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		<title>Gas pumps suck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want me to press yes when I want a receipt then give me a button that says &#8220;Yes.&#8221;. Instead the genius that made this pump thought it&#8217;s be better to give me a &#8220;Receipt/Yes&#8221; button.

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		<link>http://www.keithmedlin.com/2008/11/gas-pumps-suck/</link>
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		<title>Not Saving Me Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy Trip Advisor for my vacation and travel planning research.  The information is typically easy to access and even though the design can be very busy at times there is just a ton of great user feedback on the site.
While planning a trip to Nags Head though I came upon the following interaction and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keithmedlin.com/2008/10/not-saving-me-time/</link>
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		<title>UI Design Process - Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the questions I get asked and think about a lot is: How do you design a User Interface?
I think it&#8217;s a strange question because devoid of context there really isn&#8217;t any response to that question that isn&#8217;t another question.  User Interface has a strange history, particularly when we&#8217;re talking about the internet, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keithmedlin.com/2008/10/ui-design-process-part-1/</link>
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		<title>CakePHP: Multiple Fields in find(&#8217;list&#8217;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my biggest gripes with CakePHP is that there isn&#8217;t a built in way to easily define how models report back their &#8220;name&#8221; to views.  There is a handy variable called $displayField, but currently (1.2 RC3) that only accepts a single field.

var $displayField = 'last_name';

That&#8217;s not particularly useful in a user management console where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keithmedlin.com/2008/10/multiple-fields-findlist/</link>
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		<title>PHP MVC Frameworks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are at least 20 PHP MVC frameworks and trying to break each one down into its component strengths and weaknesses would be foolish.  Each one tries, on some level, to outdo the others through the combination of features catering to some niche audience.  Having been a consumer of everything from Code Igniter to Zend Framework and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keithmedlin.com/2008/09/php-mvc-frameworks/</link>
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		<title>Wanted: Standards Compliant Browser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an entire sub-culture on the internet devoted to the strict adherence to the almight W3C &#8220;standards.&#8221;  I intentionally put standards in quotes because there isn&#8217;t any form of universal adoption of these recommendations by the major browsers just yet.  While each iteration of Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Mozilla move us closer together [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keithmedlin.com/2008/09/wanted-standards-compliant-browser/</link>
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		<title>Application Design Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s &#8220;Top-10 Application Design Mistakes&#8221; and thought I&#8217;d post some notes on it here and encourage everyone to read it since it is a great summary/categorization of the common issues.  Why am I qualified to comment on this list?  Well, I&#8217;ve made a lot of these mistakes in my own work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keithmedlin.com/2008/09/application-design-mistakes/</link>
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		<title>Installing CakePHP on Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This tutorial will walk you though setting up a functioning Windows-Apache-PHP-MySQL + CakePHP installation on Windows XP.  This tutorial should also work for Windows 2000 or Vista, but since I&#8217;m not testing in that environment you should know that this was written with Windows XP in mind.
Assembling the Software

Apache 2.2.x- http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi : Download the &#8220;Win32 Binary without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keithmedlin.com/2008/09/installing-cakephp-on-windows/</link>
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		<title>Apologizing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologies and empathy seem to be losing any value because the expression itself is largely meaningless.  I thought I&#8217;d cover what actually constitutes an apology in this entry because there is a big difference between apologizing and saying you are sorry. 
An apology in its Greek roots means a speech of defense.  In other words, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keithmedlin.com/2008/08/apologizing/</link>
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		<title>Killer App: Customization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are thousands of high quality Wordpress Themes available on the internet. In fact, there are so many that only the prolific number of sites powered by Wordpress could even come close to re-using them all. The theme I was using was supposed to be temporary when I put it in place in mid-2007. Here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keithmedlin.com/2008/08/killer-app-customization/</link>
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