This piece, also known as Der Schärpentanz or Pas des écharpes, is by French pianist and composer Cécile Chaminade.
Read more about my piano recording series here.
8 reasons why I prefer FriendFeed over Twitter
May 19, 2009 at 10:45
On account of the recent Twitter reply system fiasco (see Twitter blog entries 1, 2, 3, 4 and related backlash spewed across the Internet), I recently joined FriendFeed on recommendation by Jaykul. It didn’t take long for me to be really impressed with this service, and for Twitter to look pretty rinky-dink in comparison.
If you just want a basic short message service with almost no frills, then sure, Twitter fits the bill. But if you’re going to be using your communications service a lot, I think you might be pleasantly surprised, like I am, by all the great things FriendFeed is and does. The following points may not provide enough justification for you to join FriendFeed (or completely switch over), but it is for me.
Ramaze 2009.05 released
May 6, 2009 at 11:02
Ramaze 2009.05 has been released. This marks a new, brighter era in the Ramaze world.
Innate
For those of you that have not been following, manveru (Ramaze lead dev) had been brewing a new web framework core called Innate since the middle of last year. As of today, Innate is pretty much done, and only sees minor updates. Innate has its own repository on github, where you can find a detailed README. Innate is built on top of Rack, the “web framework framework”, and acts as the core for Ramaze as of this Ramaze release.
Upgrade carefully
Because of this big change, Ramaze applications built with Ramaze 2009.03 or prior need non-trivial effort to port to 2009.05. As such, proceed with caution when upgrading your gem, especially on production servers. (more…)