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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog</title>
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		<title>Amazing AdSense Relevance With Context Sensitive Ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am continually amazed at how relevant ads (context sensitive advertisement) AdSense serves on certain articles. Here is a recent example on my post about future WordPress plugins.
A simple quiz: How many bloggers (using WordPress) are interested in fairness cream?
The only logic could be that AdSense is targetting the female demographic of my blog. Any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/amazing-adsense-relevance-with-context-sensitive-ads/</link>
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		<title>Nginx Hacking Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nginx is a high performance web server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev and a good replacement for Apache HTTPD, the market leader. Nginx is rapidly increasing its market share with major websites joining it like wordpress.com. In the June 2008 Netcraft survey LiteSpeed lost more than 600 thousand sites during this survey, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nginx-hacking-tips/</link>
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		<title>How is Amitabh Bachchan&#8217;s Blog Relevant?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am seeing Amitabh Bachchan's blog's AdSense ads on my blog. How is Amitabh's blog relevant to my blog? AdSense quite often does a real poor targeting these days. I am looking forward to move this blog over to alternate ad providers.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-is-amitabh-bachchans-blog-relevant/</link>
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		<title>Tips on Configuring Nginx for Virtual Hosting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nginx tutorials and examples doesn't tell you how you can configure nginx with virtual hosting when different sites are in different pre-defined directories. Often you are moving over your site from a different web server like Apache HTTPD to Nginx. So you have a pre-defined directory structure which may not be easy to change. Configuring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tips-on-configuring-nginx-for-virtual-hosting/</link>
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		<title>How To Run phpBB on Nginx With Virtual Hosting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We now have our phpBB forum running on Nginx web server, a high quality and significantly better performing web server than Apache HTTPD. Soem of the challenges we faced were:

We use nice permalinks in the forum so there are lots of apache httpd rewrite rules in .htaccess files which had to be converted to nginx [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-run-phpbb-on-nginx/</link>
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		<title>Ngnix: Solution for Directory Resolution Problem in Virtual Hosting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nginx displays a peculiar but logical behavior when handling directories specified without the ending slash. For example you have a directory like http://www.example2.com/dir/. However you specify the url as http://www.example2.com/dir. Also assume that you have configured the server for virtual hosting and the alternative server names are: www.example.com, www.example2.com etc. and they are specified in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ngnix-solution-for-directory-resolution-problem-in-virtual-hosting/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo Enters Merger Talks With Time-Warner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! spent the July 4 weekend in discussions with its lead adviser, Goldman Sachs, and potential bid partners including Time Warner in a desperate bid to defend itself from shareholders meeting on August 1 to vote on whether to re-elect their board.
The possible merger with Times-Warner's AOL division could be worth as much as $10 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/yahoo-enters-merger-talks-with-time-warner/</link>
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		<title>Re-hashing Physics &#038; Philosophy With Dr. Feyman&#8217;s Lectures &#038; Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am re-hashing my physics fundamentals with Dr. Feynman's lectures. Did I mention how I love reading his books? I have great admiration for Dr. Richard Feynman, next only to Dr. Albert Einstein &#038; Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose.
I am seriously looking to delve into quantum electrodynamics. It is really an intriguing subject.
One of the lesson [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/re-hashing-physics-with-dr-feymans-lectures/</link>
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		<title>5 Minute Guide To Selenium IDE and Selenium Remote Control (Java) Test Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Selenium is a high quality open source test automation tool for web application testing. Selenium runs in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh, Safari on the Mac, with plans to support Safari on iPhone soon. Selenium test scripts are portable, can be run from browsers (using Selenium IDE) or from JUNit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-minute-guide-to-selenium-ide-and-selenium-rc-test-tools/</link>
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		<title>Java Application Security Through Static Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Extendable (by plugins, &#8230;) Static Analysis tools like FindBugs can enhance the security of your Java applications (web as well as standalone or client-servers applications) in several significant ways.
Enforcing security policy compliance
Security policies are espoused by security experts such as OWASP and mandated for compliance by many regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley that require organizations to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-application-security-through-static-analysis/</link>
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