Brandon Ching

Former Developer

Brandon Ching

Brandon is a recent transplant to the Phoenix area. Hailing from San Diego, CA, Brandon has been working with computers in one way or another for going on 17 years now (yes, that goes back to grade school). Within the area of web development, his specialty is in back end data processing and preprocessor data manipulation with a particular fetish for CLI PHP. One of his most proud contributions to the open-source community is a cURL library wrapper class written in PHP which allows for easy custom spidering of almost any web site. Brandon is just beginning his Doctoral studies at ASU in the field of Public Administration where his research will be the government\'s use of Internet surveilance technologies as a means of social control and cooresion.

 

In his spare time, Brandon enjoys studying comptuer forensics and security, archery, shooting, photography, and being outdoors. He and his wife are expecting their first child in early November. Brandon also has mad badminton skills and is a volunteer badminton coach for the Hamilton High School (no shuttlecock jokes please).

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Latest Blog Post by Brandon Ching

Project Management Tips from the Developer's Point of View

Brandon discusses some helpful principles of project management, from the developer's point of view.

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Brandon ChingRead more »

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HTMList.com: Synapse Studios' Blog

Ridiculous CAPTCHA Is Ridiculous, Requires Character Map

So we've all seen our fair share of ridiculous CAPTCHAs. I've seen ones that require you to only enter the letters with the cats on them, or I've seen near undiscernable ones. And if you've ever listened to the audio CAPTCHA provided by Google, it's like the disembodied voice of Satan himself beckoning you to discern exactly which numbers need entering, if only you'll denounce your Lord. Spoken backwards. It's ridiculous.

So imagine my shock when Ticketmaster provided me with the following:



That's right. A "vulgar fraction: seven eights." Not wanting to

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Chris CardinalRead More »

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Loves Threadless Fan Blog

Loves Threadless is a pet project of Synapse Studios owner Chris Cardinal as a fan blog for popular online t-shirt site Threadless.com. The site covers news and reviews community-submitted shirt designs. It features a simple design concept built on a popular (heavily modified) WordPress theme. The background changes dynamically each time the page is loaded with a new Threadless shirt design. Further, an iGoogle homepage gadget was created that highlights the current "Thiftee" $10 t-shirt deal. It also served as a base of operations for the Loves Threadless Threadcakes Cake Competition.

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