March 24th, 2008
Non-tech readers can ignore this.
- Continuing to proselytize the JQuery JavaScript framework; getting a lot done with it.
- Approaching a brown belt in WordPress customizations and cetera.
- Just tapping the surface of Drupal
- Getting my fingers wet on a little iPhone Web app; a bit wary but excited about the SDK
- Hoping to get the chance to do something in Rails soon
Boy, that doesn’t sound that exciting, but I do feel like I’ve been doing a lot of stuff that seems interesting. Maybe it’s best not to try to quantify it next time.
Tags: tech, web
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March 20th, 2008
Wow. I knew the new Armin Van Buuren track reminded me of something, but it took me a while to iron it all out.
I happen to think that “Going Wrong” sounds rather eerily similar to York’s 2000 or 2001 track “Reachers of Civilisation”, which was the very first track on the very first of DJ Tiësto’s “In Search of Sunrise” compilations.
And the subtle guitar riff in Going Wrong? Circa 1999, Fragma’s “Toca Me,” anyone? I’m going to use the same breath to mention that there is a new mix–the “2008 Inpetto Mix”, which I’m not sure is any different than the Deadmau5 recent remix, but I have spent enough time researching thus far and so am not going to figure that out right this second.
Armin van Buuren vs. Shah feat. Chris Jones — Going Wrong (MP3 Sample)
York - Reachers of Civilization (MP3 sample)
Fragma — Toca Me (Inpetto 2008 Mix) (MP3 Sample)
UPDATED: UGH. All of the new mixes of Toca Me/Toca’s Miracle on Beatport are territorially restricted. That is, you cannot have them if you live in the states. Blast!
Tags: dance, trance
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March 5th, 2008
I took, like, at least three linguistics classes in college in the 1990’s, so I’m a dangerous and ignorant, but curious, dilettante.
I remember learning something about people who are multi-lingual, that they store rules and vocabulary for each language in completely separate “pockets” of the brain. This keeps people from switching between languages mid-sentence–uncontrollably, at least, not the intentional English/Dutch back-and-forth DJs seem to do a lot–or lapsing into binary like that awesome SNL skit of Bill Gates that one time.
Which makes me think. Does learning a programming “language” follow neurologically in any of the same footsteps? Do we process statements in scripts like we read? I at least like to think so, as it would help explain why I like syntaxes (or syntices, if you like the archaic, thoughtful form of the word) like jQuery and hate to have to deal with perl.
I often have to deal with as many as half a dozen languages or contexts per day in my world of Web. Today I am jumping from python to JavaScript with punctuation moments of PHP, and irritants like dtml (don’t ask if you don’t know it) and CSS (CSS rocks, I just am not that polished at it these days), and of course HTML, etc.. I stumble with the occasional misplaced bracket or semicolon or dollar sign, but not nearly as often as you’d think. Are we pre-programmed to switch easily like this?
Tags: linguistics, programming, web
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March 24th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Do I like Cake?
I’ve looked at Cake. I think I like it. I haven’t looked at Zend, and the rest of them, but Cake looks good.
And, of course, I really like cake. I mean, who doesn’t like cake? Except for communists.
But really…do I like Cake? It seems nice enough.
PS: Learn enough about Drupal (or hell, even Wordpress, although I have my doubts and feel Drupal is likely better suited for the job) to get a blog, a CMS, a wiki and a forum, all at least like, somewhat integrated. Liquid is probably a good place to start.
Thanks!