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	<description>the MerchantOS developers blog</description>
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		<title>Single Sign-On with OpenID and Google Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Quick Review
Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if we didn&#8217;t have to remember so many passwords? With the proliferation of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications on the internet there are more and more things that we need to remember a username and password to access. This is where Single Sign-On (SSO) comes in. Single Sign-On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/php/single-sign-on-with-openid-and-google-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Single Sign-On with OpenID and Google Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is this &#8220;Single Sign-On&#8221;
Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if we didn&#8217;t have to remember so many passwords? With the proliferation of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications on the internet there are more and more things that we need to remember a username and password to access. This is where Single Sign-On (SSO) comes in. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/php/single-sign-on-with-openid-and-google-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Making A Wordpress 2.5 Sidebar Widget Plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress 2.5 And Widgets
A Wordpress Widget is a dynamic element that can be placed in the sidebars (or anywhere that is declared a sidebar) in your Wordpress theme. For example on this blog there is a right sidebar with these widgets: Search It, Recent Entries, Categories, Related Sites, Recent Visitors (by Feedjit), Recent Readers (by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/wordpress/making-a-wordpress-25-sidebar-widget-plugin/</link>
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		<title>Pick Up A Great Website For Cheap</title>
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We've all seen those websites that show up in the SERPs that are just there because the domain has been around for years and has managed to pick up a few links along the way. They're listed in dmoz, PR 4 or 5, but the content is really old. What if there was a way to...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/tools/sitefinder301/</link>
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		<title>Floating Point Comparisons In PHP and Javascript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A simple function to ease your floating point comparison headaches. Implemented in PHP and Javascript. Compare floating point numbers safely like this: moneycomp($income,'>',$debt) return 'Happy'; Escape the plague of the .000000001!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/php/floating-point-comparisons-in-php-and-javascript/</link>
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		<title>Scraping Links With PHP</title>
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In this tutorial I will show you how to build a PHP script that will scrape links from a web page. I also discuss the legal issues involved with scraping website content.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/php/scraping-links-with-php/</link>
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		<title>Facebook PHP Tutorial</title>
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I will cover the basics of using the Facebook PHP Client Library and how to get your application started, including:
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<li>Installing The Facebook Developer Application</li>
<li>Downloading The Facebook PHP Client Library</li>
<li>Creating Your Application</li>
<li>Hello Facebook! Example</li>
<li>FBML - Facebook Markup Language</li>
<li>Using the Facebook API</li>
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		<link>http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/facebook/facebook-php-tutorial/</link>
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		<title>The Spy Is Dead &#8211; Spyjax Offline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I will no longer be hosting Spyjax.
It&#8217;s been fun and very interesting, but it&#8217;s time to call it quits. Spyjax is just a side project but it&#8217;s eating up server power so I&#8217;ve decided to turn it off. I kicked around the idea of turning into a real service / business but I&#8217;m just not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/tools/the-spy-is-dead/</link>
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		<title>Spyjax &#8211; Your browser history is not private!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If youâ€™re like most web users, you assume that your browser history is private. For example if you visit an online store, you assume they canâ€™t see if youâ€™ve been looking at their competitor. Just a few weeks ago I assumed this was the case. Guess what? Your browser history is not private!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/tools/spyjax/</link>
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		<title>WordPress Customization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A presentation on customizing WordPress. It gives an introduction to WordPress, and covers the basics of customizing themes.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/wordpress/wordpress-customization/</link>
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