Monthly Archives: December 2006

Buying a digital camera

Posted on 23 December 2006 by tychay

With Christmas here, Ryan has been writing a series on purchasing a digital camera. I thought I’d link them for a number of you who have expressed interest: About $100 or less. Mid-range ($150-$350) dSLR alternatives: Why not to buy … Continue reading →

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window.error and login checking

Posted on 23 December 2006 by tychay

Chris pointed me to a new Ajax security hack. The way it works is by loading a window.onerror handler and then loading a remote site as a <script> tag that will generate a slightly different error when logged in vs. … Continue reading →

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Using a photo

Posted on 23 December 2006 by tychay

I got an e-mail today in which someone asked to use a photo of mine for a Christmas prayer. This use is well within my creative commons license, but it’s always a nice touch when I’m shown how my photos … Continue reading →

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Jeeeeeee–suuuuusss

Posted on 23 December 2006 by tychay

Someone’s blasting Christian Pop in the small apartment complex I’m living in. Somewhat bothersome. At least it wasn’t anyone who has complained to me about noise.

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URL encoding in Javascript

Posted on 22 December 2006 by tychay

I mentioned this in my Ajax and eCards talk, but if you’ve ever had to encode querystring of anything that isn’t ascii, you’ve run into troubles with encode(). The solution is to use encodeURIComponent(). Here is an article that outlines … Continue reading →

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Congratulations Andrei

Posted on 21 December 2006 by tychay

Congratulations to Andrei and the PHP team for passing the halfway mark at adding ICU/Unicode support to PHP 6. I can’t wait.

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Talking Smack

Posted on 19 December 2006 by tychay

Bill sent me this video about talking smack in first person shooters. [Spoilers after the jump]

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RAW color space

Posted on 17 December 2006 by tychay

A very interesting question popped up on Flickr: Is there any technical advantage of specifying AdobeRGB or sRGB in a Camera RAW file? Almost all digital cameras obtains color by placing a color filter in front of identically constructed photodiodes. … Continue reading →

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Windows Vista is not a copy of Mac OS X

Posted on 17 December 2006 by tychay

So sayeth the Pogue. [Microsoft organization impact after the jump.]

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Javascript monitoring

Posted on 17 December 2006 by tychay

Yesterday my friend Dave added his blog to Technorati, he sent me this e-mail: Rank: 2,357,164 (0 links from 0 sites) That would put me in last place. You can help. Hopefully this blog entry will fix that. To not … Continue reading →

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