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Saturday 21 January 2012
Recording Midi in Logic with Maschine
A bit off topic from my usual Ruby on Rails-related programming articles, but thought this might be useful for those in a similar predicament at any rate. I had to dig a fair bit through forum posts to find out how to successfully record midi notes in Logic using Maschine as a controller and sound source. Even then, I had to experiment a bit to improve the results. These are the steps I ended up taking: Open Logic Create a software instrument trackMore
Monday 05 December 2011
Mac Late 2011 Fan Noise Problem
I picked up on the the late 2011 MacBook Pro's and was having terrible fan noise problems.... Took it into to an authorized Apple repair shop, they told me it checked out. Clearly it did't because this thing was frequently running at full speed for no apparent reason, and almost always running at min 3000RPM. Solution: PRAM reset and SMC reset. Since that, fan has been relatively ok, fi... More
Wednesday 21 September 2011 | 2 comments
Deploying Ruby on Rails 3.1 to WebFaction
WebFaction has a new Rail 3.1 installer out. I nevertheless hit a few obstacles in setting up a new app. Ruby EE vs Ruby 1.9.2 Issues First off, the installer is using the Ruby Enterprise Edition rather than 1.9.2 which I hadn’t planned on, so all of the new hash syntax I was using did not work out. So – you may want to install Ruby 1.9.2 for starte... More
Wednesday 21 September 2011
Open Source College Radio Funding Drive Rails App
Open source college radio funding drive Ruby on Rails app. Includes a funding thermometer javascript widget that can be embedded on other sites to tracks pledges. https://github.com/gordonbisnor/Funding-Drive More
Tuesday 14 June 2011
Ruby on Rails Uploadify 2.3.11 Flash Session Cookie Middleware
A recent update to Rails 2.3.11 broke our Uploadify setup. This is what finally solved the problem for me: config/environment.rb (or for Redmine, this can go in config/additional_environment.rb): config.middleware.insert_before("ActionController::Session::CookieStore", "FlashSessionCookieMiddleware") app/middleware/flash_session_cookie_middleware.rb: https://gist.github.com/1025799.... More