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	<title>Minn Myat Soe :: His Notes &#187; General</title>
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		<title>YQL, Python, and Yahoo Finance</title>
		<link>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2010/07/yql-python-and-yahoo-finance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[json]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stock quotes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[YQL is the way to get information from Web Services using SQL-like queries. It also provides us a console where we can test our queries and generate the REST query. To see how it works, just go to the console page, and enter the following as the YQL statement: select * from yahoo.finance.quotes where symbol=&#039;FFIV&#039; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SSL and HTTP Basic Authentication</title>
		<link>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2010/04/ssl-and-http-basic-authentication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[htaccess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[http basic auth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[https redirect]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In general, when I want to force the browser to access certain part of my website via https if the request is made with http, I would put a .htaccess inside that web directory. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} But when I want to protect the directory with HTTP Basic Auth, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku OS</title>
		<link>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2010/03/haiku-os/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BeOS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[opensource os]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Haiku is another open source operating system, and IMO we can say it continues from where BeOS left off. I haven&#8217;t had a chance to try BeOS, but read about what it was supposed to do and some beautiful screenshots. BeOS was a closed source OS, and some loyal users tried to re-create the OS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Walk in the Clouds</title>
		<link>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2010/03/a-walk-in-the-clouds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon ec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon s3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud servers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hadoop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rackspace]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/?p=91</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve moved this site over to the cloud servers, by Rackspace from my previous shared host. Actually I was looking for a cloud server and cloud space so that I can play with Hadoop. I found Amazon EC servers and S3, but their services charges are expensive for me. While searching for alternatives, CloudServers caught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kudos to ICA (Singapore)</title>
		<link>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2010/01/kudos-to-ica-singapore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[singpass]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/?p=89</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve applied for entry visas for four of my relatives, about two or three weeks in advanced, and the visas have been approved by ICA. Just one a day before the flight, one of my relatives has learnt that her daughter (2 years old) need to obtain visa and air tickets. I opened up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore</title>
		<link>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2010/01/standard-chartered-bank-singapore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burmese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myanmar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I went to a branch to open XtraSaver account. As usual, their personal banking consultant asked me if I wanted to open their Supersalary account. I said no and told him I just wanted XtraSaver account. Then he tried to open an account for me, and suddenly he had to see his manager for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloudy</title>
		<link>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2009/05/cloudy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distributed computing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MapReduce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These days, something relates to software platforms that perform distributed computing on a cluster, catches my attention, and this led me to: Hadoop/Hbase/Pig and Mapreduce/Sawzall/Bigtable Hadoop platform is just the open-source implementation of Google&#8217;s Mapreduce. I think the most basic ingredient for the this platform is distributed file system. Basically MapReduce framework works in two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singaporean&#8217;s Insight into Myanmar</title>
		<link>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2007/06/singaporeans-insight-into-myanmar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2007/06/singaporeans-insight-into-myanmar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just found an article titled &#8220;Myanmar Insights&#8221;, on a blog. The author seems to be a singaporean. Here are some of his comments: most people sarongs (both men and women) costs US$1500 to own a sim card (excluding mobile phone and calling charges) limited imported cars; all mainly recycled &#38; non-aircon The buses are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25 Tips for Web Designers</title>
		<link>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2007/03/25-tips-for-web-designers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2007/03/25-tips-for-web-designers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of places you can look for tips for web designers. This might be the summary, and it describes how you can simply use CSS to create stylish look-and-feels. I am really in love with lightbox effect. If you are looking for Open Source alternatives for your commercial packages, this might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be more productive in 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2007/03/be-more-productive-in-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.minnmyatsoe.com/2007/03/be-more-productive-in-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a show room for Ajax and DHTML scripts, that we can be used in our works. If you like nifty corners, you will also be impressed by spiffy corners. This is how we can integrate Gmail into our daily lives. And IMified just makes our instant messengers more applicable and useful. I also found [...]]]></description>
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