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Archive for February, 2011
My First Sencha Touch App
Feb 21st
As readers of this blog know, I’m a pretty big Sencha fan. I <3 ExtJS…seriously, I love pretty much everything about it, from how great the default UI is, to how ridiculously easy it is to build awesome applications in zero time. So when I heard a while back that Sencha was combining ExtJS, jQTouch, and Raphael to create a mobile framework (Sencha Touch), I knew it was something I’d have to try.
And try I did…well, really, it was more like dabbling. I had ideas that I wanted to test out, so over the last few months I’ve been experimenting in between life and other projects. But no matter how hard I tried or how good my ideas were, I couldn’t really find the motivation to bring anything to completion…or even to a real start. Until this weekend.
The CatalystYou see, my darling 5-year old daughter is valiantly learning to read. But like a lot of kids (I think), she has trouble staying motivated and gets frustrated easily when she’s not able to hit a home run with the new things that she tries.
As I’ve been working with her on reading, I have reflected on my own experiences. While I’ve always loved More >
Epic Music Import of 2011: Some Stats
Feb 8th
A few days ago, I posted some reflections on my efforts to import my CD collection into iTunes. Well, it’s finally done, and here are the final stats:
No. Songs: 4595 No. Albums: 592 No. Genres: 45 Library Size: 21.1 GB Biggest Genre: Religious Year Span: 1940-2011 Best Album: In Shallow Seas We Sail (Emery) Best Artist: Emery Best Decade: 2000’s Best Genre: Rock Most Used Word in Song Titles: “Love” Best Discovery: I have about every Toad album ever Most Disturbing: Clay Aiken Christmas albums *shudder* Share this:
Chrome Web Apps Upgrade
Feb 4th
Just a quick note–if you didn’t see, Google Chrome has revamped the display for your personal app dashboard. You can now re-order apps by drag-n-drop, rather than installing and uninstalling in the right order.
Check it out 🙂
Share this: CDs are a Hassle
Feb 1st
For about the last 9 years, my wife and I have been lugging around giant, fabric-bound cases of CDs. While most of the music we listen to nowadays is delivered via iTunes or MOG, we’ve held onto these portable discs of sound…and I’m not really sure why.
Sure, there are some gems that I’ve found–albums that I’ve all-but-forgotten about, but smile fondly when I am now reminded. Â But, it’s still mostly a pile of garbage…and it’s still something I can’t bring myself to throw away!
But finally this weekend, after going through the collection for about the 1 billionth time, I decided that I had had enough. I vowed, then and there, to ditch this pile of garbage for good…after I imported them into iTunes, of course 🙂
So I started importing the music, disc by disc, album by album. And here’s something I’ve noticed: when your entire CD collection is spread across several zippered carrying cases, it doesn’t seem that large. However, when you pile them all up next to each other–and have to wait on a less-than-speedy CD drive, you realize (very quickly) just how much of a chore awaits you.
Now here I am, nearly 60 discs into the over 350-disc More >
