The New York Times has a wonderful summary article of High Dynamic Range photography. (I have a strong suspicion that the article is heavily influenced by discussion on the HDR Flickr group.) This was a little serendipitous because I had a discussion at lunch where I heard the tired old line that “nothing new is […]
Chris notes that Theo has posted his Six Reasons PHP Sucks PHP Lightning Talk. My favorite part: Reason # 4: User comments on the online documentation. Allows PHP to expose what are perhaps the worst most dysfunctional and retarded code samples. Reason #5: PEAR. Allows PHP to expose what are perhaps the worst most dysfunctional […]
Chris Shiflett has written a nice recap of OSCON in which he mentions one of my talks. Thanks! Chris, when I post my talk, I’ll have to use your quote: “…one of the most entertaining talks of the conference!” —Chris Shiflett, author of Essential PHP Security In any case, someone needs to write a review […]
Dassi sent me the winners of the “I Look Like My Dog” contest which was sponsored by Cesar Dog Food. Clearly these were well produced and I have a feeling that this was not a “contest” at all. I love the photography. I love the classic portrait lighting and the matching expressions the photographer managed […]
‘…it’s never a good idea to take military action, or the credible threat of it, off the table as you suggest. Our enemies understandably see that as a sign of weakness and act (or don’t act) accordingly.’ “Apparently, our enemies are the Klingons.” —LITBMueller, in response to a threadjack on John Cole’s shadenfreude article
“Any site that has got a longer entry on Truthiness than Lutherans has its priorities straight.” —Steven Colbert, The Colbert Report, The Word: Wikiality
Here is a camera review where I lifted this summary from PhotographyBLOG. “Bottom line, the Canon 24-105mm f/4 L is a really excellent optic, but one that struggles a bit along the edges and in the corners with full-frame bodies. As such, it’s an almost ideal candidate for use with DxO Optics Pro, particularly if […]
Last week, Dave told me about “chimping”. I am soooo guilty of this.
Microsoft is working on Microsoft Live Labs photosynth, which sounded like a version of AutoStitch on steroids, but is actually something else entirely. Watch the video.
I received a question today: I have some quick caching questions. What is the quickest way to get data into a PHP script? I have some data, I could store it in a database, but I want to avoid that dependency and slow down. I want PHP to compile the file into some data that […]