Last night I dealt with the heat the only way I know how.

A quick talk, the same content as given at Oxford Geek Nights in November 2012.

Unit Testing in Go at GLUG : handout version

With the help of @domeheid and @gasmanic. Try using this next time you’re spelling something out over the phone.

Aye

Bee

Cellar

Dvorak

Eye

Faroe

Gnat

Heir

Iain

Jalapeno

Knot

Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

Mnemonic

Not

Ouija

Pharaoh

Quay

Rote

Sea

Tchaikovsky

Umm

Vowel

Why

Xi

You

Zhivago

An event to celebrate the second International Bagpipe Day! Held at the Pitt Rivers museum, Oxford.

I was scratching my head for a bit over this one. Using Play Framework v 2.1.0 (Scala) in development mode I was defining my global object as per the Scala Global documentation. But it wasn’t triggering (and, I thought, wasn’t being registered).

OxLork, a band of musicians in possession of computers (and, I hope, an increasing knowledge of how to make new things with them) had a gig at the Ashmolean Museum on Friday. Very exciting.

Not brilliant photos, but better than nothing.

Traditional tunes have a particular shape to them. Many, especially northern European, have two parts, each repeated, possibly with first and second time bars. Within this arching structure that spans the tune in a few leaps, there are smaller repeated phrases, callbacks and variations. I remembered a visualisation I saw a long time ago which took a MIDI file and visualised the structure. I wanted to do something for the tunes in FolkTuneFinder.

I am hosting all of the OxLork ChucK lecture code samples here: https://github.com/afandian/oxlork-lecture-code

It seems like everyone’s got their own idea about how to implement a fairly standard commonplace widget. All broadly consistent. With one exception.

(punchline: give up it won’t work but it’s an interesting story)