Well, here it is folks, a fully playable beta version of Editise. The reason I haven't overwritten the old version is because for some purposes, the old one is much much better. However, this one has a major advantage: it will one day become a native iPhone app.
That's right. If I can get my act together for long enough and sort it out, you will one day be able to download Editise from the apple store onto your iPhone, iPod Touch and (eventually) iPad. That is provided Apple approves it. God only knows why they would. Here's a few things to keep an eye one:
• You have to click the Load Projects button in order to see your saved files.
• Woe betide you if you navigate away or refresh - you'll lose all saved files. This is because that's not a problem on an iPhone - the app never really leaves the page.
• There is a sample demo page that I made, but you have to load it in by clicking the button first.
• There is nothing on the settings page. I doubt there ever will be, it will probably become an about page.
• You don't need to type out the full file structure on this one, you just need to put what you'd have inside the body tag. You'll also need to do inline styling. I'm hoping that I'll be able to fix this, if I'm lucky/clever enough.
• If you want to reference other files you've saved for what ever reason, there is a way, but I'm not entirely sure what it is... Honestly. That happens more often than you'd think when you're doing programming.
• It works best if you look at it on an iPhone or iPod touch, I think. I haven't actually tested it yet - that bit comes next.
• If you really, really want it, I can send you the sauce code. It's not particularly interesting, it's basically a bunch of for statements that throw harmless errors, and the occasional array. I used jQuery and jqTouch for the back end and the theme. The final version will have my own styling on the backgrounds and what not.
• If I'm lucky/smart enough, the final version will have a way to email yourself the final code. This will also be implemented on the online version, probably before it is on the native version.
I think that's it. If you have any feedback* then please let me know either through my email address or the contact form on my home page. Enjoy!
*be very nice, I don't respond well to criticism.
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For starters, let me say "happy new year!" to everyone (emphasis on the word one) who reads this.
Anyway, on with the blog.
I would like to extend an open invitation to anyone to ask me to debunk, prove or disprove anything.
Clearly, I won't be able to do literally anything, for example, prove or disprove God or alien life (although I will have a very good crack at it), but things like 2012 apocalypse theories, conspiracy theories, CERN creating a black hole, etc etc, are all on the table. If you're worried about anything, confused about anything, want to prove something to a friend but can't, or just want to know something, I will do my very very hardest to help you out, and explain my answer in a way that is easy to understand. My main peeve with science is the elitist terminology that has an annoying habit of blocking laymen from understanding it.
You'll be able to ask me how I'm doing when ever you want, and I'll give you a brief answer of my findings so far. Eventually though (it might be immediately), I will put a post up here giving a full answer that I hope will satisfy you. You will be free to post a rebuttal, and I will go through my answer either rebuffing or retracting each point I make until you are satisfied.
What have you got to loose?
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As you all know, Killing In The Name has made it to the top of the charts to become Christmas number one for 2009. This is completely absurd for 3 reasons.
1) Killing In The Name was released under the record label Epic, which is a subsidiary of Sony's record label, Sony Music Entertainment. Three guesses as to which record label releases the x-factor winner's single. Combined, the singles sold almost a million copies between them (500,000 for RATM, 450,000 for 'winner' Joe McElderry). That's a million CD sales for Sony. Really fucked the system on that one, right?
2) The song actually features the lyrics "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me". Now you can talk about how ironic it is that Killing In The Name made it to number one, and how it's not a very christmasy song. You know what I think is ironic? That people have taken this song, and done everything it tells you not to. Half a million people downloaded a song, because they either thought it would make them cool, or someone told them to, essentially nullifying any message the song had. A better song would have been Take The Power Back, a song which is actually about how rubbish society is.
3) The reason that this campaign was launched was to send a message to Simon Cowell; "we're not going to take the crappy music that you spew out any more". I have two things to say to that. The first is that clearly we are. For four years running between 2005 and 2008, x-factor made it to the number one spot, selling a good couple of million CDs (Alexandra Burke's version of Hallelujah sold 576,000 copies in it's first week alone) for Sony in the process. OK, I'm going to guess that you're rebuttal is that people have changed, and want stuff like RATM now. Well, to that, I say my second point; why hasn't this happened before? Sure, it was because of an internet campaign, but the real reason is because the kind of 'counter-culture' MEDC kids who listen to RATM don't tend to pay for music. Buying something legally in a shop has become uncool, and that is doing far more damage to the music industry than a thousand Simon Cowell's. I don't blame them; what's the incentive to pay for music? You can get it for free and with much less effort if you type "Limp Bizkit" into a The Pirate Bay, so why bother saving up and going out to buy the record? There are reasons, but if you can't figure them out or don't know them, they won't persuade you, so I won't waste my time.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that RATM won, they raised a good £65,000 from public donations, and are donating all royalties to Shelter as well. This is truly a worthy cause, but it is not what it seems. RATM get to decide what they do withe their share of the money, but unfortunately, not all of the money is theirs. Sony will probably take a scoop, to cover "administration and manufacturing".
What I'm getting at, is that this time next year, there will be another x-factor winner and another x-factor christmas single, and (in all likelihood) another x-factor christmas number one. Already groups are popping up on facebook advertising the next 'Fuck You' christmas number one, but they're all different songs. If someone can organise another, proper fight back for next year, with a good song, like something by The Sound of the Ladies, or another band with an independent label, (or in TSOTL's case, no label at all), then we might be in with a chance. Till then, we've got nothing.
By the way, TSOTL are amazing. Check it out.
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