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		<title>Using Mixins With Ruby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re used to a language like C++ or Java the common way to share behavior across classes was to use inheritance. This has some problems because you should only really use inheritance in a is-a relationship. A politican class would probably behave like the fool class, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s appropriate for the &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/04/20/using-mixins-with-ruby/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/04/20/using-mixins-with-ruby/</link>
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		<title>Publishing A Gem With Jewler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In order to do this you will need two things: the jeweler gem an account with rubygems.org Jeweler is pretty useful utility for managing your gem&#8217;s lifecycle. To get the jeweler gem run gem install jeweler To create your project run jeweler yournewgemname It will create a new git repository called yournewgemname. You are basically &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/04/13/publishing-a-gem-with-jewler/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/04/13/publishing-a-gem-with-jewler/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Mobile Presence?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Soon there is going to be more cellular phone subscriptions in the United States than there are people. Does this scare you? Unless you&#8217;ve figured out how to present yourself online, it should. What do I mean by mobile presence? Well it&#8217;s not hard to imagine a future where all of your customers access your &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/04/06/whats-your-mobile-presence/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/04/06/whats-your-mobile-presence/</link>
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		<title>Accessing Yahoo Contacts Using the Ruby OAuth Gem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I implemented a feature for our up and coming referral program that lets you refer people using your Yahoo and Google contacts. As part of this I needed to work with Yahoo&#8217;s own implementation of the OAuth standard. This interaction caused me quite a bit of pain, so I decided to write up a &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/03/30/accessing-yahoo-contacts-using-oauth-gem/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/03/30/accessing-yahoo-contacts-using-oauth-gem/</link>
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		<title>Sending Attachments using ActionMailer 2.3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This took me about an hour to get working properly so I figured I would share this with everyone. The big thing to keep in mind is that multipart emails don&#8217;t automatically pick up which template they need to render, so you need to specify render_message. def email_file(email, zipfile) recipients email content_type "multipart/mixed" subject "Yo" &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/03/23/sending-attachments-using-activerecord-2-3/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/03/23/sending-attachments-using-activerecord-2-3/</link>
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		<title>Posting Facebook Wall Messages with the OAuth2 gem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found facebook&#8217;s documentation confusing, almost hair-rippingly so, when it came to posting a message to somebody&#8217;s wall through facebook.  Facebook uses a method called OAuth2 to do authentication.  If you&#8217;re not familiar with OAuth2, from a high level it&#8217;s a security scheme that lets you do things on behalf of somebody else without ever &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/03/16/posting-facebook-wall-messages-with-the-oauth2-gem/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/03/16/posting-facebook-wall-messages-with-the-oauth2-gem/</link>
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		<title>Embedding a Url in a QR Code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may seem like a silly topic to a lot of people.  Using Google&#8217;s charts API is very easy to generate a QR Code that points to your website.  Like so much in life, the devil is in the details.  If you&#8217;re CNN and you&#8217;re just embedding a URL in your QR code you&#8217;re going &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/03/09/embedding-a-url-in-a-qr-code/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/03/09/embedding-a-url-in-a-qr-code/</link>
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		<title>Custom user-agent strings with Cucumber and Capybara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This problem has been bugging me for quite a while and the usual googling did not get me a solution that worked. After some experimentation and a bit more research, I found the answer in the comments section of a blog post here: http://aflatter.de/2010/06/testing-headers-and-ssl-with-cucumber-and-capybara/ So let me share the solution I ended up with. First, &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/03/07/custom-user-agent-strings-with-cucumber-and-capybara/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/03/07/custom-user-agent-strings-with-cucumber-and-capybara/</link>
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		<title>How to achieve PCI compliance with Braintree in one day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago we needed to implement a billing system. Conceptually, recurring payments are simple &#8211; ask for a customer&#8217;s payment card, save it, and then process it at later dates through a payment gateway. Implementing it, on the other hand, is tricky, all because of one thorny issue: security. Hosting our site on the &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/03/04/how-to-achieve-pci-compliance-with-braintree-in-one-day/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/03/04/how-to-achieve-pci-compliance-with-braintree-in-one-day/</link>
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		<title>SPARQCode Named Washington Technology Industry Association’s Best Seed Stage Company of the Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SPARQCode Named Washington Technology Industry Association’s Best Seed Stage Company of the Year Company’s QR Code sales lead generation services honored with prestigious award SEATTLE, Washington – February 24, 2011 – SPARQCode announced today that its QR Code sales lead generation services was named the Best Seed Stage Company of the Year, as part of &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/02/24/sparqcode-named-washington-technology-industry-association%e2%80%99s-best-seed-stage-company-of-the-year/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sparqcode.com/2011/02/24/sparqcode-named-washington-technology-industry-association%e2%80%99s-best-seed-stage-company-of-the-year/</link>
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