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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Complete my album
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 offer. My … Continue reading
Posted in business and economics, Macintosh
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Pair your remotes
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 to … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh
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Pissing on Stephen Ambrose
An excellent article comparing 300 with the American Citizen-Soldier.
Posted in movies, religion and politics
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AppleTV and me
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 … Continue reading
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Another Search Startup
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 an ASS … Continue reading
Posted in business and economics, web development, wordplay
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Database Abstraction vs. Data Access
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 through … Continue reading
Posted in PHP, web development
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serialization without pity
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 probably … Continue reading
Posted in PHP
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YASNS privacy
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 and lets … Continue reading
Posted in business and economics, web development
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LinkedIn Haikus
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.)
Posted in wordplay
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His conversion is almost complete
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
Posted in Macintosh, PHP, Plaxo
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