5.21.2010

Song of the Week (Trashcan - Delta Spirit)

5.14.2010

Song of the Week (Old Hat - Harvey Danger)

If you haven't heard it, Where Have All The Merrmakers Gone is one of the best albums ever. Listen to the whole thing!

5.07.2010

Song of the Week (Screwdriver - The White Stripes)

This song is the epitome of The White Stripes.

4.30.2010

Song of the Week (Short Skirt Long Jacket - Cake)

Because Cake are (or is it is?) awesome and Chuck came back from hiatus this week.

4.23.2010

Song of the Week

This week's song is actually a short show put on for NPR's "Tiny Desk Concert" series by Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeroes. The set list is as follows:

Janglin
Home
40 Day Daydream

I suggest checking out the whole thing. It's absolutely amazing.

4.16.2010

Peter Play The Blues

4.15.2010

Song of the Week (War Pigs - Black Sabbath)

4.09.2010

Song of the Week (Bulletproof - The Afghan Whigs)

4.01.2010

Song of the Week (Big Empty - Stone Temple Pilots)

3.24.2010

Song of the Week (The Package - A Perfect Circle)

3.16.2010

Song of the Week (Army - Ben Folds)

3.15.2010

Song of the Week (Space Oddity - David Bowie)

Sorry, I thought I posted this last week.

Objective C - Categories

If you follow my Twitter account you may have seen a recent posting where I gripe about Objective C. I've recently started working on an iPhone application (re: game) and am therefore learning Objective C in the process. My immediate impressions with Objective C aren't good but I'll save that for a much longer post to come later. One thing I would like to mention now, though, Objective C calls "Categories." You may already have experience with categories if you've done much JavaScript programming (where you modify an object's prototype), C#'s extension methods, or re-opening a class in Ruby. I had worked with object prototypes in JavaScript before but I guess I never really caught on to just what was happening.

Categories are a way of extending existing class implementations without having to create a whole new class that inherits from the original. This is such an amazingly powerful feature! It really opens up the door to amazing possibilities. I should warn you, however, that I am extremely new to this methodology and therefore I am sure there are all sorts of things that I have yet to realize about them.

I wrote up about half an example on how to do this and decided it's not worth it. There are plenty of other really good examples already out there. Try here. He has a really good example adding a shuffle method to the NSMutableArray. Have you ever been using a class from a library and said, "Wow, this is great but I really need it to do X?" Well with this you can add your own implementation to the class and use it freely throughout your code.

3.11.2010

Sci-Fi Fantasy Cage Matches

The guys over at Suvudu have created a cage match tournament between some of your favorite sci-fi/fantasy characters. The results are determined by our votes, however, so head over now and vote! Even if you don't vote the predicted battles are hilarious.

3.04.2010

Song of the Week (Rocket - Goldfrapp)

This song strikes a strong nostalgic chord somewhere deep inside me. Should I like it? Probably not. Would I be happy to listen to this instead of the normal pop on the radio? Absolutely. If I'm going to listen to the radio then I want it to make me feel like I did as a kid. Sometimes you just want something light and airy. The rest of the time I assume you have your personal media device full of songs with more substance to impress your friends with.

There aren't any videos on YouTube currently that are embeddable so click here for the video. I'll keep an eye out for an embeddable version to replace this eventually.


Rocket

GOLDFRAPP | MySpace Music Videos

2.19.2010

Song of the Week (Mountain Man - Crash Kings)

I heard this song on the radio this week; it was like a glistening diamond engagement ring stuck in a pile of dog poo. Sometimes you have to get shit on your hands if you want to find diamonds.

2.11.2010

Song of the Week (A Song for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age)

2.04.2010

Song of the Week (Lazy Eye - Silversun Pickups)

Do you get all nostalgic listening to your old Smashing Pumpkins albums? Silversun Pickups takes everything that was great about the Smashing Pumpkins and keeps it going. I wanted to write more but I really can't; you'll just have to listen for yourself.

2.01.2010

Song of the Week (Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens)

This week's song comes from Sufjan Stevens, an amazing musician. I first heard about him when his album "Illinois" came out. It was the second of a very ambitious plan to release an album themed for each of the 50 states. His first album in the series was Michigan. Since the release of "Illinois" there have been hints of the release of another state, perhaps New Jersey, but recently Sufjan has all but said that the idea was a gimmick from the beginning and not something he really intends to follow through on. Nevertheless, both albums have given us some hauntingly fantastic music. He has either provided windows to his very soul and made sure they were wiped squeaky clean or has done a very good job of fooling us into believing the stories behind these songs are true and personal.

I chose "Casimir Pulaski Day" because of the emotion involved. It's a story about he and a childhood love who is diagnosed with cancer. Sufjan Stevens often includes spirituality in his music but I think he tries to make it a point not to use it as an avenue of evangelism for or against his beliefs. In this song, though, you can see some of the raw emotion that every Christian must face when dealing with the death of a loved one.

1.26.2010

Song of the Week (Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2)

One of the best songs ever written.

1.19.2010

Song of the Week (Bastards of Young - The Replacements)

I've been wanting to make this the song of the week for a while but have had trouble finding an embeddable (is that even a word?) version.

1.13.2010

Song of the Week (Happiness Is a Warm Gun - The Beatles)

Sorry for the delay. I was busy becoming a father :D

 
Copyright 2009 BraiNuggets