With Christmas here, Ryan has been writing a series on purchasing a digital camera. I thought I’d link them for a number of you who have expressed interest:
About $100 or less.
Mid-range ($150-$350)
dSLR alternatives: Why not to buy a dSLR and high-end non-dSLR digitals.
Entry-level dSLRs and Entry-level dSLR models
To Infinity and Beyond: professional setups
Here is my [...]
Chris pointed me to a new Ajax security hack.
The way it works is by loading a window.onerror handler and then loading a remote site as a <script> tag that will generate a slightly different error when logged in vs. not logged in. That’s pretty clever.
The reason Chris probably chose to add Amazon to this is [...]
I got an e-mail today in which someone asked to use a photo of mine for a Christmas prayer.
This use is well within my creative commons license, but it’s always a nice touch when I’m shown how my photos are used. Besides, I always had a soft spot for Episcopalians.
I noticed they’re using Joomla [...]
Someone’s blasting Christian Pop in the small apartment complex I’m living in.
Somewhat bothersome.
At least it wasn’t anyone who has complained to me about noise.
I mentioned this in my Ajax and eCards talk, but if you’ve ever had to encode querystring of anything that isn’t ascii, you’ve run into troubles with encode(). The solution is to use encodeURIComponent().
Here is an article that outlines the difference between the three escaping functions.
The quick summary is, don’t use escape() use encodeURI() to [...]
Congratulations to Andrei and the PHP team for passing the halfway mark at adding ICU/Unicode support to PHP 6.
I can’t wait.
Bill sent me this video about talking smack in first person shooters.
[Spoilers after the jump]
A very interesting question popped up on Flickr: Is there any technical advantage of specifying AdobeRGB or sRGB in a Camera RAW file?
Almost all digital cameras obtains color by placing a color filter in front of identically constructed photodiodes. The RAW file just stores digitization of those monochromatic values. Color profile information on a RAW [...]
So sayeth the Pogue.
[Microsoft organization impact after the jump.]
Yesterday my friend Dave added his blog to Technorati, he sent me this e-mail:
Rank: 2,357,164 (0 links from 0 sites)
That would put me in last place. You can help.
Hopefully this blog entry will fix that.
To not be a completely friend-serving post, I’ll mention that Dave has a short entry on Javascript watch(). A [...]
