mental_missing(*all)

TM FTW

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:25:22 -0400

TM FTW:

smcFanControl2

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:18:00 -0400

smcFanControl2: …cool down your Intel mac and monitor temperature and fan speed!

cheapRoc edited a page in the phillyonrails.org wiki

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:01:33 -0400

cheapRoc edited a page in the phillyonrails.org wiki:

“Home” is at cheapRoc/phillyonrails.org/wikis/home

cheapRoc forked phillyonrails.org

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:55:38 -0400

cheapRoc forked phillyonrails.org:

Forked repository is at cheapRoc/phillyonrails.org

[MeMi] Rap needs to B-more

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:47:00 -0400

The current resurgence of “electronic” music is not the only form of beat based music that is going through a renewal cycle. Hip-hop and Rap (definitely a difference) has long been overdue for a switch in momentum. Old dinosaurs of the old-school scene are getting old, and so is the younger “ghetto gang-star” scene as well. So what will move in to replace it?

With the death of DJ K-Swift, the infamous Queen of Baltimore Club, I’ve been drawn back down into the sounds of Maryland hip-house style club music. A style of house music that was also started back in the late 80s.

Back then, Hip-House as it was called, was a fuzing of two genres which were rising in popularity at the time. Hip-House combined hip-hop’s style of rapping with house music’s club, 4-to-the-floor, beat. Like most mash-up genres of the late 80s, it was rather corny and short lived. However, like most music genres, a rare few held on to it.

Fast forward ten years later, Wikipedia describes it best…

“In the late 1990s, Baltimore club music developed a cult following in the North Jersey club scene, particularly in the Brick City club genre of Newark, New Jersey. This spread stems from the distribution of mix tapes from traveling Baltimore deejays.”

All major east coast club scenes were playing this new “Baltimore Club” music during the new millennium… as it brought a somewhat silly, ghetto flavor to the party mix.

So how does all of this tie into yet another 10 years later, to the current state of music in 2008? Lets go back to Wikipedia one more time…

“In recent years Baltimore club has moved away from clubs like the Paradox and into the studio with rap artists. This combination of club music and rap has created a new subgenre in hip hop music to rival other regional scenes. The club movement has gained momentum; in January 2007, DJ Booman produced a B-more remix for Diddy on Bad Boy Records. DJ Excel produced a B-more remix of Hangar 18’s “Baking Soda” for the independent underground hip-hop label Definitive Jux as well. DJ Say-Wut has now taking a strong European audience, getting play by other DJs such as Sinden.”

Hip-hop has largely been commercialized, and taken away from the typical listener. Rap lyrics glorifying fancy living and West Coast gangsterism’s are starting to push away the rap fan. Unlike old school hip-hop in the 80s, a majority of the new younger generation demographic does not have anything similar with these artists.

Enter the resurgence of the “B-more” Club music scene. Bringing something back to hip-hop that has not been seen for almost 20 years. A scene. Dancing. Community. All wrapped into a package that the music fan can participate in, not just speculate and pipe dream.

Tenerife Skunkworks: Parsing text and binary files with Erlang

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:58:44 -0400

Tenerife Skunkworks: Parsing text and binary files with Erlang: Erlang originated in the telecommunications industry where one of the major tasks is conversion of text and binary data from one format to another. This is a task that Erlang excels at! And is…

The BPA - Toe Jam

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:36:23 -0400

The BPA - Toe Jam

example bank client/server in erlang

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:52:32 -0400

example bank client/server in erlang: The example chosen is a “bank” server - the “server” is actually a pair of servers - if both servers crash - then the system is unavailable. If one server crashes, the other server takes over. Data…

ejabberd Community Site | the Erlang Jabber/XMPP daemon

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:13:38 -0400

ejabberd Community Site | the Erlang Jabber/XMPP daemon: ejabberd is a Jabber/XMPP instant messaging server, licensed under GPLv2 (Free and Open Source), written in Erlang/OTP. Among other features, ejabberd is cross-platform, fault-tolerant, clusterable…

[MeMi] I <3 Erlang

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:19:03 -0400

Let it be known, I now love Erlang!!!

connect(Host, User, Password) ->
         {ftp_server, Host} ! {connect,self(),User,Password},
         receive
             {ftp_server, Reply} -> Reply;
             Other -> Other
         after 10000 ->
                 timeout
         end.

Erlang unit test framework

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:41:13 -0400

Erlang unit test framework: Eunit is an Erlang test suite tool, inspired by agile development ideas.

DragResize - TwinHelix

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:41:13 -0400

DragResize - TwinHelix: Dragging and Resizing Javascript script

The source code repository for twoorl.com

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:41:12 -0400

The source code repository for twoorl.com: Erlang Twitter client called Twoorl, written for Erlyweb

"Small risk-management operation seeks knowledgeable Ruby on Rails programmer for ongoing support /..."

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:14:09 -0400

“Small risk-management operation seeks knowledgeable Ruby on Rails programmer for ongoing support / possible development/consulting role in the management of existing secure communications and account opening systems.”

- sounds like a singles ad or something

Video

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:30:11 -0400

Photo

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:07:04 -0400

"The next 100 people who upgrade their Basecamp accounts, and use coupon code BCTW7168, will save 20%..."

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:53:00 -0400

“The next 100 people who upgrade their Basecamp accounts, and use coupon code BCTW7168, will save 20% off their next bill.”

- Oh please 37signals…

cheapRoc forked fetcher

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:13:58 -0400

cheapRoc forked fetcher:

Forked repository is at cheapRoc/fetcher

Request To All Tutorial Writers

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:48:18 -0400

Request To All Tutorial Writers: From now on, if your writing this…

git clone git://github.com/sam/extlib.git git clone git://github.com/sam/do.git cd extlib
rake install ; cd ..
cd do
cd data_objects
rake install ; cd ..
cd...

If you’ve never seen the “Lucky Seven” or...

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:25:46 -0400

If you’ve never seen the “Lucky Seven” or “The Lucky Seven Ninja Kids” you just don’t know what your missing…