Author Archives: tychay

About tychay

light writing, word loving, ❤ coding

Confoo: PHP without PHP

Posted on 9 March 2010 by tychay

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 →

Posted in PHP, presentation, web development | Tagged confoo, George Schlossnagle, PHP, php without php, presentation, Ruby on Rails, speaker, speaking | Leave a comment

MacJournal meets my Kindle

Posted on 8 March 2010 by tychay

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 →

Posted in books, Macintosh | Tagged Delicious, Kindle, Kindle 2, kindle clippings, lists, MacHeist, Macintosh, MacJournal, notetaking, organization, reading, software, TaskPaper, Things | Leave a comment

OpenSearch on WordPress.com

Posted on 7 March 2010 by tychay

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 →

Posted in Automattic | Tagged blavatar, OpenSearch, privacy, tags, WordPress, WordPress.com | 1 Comment

Geolocation sharing in Aperture 3

Posted on 6 March 2010 by tychay

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 →

Posted in Apple Aperture | Tagged Adam Duffy, Alicia Kenworthy, Amy Lee, Apple Aperture, Apple Aperture 3, Bernadette Balla, faces, FlickrExport, Fraser Spiers, geolocation, GPS, Greg Stein, Krystyl Baldwin, places, Sean McCollough, sync, upload | 1 Comment

Camera manuals to go

Posted on 5 March 2010 by tychay

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 →

Posted in iPod, photography | Tagged Air Sharing, apps, camera beep, camera manuals, custom function, depth of field, Digital Photography Book, Dropbox, Focalware, GoodReader, iPhone, Leica M8, manual, MobileMe, nik Silver Efex Pro, Nikon D5000, Olympus E-P2, PDF, PhotographyBB, reference, Scott Kelby, Sony DSC-WX1, The Photographer’s GUide to Silver Efex Pro, Thom Hogan, Topaz Adjust, white balance | 2 Comments

Camera testing bias

Posted on 4 March 2010 by tychay

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 →

Posted in photography, Science | Tagged accuracy, Canon 5DmkII, diffraction, dynamic range, image processing, Ken Rockwell, Leica M9, medium format digital, Mimiya, Nikon D3, precision, processing, quantization, shot noise | Leave a comment

Live view aperture on the E-P2

Posted on 3 March 2010 by tychay

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 →

Posted in photography | Tagged 20mm f/1.7, aperture, autofocus, Camera Hirano, depth of field, EVIL camera, live view, Olympus E-P2, Roberts Imaging | 3 Comments

Canon and Nikon are still the same

Posted on 2 March 2010 by tychay

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 →

Posted in photography | Tagged cameras, Canon 550D, Canon 7D, dSLR, dynamic range, ISO, Nikon D300s, Nikon D5000, Nikon D90, photography, sensor | 1 Comment

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

Posted on 1 March 2010 by tychay

(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 →

Posted in photography | Tagged books, breezy style, camera, Complete Guide to the Nikon D3, Complete Guide to the Nikon D5000, conversational styles, Darrell Young, dSLR, DVD, Fast Fun & Easy, flackette, From Snapshots to Great Shots, Jeff Revell, Jim Goldstein, Kara E. Murphy, learning, Magic Lantern Guides, manual, Mastering the Nikon D5000, Michael freeman, Nikon D5000: From Snapshots to Great Shots, Nikon School, On Writing Well, Photo Recipes Live, photography, return policy, Ryan Brenizer, Scott Kelby, The Photographer’s Eye, Thom Hogan, William Zinsser, workshop | 3 Comments

Mapping the Long Tail (of drinking)

Posted on 28 February 2010 by tychay

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 →