Archive for the 'programming' Category

EarToner 1.2 Released

With a big thanks to Gianfrancesco version 1.2 of EarToner has been released. The biggest change is that it is now in Italian. A minor change was made to the tuning interface to simplify it.

EarToner 1.1 Released

A gentleman in Australia had a nice suggestion to have EarToner playback incorrect guesses so you can hear the difference between what you thought was correct and what is correct. I also created a single file executable for the windows platform that will make use of whatever Java you have installed already, with a […]

Toggler

I have been using the moo.fx for a few months now and have found it useful for alot of visual cueing on web pages. It is a light library though and doesn’t have alot of bells and whistles that, say dojo does. The tradeoff is obvious in the amount of data coming across […]

fx.Color

I’ve been using the moo.fx library with great success on some internal projects at my day job. One thing that I found missing was some sort of visual cuing by the changing of colors.

I could get a visual cue using the opacity effect from moo.fx, but I wanted something similar to the highlight effect […]

Open Source and Training

Just finished up a four day training session down in the beautiful town of Laguna Beach. I was sent down there by my day job to learn an open source content management system called Magnolia. I admit that getting training for a free tool that you can browse through the source to understand […]

Zip Decoder

I came across a programming language that I hadn’t heard of before: processing. I haven’t looked real in depth into the language structure but sounds like it is a high level language, overlaid on a java implementation (I’m assuming to give it cross platform capabilities). The thing that caught my eye about it […]

CSS Positioning

OK so I’ve never really had a grasp on how to position things in much more than inline types of ways using CSS. I would hack away at it, experimenting trying to get things positioned correctly, pulling out half of my hair in the process. I was half way through one of those […]

Lisp

For years I’ve heard about the lisp programming language, and have taken a few half-hearted whacks at it. It seemed the world was mostly divided into two groups over this language.

Those who thought lisp was a horribly cantankerous language with too many parentheses
Those who thought lisp […]

EarToner 1.0 Released!

I’m very excited to release the final 1.0 version of the software. This represents pretty much everything that I had envisioned for the program, plus some extra things beyond what I was planning.

Now on to 2.0!

EarToner 0.9.5 Released!

I added in the tuning exercise that was suggested by Ulrich Herbst. I also added the capability to select different MIDI sounds even if your sound card refuses to tell what sounds it has available. This is probably the last release before I do a final 1.0 and start digging into the 2.0 […]