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		<title>Avoiding rate limits when polling feeds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the cool things about the web is the ability to integrate content from a variety of sources. For example, you might want to pull in news data from an RSS feed and have the news items displayed on your web site.
This is easy to do with a script (such as a program written [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieren.blogs.ilrt.org/2010/02/03/avoiding-rate-limits-when-polling-feeds/</link>
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		<title>Focusing on content migration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted a second article on the Internet Development blog. This time the intention of my article was to take a closer look at content migration.
Content migration is one of those strange areas that client&#8217;s often overlook. The intention of my article was to highlight some of the pitfalls and encourage a more proactive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieren.blogs.ilrt.org/2010/01/08/focusing-on-content-migration/</link>
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		<title>Your website audience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not been able to find much time to write articles for my own blog recently. However, I have written an article for our Internet Development blog.
The article covers web stats and discusses what you can and can&#8217;t tell about your audience: That most secretive of animals, your website audience
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		<link>http://kieren.blogs.ilrt.org/2009/02/21/your-website-audience/</link>
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		<title>The death of email newsletters?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must admit I was surprised when the Email Standards Project (http://www.email-standards.org/) launched recently. The project aims to explain why Web standards are important for email. To any techie worth their salt the whole idea must grate horribly. After all, the Web is not email and email is not the Web.
I, and I can&#8217;t be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieren.blogs.ilrt.org/2007/12/18/the-death-of-email-newsletters/</link>
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		<title>Losing the 404 File not found error</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are few things that will make your site look more unprofessional than users following a broken link and receiving a 404 &#8211; File not found message. For a good developer it&#8217;s easy to ensure that a site is free from broken links. If you&#8217;re a Linux user you can use ht://check, if you prefer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieren.blogs.ilrt.org/2007/08/17/losing-the-404-file-not-found-error/</link>
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		<title>Testing times ahead&#8230; or maybe not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Web site testing is one of those things, like sticking to the speed limit on motorways, that everyone says they&#8217;ll do but, in reality, most don&#8217;t. Like speeding you have the potential to get somewhere more quickly but to do so you must take risks that can be very costly.
Almost without fail, testing will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieren.blogs.ilrt.org/2007/08/10/testing-times-ahead-or-maybe-not/</link>
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		<title>In Defence of Difficult Developers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Why the customer isn&#8217;t always right)
Firstly, this article isn&#8217;t intended to be a rebuttal of Rob Swan&#8217;s excellent article on A List Apart (In Defense of Difficult Clients). It&#8217;s a really good piece and makes important points regarding the developer/customer relationship.
My intention with this post is to raise the, somewhat thorny, issue of what to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieren.blogs.ilrt.org/2007/06/18/in-defence-of-difficult-developers/</link>
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		<title>Passed-off domains, the STD of the Web?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last eight months I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on the progress of a project that I used to work on which is now being run as a commercial operation. The site enjoyed very high ranking in Google and was in the top five results returned for most terms associated with its core activities.
To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieren.blogs.ilrt.org/2007/05/21/passed-off-domains-the-std-of-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Web sites on the cheap?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an article in Information World Review called &#8220;MPs award themselves a website pay rise&#8220;. It wasn&#8217;t so much the main content of the article that caught my attention (the communication budget of MPs had been increased by Â£10,000 to help support development of their Web sites) but a rather bizarre quote within [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieren.blogs.ilrt.org/2007/05/04/web-sites-on-the-cheap/</link>
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		<title>An accessibility charity case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had a discussion with a Web developer external to the University of Bristol. The discussion centred on the issue of Web accessibility and what became clear was that the developer was under the impression that his employer, a small charity, was in some way exempt from disability discrimination law in the UK.
The developer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kieren.blogs.ilrt.org/2007/03/04/an-accessibility-charity-case/</link>
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