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Here are some tricks you can use to get the most out of the time you spend queuing and voting tracks in Soundrop listening rooms. Spotify Search Syntax Works in Soundrop You may or may not have discovered that the Spotify client supports complex search expressions. Full details are posted on the Spotify website article [ READ MORE ]
Over the past weekend I collected a bunch of tracks I’ve heard recently on Soundrop and put together a Spotify playlist to share with my friends online. For this specific playlist I wanted to order the tracks so that flowed together seamlessly when gapless / track cross-fade is enabled in the Spotify client. I collected [ READ MORE ]
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Of all the version control systems I’ve used to date, by far my favorite has been Perforce. Perforce is very powerful, has excellent support for both command line and rich graphical tools (e.g. graphical branch history and diff tools are fantastic). And for individuals / small teams it’s free. Currently, every digital asset I care [ READ MORE ]
This is public notebook entry. No original information here. Just links to big data resources on the web and in print that I’m finding useful as I begin to explore the substance behind the monikers and attempt wetware capture. Currently reading Pete Warden’s Big Data Glossary and it’s a great introduction. Michael Nielson’s blog post [ READ MORE ]
I wrote a nice detailed blog post about ten years ago detailing a systematic and sane way to ensure that your large project collection of C/C++ headers don’t get out of control. Unfortunately, it was published on a blog that no longer exists (I’ve got the database somewhere on a CD but it’s more trouble [ READ MORE ]
My friends, family, and several close business associates know of my quest to create a component software engineering platform based on digital hardware modeling and design metaphors ~10-years ago. Although the effort ultimately failed when I ran out of money and options, I still believe the core concepts are valuable and I’ve long considered publishing [ READ MORE ]
Soundrop, the fantastic social music listening application for the Spotify platform, reported recently that they streamed 35 million tracks in April, 2012 (up from 15 million tracks in March). I was curious about the number and how it relates to the number of people using Soundrop so I did little number crunching and estimate that [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been a big fan of the Spotify music platform since it launched in the U.S. last year. Spotify hosts a massive online archive of music available for streaming. Wikipedia states that Spotify’s catalog comprised 15-million tracks in July, 2011. According the Spotify website, there is over 80-years worth of HD music in their catalog [ READ MORE ]
A series of interesting tutorials from TopCoder that are educational and fun. TopCoder Software Development Tutorials Also, I’ve found these high-level Wikipedia articles to be useful review. Wikipedia Algorithms Overview Wikipedia Analysis of Algorithms Wikipedia Big O Notation Wikipedia Computational Complexity Theory Wikipedia NP-complete From the Wikipedia Big O notation page, this handy table: [ READ MORE ]
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