Okay, so I am still working on the website, and a new web based tool for my wife, and writing lyrics and learning to sing them, and writing new songs... oh yea, and I have a job I have to go to. I have no time really to do anything that is fun an doesn't generate something which kind of blows. Me and my roomates just got a 360 and Oblivion and I haven't got to play it at all. I see them all playing and it looks great; I just don't have the time to play though. I bought table tennis and madden because they are better small serving games that I can play but don't have to invest lots of time in to have a good time.
My buddy Randy Craig is coming out. I have mixed and produced his last two records and he is coming to Portland to do another one. He's broadened his musical tastes a little bit in the last 2 years so I think he is going to let me do some cooler shit on this record. I am starting by making a no-acoustic-guitar-unless-it-is-specifically-required rule for him. He plays guitar like a motherfuck but he has been playing acoustic for so long that I think he has forgotten how to write a song. Now that I think about it, I think I will make a no-guitar rule period unless it is called for. Something needs to change because I think he tends to blend into the background a bit because of his sound. I also think his songs are too long which is another battle I am going to fight on this next record. Anyway, I think that will pretty much squeeze the last little bit of time i have out of me. I wouldn't have time to be doing this if my job didn't require me to be on a lot of conference calls. That is when I do all the web and tool development; however right now I am so disgusted with every web browser on earth that I am taking a break.
I've been playing around with all the web development tools I can find trying to find one that doesn't suck. It turns out that everything does one thing I like but then does 2 or 3 things in such a horrible way I can't stand to use it. Maybe my naivette to web development is the issue but a lot of this stuff seems really backwards. I want to have a reasonably dynamic page for my band and my wife's tool. Both require a database back end. I want it to be a dynamic page that doesn't have to reload. I intend to use css. There are issues with all of these things though. Which database do I use? MySQL doesn't allow nested statements. That is completely stupid. PostgreSQL is apparently slow. I don't know if that will matter but the development tools are lacking which bums me out. No one has written a standard data handler for any of the open source databases that is easy to use (or install for that matter) which is stupid. If the tools are more complicated than the language, why the hell should i use them? Developers should be thinking about these things.
I played with PHP and don't like how convoluted the code looks. I tried ruby on rails and I don't know what half of it is doing at any given time and I don't want to learn a strange scripting language that I can only use for web development because it is not default installed on anything which is my only real reason for using scripts. The more I mess with it the more using asp.net against microsoft sql and doing all the code in C# looks good to me. I dislike microsoft though and don't want to be married to them. Why can't the open source community decide to all focus on a project to build an integrated IDE that allows the integration of a bunch of languages? Is that so hard? It apparently is. Once I get all those descision made then I have to figure out how to do css that Explorer won't puke on. I also have to get javascript working on everything (which is also incredibly browser-tantrum-dependent) I am starting to get why a good web designer can make good money.
I am on a 60 day schedule for both web projects and my band wants to start playing shows in December so I will let you know when I finish the website. All 3 of you can check it out then.
My buddy Randy Craig is coming out. I have mixed and produced his last two records and he is coming to Portland to do another one. He's broadened his musical tastes a little bit in the last 2 years so I think he is going to let me do some cooler shit on this record. I am starting by making a no-acoustic-guitar-unless-it-is-specifically-required rule for him. He plays guitar like a motherfuck but he has been playing acoustic for so long that I think he has forgotten how to write a song. Now that I think about it, I think I will make a no-guitar rule period unless it is called for. Something needs to change because I think he tends to blend into the background a bit because of his sound. I also think his songs are too long which is another battle I am going to fight on this next record. Anyway, I think that will pretty much squeeze the last little bit of time i have out of me. I wouldn't have time to be doing this if my job didn't require me to be on a lot of conference calls. That is when I do all the web and tool development; however right now I am so disgusted with every web browser on earth that I am taking a break.
I've been playing around with all the web development tools I can find trying to find one that doesn't suck. It turns out that everything does one thing I like but then does 2 or 3 things in such a horrible way I can't stand to use it. Maybe my naivette to web development is the issue but a lot of this stuff seems really backwards. I want to have a reasonably dynamic page for my band and my wife's tool. Both require a database back end. I want it to be a dynamic page that doesn't have to reload. I intend to use css. There are issues with all of these things though. Which database do I use? MySQL doesn't allow nested statements. That is completely stupid. PostgreSQL is apparently slow. I don't know if that will matter but the development tools are lacking which bums me out. No one has written a standard data handler for any of the open source databases that is easy to use (or install for that matter) which is stupid. If the tools are more complicated than the language, why the hell should i use them? Developers should be thinking about these things.
I played with PHP and don't like how convoluted the code looks. I tried ruby on rails and I don't know what half of it is doing at any given time and I don't want to learn a strange scripting language that I can only use for web development because it is not default installed on anything which is my only real reason for using scripts. The more I mess with it the more using asp.net against microsoft sql and doing all the code in C# looks good to me. I dislike microsoft though and don't want to be married to them. Why can't the open source community decide to all focus on a project to build an integrated IDE that allows the integration of a bunch of languages? Is that so hard? It apparently is. Once I get all those descision made then I have to figure out how to do css that Explorer won't puke on. I also have to get javascript working on everything (which is also incredibly browser-tantrum-dependent) I am starting to get why a good web designer can make good money.
I am on a 60 day schedule for both web projects and my band wants to start playing shows in December so I will let you know when I finish the website. All 3 of you can check it out then.
joseph:
Thankyoux