Monthly Archives: March 2007

Complete my album

Posted on 29 March 2007 by tychay

It’s (almost) finally safe to make a single song purchase in iTunes Music Store. A new feature called Complete My Album will count your single song purchases to the purchase of the entire album. Nice. It’s currently a limited time … Continue reading →

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Pair your remotes

Posted on 26 March 2007 by tychay

One f’d up thing I ran into today is that every time I try to do anything on my Apple TV, my MacBook starts reacting to the remote (going in and out of Front Row for instance). The solution is … Continue reading →

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Pissing on Stephen Ambrose

Posted on 26 March 2007 by tychay

An excellent article comparing 300 with the American Citizen-Soldier.

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AppleTV and me

Posted on 24 March 2007 by tychay

TV came yesterday. Since I work all the time, I had to drive to FedEx to pick it up. The lady there mentioned that all day people were picking up their TVs. I thought this product would not do well … Continue reading →

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Another Search Startup

Posted on 22 March 2007 by tychay

A friend sent me the homepage of yet another stealth search startup. This company plans on using NLP. My comment: “Hmm, I should send [the URL] to Dave. He loves it when a bunch of braniacs get together to make … Continue reading →

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Database Abstraction vs. Data Access

Posted on 21 March 2007 by tychay

Alejandro Gervasio has an excellent article on using polymorphism to create a database abstraction layer. Basically if you are wondering why or how PEAR DB, MDB, ADOdb, or PDO use the Factory pattern to provide database abstraction this walks you … Continue reading →

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serialization without pity

Posted on 20 March 2007 by tychay

You may have guessed my PHP development philosophy from something I wrote recently, but an interesting question at work yesterday showed that I need to put it in words. If there is something difficult to do in PHP, there is … Continue reading →

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YASNS privacy

Posted on 19 March 2007 by tychay

Andrei pointed me to this article trying to find the next MySpace. Look at the sidebar: the numbers are pretty impressive when you consider what ad revenue that represents. Multiply was an analyst pick because it has “strict privacy controls … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn Haikus

Posted on 19 March 2007 by tychay

I decided to dress up my latest LinkedIn invitations with some poetry: Found new connections. Send mail into the ether. LinkedIn Spam Is Fun. You liked this haiku? Then add me to your network. (We’re both on LinkedIn.)

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His conversion is almost complete

Posted on 19 March 2007 by tychay

I used to work with a guy named Haiping, a former developer at Microsoft who was hired just two people before me at Plaxo. He has some crazy C++ skills as well as is pretty damn good at that headshot … Continue reading →

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