Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Online music is a fascinating space with a lot of creativity and competitors, there are many heavyweights but plenty of nimble startups as well. In the olden days, online music meant pirated music. I have too much respect for musicians to be a pirate. Of course I’m in the minority and musicians have had to [...]

I never set out to write this much PHP code. But after seeing what passes for a PHP API to access Amazon Product Information, well I vowed to do a good job on my PHP class, even though it was intended for my own personal use. I had modest goals at the beginning I just [...]

So I’ve been working on my cover gallery err mashup and I decided what it needed was a button linking to the Facebook fanpage but that proved difficult to pull off. I’m using an extension to the actual Facebook PHP SDK, which didn’t perform as advertised, but now the developer has modified it. I still [...]

Last night I worked on my PHP code base and again this evening. I’ve hunted down a few more bugs, specifically album and artist names with strange characters in them. Caching is working well so performance at least for albums and artists that have been cached is really good, at least for this week. Next [...]

So I’m up late updating my miniature painting blog and generally reading about miniature painting. When I notice my laptop wants to update. I ignore it for a while. Then I see what it is and it is a new version of iTunes. No biggie, no need to reboot, so I let it download. It [...]