It’s (almost) finally safe to make a single song purchase in iTunes Music Store. A new feature called Complete My Album will count your single song purchases to the purchase of the entire album.
Nice.
It’s currently a limited time offer. My guess is they’re going to see the conversion rate before deciding to make it permanent. [...]
One f’d up thing I ran into today is that every time I try to do anything on my Apple TV, my MacBook starts reacting to the remote (going in and out of Front Row for instance).
The solution is to take your remotes and pair them. What pairing does it it forces the computer or [...]
An excellent article comparing 300 with the American Citizen-Soldier.
TV came yesterday. Since I work all the time, I had to drive to FedEx to pick it up. The lady there mentioned that all day people were picking up their TVs. I thought this product would not do well at all.
The TV definitely did not like me.
(And after I spent an hour getting [...]
A friend sent me the homepage of yet another stealth search startup. This company plans on using NLP.
My comment:
“Hmm, I should send [the URL] to Dave. He loves it when a bunch of braniacs get together to make an ASS [Another Search Startup] of themselves.”
New term I just invented. I hope it catches on.
Alejandro Gervasio has an excellent article on using polymorphism to create a database abstraction layer.
Basically if you are wondering why or how PEAR DB, MDB, ADOdb, or PDO use the Factory pattern to provide database abstraction this walks you through it.
Maybe five years ago, this was a mind-blowing idea. But perhaps we should call into [...]
You may have guessed my PHP development philosophy from something I wrote recently, but an interesting question at work yesterday showed that I need to put it in words.
If there is something difficult to do in PHP, there is probably an extension somewhere that allows PHP to push it to another layer. If that is [...]
Andrei pointed me to this article trying to find the next MySpace.
Look at the sidebar: the numbers are pretty impressive when you consider what ad revenue that represents.
Multiply was an analyst pick because it has “strict privacy controls and lets people set up networks that can only be viewed by people invited to their group.” [...]
I decided to dress up my latest LinkedIn invitations with some poetry:
Found new connections.
Send mail into the ether.
LinkedIn Spam Is Fun.
You liked this haiku?
Then add me to your network.
(We’re both on LinkedIn.)
I used to work with a guy named Haiping, a former developer at Microsoft who was hired just two people before me at Plaxo. He has some crazy C++ skills as well as is pretty damn good at that headshot thing in PC first person shooters. Last time I was in South Bay, I stopped [...]
