP&#8217;s ucwords() function. I dont think this exists in C# as standard so here is a simple extension method to achieve ucwords in C# using a little bit of LINQ (the extremely useful Aggregate extension method) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daniel-skinner.co.uk/php-ucwords-in-c/25/02/2009</link>
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		<title>Cloning Zend_Config without side-effects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cloning in PHP5
PHP5 with its much improved object-oriented style passes objects by reference by default. To create a copy of an object, a new construct &#8216;clone&#8217; is introduced. Cloning an object in PHP5 creates a shallow copy &#8211; any properties that are references to other variables, will remain references. Additionally, PHP5 brings the __clone() magic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daniel-skinner.co.uk/cloning-zend_config-without-side-effects/26/08/2008</link>
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		<title>Install phpUnderControl on CentOS 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you follow this guide you should start with a basic CentOS 5 installation with Subversion setup correctly and end up with a working installation of phpUnderControl.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daniel-skinner.co.uk/php-under-control-svn-centos-5/12/06/2008</link>
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		<title>MooTools and Swiff: Slideshow / Thumbnail Gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently launched a website for the Bramham Lodge Residential Development in Bramham Village.
The site features a neat Slideshow / Thumbnail Gallery implementation using MooTools and Flash (utilising the Swiff utility of MooTools 1.2).
A demo can be seen on the Bramham Lodge Apartment page.
The SlideShow makes use of Flash to create easily customisable image [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daniel-skinner.co.uk/mootools-and-swiff-slideshow-thumbnail-gallery/17/05/2008</link>
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		<title>Hair by Caroline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hair by Caroline first launched back in 2005&#8230;three years down the line and we decided it was in great need of a re-design. It was also important to update the content, adding more material and creating a new gallery was among the important factors to consider.
15thApril 2008 has been re-launched, with a new and improved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daniel-skinner.co.uk/hair-by-caroline/14/04/2008</link>
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		<title>External CSS won&#8217;t load in IE7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just spent a while wondering why IE7 wouldn&#8217;t make use of an external stylesheet when it worked in Firefox no problems.
The page is in UTF-8 and the .css file was also encoded in UTF-8 but IE7 simply refused to render the page using the CSS rules.
I have no idea  what the problem is but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daniel-skinner.co.uk/external-css-wont-load-in-ie7/05/04/2008</link>
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		<title>Link Targets in XHTML</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always prefer to build websites in valid XHTML as it allows for a stricter, more maintainable envorinment to build websites than traditional HTML. However, there are a few features of HTML I like to make use of.
For example, making links open in new windows using the target attribute is unsupported by XHTML.

There are two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daniel-skinner.co.uk/link-targets-in-xhtml/15/03/2008</link>
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		<title>Yicrosoft Directory Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ryan at SEO Noobs have hosted a competition, which many of you are probably aware of by now. The key word is “Yicrosoft Directory” which is a word which had zero results in the Google search when the competition started; it’s also a word that has been put together in the light of Microsoft’s $44.6 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daniel-skinner.co.uk/yicrosoft-directory-competition/09/02/2008</link>
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		<title>Chaining with MooTools 1.2 &#8211; Tutorial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short tutorial on how to use Chaining in MooTools.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daniel-skinner.co.uk/chaining-with-mootools-12-tutorial/31/01/2008</link>
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