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August | 2015 | Bit-Wise Dilettante
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Monthly Archives: August 2015. Adventures in ASP.NET MVC: A migration experiment from Laravel. August 13, 2015. Back in early 2014, my office briefly put me in a production support rotation for our flagship application built on ASP.NET. I’ve been wanting to get out of the PHP ghetto for a while, and I’ve experimented with building desktop applications with the .NET framework in the past. So what would happen if I attempted to convert a Laravel application to ASP.NET MVC? So how did it go? Well, I got far...
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September | 2014 | Bit-Wise Dilettante
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Monthly Archives: September 2014. A music notation workflow: NotateMe to Notion to Sibelius. September 25, 2014. When I’m not wrestling WordPress and Drupal to do my bidding, I sometimes hunker down in my home studio to record music. Is the bedrock for this computer-based studio, with a lot of assistance from Native Instruments KONTAKT. I’ve recorded four albums and numerous EPs with this set-up. The Achilles heel, however, has been notation. I’ve downloaded Finale demos in the subsequent years to ...
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Notes on a migration: From Movable Type to WordPress/Drupal | Bit-Wise Dilettante
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Notes on a migration: From Movable Type to WordPress/Drupal. December 28, 2013. I think it’s been more than a year now since I switched from Movable Type as my primary content store. Fast forward to the present day when I took a job that required me to support WordPress and Drupal, and I knew nothing of these systems. So I adopted WordPress as a blogging platform and deployed Drupal for my music projects. As a user, I rather like the WordPress interface. It’s intuitive and feels speedy. Because I limited...
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Paying off the Vigilant Media Network technical debt | Bit-Wise Dilettante
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Paying off the Vigilant Media Network technical debt. June 12, 2014. The purchase of my Mac. Spurred me on to face the reality of my aging web stack. My technical debt had accumulated to the size of my financial debt, and it was time to pay up. Back in 2012, I laid some groundwork by moving Musicwhore.org. To WordPress and all my music-related projects. To Drupal. I did that out of professional necessity since I had to support those applications at work, and I had no experience with either. I’m kin...
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Laravel and WordPress: Options to run both | Bit-Wise Dilettante
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Laravel and WordPress: Options to run both. August 6, 2014. When my sites used to run on CodeIgniter, I would integrate Movable Type by not allowing Movable Type to display my content. Sure, I used Movable Type to manage the content, but I would build a presentation layer in CodeIgniter. I ended up with a few solutions, due to some design constraints held over from the CI/MT days. This blog resides under the sub-domain of. And it runs on WordPress. The main portfolio site. Run WordPress as the main site ...
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A music notation workflow: NotateMe to Notion to Sibelius | Bit-Wise Dilettante
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A music notation workflow: NotateMe to Notion to Sibelius. September 25, 2014. When I’m not wrestling WordPress and Drupal to do my bidding, I sometimes hunker down in my home studio to record music. Is the bedrock for this computer-based studio, with a lot of assistance from Native Instruments KONTAKT. I’ve recorded four albums and numerous EPs with this set-up. The Achilles heel, however, has been notation. At the moment, the music notation space is dominated by two packages: Finale. I’ve downloa...
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Cakewalk SONAR X1 Picture Cache: Clean early and often. June 20, 2012. A few weeks back, I performed some not-so-insignificant upgrades to the system that powers my home recording studio. I bought the Session Strings Pro. Sample libraries for Native Instruments Kontakt. And they taxed the RAM of poor Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. So I upgraded to 64-bit, added another 2GB of RAM and reinstalled all the studio software. Projects showed no hints of disruption. Continue reading →. June 20, 2012. Is one too...
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Adventures in ASP.NET MVC: A migration experiment from Laravel | Bit-Wise Dilettante
http://blog.vigilantmedia.com/2015/08/13/adventures-in-asp-net-mvc-a-migration-experiment-from-laravel
Adventures in ASP.NET MVC: A migration experiment from Laravel. August 13, 2015. Back in early 2014, my office briefly put me in a production support rotation for our flagship application built on ASP.NET. I’ve been wanting to get out of the PHP ghetto for a while, and I’ve experimented with building desktop applications with the .NET framework in the past. So what would happen if I attempted to convert a Laravel application to ASP.NET MVC? I spent few weeks at the start of 2015 finding out. Well, I got ...
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December | 2014 | Bit-Wise Dilettante
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Monthly Archives: December 2014. Using namespaces in WordPress themes and plugins. December 30, 2014. I consider myself a relative newcomer to WordPress plugin and theme development, but I have programmed in PHP for more than a decade. That said, my first attempts to create a theme and plugin consisted of taking someone else’s work and tweaking it till it did what I wanted it to do. In short, the classic hacker’s learning process. One idea drilled in the WordPress documentation is. Many enterprising deve...
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