Comments - I disabled the comment system in wordpress because of wordpress spam bots, hopefully this is easier to manage with Site.comMusic library - I may end up just having a flat list of all available tracks for short term solution- Feedback - I'll enable this section for any fellow musicians, gamers, web & tech nerds to provide feedback for the materials I expose
- Labs - I have no clue what this is for, but I just thought it sounded cool to have a page called "labs"
- Make more music! - I haven't created music for almost 20 months. Hopefully I can shell out some time to do some.
New RSS Feed - I just noticed that my site lacks rss feed!
I will work on the feedback page next. This may just be an extension of disqus.
[Edit] - I've added feeds for the blogs, will add one later for music. Both ATOM and RSS are available for your convenience. The feeds were done in code via Visualforce, if you find any issues, please let me know. The Atom Feed from Force.com Sites can't handle HTML escapes really well.
Stay tuned
Share My 2013's resolution is that I would get back onto the music making scene as well as picking up synth patch making, try to break this audio production "dry spell"
Here's a short demo of what I did prior to the Winter break of 2012:
https://soundcloud.com/kaiyoti/zebra2-drums
This is a drum track done entirely in the Zebra2 with patches I created after a few hours of obtaining Zebra2. Obviously inspired by the Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howards music from the Batman trilogy.
Hang tight for music with these drums to come in the future!
I've put the music library up using simple links. This is not an exhaustive list of my materials.
In order to play a track without downloading, left click on the Play link next to the track. If you want to download a track, you can left-click on the Download link next to the track.
If you want to share my music with friends, right click on the track name itself and copy the url. To clarify:
Track Name - This is a "regular" mp3 link. You can right click download... left click play (if your browser supports playing inline browser)
Download - This link is a custom made link that forces a download when you left click on it.
Play - If you don't want to download a track and just demo it, left click on this link, it will play it in a custom flash player. Note this is not the link you share with your friends!
To go to the Music Library, just click on the Music link in the menu.
Enjoy!
As you may have noticed, the design of this site has changed a little bit. Unfortunately the music library bit is still left untouched. That would be my next priority.
What's important with this update is that the site is now hosted on the WYSIWYG Site.com from Salesforce! This is a (almost) complete conversion from wordpress to the Site.com app preserving most of the functionalities I had before. The records for these entries are now stored as Salesforce objects (since I didn't have that many entries, I manually imported the entries over). The construction of this site on site.com have minimal amount of custom / javascript hacks in order to minimize site.com upgrade regressions.
Unfortunately, posting youtube videos have proven to be very difficult since Salesforce Rich Text Area fields don't support embeds or iframe. My mini hack is to use regular links for youtube and have a script that automatically converts them into iframes. So if you're on a browser that doesn't support javascript, you're gonna have to click the link to view the videos.
Another tricky part to this site is the blog entry links was not possible with just the Site.com application. I had to use APEX triggers to generate the blog entry url ids so they don't just look like random hashes, I'm not exactly sure why most blogs display the date and subject in urls but I'm assuming it's for better information transfer.
eg. The url of this entry is: http://www.kaiyoti.com/blog/a?ID=A000041/09/27/2012/Kaiyoticom-is-now-hosted-on-Sitecom
as opposed to: http://www.kaiyoti.com/blog/a?ID=A000041
There is also an updated contact me section that's submits to Salesforce Cases Object I have yet set up email notification so please excuse me if I take longer than usual to respond to your requests.
It's also been 1+ year since I last updated my entries. And I sincerely apologize to the readers. I've gotten a lot of requests to revive the music library and I've only made broken promises. As I have said above, I will make this my first priority. The most difficult part with the music library is deciding which framework to use... html5? jqplayer? flash?
Here is a list of todos:
- Music library - I may end up just having a flat list of all available tracks for short term solution
- Comments - I disabled the comment system in wordpress because of wordpress spam bots, hopefully this is easier to manage with Site.com
- Feedback - I'll enable this section for any fellow musicians, gamers, web & tech nerds to provide feedback for the materials I expose
- Labs - I have no clue what this is for, but I just thought it sounded cool to have a page called "labs"
- Make more music! - I haven't created music for almost 20 months. Hopefully I can shell out some time to do some.
I'll try to keep readers posted on any updates to my site.
Actually my first "real" camera as my old ones were not mean to be cameras. Recently acquired the Sony Cyber-Shot HX7V camera and loving every bit of it. Coming from the Android phone's additional camera (Samsung Vibrant), this baby delivers.
Here's a test video:
I added some color correction by playing around with filters in Sony Vegas to give it the cinematic effects. Music was an old piece that I made called Y2010 (Check the player on the right hand side). Please note that I have reduced the audio from the video track because most of them you can hear me panting heavily due to my recent allergy attacks.
Here's a test image. I was a bit late to the bird demonstration but this image clearly demonstrates zoom at it's finest. Image was taken on Grouse Mountain in BC, Canada.
Hi, I'm Kaiyoti. But the name is Paul Chen. I'm a musician, a programmer, a gamer, a web guy, a redditor, and some other stuff...
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