Making Music w/ Python and Beatbox (Drew Smathers)

• Some pretty cool MIDI info in here.
• BeatLounge looks pretty cool, but it seems a bit low-level if your goal is to make music. I bet they write some abstractions on top of it when they’re using it themselves.
• Not really aimed at live coding.
• Loading soundfonts is expensive, so load them before you start flexing your musical.
• Big emphasis on arpeggiators. I think I’d need to hear this in action to understand what exactly this means.
• Sweet, you can implement paradiddles.

Build Automation with Jenkins (Russell Myers)

• Why CI? The standard reasons.
• Jenkins is awesome because it gives you a GUI (even if it is fugly) to control all the things you used to have to hack XML files to manage in CruiseControl.
• Sadly, git support is not baked in.
• Hehe, the CI game.
• Sweet! There’s a plugin to push your Jenkins config into source control.

Back to flipping out…