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		<title>Desuckifying Experts-Exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Heald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever searched for an answer to a programming problem, chances are good that you&#8217;ve run into results from experts-exchange. Everyone hates them. The information usually isn&#8217;t that good, and even if it is, you have to scroll past sixteen pages of ads and spam to get to them. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s the occasional nugget [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_95" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 289px"><a href="http://www.coffeepowered.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ee.jpg"><img src="http://www.coffeepowered.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ee.jpg" alt="Experts Exchange minus the suck!" title="ee" width="279" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-95" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Experts Exchange minus the suck!</p></div><br />
If you&#8217;ve ever searched for an answer to a programming problem, chances are good that you&#8217;ve run into results from experts-exchange. Everyone hates them. The information usually isn&#8217;t that good, and even if it is, you have to scroll past sixteen pages of ads and spam to get to them. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s the occasional nugget of info that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re looking for. There&#8217;s just too much crap to dig through to get to it.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re gonna fix that.<br />
<span id="more-91"></span></p>
<p>You&#8217;ll need:</p>
<ul>
<li>Firefox</li>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/521">Remove it Permanently</a></li>
<li>The RIP export file below, saved as a file
</ul>
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&lt;Config version=&quot;1.0&quot;&gt;
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		&lt;XPath comment=&quot;&quot;&gt;//div[@class='s sectionFour shFFF5 sgray expGray allZonesMain taSearchRow']&lt;/XPath&gt;
		&lt;XPath comment=&quot;&quot;&gt;//div[@class='bl blQuestion']//div[@class='answers']&lt;/XPath&gt;
		&lt;XPath comment=&quot;&quot;&gt;//a[@class='startFreeTrial']&lt;/XPath&gt;
		&lt;XPath comment=&quot;&quot;&gt;//div[@id='relatedSolutions20X6']&lt;/XPath&gt;
		&lt;XPath comment=&quot;&quot;&gt;//div[@id='compSignUpNowVQP32']&lt;/XPath&gt;
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<p>Go to your RIP options, click &#8220;Import Rip&#8221;, and import that rip config. Presto chango, Experts-Exchange looks like a sane, readable website.</p>
<p>Enjoy.</p>
<p>Edit: It appears that Experts-Exchange only inlines answers for unregistered users if you have a search engine referral URL, obviously so they can saturate search results to bait-and-switch people into registering for the service without getting smacked for information cloaking. There&#8217;s an easy answer, though.</p>
<p>1) Grab <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953</a><br />
2) Set your referrer for experts-exchange.com to</p>
<p>http://www.google.com/search?q=woo+woo+woo+woo&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;aq=t&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a</p>
<p>3) Yay, information.</p>
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