2. Provide Valuable Content that Gives a Reason for People to Return
Be social - engage users in your social ecosystem
As we mentioned above, the 20% of users that do look below the fold spend their time looking at the footer . It's very advantageous for designers to find ways to engage users with your social networks. Giving users one-click access to valuable information on your social feeds will provide a means to re-engage them even when they're not on your site. …
RSpec is Not The Reason Your Rails Test Suite is Slow
In a simple gist, RSpec maintainer David Chelimsky dispels the myth that RSpec drags slowness around with it, wherever it goes.
Oj: Optimized JSON Parser and Marshaller
Ry: The Simplest Ruby Version Manager
We have RVM, we have rbenv.. we now have 'ry' too! It bills itself as the 'simplest Ruby virtual environment' and its major design goal is to explicit, unobtrusive, …
- Giles Bowkett: Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Building Mobile Web Applications With Kendo UI And Engine Yard
- Merbist: Learning from Rails' failures
- Paul Gross's Blog: Untangle Domain and Persistence Logic with Curator
- paperplanes: On Notifications, Log Subscribers, and Bringing Sanity to Rails' Logging
- Dr Nic: Instant new Rails applications with the App Scrolls
…am planning to do a bona fide, licensed cover version soon, for which the Reason beat was an experimental sketch. Anyway, I replaced the Reason synths with hardware synths in this version . I think the Reason version actually sounds better, but that's no big shock really, because the goal of the hardware-enhanced version was just to do a proof of concept.
Here's how I did it.
I'm planning serious studio upgrades, but I'm also planning to launch some …
…misfires, but the whole reason I'm blogging about it at all is because the solution is easy. You use Reason for your drum sounds instead of the Roland "brain," which is pretty crappy. Just plug a MIDI cable into it and you're good. In Reason, it's really easy to set a velocity minimum on an individual sample in the NN-XT sampler. The purpose of this is velocity windows, and you'll use this if you want to play a different snare sample when you hit the drum …
Reason Provided: You misspelled the applicant's name
Several small things to notice:
First, notice that we passed in a string, "you misspelled the applicant's name", when we performed the kickback! event.
Second, notice we also pass in a nil... I'll explain that in a future blog post - in short, it is an undocumented feature in AASM where we can choose different transitions we might want to perform. Since we aren't using that, we just pass in nil.
Finally, …
By Kurt Kurasaki, aka Peff , author of what is easily the most sophisticated book on Reason (and I've read them all, or close to it). I got to see Peff demo cool Reason hacks at the Producer's Conference last year. Follow him if you use Reason!