http://drobilla.net/blog Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:55:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Computing is the only real science. The rest can be simulated. http://drobilla.net/blog/2008/09/18/opinionated-dichotomies-in-scienc/ Thoughts brought on by using SWIG to make Scheme bindings for C/C++ code: In Scheme, being a LISP, pretty much everything is usually a list. This is great and makes for elegant code, but as a data structures guy I cringe to see the ridiculous amount of O(n) searching ... http://drobilla.net/blog/2008/03/13/iteration-in-scheme/ There's been a bit of talk in the GNOME camp lately about using DOAP instead of the unstructured text files that are the current norm for source packages. On the one hand, people want the benefits of having machine readable data in projects, OTOH, RDF/XML is a nightmare ("I'll ... http://drobilla.net/blog/2008/01/18/doap-replacing-authorsmaintainersetc/ Just kidding. If you can seriously make a top 10 albums list for an entire year, you aren't listening to nearly enough music. http://drobilla.net/blog/2008/01/02/my-top-10-albums-of-2007/ So, that whole Ardour thing is coming along. Couple more fundamental things (like multi-note dragging and actually saving edits out to disk) and it should be an at least somewhat usable MIDI sequencer. Woo. In slightly related news, Ingen is almost in a usable state after almost a year ... http://drobilla.net/blog/2007/08/06/other-peoples-software/ This post exists solely to stick something new on the page so it doesn't look like I did an experiment in fasting and died, never to bless the Interweb with my presence again. Current activities: LV2 OSC message ports extension (working to some extent) LV2 contexts extension (just conceptual/purely RDF for now) These two ... http://drobilla.net/blog/2007/07/22/this-space-intentionally-left-almost-blank/ Made it 3 days. So I'm weak. http://drobilla.net/blog/2007/06/24/fasting-is-hard/ Well, I've been working on Ardour but not directly on my SoC project.. finally got around to fixing that whole mixer-strip-element thing that's been on the table since last year. Things are more open to extensibility now (and a unified bus implementation should appear soon, so we'll have MIDI ... http://drobilla.net/blog/2007/06/24/ardour-back-on-track-maybe/ Just got back from the co-op, where I was for 3 hours and still didn't get my bike completely assembled (close though). Also managed to wreck a lot of the paint in the process :( Spray painting a bike definitely makes for a fragile paint job.. oh well. ... http://drobilla.net/blog/2007/05/29/the-hard-part/ Well.. finally fully moved; I guess it's time to stop screwing around and get back into hacking. Specifically Ardour, since I'm being payed to do so and all. Looks like we don't have a fancy new cairo canvas to play with. Maybe it will be worth my time to ... http://drobilla.net/blog/2007/05/29/back-to-the-hack/