Edit: I wouldve put this up earlier, but my site’s previous theme crushed the audio player.

I’ve had my turntables forever, but never really gave them the attention they need, but i’ve been wanting to a lot lately, so i’m gonna start a weekly post with my attempt at mixing.  It’s going to be awfully rough at the beginning, but if you stick with me, it’ll get better! This first one is about 25 minutes. Lemme know if you like it, all critism is welcome i know im just starting so hit me with what you got.  If you wanna hear something i can do that as well.

Peace!

Wack Ass Wednesday, 6-23

update: Tracklisting!

• House of Pain – Who’s The Man
• Digable Planets – Rebirth of Slick
• Method Man and Red Man – How High
• Snoop and Dre – Deep Cover
• Crooklyn Dodgers – Crooklyn
• Shyheim – On & On
• Lost Boyz – Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless
• Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize

1. I already had a rather deep friend network
2. Had amassed a good amount of pictures
3. Its a GREAT event planning platform
4. Its a great advertising platform

However after a while i was getting what i like to think of “Facebook Fatigue”, here’s what attributed it to me:

1. Application Notifications: I know these have been cut down a great bit by facebook, but i still can’t stand them.
2. Pointless updates from people i honestly dont care about anymore: I know it can be remedied with removing people, but I’m lazy.
3. Seeing the younger generation and how they interact/act online: This may be me just getting older but i know i didn’t act that way when i was 13-18.  It’s a bit out of hand.

While yes i know many of these things are trivial, its what wore me down.  If there was any kind of positives to it, I would list it, but honestly whenever i would go (at least once a day), i’d just be disgusted by what i saw (and yes i know the brevity of using the word disgusted) Having been facebook free for about three weeks, i can say i don’t miss it.  The only thing that sucks is when people on twitter link to facebook only initiatives, in which i don’t get to see it, but that’s a loss I’m more than willing to take.

While reading on mashable yesterday i came across this article about how Erykah Badu was trying to remove a lot of the middle man work while trying to get a sample cleared for her album.  As you can see in the article, she was able to, and got the sample cleared relatively easy.

Seeing that im a huge hiphop fan,  I know about the troubles and trials of getting sample clearances for songs.  For those who dont know, a producer of a song that samples any older music (that is copyrighted) has to get clearance to use that sample.  More detailed information can be found here.  It usually deals with going through a lot of lawyers and middle-men just to get something done.

However, thanks to twitter, Ms. Badu was able to ask for help on twitter, and through her following, she got in touch with Paul McCartney and got the sample cleared! Ive heard quite a few songs before sample clearance, and then, after not getting it cleared, the unfortunate remake of the same song.

Thats quite an interesting statement.  How many followers on twitter do you really consider a friend? Or facebook for that matter? Now if you hang out with people at a party, pass them by at a tech meetup, or happen to find them through a random retweet, you automatically get added on facebook, twitter, and they want a reference on linkedin.

On the other hand, maybe this is a positive progression into a more peaceful society? We’re all friends here, you and I.

what do you think? do you consider everyone you add on your networks your “Friend”?

So while ive been working on this, ive been running into a few issues, mainly getting the relations set up correct in the data models, but its been working very smoothly.  While re-working this, i thought to myself, i need to use the repository pattern in this.  As core data is still a bit new, there is still a little bit of textual writing while querying, and instead of having strings for this all over the place in various classes, ill just have them all in one class.

Here’s some info on the repository pattern (using .NET as an example) here.

In most of our recent projects, weve been using the repository pattern with our Linq-To-SQL classes, and its been very helpful in keeping code clean, with all of the querying in one spot.

Im currently working on an example project in XCode that shows how to implement the repository pattern, while using protocols as well for some cool safecatches.

Look for that towards monday or tuesday.

Pros: Less Code, Very Little Handwritten SQL (Predicates still need it)

Cons:Any numeric value and Bools are saved as NSNumber.

All in all its a fun adventure so far, ill keep you up to date!

If you use google for your scheduling, this is definitely great for you, and if not, you can at least have a calendar that has the most important sports dates for you!

http://calendar.google.com

Hope the long holiday is treating you well.

Quick post about my current favorite app, sportacular for the iphone.

Sportacular has been on my phone for a while anyways for regular score checking whenever im on the go. However, with push notifications theyve definitely added a bit of awesome to the app.

Via some very simple settings, you can have sportacular notify you if the score changes, when a period ends, when the game starts and when the game ends.

While this isnt the first app that ive used push notifications on, its the one that im most thankful for.

The best part? its free.

So if youre a sports fan and have been looking for a good app that notifies you, pick this up!