Highly recommended

I’ve been busy out the back again, working on another little feature for the site – a recommender system.

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Feed me

Another brief update – some time ago someone suggested that the forums had an RSS / Atom feed so that users can keep up to date with new posts without having actually having to visit the forums.

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Tunes galore

I’ve just released the March 2010 edition of the tune search – it’s reached 56,000 tunes now, clean and shiny and just itching to be played.

Chris

tunepal.org

I’ve mostly used this blog for posting updates about the abcnotation.com website. However, I just wanted to let people know about tunepal.org, a remarkable new abc development from Bryan Duggan.

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Linux & multi-platform software

Minor improvement to the site …

Thanks to Sue Blake who pointed out that the software page didn’t show programs that work on Linux / Unix machines and gave me a list of those that do.

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You what?

One of the joys of running a website is discovering all the different ways people find of trying to subvert it.

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How to understand abc (the basics)

[the second in a series of articles on using and understanding abc]

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The abc website

There are still loads of links out there for the old versions of the abc website address and I’m just putting up this message in the vain hope that people might correct them.

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Top of the Pops 2

I’ve just amended – slightly – the code that creates the top tune charts so that it now excludes recent winners for a week.

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Top of the pops

I’ve been amusing myself over the Christmas period by writing a bit of code that works out the top ten tune pages visited and searches made recently.

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