Logic Pro Studio is Awesome
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So I bought Logic Studio. It's awesome! I haven't even scratched the surface yet. It's awesome to know that you have all of the tools right in front of you to make any sound you could possibly think of.
I have had the Behringer FCB1010 for awhile. It's a MIDI controller with 10 stomp boxes and 2 expression pedals. I have only spent a few hours playing with MainStage with it. It's going to be awesome! I am really excited about having an awesome guitar rig.
I think I am going to sell all of my analoge pedals, pedal board, power supplies, and Mbox. I'll probably just buy a better audio interface and save the rest. I've been having latency issues. I need to test my setup with some different interfaces.
Installer.app on iPhone 1.1.1, Finally
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After many hours of work with the new jailbreak, I have successfully installed Installer.app on my iPhone. It is awesome to have my apps back.
DO NOT INSTALL SUMMERBOARD!!!! This totally screwed my iPhone up. It put the dock at the top and freaked it out. I tried deleting the plist file that contains the list order and stuff. It completely broke my SpringBoard (the application that shows all of the icons and such on the home screen).
An interesting thing happened after I deleted it though. My background changed to look like the iPod Touch. It had the same dock too. Even the AT&T icon in the bar at the top said iPod. It appears that that is the default configuration for the SpringBoard. Unfortunately, I didn't back that plist up before SummerBoard screwed it up. I had to start the entire process over. Darn.
iPhone Update 1.1.1 and Installer.app
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I, like many others I waited in line on June 29, 2007 for the Apple iPhone. As you all know, I'm a coder. I like like to tinker with stuff and see how it works. I had apps on my phone long before Null River released their installer.app. I was using jailbreak, iphoneinterface, and other random tools from the iphone-dev-team.
After hearing Kevin Rose speak so highly of installer.app, I decided to give it a try. I love installer.app. It makes doing stuff so easy. For someone that isn't that code savvy, it is perfect.
When I saw the iPhone 1.1.1 update today, I got scared. After reading this AppleInsider story, I was even more scared. This is at the top of the EULA of the update:
Internet Explorer is Stupid
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This is retarded. I’m going to complain for a minute here. To be valid XHTML1.1, you need to make your content type application/xhtml+xml. By default the content type is text/html which isn’t valid XHTML1.1. In Internet Explorer, it doesn't know what to do with the application/xhtml+xml content type and asks the user to download it. WHY!? That is so dumb. Why does Microsoft refuse to listen to web standards? I do not understand. There is an easy work around for this, but that is dumb that this has to be done.
While we’re complaining, why doesn’t IE6 not display PNGs when it can? You can hack it to display them (with this clever script). It's so annoying. This is why samsoffes.com will not be supporting IE6. I give up.
Update: I can’t get it to validate now. I need to do some work on that little piece of code.
Sidebar Widgets
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Today I've been messing with my sidebar a little more. I really like the new Digg Widgets, but I was having trouble styling them the way I wanted.
Solution: write my own. I figured why not. I've been messing with PHP5's xml classes and thought it would be fun. (Notice http://samsoffes.com/rss written entirely in PHP5's SimpleXML class.) After struggling to open an external file with file_get_contents(), I resorted to using cURL...
It works well. I had some problems grabbing the digg count and had to use xpath(). The xpath() method of the SimpleXML class always returns an array. This is very annoying when you would expect it not to return an array if you only get one result.