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Ukulele Chords
NEW This small (1/2 size) chord book is a great little book to carry with you. Ukulele Chords covers basic open position and basic movable form chords. From these two chord categories a variety of songs and styles can be played.
A Guide to Ukulele Chords
This book is designed as a guide to ukulele (pronounced Ňoo-koo-leleÓ) chords. Covering basic ukulele chords that ALL uke players MUST know, movable chord forms, rock uke chords, how to transpose chords, learning the ukulele fingerboard and an introduction to 4-part ŇjazzÓ chords and more...
Ukulele For Guitar Players
Ukulele for Guitar Players is a guide to transferring the accumulated experience and knowledge gained as a guitar played to the ukulele.
A Guide to Blues Chord Progressions for Ukulele A to Z
Covers the key of C major and C minor, including a detailed accompanying text explaining the principles behind each progression and the chord substutitions.
Exploring "Jazz" Chords on Ukulele
Exploring "Jazz" Chords takes the core chords from A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele and shows their use over a variety of common chord progressions based on songs from the standard jazz repertoire.
A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele
If your goal is to expand your chord vocabulary, The Advanced Guide to Ukelele Chords Series is your answer. Commonly referred to as "jazz" chords. A Guide to Advanced Ukulele Chords Volume I provides detailed information on voicing 4-part chords.
The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords
Commonly referred to as "jazz" chords this provides detailed information on voicing 4-part chords.
Harmonic Analysis For Scale Selection And Chord Substitution
Harmonic Analysis is the understanding of the functional sequence of chords. It is the process used to analyze the harmonic structure of a progression, song or composition. This analysis is then used to make scale selections for improvisation and chord substitution.
Ukulele - Reading Music Series
Reading Music in Open Position, Single Note Studies- Primer. Reading music is not as hard as one might think. It may be new and unfamiliar to you but is not hard when you have a proper plan of attack.
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Programming
My DAILY pages - Programming links and information.
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Welcome to My Totally Random collection of Programming Links & Info stuff
A satin Bower bird (male) above
TOTALLY random stuff I've collected on the web and doesn't have a place in the jazz guitar, ukulele or main publishing pages on the site.
I remember seeing a this bird on TV years ago. And, it stuck with me.
Just like the Bower bird that collects a variety of objects like shells, leaves, flowers, feathers, stones, berries, and even discarded plastic items. A bower's U-shaped nest, a structure of sticks and leaves can include hundreds of these objects. The bird will spend hours carefully sorting and arranging his collection, with each thing in a specific place.
All of this to attract the female Bower bird. The things we do!!!
A Few Links
- The Bowerbird's Dilemma cartoon-style treatment of bower building.
- PBS Nature: Bower Bird Blues
- PBS Nova: Flying Casanovas
- Bowerbird videos on the Internet Bird Collection
Blueprint CSS Framework
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
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Blueprint
Google Code Sites
- BluepringCSS Group
- BluepringCSS Code site
- StarterKit, A (X)HTML, css, JS Starter Kit using BlueprintCSS and JQuery
Related Blueprint Info
More Related Info
Ruby
A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.
Here is a whole section on my site dedicated to Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
Main Ruby Links
- Ruby Programming Language
- Ruby: Programmers' Best Friend
- Ruby on Rails
- RubyGems
- RubyGems docs
The RubyGems bookshelf: User Guide, Command Reference, FAQ, GemSpec Reference
- RubyGems docs
- Ruby Central
- WidipediA: Ruby (programming language)
- google: comp.lang.ruby
Info
Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language. Originating in Japan in the mid 1990s, Ruby was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto and combines syntax inspired by Perl with SmallTalk-like object-oriented features.
Ruby
Source: Compile it yourself
Windows installer: Ruby, popular extensions, editor
OS X 10.4: Ships with broken Ruby, follow this guide
OS X 10.5: Included with developer tools
(then do "gem update rails")
Ruby How To
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Ruby on Rails
- Ruby on Rails
- APIs, Books, Tutorials, etc...
- Wiki
- WebLog
- Community
- Rails Framework Documentation
- WidipediA: Ruby on Rails
- google: Ruby on Rails: Talk
Info
Ruby on Rails is a free web application framework. It aims to increase the speed and ease with which database-driven web sites can be created, and offers skeleton code frameworks (scaffolding) from the outset. Often shortened to Rails, or RoR, Ruby on Rails is an open source project written in the Ruby programming language, and applications using the Rails framework are developed using the Model-View-Controller design paradigm.
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Javascript
Compact JavaScript Development Libraries
Here is a whole section on my site dedicated to Javascript.
