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Author Archives: paulschreiber
some lessons on usability
after i launched my house concerts site, i sent out emails with customized RSVP links to everyone. the next day, i got a bug report that RSVPing “no” wasn’t working. well, it was — sort of. the problem was that even if you clicked “no,” you were still expected to enter the number of seats …
cingular sucking
teli gets shitty customer service from cingular.
house concerts web site
i spent a day and change putting together a web site for my house concert series. it’s pretty spiffy, if i do say so myself. among the reasons why: valid XHTML and CSS RSS and iCal feeds clean interface nice URLs (REST, perhaps?) creative commons-licensed
date sorting code
i was making a birthday-tracking application, and wanted to be able to do year-insensitive date sorts. i couldn’t find what I was looking for, so I wrote this: int personSortByBirthday (NSCalendarDate *d1, NSCalendarDate *d2, void *context) { int day1 = [d1 dayOfMonth]; int day2 = [d2 dayOfMonth]; int month1 = [d1 monthOfYear]; int month2 = …
Flickr Related Tag Browser
Flickr Related Tag Browser. go.
canon lens guide
Adam Tow of COBA posted a good list of Canon lenses and notes Patrick Murphy’s comprehensive list and database. for my nikon, i have a 50mm/f1.8, a 17-70/f4.5-5.5 and a sigma 70-300/f4-5.6. since i do a lot of concerts, what i really want is a 20-100/f 1.4. but i can’t imagine such a thing existing …
prius plus plus
while i was out last night, two friends IMd me with news of the CalCars plug-in hybrid initiative and the New York Times coverage. some folks have hacked a prius by adding more batteries, pushing it well over 100 mpg. (Caveat: burning coal to generate electricity isn’t a net win, coseversation wise. Of course, if …
mathemical proofs for the 21st century
The Economist examines what it means to prove something, and how formal logic and computers can be used to replace traditional mathemtical proofs. Formal proof is a notion developed in the early part of the 20th century by logicians such as Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege, along with mathematicians such as David Hilbert (who can …
camera owners of the bay area
camera owners of the bay area (COBA), DSLR user group.