American guitar legend Les Paul passed away today. While I haven’t had the pleasure of owning a Les Paul myself, I have worked with musicians who did, and I understand the love. Back in my Midget Farmer days we recorded a song to honor this great man and his legendary guitar. This track was written by guitar demon Danny ‘Bloodspoon’ Grady, who graced us with his presence whenever we played this tribute live. Here’s the studio version that appeared on our album “America’s Place to Waste your Life” released in 1993.
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Tags: danny bloodspoon, les paul, midget farmers, mp3, my les paul, studio
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Over the years I’ve wrestled with a good system for archiving code snippets. From posting on blogs, to filling up my hard drive with example files, there hasn’t been a system that stuck with me. If you google up code snippet sharing you’ll find all sorts of sharing services to suite your needs, and they all pretty much do the same thing.
Being a junky for free internet services, I’m trying a new code archiving system that uses GitHub’s gist drops, and Posterous.com’s email publishing. It’s a simple three step process that I’m really digging so far.
- Create code snippet at http://gist.github.com/
- Email the gist url to post@posterous.com
- Rejoice when your receive the post confirmation containing the url to your new Posterous blog post
In step 3, be sure to make the subject of the email descriptive enough for the code you are sharing. This will become the title of your posterous blog post. Here’s what the final gist drop looks like on Posterous.
In case you haven’t looked into code sharing yet, here are a few to get you started. I wanted to keep this brief, so be sure to check these out on your own to decide which you like best. If you feel that I missed any noteworthy services, please leave a comment below.
| Service |
Languages |
Sharing |
Example |
| Naslu |
Zero, just plain text |
direct url, embed code |
http://www.naslu.com/resource.aspx?id=392 |
| Pastie |
Good amount |
direct url, embed code |
http://pastie.org/580931 |
| Snipt |
Freaking ton |
direct url, embed, twitter, delicious, google, stumbleupon, email |
http://snipt.org/llln |
| Snipplr |
Freaking ton |
direct url, embed code |
http://snipplr.com/view/18198/sourcecode-for-ifartaircom-air–flex-soundboard/ |
| Tblurb |
Good amount |
direct url |
http://tblurb.com/2xHKxq |
| Gist.Github |
Plenty for you |
direct url, embed, posterous.com integration |
http://gist.github.com/152302 |
| DZone Snippets |
Zero, just plain text |
direct url |
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/7695 |
Tags: code, code archiving, code sharing, code snippet, DZone, email publishing, gist, github, naslu, pastie, posterous, snippet, snipplr, snipt, tblurb
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Have you ever had Visual Studio tell you your web application publish failed, but never gives you a reason why? You’re not alone. I’ve been putting off looking into this issue on a project and just found a way to get my answer right away.
Visual Studio 2008's Publish Failed message
Here’s what you should do inside of Visual Studio to find out why your publish failed.
- Click the Tools menu > then Options to bring up the Options dialog.
- Expand ‘Projects and Solutions’ on the left and click General
- On General, click ‘Show Output window when build starts’
- Now click on ‘Build and Run’ in the left tree
- Next select a value from the ‘MSBuild project build output verbosity’ drop down menu
- OK your way back to the main Visual Studio window
- The next time you Build or Publish your project, you should see the Output panel pop up. If your publish is still failing, the answer will live inside the Output panel
Here’s a visual walkthrough of these instructions.
Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > General
Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Build and Run
Visual Studio's Output Panel
Tags: .net, build options, msbuild, output panel, publish, publish failed, publish options, verbosity, Visual Studio, visual studio 2008
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Here’s a fun tip on creating a fiery looking buddy icon in Adium for OSX.
- Take picture in Photo Booth, or directly from Adium’s ImagePicker
- Click spiral effect button, then choose the Color Invert filter
- Click Set to apply filter
- Click your buddy icon, click Choose Icon
- Repeat steps 2 – 4 and apply the filters False Color, then Concert
- Voila – your buddy icon is red hot!
Typically I’ll take my photos using Photo Booth so I can keep the original, and sometimes I may even use that picture for my dailymugshot. When you walk through these filters, you’ll notice some filters won’t work as well for some photos, so play around with what you use. Sometimes I’ll replace Color Invert with X-Ray, or Concert with Gamma Adjust. It all depends on the picture I choose for a buddy icon. Sometimes I’ll just keep layering until I create some crazy looking buddy icon, go crazy!
Here’s a photo step by step so you can see the final product.
1.The Original
2.Color Invert
3.False Color
4.Concert
Tags: adium, buddy icon, fiery, filters, fire, hot buddy icon, osx, photo booth, picture, red yellow
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