Author Archives: tychay

About tychay

light writing, word loving, ❤ coding

Confoo: PHP without PHP

If you are attending confoo this year, I’ll be giving a talk at the beginning of the conference. Even if you aren’t a PHP developer, I think you’ll find the talk useful—as there is no language religion in it. … Continue reading 

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MacJournal meets my Kindle

While going through the MacHeist nanoBundle 2 purchase, that one of the items was MacJournal. I already own it, so I gifted it. But it caused me to take a peek again at the application—the last time I used it was … Continue reading 

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OpenSearch on WordPress.com

A couple months ago, I did something so small it doesn’t really deserve mention. Nial and I got OpenSearch working on WordPress.com for individual blogs:

Search of the entire domain has always been working, but this allows you to add a … Continue reading 

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Geolocation sharing in Aperture 3

A lot of people are complaining that the flickr sharing feature in Aperture 3 is missing geolocation data (Places).
This is not true, all you have to do is go to Aperture > Preferences… > Web and check the box to … Continue reading 

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Camera manuals to go

Buried in a previous article, instead of carrying the paper manuals around, I mentioned that you should download your manufacturer’s camera manuals onto the iPhone for reference. But I didn’t explain how this could be done or why it is … Continue reading 

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Camera testing bias

Ken Rockwell goes on a tear with his new camera, a medium format digital.
As his habit, Ken Rockwell exhibits a bad case of selection bias. For example, let’s take this quote from the first article:
All the 35mm rangefinders and … Continue reading 

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Live view aperture on the E-P2

Now that my E-P2 has finally found a jacket-pocketable lens, the 20mm f/1.7 pancake from Panasonic (purchase from Amazon or Roberts Imaging), I’ve been carrying it a lot more often.

E-P2 w/ 20mm f/1.7
San Francisco, California, USA
Nikon D3, 50mm f/1.4G
1/50 sec … Continue reading 

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Canon and Nikon are still the same

Camera Labs compares the Canon 550D (Rebel T2i) to the Nikon D90 at high ISO.
I’ll give you the summary: at high ISO in JPEG comparison, the Canon delivers similar performance but with higher resolution.
This may sound like a surprise, but … Continue reading 

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When (to learn more about) dSLR (photography) [The entry kit dSLR Part 7]

(Article continued from part 6)
Recall the story of the enthusiast and the entry-level dSLR photographers trading cameras. While I admonished against the danger of buying too much of a dSLR, I glossed the obvious problem: the entry-level photographers had a … Continue reading 

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Mapping the Long Tail (of drinking)

It’s hard to believe it’s been over two years, since we’ve last had a Spontaneous Drinking Night—an event with only two rules: a weeknight and less than twenty four hours notice.

Spontaneous Drinking Founders (minus one)
House of Shields, South of Market, … Continue reading 

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