Glad I Chose Programmer Over Musician
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So it turns out that iPhone app sales are growing twice the rate of iTunes music. That rocks for us programmers. I have always enjoyed music (and making my own music), but spent more time on computers because I was never the best. I was always an average player and people were more impressed with stuff I would make on the computer.
Especially as I got older, I could make money doing a website, but playing drums in my room for hours on end just left me sweaty. I still love music, but I'm glad I chose the more monetary of the two for a profession.
The Experiment
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So I put up one of the songs I had been working on because people on Twitter kept asking to hear what I was working on. I finally put it up on my site and got a huge response on Twitter.
I think it's pretty good. It's relaxing at least. I was looking through my old recordings and found some more ideas I had started. I think I'll try to get together a few of my more developed ideas and put out a CD (called The Experiment). Sounds fun to me. Besides, I like making stuff people enjoy using/listening to.
I'll be posting all of my music on my blog and over here. You can subscribe to my RSS feed if you want. Send me some email and let me know what you think.
Yay For RSS and Kohana
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So I just put together some code real quick for building my RSS feed. I think I am finally going to make my own engine in Kohana like I've talked about for so long.
I really need to write an admin panel or I know I wont use it. Hopefully I'll get time to do that soon. I guess I should add commenting too.
I am Addicted to Redoing my Blog
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It is sad how much I redo my blog. I usually redo it more than I actually blog. Then I get it going and then get an idea for a new one and stop on the old one. So here is my new attempt at my blog. I think I am switching off Tumblr as much as I love it. I'll leave my old one up at soffes.tumblr.com incase you're still interested.
I still need to write some stuff to do rss and such. Hopefully I'll get to that real soon. Sorry for breaking your feed readers again.
Enjoy the new look. I doubt it will be around long.
First Countdown Maker Sale!
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Today my company, Trimonix, sold it’s first copy of it’s first product. Yay us! Trimonix is made up of my friend Sam and me (no I am not talking in third person, my best friend’s name is really Sam what are the odds?). Countdown Maker, our first product, allows you to create countdown videos (videos with numbers on them that descend to zero over time when something usually happens upon reaching zero) really easily. We designed it with youth ministers in mind who don’t know the first thing about video. Today is an exciting day for us.
The thing that sets Countdown Maker out from its competitors (believe it or not someone else has also made a program that makes countdowns) is its super simple user interface first off. Countdown Maker is written in Cocoa which means that it looks really pretty on the Mac and that it works really well with Mac OS X. You can also export out videos in multiple, professional-grade video formats. You can even export uncompressed if you want to use in FinalCut or AfterEffects. Countdown Maker also offers a real-time preview of your video that is powered by Apple’s farily new Quartz Composer technology.
Definitely head over to our website and download a free trial. You’ll love it.