It’s a Uke world, we just live in it

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I have some links to share about ukulelies today. Scroll to the end of the post for why 🙂

Metafilter Thread: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performs the theme to “Shaft” (SYTL). Really, is any description needed?

YouTube: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Shaft

YouTube: Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – The Good the Bad the Ugly

Philly.com: Tiptoeing no more – A revival of the sweet-sounding ukulele is stimulating Philadelphia’s music scene, with classical, jazz and even rock sounds.

YouTube: Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro

YouTube: Sci-Fi Ukulele: Doctor Who Theme

YouTube: Run to the Hills, Iron Maiden (on ukulele)

We bought Emma a Uke almost a year ago and she strums along while I play guitar or to just about any music playing in the house, but sometimes she just rocks out 🙂

Open Source Rich Internet Application Framework at CIM: OpenPyro

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Check it out: OpenPyro: OpenPyro is a pure AS3 framework for creating RIA’s. Open Pyro draws a lot of inspiration from Flex but aims to be more expressive as well as have a smaller filesize and memory footprint.

Arpit Mathur, one of the most brilliant developers I know and a straight up Flash guru is leading the Open Pyro project. He recently posted about OpenPyro on his personal blog and includes a screencast of him using the framework to develop an app.

Kevin Fitzpatrick another CIM Flash master, and lead developer of another open source project at CIM, LogBook, comments about OpenPyro.

Some ummm… presidential links for today

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In software engineering we have a concept called ‘Duck Typing’. Basically, some languages trust developers more so than others (lets say Python versus Java), and you can trust that if an object ‘walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck’.

You end up writing far less code due to the trust you have that things are what they appear to be.

In this year’s Presidential campaign, you have a candidate that looks like a normal Joe, walks like a normal Joe, and talks like a normal Joe, but whose income is anything but.

Can you guess who?

CNBC.com: Warren Buffet explains the credit crisis to Charlie Rose

FREE FOR ALL! the movie – watch it online. Roger Ebert’s review.

Andrew Sullivan: Confronting Racism Against Obama (Powerful video)

NYTimes: Tom Davis Gives Up

YouTube: SNL VP Debate (via akkamsrazor)

YouTube.com: 5 Friends Uncensored – Don’t Vote

YouTube.com: Bob Dylan: A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

Upgrading SVN on Leopard

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If you’ve been keeping your Subclipse Eclipse plugin up to date on Leopard, sooner or later you will be met with a situation where your svn cli client will report an incompatibility and lead you to upgrading it.

The problem starts when you download and install the universal binary at CollabNet.

Installation goes well, but it doesn’t upgrade the original installation you have on your machine.

The simplest solution found in the comments in this post was to override path so that /usr/local/bin/ takes precedence over /usr/bin/ . In addition, I took the additional step of moving the original svn binaries from /usr/bin to a backup folder, to avoid any possible conflicts.