It is kind of amazing that such a powerful text tool comes at this price. When I wrote my master thesis I struggled with Open Office because I wanted to find out for real how it compares to Microsoft Office. Now I have been a regular user of TextMate and Latex, writing various stuff (text (Latex), PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) almost every day for the last 30 days. To put it simple: I am never going back unless I really, really have to. TextMate is hereby recommended.
Tools - Software
19
Mar 08
Javascript but no JSUI
I have always been a fan of the LCD-object in Max/MSP/Jitter but it is somewhat tedious to control stuff on it because of all those drawing commands….. However I am tired of not being able to use those beloved semantics in Multislider so I’ve made me a javascript interface to make LCD behave like a multislider. I think it came out as a beauty.
cheers..
17
Mar 08
more javascript in max….
I like to write a javascript every now and then to avoid using a million objects in my Max/MSP/Jitter patches, and today was such a nice day for a little javascript…The script came out nice and tidy, but when I wrote another function to send the semantics to an ubumenu for easy navigation in the UI things became somewhat tedious… I’ll keep the receipt around here for anyone interested as there was very little concrete information about this in the documentation (Max/MSP) and even less on the user forums….
Anyway, this is reliable (remove the brackets):
[a=patcher.newobject("user", "ubumenu", 101, 99, 100, 196617, 0,1,1,0);]
The problem was nothing but the font and font size…. With the newdefault method they are messed up, but with newobject everything works out fine. I guess I was confused because the newdefault method creates the object, and allows filling it with content, and anything but the font related stuff…..
13
Mar 08
Javascript in Max/MSP/Jitter
I am working on a sampler-like tool for Goldwasser perfomances, and as I ad functions to it I tend to use Javascript for the ease of text-based programming rather than the usual Max/MSP/Jitter graphical object style…. Strange, but this has been a tendency for some months now, and I guess the ease of modularity through text-based programming is what I find so attracting.
Just because I want to picturize this blog a bit: Here is a little image of the file navigator in the Goldwasser sampler. As all Max-programs aimed at creativity it is a work in a never ending progress…..
28
Feb 08
Freescale is on the ball
http://www.freescale.com/files/multimedia/TSP-12837_8Ball_071008.wmv
I played around with a similar thing from freescale two years ago, and it is very nice to handle a sensor that knows if it is free falling or not. I like it.
15
Feb 08
More on multi-touch
Bill Buxton has made a very nice summary of multi-touch technology. http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
Cheers
Arve
11
Feb 08
Multitouch
I think this is a nice one! http://blog.medallia.com/2007/06/dyesight.html
cheers
Arve
9
Jan 08
Apple – Microsoft
I have just watched some youtube clips, and I recommend them (1-7) to anyone interested in computers and software. It’s with Gates and Jobs. Probably old news for some of you, but some might enjoy watching them.
cheers
Arve.
9
Jan 08
Microsoft!
Nice Surface product from Microsoft! Multi-touch surfaces are perhaps not news anymore, but it is for sure nice that mutli-touch will be in a store somewhere nearby our homes.
4
Jan 08
More Feedback Machine
Even though the demo version produce crackles “every now and then” it is well worth the effort checking out the impressing “More Feedback Machine”. Read about it on this site.
cheers
arve