A long time ago, I used to spend quite a bit of my online time at a site called ActiveBass. Their forum was a friendly place, and I met many people there who are good online friends to this day. At one point, certain admins on ActiveBass started exerting too heavy a hand for my…
On Wunderlist and Productivity
[Update, May 31, 2020: As you likely know, Wunderlist was bought by Microsoft and its functionality rolled into Microsoft To-Do. For those of you interested in Wunderlist, here’s a list of 11 alternatives, kindly provided by the folks at Chamber of Commerce. — James] For a while now, I’ve been using Wunderlist to manage my…
Converting M4A to Mp3 for Roland TD-11K
Haden’s big Christmas gift this year–an atypical splurge, for us–was a Roland TD-11K electronic drum set. It’s a great kit with a lot of features useful for kids learning to play, and I caught it on sale, which took a little of the sting out of buying it. One of the several learning-friendly features of…
Web Development 102: Tools
I provided a high-level overview of web platforms in the first part of this series. This second installment will delve into tools. I should also say, at the outset, that I’ve been a Mac guy for some time now, and part of what I like about OS X are the many fine web development tools available…