Many years ago I discovered NoteWorthy Composer, and I’ve been using it for music notation ever since.
Unfortunately, I find that NoteWorthy doesn’t scale very well in several important dimensions. In particular, it lacks the ability to:
Let the user manipulate multiple staves at once (even just for copying/cutting and pasting a horizontal section of music from [...]
I am in a state of transition: from Java to OCaml.
I like Java as a platform primarily for its matureness, static typing, and great IDE integration (Netbeans in particular). But lately I’ve been finding myself manipulating a lot of tree structures—ASTs, query plans, nested relations, automatically generated GUI layouts—and Java is just too verbose. Even [...]
First of all, what’s a good name for these kinds of applications? I am talking about MS Access, FileMaker, 4th Dimension, Kexi and so on. They are not exactly databases (they can be, but they’re more than that), they are not exactly IDEs (they sort of are, but that term is not specific enough), and [...]
I found a new Firefox Add-on I will never want to be without again today: Mouseless Browsing. The documentation is rather bad (too complicated), but here’s the rundown: with numlock on, press “.” on the numerical keypad to show/hide a unique number next to each link/button/etc. on the current web page. To activate any particular [...]