Web based code review and project management for Git based projects.

Gerrit is a web based code review system, facilitating online code reviews for projects using the Git version control system.

Gerrit makes reviews easier by showing changes in a side-by-side display, and allowing inline comments to be added by any reviewer.

Anyone curious enough to crack the cover of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts certainly will find an intriguing premise stated at the outset: "Sound saturates the arts of this century . . . None of the arts is entirely mute, many are unusually soundful despite their apparent silence, and the traditionally auditive arts grow to sound quite different when included in an array of auditive practices" (p. 2). Surely this seems reasonable--it actually is quite easy to imagine how other arts might be able to point toward new ways of thinking about sound. But which arts, which practices, and to what end?

Joseph Nechvatal
Immersion Into Noise
(University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office in conjunction with Open Humanities Press, 2011)

Founded in Paris by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton in 1953, The Paris Review began with a simple editorial mission: “Dear reader,” William Styron wrote in a letter in the inaugural issue, “The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines and putting it pretty much where it belongs, i.e., somewhere near the back of the book. I think The Paris Review should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders. So long as they're good.”

Aug 16, 2010 By Dave Phillips
My experience with athenaCL has been a little different from my explorations of CM/Grace and CsoundAC. The system is organized in a unique manner that I found confusing at first. However, my initial confusion quickly gave way to amazement, and I must confess that I've become a devoted user.

The use of Python in CsoundAC, Steven Yi's blue, and Oeyvind Brandtsegg's ImproSculpt indicates that Python has a special affinity to the task of music composition by algorithm. Indeed, the language is extensible, relatively easy to learn, and performs decently on modern hardware. However, rendering audio in realtime is not one of Python's strengths, so in athenaCL the task gets handed off to a designated audio rendering subsystem such as Csound.

Calibre is a software program that is developed by a devoted reader and brilliant programmer, kovidgoyal. The program is free and open source, available for MAC, Windows PC, and Linux users. This week I’m going to address Calibre as the eBook management tool, a program I think is a must for every ebook reader regardless of what device she uses (except maybe the Kindle). The Part 2 of this article will address Calibre as a format conversion tool

This review is from: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) (Hardcover)

This book is definitely an introductory tutorial, and by no means a reference. Not all of the new HTML5 elements are covered, nor is CSS3 provided full coverage. The repetition of concepts may aggravate experienced or impatient programmers: For people with some experience with these technologies, and for people who readily glean information from technical books upon first exposure to the given concept, the frequent repetition in this book would border on tiresome, if it weren't presented so pleasantly, oftentimes with humor. On the other hand, the Head First books are predicated on the approach of presenting information in different formats, to maximize learning. Any newbie should appreciate this volume's clear explanations, even if they are presented multiple times, but differently. Also, there is plenty of testing of one's knowledge, to reinforce what has been learned.

What really imbues fervor to the production, though, is a landmark score from composer Kevin Puts. Already a widely celebrated talent in the classical world, Silent Night marks Puts’ debut opera.

Grimly beautiful, the piece is a significant addition to the repertoire and heralds the emergence of composer Kevin Puts as a force in American opera.

The iPhone 4S is exactly what Apple says it is: just like the iPhone 4, but noticeably faster, with a significantly improved camera, and an impressive new voice-driven feature called Siri.

MailSteward is an e-mail archiving solution that imports your e-mail into a database of its own and allows for searching, sorting and exporting of your e-mail messages. With MailSteward you can import POP, IMAP and .Mac accounts as well as mbox files created in Microsoft Entourage.

Anthèmes 2, one of the Sacher works, gave me the most problems, but not because of the music, quite straightforward and very lovely. It seems that the violinist plays against itself in some sort of combination of recording and live electronic wizardry, but the details are lost in Fink's description. If anyone can untangle the snarl, I'd be grateful to know exactly what goes on. At any rate, it sounds a lot less intellectually formidable than Fink's description: like a solo violin against a violin ensemble in some super-echo chamber.

Poet and author Maya Angelou says a recently unveiled monument to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is inscribed with a quote taken out of context that makes the preacher seem "arrogant."

Joomla Hosting Review’s mission is to provide quality unbiased reviews and expert advice for Joomla Hosting. Their newly redesigned site boasts a new plan comparison tool and an improved review page layout.

And now there’s Google+. It’s the latest Google “we wanna be Facebook” project. The difference is, this one’s got a real shot.

love at first listen

Despite promising elements, TNT's "Falling Skies" is a rehash of played-out alien invasion tropes

Takeaway: Web Help Desk is for any IT department who needs to track clients and assets, as well as keep an associated calendar, and see reports on all of it.

summary A good overview of the current agile practices for software developers

AudioMulch’s unique take on music creation and sound design already has many loyal fans. Will the new version 2, which adds Mac compatibility for the first time, win it a fresh army of admirers?

Telesma is beauty heard through the taste and smell of sound.

The parallel with Microsoft users vs. Java users seems to be all too obvious: Microsoft as the strict father: If you are loyal you will be rewarded, but if you stray you will be punished; whereas in the Java (or Python) community benefits and moral goodness flow from helping each other (which includes sharing open source software, and, apparently, bikeshedding :-).

