As the holidays are fast approaching, many musicians will be called forth to back a multitude of sing-alongs. Be prepared! Musicians that care memorize or use sheet music, and nerdy musicians love Chordie!
Chordie turns text files with embedded chord names into beautiful, stafless PostScript lead sheets.
Chordie is a fork of Chord, and is written in under 5,000 lines of K&R C. Chordie currenly only runs on *NIX-like operating systems, but there may be ports to other operating systems someday.
Here’s a recent image from one of the WSDOT cams. Is this some kind of subjective review of Seattle traffic?
Apparently this eel is being used to power the lights for a Christmas tree.
Via Metaefficient.
WordPress is an excellent example of a well-run Free Software project.
Public pages on coding standards, WordPress IRC, and reporting bugs are clear, comprehensive, and elegant. Installation and upgrading are straightforward: explained in both “5-minute” and “detailed” forms. They use Trac, an awesome bug tracking system.
I can’t say much about the source except to say that what I’ve seen is simple and coherent. Database interaction, for instance, is abstracted in a way that makes sense. Ohloh has some more useful details and statistics.
I like the old tradition of going around the room and saying what you’re thankful for on this day. Today I’m thankful for Gmane!
Gmane is a free service which archives public mailing lists and provides various handy ways to browse and keep up to date without having to clog up your inbox. Gmane doesn’t host mailing lists, and in not doing so upholds the important virtue of doing less and doing it well. Here are the killer features, in my humble opinion:
- import of existing legacy archives
- all gmane.org content is completely spiderable/crawlable by search engines
Anyone can suggest the addition of mailing lists.
Tusen Takk, Lars, and viva Norway!
As in, I don’t know whether to. But in these situations I always have a default, and it is laugh, of course!
Mifos was mentioned in the New York Times yesterday. The big news is that I.B.M. is having 10 software engineers work on the project. Can’t wait to meet ‘em!
Check out this map of Mifos deployments (created by Sam). Nice!
From the old-news-but-still-relevant-and-fun department…
How to fold a t-shirt in one or two seconds (mirror). If this doesn’t make you want to fold a t-shirt, nothing will.
iftop does for network traffic what top does for CPU/Memory usage. Awesome.