Monthly Archives: April 2007

Ed Finkler agrees with me

Posted on 30 April 2007 by tychay

From Pro PHP Podcast:
Q: What do you think are the three largest failings of PHP and Security?
“I agree with some things that Terry Chay has said about this: that the things that tend to make PHP insecure also tend to … Continue reading →

Posted in PHP, quotes | 6 Comments

The Lunch 2.0 story so far

Posted on 29 April 2007 by tychay

LUNCH 20 @AOL.COM
AOL, Mountain View, California
Nikon D70, Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G
f/4 at 1/25 second, iso 500, 12mm (18mm)

Summer is here and Lunch 2.0 is starting up again. There are two events scheduled already, and from two of my favorite Web 2.0 … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, business and economics, food and wine, humor, Plaxo, society and culture, web development | 26 Comments

The beauty of buckets

Posted on 28 April 2007 by tychay

Some of the more astute readers of my last article may have noticed that it took 40 seconds to run the LinkedIn sync on my address book. That’s not really surprising. Sync is slow and UI needs to accommodate it. … Continue reading →

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Plaxo gets its sync on

Posted on 28 April 2007 by tychay

Speaking of Plaxo and LinkedIn, it looks like some people at my former company actually listened to the moral of the Underpants Gnomes talk and launched Plaxo-LinkedIn integration as a premium feature (as well as a Labs section).
I tried it … Continue reading →

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It’s going to be ugly

Posted on 28 April 2007 by tychay

My favorite productivity trick has got to be moving everything on my desktop into a folder to be looked at later and everything in my inbox into the ” refile” mailbox.
An empty desktop and a clean mail folder and all … Continue reading →

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Widgets, bitch!

Posted on 23 April 2007 by tychay

I am the very definition of lazy.
Case in point: I pulled three all-nighters in two weeks in order to allow our widget partners to do the work of pimping my Tagged profile with

which is a round-about way of saying:

Before this … Continue reading →

Posted in web development | 4 Comments

Web 2.0 Expo

Posted on 22 April 2007 by tychay

Last week I skipped out of work for a few hours to hang at Web 2.0 Expo which was promoted by Dave McClure.
I had to scum a coupon code from Scott which was making the rounds, when I asked Dave … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, PHP, web development | 15 Comments

Eternal Pointlessness of the PHP Complier

Posted on 22 April 2007 by tychay

Out of nowhere, the tired old dog of PHP compilation rears its ugly head.
Here is an recent e-mail exchange that puts it in its place (along with some information about code browsers and documentors and a lot of confusion on … Continue reading →

Posted in PHP | 7 Comments

A little twitter told me…

Posted on 22 April 2007 by tychay

I removed this rant from my last entry.
<rant>
I like to say Web 2.0 is just Web 1.0 on the cheap. But that doesn’t mean we’re any less losers.
The only difference is instead of being about the New Economy, it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in society and culture, web development | 4 Comments

What people want

Posted on 21 April 2007 by tychay

“2 Drink Minimum” by 500hatsYou’ll have to read until the end to find out why I included this photo.

Holly wrote recently that your most passionate users don’t necessarily build the best products. It’s really worth a read.
I think the problem … Continue reading →