Posted in Music, Programming/Software on Oct 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Over the past year I’ve developed a utility that lets me trigger all of the sounds on a synthesizer or drum machine so that I can easily sample and record them without having to sit at the computer or fiddle with anything. Hours of sampling can be handled with the click of a button. […]
Posted in Education, Programming/Software on Oct 13th, 2007 No Comments »
I just finished reading Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Expert’s Voice). I’ve been meaning to read it for a while, but my to-be-read pile is just insane these days. Part of the reason I put it off is because one of the thoughts I had was “Who the heck is Eric Sink!? I’ve […]
Posted in Programming/Software, Web Design on Oct 9th, 2007 No Comments »
I love Drupal. After all, I run almost all of my websites with it.
However, it’s a HUGE PAIN IN THE ARSE if you want to do anything custom — as in anything that falls outside the list of standard modifications, modules, and themes.
I’m not sure whether it’s a case of too little documentation or […]
Posted in General, Programming/Software, Writing/Publishing on Mar 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve recently switched from Microsoft Outlook 2003 to Mozilla Thunderbird. This completes the chageover to using open source software exclusively for my magazine publishing workflow.
For anyone who has used Microsoft Outlook I don’t have to go into great detail about all of the problems and annoyances, but there are two that pushed me […]
Posted in General, Programming/Software, Web Design on Mar 20th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve finished setting up the basic design of freewavesamples.com today. It’s a site where people can download free .wav samples to use in music projects or in anything else where they would want or need sounds. I’ve been building the site for about a week and a half and was surprised today to find that […]
Posted in General, Music, Programming/Software, Writing/Publishing on Mar 18th, 2007 No Comments »
I read a bunch of the submissions to APW today. If I read the insane amount that I read today I *might* actually be able to keep up with them. I also finished Robert Jordan’s The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, Book today. I think I’m going to […]
Posted in General, Programming/Software, Writing/Publishing on Feb 24th, 2007 No Comments »
In the past day I’ve added “Dracula”, “Frankenstein”, and “The Scarlet Letter” to fictionclassics.com. It’s going to be a long process building the place up, but it’s enjoyable enough.
SpaceTheremin won the Editor’s Choice Award at Hitsquad. An award from the biggest audio software site I know of - that totally rocks! Because of the award […]
Posted in General, Programming/Software, Web Design on Feb 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I found and fixed an annoying bug with AlgoRhythmia 3 today. It’s the sort of thing that a user probably would have told me about if I had made contact information easier to find on the Zeta Centauri website. It’s another reminder that you never can test software too thoroughly. I posted […]