Orchestral tracks from the past

It’s already a long time since I removed the online jukebox from these pages, so here’s some of the old orchestral music from those times (along with some new): Cabo Blanco Cabo Blanco Running Running Train Roof RundownTrain roof rundown Africa “Flyover Cliché” track Africa Light Light Adventure Legend Legend Chest of Tales Chest of …

Dashcode, part II

After using Dashcode for almost a year now, this is the bottom line: “Don’t make any big projects with it.” – A random Dashcode user After a while, when the project gets bigger, you’ll have some 20+ Javascript files, thousands of lines of code, several data sources (which are great, btw), it gets really slow. …

Wonderful null character

I recently programmed a lengthy piece of online software with PHP and JavaScript, utilizing server-side PHP/MySQL queries. But there was a problem that just popped out of nowhere – all but one data entry worked perfectly. This one row, when observed from the SQL server side (with a great tool called Sequel Pro), looked perfectly …

MacRuby and (too) persistent objects

If you’re starting with MacRuby and Xcode, you might stumble upon the same problem I did: If you deploy the project even once, those precompiled ruby object files (.rbo) stick to the deployment directory and you have to clean it up each time before testing any new code. Here’s a simple script you can put …