Recently I got a review copy of "Hello World", and a colleague kindly lent me his copy of "Practical Programming". I think it's interesting to compare the two a bit, since they both claim to be teaching Python programming to people who haven't programmed before

Jane Lui 
Goodnight Company

A Twittering Critic Prepares for the Final Tweet

Album Review> Jane Lui Says Hello With Goodnight Company

handy list of our favorite and most popular posts from 2010

What you need to know about in-ear-canal headphones (a.k.a., “canalphones”)

Evernote, the increasingly omnipresent “digital brain” organizer for your notes, bookmarks, and files, released a big 2.0 beta upgrade for its Mac client on Wednesday. Among the new features are two of the most-requested additions: in-app notebook sharing and Stacks.

Dropbox is an amazingly useful combination of a Web service and a Mac OS X program that work together to make your data accessible from anywhere and to keep it synchronized between your computers

Unlike many unorthodox musicians who try too hard to prove their quirkiness, Goodnight Company succeeds because it thrives on textures and mood more than arrangements and production. Lui makes more use of empty space than bricolage and more reflection than bombast. It’s doubtful that even the fans who bankrolled the album could have expected it to be this good.

Monte-Carlo
Death and the Powers
Andrew Porter
Tod Machover, born in 1953, ‘learnt opera from the inside’ as Toscanini did, playing cello in the pit—Toscanini in Parma and then La Scala, Machover at the Canadian Opera. His composition teachers included Dallapiccola, Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter. In 1978 he joined IRCAM, where his first opera, Valis, after the novel by Philip K. Dick, had its premiere in 1987.

intelligent review -
"Pop’s new divas may not be able to ascend to vocal heights the way Ms. Aguilera still can in “Burlesque.” But in many ways they’re better suited for the post-crash economy. Every so often even pop music has to downsize."

Gist brings your contacts into one place to give you the only full view of your network making it easy to find anyone, anytime.

Using Time Machine as your primary backup is a no-brainer. This easy-to-use backup system not only lets you restore your Mac to a happy working state after some cosmic cataclysm engulfs it, it also lets you ever so easily restore individual files or folders you may have accidentally deleted.

Plone is a popular Open Source Web CMS based on the Zope application framework. A recent review of Plone by Roger Johansson is definitely worth a close read if you are considering Plone as a Web CMS.

Ellen Fishman-Johnson: This Art Burning…(still smoldering)

This Art Burning – Ellen Fishman-Johnson’s compilation of new work and work spanning her 20-year collaboration with poet Michael Heller – “seared” this participant (and a full house) at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Saturday, 11 September 2010, at the Performance Garage.

april 13, 2009
Given the ubiquity of Git as a version control system throughout the free software community, one would expect there to be more books about it. So far, that is not the case—though there are indications that is changing—so Travis Swicegood's Pragmatic Version Control Using Git is welcome for those trying to come up to speed on Git. Overall, the book provides a nice starting point, though there are some rough spots.

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October 18th, 2006
Michael Tsai is the man behind C-Command, and well known for the past few years as the author of SpamSieve and DropDMG, in addition to his tireless work on ATPM. Last week he released EagleFiler, and I’m pleasantly surprised to see such a mature 1.0 application drop (swoop?) unannounced from the sky.

MICHAEL HERSCH’S Sonata No. 1 for unaccompanied cello is one of his earliest published works, written when he was 23, in 1994. The riveting piece, given a gripping performance by Daniel Gaisford, is included on the first of three discs featuring Mr. Hersch’s solo and chamber music for string instruments, being released by Vanguard Classics.

The new DSM-5 draft is out (and it appears the APA is finally dropping the silly roman numeral designations). Analysis is starting to pour in from around the country about the ramifications of the new diagnoses and proposed changes

The graphics in this one are alone worth the price of admission (chump change). But don't kid yourself for a moment that AppZapper is going to do anything more than a peremptory search for possibly related files. It's not tracking things and so it's not going to find them either.

Grosjean deserves to be commended. The concept of TaskPaper is cool. It is consistent with his philosophy. He also created WriteRoom, the highly regarded text editor that is nothing more than a full-screen text editor.

EagleFiler OS X paperlesser research

World Beat Is Not Enough
Baltimore’s Telesma digs into the elusive vibes of indigenous Music

Knowledge is not power, but learning is. As kids, we made art with paint-by-number kits. Simply matching the outline numbers with an oil paint gave us the illusion of mastery. I've worked in all facets of the IT industry: as IT management, as a consultant, systems administrator, developer and instructor. And, I still see a lot of paint-by-number projects which try to be the real thing. IT leadership is about reading the numbers, then going outside the lines and taking risks.

If you are looking for a screencasting tool to capture and record movies of your Mac desktop, the popular choices are Screenflow, iShowU HD, Snapz Pro X and the just launched Camtasia Mac. Adobe is also porting Adobe Captivate on Mac but that is still in beta stages

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