Archive for December, 2006

Buying a digital camera

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

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 [...]

window.error and login checking

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

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 [...]

Using a photo

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

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 [...]

Jeeeeeee–suuuuusss

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

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.

URL encoding in Javascript

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

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 Andrei

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Congratulations to Andrei and the PHP team for passing the halfway mark at adding ICU/Unicode support to PHP 6.
I can’t wait.

Talking Smack

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Bill sent me this video about talking smack in first person shooters.
[Spoilers after the jump]

RAW color space

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

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 [...]

Windows Vista is not a copy of Mac OS X

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

So sayeth the Pogue.
[Microsoft organization impact after the jump.]

Javascript monitoring

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

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 [...]