abc notation blog occasional musings on the world of abc …

01/07/2010

New look

Filed under: Website — Tags: , , , — Chris @ 9:19 pm

Not content with giving the blog a makeover, I’ve just redesigned the page layout for the rest of the site.

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24/06/2010

Blog makeover

Filed under: Website — Chris @ 7:07 pm

I’ve just given the blog a bit of a makeover.

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21/06/2010

One year in …

Filed under: Announcements,Thoughts,Tunes,Website — Tags: , , , , , — Chris @ 5:30 pm

The new version of the abc website – abcnotation.com – launched on 21st June 2009, is one year old today.

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18/05/2010

New abc javascript renderer

Filed under: Announcements,Software,Website — Tags: , , , , , — Chris @ 10:33 pm

In another exciting development for abc, Gregory Dyke and Paul Rosen have just released their javascript abc renderer, abcjs.

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12/05/2010

New tunes for May

Filed under: Announcements,Tunes,Website — Tags: , , , — Chris @ 5:48 pm

I’ve just released the May edition of the tune search – now with 61,000 tunes, including several thousand newly added song melodies from the Digital Tradition archive. Enjoy!

Chris

14/04/2010

Search insight

Filed under: Tunes,Website — Tags: , , , — Chris @ 10:59 pm

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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01/04/2010

Highly recommended

Filed under: Announcements,Tunes,Website — Tags: , , , , , — Chris @ 8:09 am

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

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23/03/2010

Feed me

Filed under: Announcements,Website — Tags: , , , , , — Chris @ 4:24 pm

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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05/03/2010

Tunes galore

Filed under: Tunes,Website — Tags: , , , — Chris @ 8:26 pm

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

12/02/2010

Linux & multi-platform software

Filed under: Announcements,Software,Website — Tags: , , , , — Chris @ 8:42 pm

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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