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HTML and the Internet®
CSS, HTML, JavaScript and all things under the hood on the Internet®
CSS
- Blueprint, a CSS framework
- bjorkoy.com
- Blueprint, a CSS framework - Google Code site
- CSS Home Page
- Holy CSS Zeldman
- Cascading Style Sheets 2.1 Reference : Properties
- CSS Crib Sheet
- IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter
- Eric A. Meyer
- Chris Montoya (.net) - Chris Montoya (.com)
- Floatutorial - Max Design
- CSS Layout Techniques - Eric Costello
- Layout Reservoir - Blue Robot
- cssvault.com
- mezzoblue CSS
- O'Reilly CSS
- Floatutorial
Floatutorial takes you through the basics of floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts.
- CSS float for Html elements
- A CSS sticky footer that just works
- CSS Classes vs ID
- The Elements of Typographic Style
Misc Sites
How Tos
PHP
- PHPJunkYard
PHPJunkYard offers you free PHP scripts for download, some PHP resources, a list of books about PHP and ... well, you never know what you'll find here!
.htaccess
Internet®
- BrowserCam - Instantly See Your Pages in Any Browser on Any Operating System
- PMS to Web Colors
- Color Codes Matching Chart HTML (Convert CMYK, RGB Hex)
- Color Wheel by Antone Roundy
Validation
HTML Reference
Apache Web Server
Apache Web Server and my collection of to do somethings.
After each major upgrade to Apple OS X I have to remember how to apply the changes to the main config file and my config file. With Tiger is was OK. I remember. With Leopard, I also remember 0 BUT Apache 2 was different and running my file local and getting server side includes (SSI) did not work. So here are my notes.
To get the changes right I finally had to do a Clean Install on a spare drive and compare the Apache installation to my Update and Install of Leopard.
The change was the location of the httpd.config file. It was not longer in at /etc/httpd/ but
located at /etc/apache2/. After that adding the changes I from from
…by Kevin Schmitt » Mac OS X Web Server Tips for Designers worked.
Web Grid Design
Grid Design
- The device-independent browser: CSS and grid layout (W3C)
- Blueprint, a CSS framework
- Blueprint, a CSS framework - Google Code site
- Khoi Vinh's Subtraction
Subtraction Grid Computing… and Design
- The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.
Designers
Articles
- Khoi Vinh's Subtraction
Subtraction Grid Computing… and Design
- The Funniest Grid You Ever Saw
- Incremental leading
- Why use a grid?
Tools
- KhGrayBit
Turns color sites into grayscale for testing
- The Funniest Grid You Ever Saw
- Incremental leading
- Why use a grid?
Software
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Links
Info
Released with much fanfare in January of 1984, the Macintosh was the first affordable computer to include a Graphical User Interface. It was built around the new Motorola 68000 chip, which was significantly faster than previous processors, running at 8 MHz. The Mac came in a small beige case with a black and white monitor built in. It came with a keyboard and mouse, and had a floppy drive that took 400k 3.5" disks--the first personal computer to do so. It originally sold for $2,495.
Text courtesy www.apple-history.com
Everything done on a Macintosh computers.
Site is even hosted on mac by
MacHighway.
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Links
- www.BareBones.com
- WidipediA: BBEdit
Info
BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. BBEdit is not a word processor, meaning it does not have text formatting or page layout features. BBEdit's audience includes programmers and web designers.
Bare Bones Software also made a free and less-featured version of BBEdit called BBEdit Lite. Bare Bones Software discontinued BBEdit Lite at version 6.1 and replaced it with TextWrangler, which initially cost money (though significantly less than BBEdit), but several years later was released for free. BBEdit itself was available at no charge from its initial release in 1991, but went commercial in May 1993 with the release of version 2.5.
BBEdit
BBEdit
Bare Bones software. My entire site is "hand coded" using BBEdit. I've been using this software since version 3 (1994)
I don't reccommend that you had code you web site like I did. I started hand coding html around 1995 before there where programs like DreamWeaver, GoLive and Flash. But, I do reccommend you keep your site simple, fast loading and easy to find stuff. The last part, find stuff, can be hard as a site grows.
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Links
Info
For general information or questions please write to info@culturedcode.com
Xyle scope
Using Xylescope is like surfing with an x-ray
vision. You will immediately see beneath the surface of the web
pages you are visiting. Experiment by changing CSS values in
author style sheets - no matter if they are on the internet or
on your own computer. Export interesting source code with ease
and apply new and consistent formatting to your own CSS
files.
More information available on company's web site.
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Links
Info
Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing. Inspired in the Be Operating System (BeOS), Haiku aims to provide users of all levels with a personal computing experience that is simple yet powerful, and void of any unnecessary complexities.
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Links
Info
Go my start with HyperCard and it "was" (sadly no more), the most fun program I ever had. I made more money off the Mac because of that program and had a MAJOR career shift because of it. Great stuff!!! Just like a gateway drug it was a gateway programming language and lead to C++ and some really cool stuff.
