Archive for May, 2007
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
There was an interesting question of the D200 user group:
I know its just been 2 days since I bought my D200 but am I missing something or is there no way to shoot while screen is on?
I dont want to look in the viewfinder in every picture I take, there must be a way [...]
Posted in photography | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
There was a write-up about Tagged yesterday on TechCrunch.
We’re profitable! *Pats self on back*
The most interesting part is the comments. My reply hasn’t changed in the last six days:
You cannot single out one Web 2.0 company for doing viral marketing and not be a complete hypocrite. Either bash them all or none.
[More musings after [...]
Posted in Plaxo, Tagged, business and economics, web development | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Since I was working on a web-tool to detect and clean HTML embed codes, Firefox was experiencing some intermittent crashing. Today I loaded up my page in Safari, seeing the site for the first time in weeks without my banner ad blocker:
The banner ad is for Eve Online which is a MMORPG imported from Korea. [...]
Posted in Tagged, about me, television, video games | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 4th, 2007
From Brian Solis’s twitter:
Your friends and fans do too, Brian. Great stuff.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Your friends do too”, url: “http://terrychay.com/blog/article/your-friends-do-too.shtml” });
Posted in business and economics, humor | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 4th, 2007
Disclaimer: I worked as an engineer at Plaxo a long time ago (in internet years… in human years it was five months ago).
In October of last year, an engineering colleague asked me about this whole “Plaxo is evil. Plaxo is spam” thing. At the time I went in to a long boring lecture about Plaxo [...]
Posted in Plaxo, about me, business and economics, religion and politics, society and culture, web development | 9 Comments »
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
According to Popular Photography’s blog, apparently the key to feminine beauty is either Photoshop or over-exposure mixed with either high key or low key lighting.
I’m kidding, but it’s a nice tip. I have to remember to try “dialing to 11” my meter next time just to see what comes out. Before this, I was depending [...]
Posted in photography | No Comments »
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Dr Dobbs has a review of Javascript frameworks, which they call “AJAX frameworks”, that’s an interesting read in my opinion.
I’m not going to write about Javascript frameworks in this article (one huge article a week is draining enough and writing and responding to the fallout would take forever to write). Instead I’m going to single [...]
Posted in web development | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Yeah, it took like 1 year to load up…literally, Joseph, didn’t you write this like a year ago? Yes, I know it has no value, except to show me at a glance how outdated my contacts are.
But I love it!
(Generate your own.)
Now if you only get that search plugin working and on this page, and [...]
Posted in Plaxo | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
(I’m sure there are other positions we need to fill, but this one I have the full description for and would make my life so much better…)
The position is a Senior Software Developer at Tagged in San Francisco. It is a profitable pre-IPO social networking service ranked in the top 100 website. We develop in [...]
Posted in PHP | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Adam Kalsey and Scott Hildebrand of SacStarts are holding a BarCamp in Sacramento on June 2nd and 3rd.
BarCamp is a conference where the participants are the speakers. Show up, sign up to give a session, and get going. There’s lots of networking in the halls, food, great conversations, and you’ll even learn a thing or [...]
Posted in PHP, about me, business and economics, presentation, web development | No Comments »