Okay, this is just going to show all my friends and the 1.5 people that read this blog just how truly geeky I have become. Yes, this is an ode to my tool of the moment – Eclipse – the ultimate open source Java development program. And if you add in the handy dandy J2ME plugin EclipseME – it turns into a monstrously useful mobile application development uberplatform.
Okay, after a few days of valiantly trying to like Ecto on PC, I had to switch back to Zempt. Especially now that since I’ve installed Rob Zeller’s handy iTunes plugin, Zempt automagically inserts whichever tune is tickling my brain right now. Like so
Currently bobbing my head to: Mairead from Pawn Shoppe Heart by The Von Bondies
Michael Lyons from ATR in Kyoto has put up a site with a comprehensive photo gallery of all the participant’s at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference held this year at SUAC in Hamamatsu, Japan.
Luckily for me – he took some video of a demonstration of my instruments – the Stranglophone and the Pierrophone.
During my third semester at school in Clay Shirky’s Social Software class – my group worked on a lightweight multimedia groupware collaboration tool called Catayst which was a fun project but never ended up getting finished. Since then, I’ve been running across many of these tools – such as Ray Ozzie’s Groove but I just ran across another one (with less of a multimedia development focus) called Confluence. Confluence looks like the arranged marriage of a Blog and Wiki in a Java chapel with some slick design as the best man. Apart from the Java and the slick design, I’m still not sure what the core differences are between this and free wikis like Twiki or UseModWiki etc.