Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 12:00PM Been spending a lot of time writing in haskell recently in a functional programming/comparative programming languages course and came across this excellent site. I recommend it as the go to source for learning haskell!
CMPT, functional programming, haskell in Development Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 3:44AM Here's a 30 min podcast-ish summary of a project I did in a sound physics course this semester. If you're an amateur producer interested in recording and mixing commercially viable music, some tips and tricks as well as useful knowledge may be found within...
music, physics, production in Music Monday, February 1, 2010 at 3:53PM So I had this idea, and while it might not be all that original, it's surely the direction I think Apple should take regarding the app store and future methods of software distribution.
Let's postulate for a minute here:
What if the App Store had an "Apple Approved" section, and then a "3rd Party" section. Imagine if if you will, that this App store in all of its glory was on all of your Apple devices: Mac, iPad, iPod, iPhone.
Now imagine you purchase a new application for your Mac - maybe it also now comes with a mobile version, and an iPad version! When you sync your iPhone and iPad respectively, these versions are installed to each of your devices.
Imagine if the App Store instead of a gated community protected by Apple, was a quality control service AND a package manager. The ability to shop and acquire applications safely that are approved, as well as distribute them to all your devices would be a boon to users who required the ease of use. This could also be extended to third party apps that are currently unapproved, or pending approvals to the App store if the user chose to enable it (maybe obfuscated by an advanced setting), but would still allow those Apps to still be managed by a centralized system.
A unified app store that could hold any app and intelligently sync the appropriate type of app with the appropriate device, would hugely simplify the process of managing applications across devices (ie, you need to format your computer? The app store could maintain a list of applications you had purchased and downloaded), and also be a sales boost to companies who might look to bundle different versions of their software together, and could distribute them as such.
Just some thoughts on the matter. Feel free to leave yours.
Monday, January 25, 2010 at 6:07PM I've been struggling since the end of last semester to find something interesting to write given I have no desire for this site to become like many blogs, a news site - a news site that is simply re-hash of what was probably first another blog post, forum post, digg or reddit article. I on no uncertain terms wish for this site to be a waste of your breath or mine, and so I search for what to write here when my time is being spent on things that might not be of any interest to you the reader. Hopefully this year, I can find more insightful things to discuss in between postings about music and programming.
A general update:
Last semester was quite busy - I started a new song with a friend of mine, and pounded the pavement with a fairly solid semester academically. I expect this semester to be somewhat similar of a side-show given the olympics being here, an upcoming film I need to score, and 4 more courses of pain. This semester seemed to get going really quick and I already feel the crunch coming down as midterms begin next week. But now that you're up to date... lets have future posts be more interesting!
Other Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 3:46PM Lots going on this semester that's kept me quite busy. So I apologize for a month and a half of no updates. I'm currently working on a couple of mobile apps for my classes and putting together an electronic track.
I've also been working on scoring a film due to be released next year, here are some photos from the set:
More to come soon, I promise! Computery things are also on the rise, and will be posted here. Finally moved into my new apartment about a month ago and I'm almost all settled in - I ordered two SumoSac Sultans for furniture (hippy style!), so we'll see how they treat me next week when they arrive!
photos, scoring, sumolounge, sumosac in Other