Posted in programming on April 24th, 2008 No Comments »
The post over at pragmatic programmer is timely for me because Tell, Don’t Ask is a concept that I have outlined in a programming style presentation for my new team.
The quote at the beginning of the article is perfect:
Procedural code gets information then makes decisions. Object-oriented code tells objects [...]
Posted in audiofaction, bandaids, music, rhodes, test tracks on April 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
Construc and I are collaborating on a new project called audio faction. Right now it’s just a good place for us to keep in touch and catalog all the cool stuff we find on the net. Usually we just send each other links and such but I think we both prefer the web log format.
Hopefully [...]
Posted in bandaids, music, proj_echts, uncategorized on April 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
I’m very happy so far with my new controller keyboard. I haven’t really learned all the ins and outs yet but the universal auto-map feature makes it super easy to automate mixes without digging into the keyboard. I used to dedicate about 2 weeks of time to learning a new piece of equipment but this [...]
Posted in video on April 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Download YouTube Videos as Mp4 via GoogleOS
Posted in music on April 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Sonic State
Their videos are quite good.
Live Sets
The forums seem pretty active and I found some pretty good resources in there.
Create Digital Music
Cool blog all about creating digital music.
Cycling ‘74
Products for new styles of music and media creation.
Reason Freaks
Comprehensive online reason resources
Posted in music, programming on April 19th, 2008 No Comments »
This is very much what I have been dreaming of having rubycube accomplish. A very slick presentation.
Posted in blogging, work on April 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I have a backlog of over a dozen articles. I really need to chunk through some of these. If you come around much you’ll notice that I have been posting a bit more. I’ve moved into a new position to run ‘Consulting and Integration’ for NCsoft core technology group. This frees me up to do [...]
Posted in d on April 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve been spending time in dmd (via gdc) and libphobos as a research project. While I have enjoyed writing D code I quickly have run into some ugly aspects of D.
DMD source:
* Ambiguous labels with copious use of gotos * Commented out printfs for tracing support * Class and struct definitions scattered across multiple files * Bugs?!
Phobos [...]
Posted in build, programming on April 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I investigated make, cmake, cook, jam, bjam, ftjam, scons, cons, rake, ant. What I come to find is this wonderful little paper that turns my out-moded ideas about make completely on it’s head. I wrote a wonderful beginnings of a new build system using 300 lines of Make and 100 lines of bourne shell. Shane [...]
Posted in games, mmo, software development on April 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Mike is uber and Mike recommends: RESTful Web Services.
MMO back-end technology seems stuck in the 90s. Makes me glad I took a hiatus to work at a CMS startup.