Even more news about Black Flag.
“Black Flag” to perform at Hevy Fest
The organizers of Hevy Fest in the UK have announced that Black Flag will perform at this year’s festival. The band is to feature Black Flag members Greg Ginn and singer Ron Reyes. No word on who else will be in the lineup. The performance is being billed as the band’s “only UK show in 2013,” indicating that other shows with this lineup are in the works.
Click through and test the demos. They run really fast on in Chrome.
voxel.js * blocks in yo browser
voxel.js is a collection of projects that make it easier than ever to create 3D voxel games like Minecraft all in the browser.
It was written by @maxogden and @substack, two non-game developers that want to make voxel games easy, fun and modular. If you find bugs it is because we don’t really know what we are doing. The good news is that 100% of the code is on Github so we hope you will fork it.
Have you ever wanted to play Lysine by Freex? Chordify will tell you the chords. The results aren’t perfect, but they will do.
How to use Chordify | Blog | Chordify | Tune Into Chords
Chordify is a free online music service – made for and by music enthusiasts – that transforms music, from YouTube, SoundCloud or your private collection, into chords. Our service automatically recognises chords from the audio signal, and aligns them to the music in a simple and intuitive player. Chordify is a cutting edge service that helps both novice and trained musicians to play the music they want to play, making state-of-the-art music technology available to the public at large.
Here are a few new tools that intersect with stuff I’m usually working on. Parsely looks to be an interesting alternative to JQuery’s validation plugin. Sass isn’t new, but the blog post below was quite handy for getting me up to speed quickly. Amazon’s Clustrix is a cloudified version of MySQL.
Parsley.js
Never write a single javascript line anymore to validate your forms FrontEnd. Parsley will do that for you and do it right, thanks to its powerful DOM-API !
Amazon’s Clustrix
Clustrix is an SQL database built from ground-up for scale, performance, and fault tolerance in the cloud. Clustrix offers fast transactional query performance at virtually any data set size and concurrency. With Clustrix, you never have to worry about database scalability again.
The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Sass – Treehouse Blog
Using Sass for your CSS preprocessing is a useful tool for executing responsive web design. Andrew takes us through the absolute beginner’s guide to Sass.
Indeed.
I have been presented with these riddles, even after I was a best-selling author. The last time it happened to (years ago), I told the interviewer it was a ridiculous question I refused to answer. However, I heard a story last night of what must be the worst interview hazing I’ve heard about. For an employee being interviewed for a promotion, the company arranged for a three-way conference call. By design, one of the attendees did not call into meeting. The test was to see if the employee being interviewed would speak poorly of the jerk who was bailing on an important meeting with no notice.
I wonder if these pranksters understand they’ve made a clear invitation to dishonesty at the crucial beginning of a working relationship.
assertTrue( ): Riddles have no place in job interviews
I’ve seen “tech recruitment” from both sides of the desk. I have been a job applicant, and I have been a hiring manager. Neither role is pretty.
One of the unprettier sides of the hiring process in R&D is the on-site-interview stage, when the hiring manager (or one of his peers) gets to ask the applicant highly technical domain-knowledge questions. This can be done skillfully or poorly. It gets ugly fast when it becomes a hazing ritual based on riddle-solving.