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HyperCard Forgotten, but Not Gone♣
Late Night Software Ltd.
333 Moss Street
Victoria, B.C., Canada V8V-4M9
Telephone: 250-380-1725
Toll-Free Order Line: 888-999-3210
FAX: 250-383-3204
Links
CSSEdit - is a great application that I use daily for maintaing my every growing web sites.
Here is an Interview with the creator of CSSEdit with Jan on Veerle's Blog.
Info
(From developer's website) MacRabbit is located in beautiful Belgium, deep in the woods where there are still water nymphs and tree elves (not really, but we do have lots of rain and grass). Pets do all kinds of useful things like occupying keyboards, barking and polluting the air. As you can see, MacRabbit is an animal-friendly software company located in one of the nicest ecosystems in Belgium!
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Runtime Revolution Ltd.
15-19 York Place
Edinburgh, Scotland UK EH1 3EB
Phone: Phone: 0870 747 1165
Fax: 0845 4588487
Links
Info
SuperCard is good replacement for the no longer available or supported HyperCard. HyperCard and
HyperTalk is how I go into programming on the Mac. The sequence was
HyperTalk, Pascal, Object Pascale, C++, Java.
More information available on company's web site.
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SuperCard
Solutions Etcetera
PO Box 1029
Pollock Pines, CA 95726
Phone: 530 644 7382
Fax: 530 644 77385
Links
Info
SuperCard is good replacement for the no longer available or supported HyperCard. HyperCard and
HyperTalk is how I go into programming on the Mac. The sequence was
HyperTalk, Pascal, Object Pascale, C++, Java.
More information available on company's web site.
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Programming & Tech Magazines
As I was mainly a Macintosh programmner this are mainly Mac listings.
MacTech Magazine
Xplain Corporation
PO Box 5200
Westlake Village, CA 91359-5200
Voice: 805-494-9797
Fax: 805-494-9798
Links
Info
(from their site) - Established in 1984, MacTech Magazine is the only monthly magazine focused on Macintosh technology. Distributed in over 60 countries, MacTech is read by tens of thousands of technical Macintosh users ... from network administrators to programmers, from solution providers to Enterprise, and in general anyone that's interested in the Macintosh beyond the user level.
This is the magazine that I used alot for learning to program on the Mac.
It always had some great articles and source code.
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Stroll Down Memory Lane
A timeline line of my programming evolution or major life sidetrack
Here are links and information regarding the various programming environment and languages I got myself into when I got my first Mac
HyperCard - Introduction to Programming
- HyperCard & HyperTalk - , the started of it all in 1987
The HyperTalk language and creating HyperCard stacks where a great way to get you feet wet with programming. The web is a little like that today.
Pascal, Object Pascal and MacApp
- Borland's Turbo Pascal - First programming language after HyperCard and HyperTalk
- Think Pascal 4.5 - - link
C, C++, MacApp and PowerPlant
- MacApp (Object Pascal) - - link
- MacApp (Object Pascal, MPW) - link
- MacApp (C++, MPW) - link
MacApp is Apple's C++ application framework for creating professional user-friendly, robust, object-oriented Macintosh applications for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.
MacApp and ACS are no longer actively supported by Apple.
Last updated: October 2 2001
- CodeWarrior, TCL, MacApp & then PowerPlant (C++) - - link
Again an obsolete development product. If I ever get back into Mac programming it will have to be XCode and Cocoa. Some great programs are created using that combination
Cocoa and XCode
- XCode - link
Looked at it briefly but pretty wrapped up in music and publishing. I do have some cool programs that I would like to create - but nary the the time.
Programming Languages
Objective C
This is the language used for most Apple development.
Getting Started A guided introduction and learning path for developers new to Cocoa. Cocoa is an object-oriented application environment designed specifically for developing Mac OS X-only native applications. The Cocoa frameworks include a complete set of classes, and for developers starting new Mac OS X-only projects, Cocoa provides the fastest way to full-featured, extensible, and maintainable applications. You can bring applications from UNIX and other platforms to Mac OS X quickly by using Cocoa to build state-of-the-art Aqua user interfaces while retaining most existing core code. Read More...
Pascal
WidipediA: Pascal
Niklaus E. Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. (from WidipediA:)
C++
WidipediA: C++
Bjarne Stroustrup (born December 30, 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a computer scientist and the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He is most notable for developing the C++ programming language. A rough English attempt at pronunciation of his name would be (from WidipediA:).
Perl
Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. Perl borrows features from a variety of other languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, sed and Lisp.
- WidipediA: Perl
- perl.com
- perl.org
- MacPerl.com
Ruby
Ruby has its own section: Ruby Programming Information and Links
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