DW Recording: Day 39

Had the opportunity to get the lead guitar work done for Muddy Ditch. Trying to get more consistent with lead guitar… but even when I think I’ve played a part slowly enough (to not sound hurried or erratic,) I hear the recording play back… and end up trying all over again.

I’m finding that the electric guitar (for lead parts, at least,) is almost like a river; it moves and bends… it naturally needs to flow.

Ideal Framework

Lately, I’ve been working on getting a simple web framework up and running. Partly for show. Partly for practicality. Sometimes I just need to have something in my toolkit that I can use for both of those purposes. Enter Ideal Framework.

It’s really not that great. But, I like to keep things simple. I do like Rails… and the organization it brought to some web applications in general, but I tend to find myself using PHP a lot more often; at least for web-related programming.

If you are interested in things web development… here’s the book on Ideal (in progress.) And, here is the GitHub repository, as well.

DW Recording: Day 36

I do believe that the lead guitar (and lead guitar FX,) parts for songs 11 and 12 (Lonely Girl and Mother of Waters,) are now recorded. Still want to make sure they all fit together… but, I’m glad they are recorded. It’s still amazing to me how playing just one note can actually sound alright… at least, when it’s being used for rhythm.

DW Recording: Day 35

I think the recording is already partly done for the 17th song… but I still have to check. In the meantime, I just decided to get the rhythm guitar (and some, or all, of the lead guitar parts,) tonight for the 18th song (What is Left).

Still trying to aim for a more-human feel, or emotional quality, to the recording. I’m finding that it’s tougher than I thought to make something sound more relaxed (sloppy,) on purpose… while still making it fit with the tempo of the song.

CSS Clean

Finally got around to making a script to clean up my poor CSS files; enter CSS Clean.

So why would I need this? Because a lot of my CSS files are built over a long period of time… with thoughts and experiments randomly cut and pasted. After a while, the CSS gets hard to read because of the lack of organization.

So, instead of having something like this:

/* Before CSS Clean */
#selector {
    width: 150px;
        border: 1px solid #000;
   color: #070;
}

I can finally have something like this:

/* After CSS Clean */
#selector {
  border: 1px solid #000;
  color: #070;
  width: 150px;
}

All nice and alphabetized-like… and indented.