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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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Posts from June 2008

Photography tips: The meter wants to see gray

In this post I’m going to try to explain in simple terms how a camera meters, and why you should take control of metering to achieve good shots. Your meter is calibrated to produce the correct exposure for average scenes. As it turns out, a good rule of thumb for average scenes is a particular [...]


Introducing WFH: a quick way to share status with coworkers

It seems after In/Out (aka Backpack Journal) came out, there have been at least a few clones. I created an app (actually long before in/out) called WFH (Working From Home), a way to quickly share status with your coworkers. You can pick your status from a dropdown for every day of the coming week, and [...]


What is Cloud Computing?

The term Cloud Computing is on the rise according to google trends. But what does it all mean? Just like “Web 2.0″ it’s an overloaded phrase with tons of connotations and many attempts at definition. While perusing a cloud blog by James Urquhart, I was inspired to try to define the term myself. So here’s [...]


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