Download the TwistedWave – Punch and Roll script here.
Two months ago, I put together a Punch and Roll script for Audacity. It was a bit clunky, but it worked. I’ve since modified it, and broken it out into separate parts (move audio, run pre-roll, etc), and I have found it much more useful.
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So far, 2014 is shaping up to be a great year.
I completed two wonderful projects in January (an audiobook and a website).
The audiobook is an interesting piece of speculative fiction by JC Andrijeski called Karma. The story revolves around two immortal souls that encounter each other th...
Recently, I got an email from Dries Buytaert (CTO of Acquia) that I’d like to share with you.
Hello stevenjaycohen,
recently Mollom has been feeling kind of lonely. We noticed that your site https://stevenjaycohen.com hasn’t made any requests to Mollom for about two weeks.
If you decid...
Over the last few weeks, I have completely rebuilt GaSP (both the front and back ends).
It is now fast, secure, and intuitive, while keeping the source code easily readable (Hey, I spent too many years as an educator for that not to be one of my goals). All of the changes inspired me to buil...
After a bit of a refactoring frenzy of late, GaSP can now intelligently reformat its content for mobile, tablet, and desktop computers. I big thank you goes out to the people behind PHP Mobile Detect for helping to make it this easy to implement.
Making GaSP mobile-aware lead me to re-examin...
After a short stint of a few months with Drupal, you may have noticed that, once again, this site is running GaSP.
Drupal is wonderfully powerful but was “getting in the way” instead of fascilitating creative expression.
So, I have resurrected the GaSP project. I am still doing a bit of cleani...
Google Friend Connect offers a lot of features that are on my To Do list for GaSP. And, I have been keeping GaSP lean and fast in part by leaning on existing packages where I can. At this point, the only code duplication that I have would be the Comment System. It would be deprecated in favor...
As you may have noticed, my site is no longer powered by Drupal. Let me start by saying that I have nothing against Drupal, I think it is a wonderful system, but… (and there’s always a but) when trying to upgrade to Drupal 7, I got stuck without being to fulfill the minimum requirements to install...
From Microsoft Confirms IE9 Won’t Come to XP – HotHardware:
Since the ranks of Windows XP will not be diminishing any time soon, this means that IE8 support in websites will be around for a very long time to come. This is not a bad thing actually. In fact, IE8 does a pretty good job b...
So how do you get a beautiful application? You have it designed by people who understand visual design and usability. Period.
Even though Amy Fowler was talking about Ja...
Over the weekend, I redesigned my website. I’m mostly happy with what I have so far. Some of it was inspired by an old design I did for my site when it had been powered by WordPress.
I have a question for anyone reading this. Are the Block Headers (SUBSCRIBE, LINKS, JOURNAL, FRIENDS) necessa...
This is helping to crystalize my thinking about Web Applications. I like Single Page Interfaces, but I have yet to articulate the reasoning behind my preference, even to myself.
In fact, I’m not sure that I am capable of that articulation yet. At the moment, my mind is a sieve. And, I am pouring e...
Marrying web pages with applications is a tricky business. One must remember that the history of the Web affects end user expectation of how a site will behave. As we start to embed applications into sites, we must learn how best to bring these two disparate sets of expectations together.
From Im...
As I settle into the fact that my site has been fully migrated, I breathe a sigh of relief.
I have ported all of the old entries from sagefire.org to the Journal. I still need to look through them and clean them up. I really don’t like dead links, even if they are just pointing to old youtube vide...
From Designs
I just finished customizing a WordPress skin for SarahStockwell.com. The point was to reflect Sarah’s musical style, integrate with her Online Store at CD Baby, and give her an easy non-geeky way of updating her own site.
