Hey all you Advogato peoples: Thanks for telling me about some more of the ins and outs of PHP. The neat thing about these diaries is that they're like conversations. Except you really don't know if anyone else is listening. Until you go and see that they really are talking back. Man I'm starting to sound like Dave Winer.
The Decision
So I think we've made our decision in the PHP vs. Mason
war. Mason seems to have won. It actually makes more sense
for us since we are already a perl shop. We don't need to
make our programmers learn another language. Also, by using
perl, we can integrate existing code easier.
Musicality
A guy here at work gave me a Roland
TR-505 drum machine.
It's way cool, especially now that I've had time to figure
out how the thing works. I just got to figure out how to
make Linux play the thing "right". I think this involves
learning a bit more on how MIDI works. Downloaded Rosegarden
to see what it could do. Found a score from a quartet piece
I wrote about 4 years ago now, and started to input it by
hand. I wish there was an Open Source Music OCR tool. I
could really use that right now (hint hint
advogatans).
The Format
I saw someone else here use this type of format, and today
it seemed like a good format to use.