Orion Transfer blog:2009:10:20

Magnatune

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:30:49 +1200

I've listened to a number of podcasts from Magnatune and I think they are great. When you buy something 50% of the amount you pay goes directly to the musicians. They have a huge catalog and you can download and listen to music and then decide if you want to buy it.

Playing FLAC in iTunes

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:24:44 +1200

I have a bunch of music stored using FLAC, which I generally think compresses better than ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) anyway. I found a great project that installs all the dependencies on Mac OS X: Fluke for Mac It is too bad Apple doesn't embrace free standards and make their software compatible by default.

Rack Middleware Competition

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:22:40 +1200

is currently having a middleware competition. All you have to do is write some middleware and you can win stuff! Here are some of my favories: * Rack::Pot * InlineUploader * Rack::RequestStatisticsTracker I hope to submit something soon!

Summer Anime 2009

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:55:00 +1200

I enjoy Japanese culture including Anime. I found some great lists of recent Japanese Anime: * Danny Choo Summer Anime 2009 * Baka Updates I am personally looking forward to Wolf and Spice series 2. I really enjoyed the first series.

Web Browser Client-side Graphing

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:40:32 +1200

I have been producing some rack middleware which generates statistics and I am looking at options for visualization. I found two good lists of options: * 16 USable CSS Graph and Bar Chart Tutorials and Techniques * PlotKit (Canvas based graphing)

Zena - A Rails CMS

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:52:10 +1200

Zena is a Rails CMS solution. It has many interesting features, such as supporting multiple languages and multiple sites from a single installation. I look forward to trying it out.