30 Friday Jul 2010
Some interesting reading coming up:
Amazon books in General and specifically Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases Through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))
16 Friday Jul 2010
Posted in App Ideas, Technology
There are nay reasons for wanting to reverse tether my iPhone to my laptop such as:
The answer to these problems is what is known as reverse tethering (where tethering is getting your laptop etc to use you phone’s internet access). to reverse tether you have to go into your laptop’s network settings and create an ad-hoc network. Depending on your laptop this can hamper it then using a wireless network at the same time.
Now everytime I move location, I really dont want to have to go in and start unnecessarily messing around with netowkr settings. even Microsoft have recognised this with a simplified means to connecting & disconnecting from wireless networks. So why is it that no one has created a little app that you can run creates an adhoc network for you, and then creates shortcuts for the desktop which can be used to quickly toggle the adhoc network on and off? That way when off running a presentation you can quickly toggle the adhoc network on – use the iPhone to manage the presentation (freeing you from carrying more devices and the laptop when presenting) and then at the end – toggle the network back off (after all you dont want to be announcing your machine as a network access point unnecessarily).
24 Thursday Jun 2010
Posted in Music
Peter Gabriel has continued his covers activity, but outside of his Scratch My Back concept. This time for the Voice Project. More details … Peter Gabriel – “In The Neighborhood” (Tom Waits Cover) – Stereogum.
24 Thursday Jun 2010
Posted in Music
Röyksopp have finally announced the details of the successor to Junior, senior. to be released on September 13th. More details
Röyksopp announce new album release date and tracklisting | News | NME.COM. The album isn’t yet listedon Amazon.
18 Friday Jun 2010
Posted in Music
On September 28th, Vagrant Records will release the latest studio album from Pete Yorn. Produced by Frank Black (The Pixies), this visceral 11-song collection follows Yorn’s two 2009 releases. Back & Fourth, hailed as “haunting” by Entertainment Weekly. While Rolling Stone said, “Yorn has found his voice on Back and Fourth, a mostly acoustic beauty.” It was followed in September by Break Up, a collaboration with Scarlett Johansson that Paste said “succeeds in its ambitious goal of capturing the spirit – if not the sound – of the late 60’s musical partnership between Serge Giansbourg and Brigette Bardot.” Yorn’s forthcoming album, a self-titled volume with a plain black cover, was recorded on the spur-of-the-moment, in the summer of 2008. Yorn was in the middle of making Back & Fourth in Nebraska when he got an email from Black suggesting that they record some tunes. Intrigued by the notion of experimenting with Frank, Yorn hopped a plane to Salem, OR, where the two set up an impromptu studio. They recorded the album in a mere five days – even though the singer-songwriter-guitarist came down with the flu two days into the process.
more info at Columbia
07 Monday Jun 2010
Posted in General
How To Destroy Angels, the new band featuring Mariqueen Maandig, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross are releasing their debut EP as a free download on June 1st. If you pre-order you’ll get one new track, “The Believers,” immediately. A selection of merchandise is also available.
05 Saturday Jun 2010
Posted in General
This is one of a bunch of photos taken from arecent Faithless gig – checkout Flickr account for more.
05 Saturday Jun 2010
Posted in Technology
Continuous Integration is a development best practice that you need to be using in your process; it is an essential part of an efficient Software Development Lifecycle (SLDC). If you aren’t using it already, then you should start, now. The main benefit of Continuous Integration is the ability to flag errors as they are introduced into a system instead of waiting multiple days for test failures and critical errors to be identified during the QA cycle. This post isn’t about the virtues of using CI, it’s about how to setup an optimal environment in a Maven shop. Here are seven tips for running Maven builds in a CI system such as Hudson.
via Sonatype Blog » Maven Continuous Integration Best Practices.
05 Saturday Jun 2010
Posted in Music
over the last year we’ve compiled a whole bunch of good remixes for ‘wait for me’, so today we’re releasing them in one place (or 2 cd’s). there’s even a special little web site for the remixes:
04 Friday Jun 2010
Posted in Music
Ray LaMontagne is set to his new album, Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs – God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise on August 17, 2010!
Entirely self produced (for the first time) God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise was recorded in two weeks at LaMontagne’s home in the woods of western Massachusetts.
