Chris Mendez

Groundswell Test

New online platforms are arriving all the time so it's helpful to have a little test that separates the good from the bad. * Does it enable...

For Managers

Making digital experiences better

Chris Mendez

This project is incredible. It really captures my mind and helps me understand the new generation of digital products that contain an analog experience. > "We'...

Music Industry

Website Evaluation

Chris Mendez

Below is USC Annenberg professor @ABHollingshead [https://twitter.com/ABHollingshead] guide on how to conduct a website audit. Website Audit * Context: How appealing is the layout and design?...

For Managers

The challenge with digital music today

Chris Mendez

This quote is fantastic. It keeps me thinking that in the old days, pre Internet, the obstacle every music listener faced did not have enough money to purchase...

For Managers

How to Convert Latitude and Longitude into a String Using Geohash

Chris Mendez

I use Geohash all the time to store latitude and longitude inside a MySQL or SQLite database. If I'm using Postgres, Couch, or MongoDB, latitude, and...

NodeJS

On being a DJ

Chris Mendez

A few of my favorite quotes on being a DJ. Focus > Focusing on doing one thing 100%. Too many ideas confuse people. – DJ Nu-Mark (2004 [http://www....

Music Industry

Simple NodeJS TCP

Chris Mendez

This is the simplest NodeJS app you can make that uses TCP. var net = require('net'); var server = net.createServer( onServerHandler ); server.listen(8080, 'http:...

NodeJS

I saw this excellent Kickstarter interview on Bleu, the entrepreneurial-style musician who earned $40k to start a record label [http://blog.kickstarter.com/post/1602573894/bleu-talks-to-kickstarter]. What I...

For Managers

Streaming Mp3's using SoundManager2 + MediaElement

Chris Mendez

I've written about 8 or 9 streaming music players in the past six years, and considering how quickly client-side technology changes, I figure I'll...

Radio

Pushing Multiscreen Experiences

Chris Mendez

I've watched this video so many times I'm almost at the point of memorizing it. There's just so much to learn from...

For Managers

Responsible Tech Journalism

Chris Mendez

For Managers

If it ain't broke

Chris Mendez

> If it ain't broke, but it cost a lot of money, fix it....

For Managers

Developing for Blackberry Playbook using Flash CS5

Chris Mendez

Deprecated I'm not sure if Gen Y'ers in the UK are responsible for shaping my opinion of Blackberry [http://bit.ly/gen-y-uk-bb] or if...

For Developers

Think Differently

Chris Mendez

> The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."--Friedrich...

Quotes

Cloud computing & song scrobbling on Last.fm

Chris Mendez

I'm extremely late to this whole Last.fm thing, but then again, I'm not sure if I've missed much. From what I...

Music Industry

@spotify vs @rdio

Chris Mendez

First, I have to say; I love @Spotify. I fell in love with the software while I was visiting a friend in London. He just had all this...

Music Industry

How to Get Data with YQL (Yahoo Query Language)

Chris Mendez

DEPRECATED This article is here for archival purposes. The Yahoo YQL [https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/] website is incredible for data scraping and crawling. The examples below were...

For Developers

Search for MP3's, PDF's, or Comic Books using Google

Chris Mendez

Here are a few handy searches I've collected over the years. Search for Audio MP3s -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last...

jQuery: Detecting a Browser Resize

Chris Mendez

This Event Listener + Handler will detect the new height of the browser window. <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="https://ajax....

Javascript

jQuery: Common Browser Sniffing

Chris Mendez

There have been a few times where I've been forced to reduce myself to browser sniffing. In this example, I'm making an ad hoc...

Javascript

jQuery: Ensure that at least one checkbox is selected

Chris Mendez

Ok so here's the scenario, Suppose you have some sort of form with a couple of checkboxes and you want the user to select at least...

Javascript

Python: Basic Feedparser example

Chris Mendez

Download Feedparser [https://pypi.org/project/feedparser/] through Pip. import feedparser d = feedparser.parse("http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/twelvetone") print d['feed'...

Python

Create a tar.gz Archive using macOS Terminal

Chris Mendez

Tar is short for Tape Archive and is unique in that you can pick between different compressions such as gzip, bzip2 or xz. Archive Example 1 - gzip...

Ruby: Mixing in a Module immediately after an object's Singleton class

Chris Mendez

There are two ways to insert a Module above the objects singleton class but before the objects Class. # You can open the class definition body of a singleton...

Ruby

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