This is the archive page for May 2006

# Going to Google
Doug Bowman is going to Google! We should see pleasing interfaces and eye candy across Google’s products and services with such a great talent leading the design team. Good times. 🙂
# FontEditor BitfontMaker
Make your own bitmap font! Don’t forget to check BitFont Museum.
# Oracle exec hits out at ‘patch’ mentality
“What if civil engineers built bridges the way developers write code?”
# Password Hashing
Any aspiring web developer should read on the topic of storing paswords and securely protecting them. This is a must for those developing muti–user services and applications.
# Canon to stop making single-lens camera
With the slow demise of film SLRs, will we finally see the death of mainstream film photography?

Candles?

May 26, 2006

Yes, this photo is from the same set as the one posted here. Taken last Holy Week on Maundy Thursday, using my D60 and a Canon 50mm f/1.8 MkII, most likely at f/1.8 and ISO 400. Just sharing a photo from my archives. 🙂

Comments are back

May 24, 2006

Joachim emailed me that he couldn’t leave a comment on my site for some unexplained reason. Form submission ends with a white blank page. So I took a look at my comments template and there it was, a stupid coding oversight left when I upgraded my site and templates to WordPress 2. Comments should be […]

New lens, new photos

May 24, 2006

A visit to Hidalgo Street in Quiapo can be a costly adventure. Yes, you got that right, but I wasn’t robbed. I just sort of spent way more than I should be spending on this photography hobby. 😉 Last week, my ‘el cheapo’ 1GB CF card decided to finally die after less than four months […]

# The Eternal Value of Privacy
What’s wrong with this statement: “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?”
# MacBook: What you need to know
Thinking of getting a MacBook anytime soon? Here’s are some considerations you might need to address.
# Introducing the all–new MacBook.
Yes, the iBook replacement is finally here!
# Signs You’re a Crappy Programmer (and don’t know it)
I think everyone is guilty of at least one item.
# How The Da Vinci Code Doesn’t Work
A lot of people are questioning Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code” for its reference to various truths and beliefs we’ve grown to accept, but here’s another way of showing how the book doesn’t work, in more practical terms.

Read the right sources

May 11, 2006

The past few months, I slowly noticed that my feedreading list has grown to become one huge unmanageable mess. The rapid growth of weblogs has spawned sites providing similar information on the same topics. It is easily noticeable that my unread folder contains several items discussing the same news developments. I used to subscribe to […]

# How to Love a Framework You’ve Never Used
“The dynamic languages make programmers so much more productive that even conservative business types are forced to sit up and notice.”
# Australia celebrates, and mourns, after mine rescue
The two Australian miners trapped for 14 days inside a caved–in mine is finally over, with the men rescued successfully by fellow miners from all over Australia.
# Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
Separate yourself from your code; ten things to live by towards separation of self (ego?) from code.
# Strategic Commenting: No blog is an island
Solve the “no one visits / links to / comments on my blog!” problem.
# getElementsBy*() function index
“This is a handy reference for all the various getElementsBy*() JavaScript functions that are out there.” Handy indeed.

Sunday music

May 7, 2006

Jonas was here last night just hangin’ out, so we recorded a cover. This is Fra Lippo Lippi’s “Light And Shade,” obviously inspired by their recent promotional events for the Araneta concert on the 13th of this month. Hannu desperately wants to catch this, can anyone help us score tickets? 😉

Mini-Review: Mission Impossible 3

May 5, 2006

This is a film you cannot afford to miss. Despite the fact that Tom Cruise is getting older and his leading ladies get even younger, the Mission Impossible franchise manages to release another good one, and this installment does it without much promotional fanfare, at least compared to the previous two. Or maybe I just […]

# The Five Most Common Lies in Business
“There are as many lies in business as there are people in business.”
# The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
Startup school once again as Paul Graham releases another essay on the subject. This time, he discusses the pattern of lessons learned from every startup, successful or otherwise.
# Conventional RSS
A common approach to RSS from the WordPress and Textpattern folks. Hopefully, iPAP will take this path as well.
# The myth of “keeping up”
Trying to do everything to “keep up” is a myth. You have to find your passion and the things that really matter.

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