Archive for the ‘Tunes’ Category

Search insight

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

I’ve recently enhanced the tune search by including the ability to search within the files from a particular web site. Thus you could now search, say, for jigs from a specific tune collection (or even a specific abc file).

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Highly recommended

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

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

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Tunes galore

Friday, March 5th, 2010

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

Top of the Pops 2

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

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

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

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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Merry Christmas

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Well, it’s been some time since I last blogged – nearly three months. Eek!

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Even more

Monday, September 14th, 2009

I’ve been busy out the back, working on some of the internal mechanisms of the tune search.

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Two weeks in

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Well, the website’s been live for two weeks now and hasn’t crashed once.

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Metallica

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Anyone who has visited the abc tune search more than once since the site was launched (just over a week ago) may have noticed the gradual evolution of the paragraph above the search box.

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Site now launched

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Well, it was a hard slog, but I finally got the new site launched.

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