BrenDevLog
Follow along as Brennan attempts to bootstrap a 1-man software company/indie game studio.
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What I'm workin' on

wifight is a free online multi-player multi-game turn-based game service. Is that enough hyphens? It's fun. I'm basu. Say hi in the chat room!
WINDOWS/PALMOS

Debris Visual Art: A long-running art project. It generates surrealistic paintinglike displays from random imagery accumulated from the Internet. The image continually shifts, but just barely too slowly to see. Someday you'll have a dedicated LCD picture frame in your house running this. I have been working on this off and on since about 2001.
WINDOWS

bmem: A simple (very simple) HUD for your PC, showing memory/CPU/disk use. In win32 the disk cache memory and free memory are kind of the same thing but they are reported separately, which is a huge pain. So I was inspired to write bmem. I also tried to make it as tiny and efficient as possible.
WINDOWS

RSXE: This is my RSS/Atom/whatever newsreader. It's kind of approaching alpha 1.0. I use it every day and code up a feature or two when I find something I miss. The goal here is simplicity, efficiency, and speed.
WINDOWS

Hlscript: When a programmer starts a blog, he can either use a pre-existing software package, or write one himself. Guess which option I picked. Hint: this blog runs on it! The design goals here are once again simplicity and speed. And easy hackability/customization. And not requiring a SQL engine. And not requiring too recent a version of PHP. Or browser.
PHP

Listo: A PHP-based personal streaming mp3 server. I wrote this to use with my Treo 650. It has a Web page interface to queue up songs while you stream them via PocketTunes or similar. It uses LAME to transcode songs to a usable bitrate. I use 32-40kbit mono variable bit rate over GPRS/EDGE.
PHP

 




 

 what is this blog about?
I read somewhere that all blogs should have an easily available explanation of what they are about. So here you go. This blog is a place for me, Brennan Underwood, to talk about programming and development in general, and about developing my own projects in specific, and also my efforts to create and run a one-man software company (called a Micro-ISV these days). I also have a cute puppy named Remy.
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Posted by Joe Thu 15 Jun 2006 at 13:10 from 69.69.122.x
Brennan, drop me an email at joe.laws@gmail.com when you get a chance.  I have some stuff with regards to Google Summer of Code that I need to speak with you about.

Posted by Tunji Afonja ( African Nerd) Mon 14 Aug 2006 at 15:41 from 69.251.30.x
Hi there,
You posted a comment on my blog a few days back about Listo. Very very cool stuff. I have some questions I would like ask about the set up and overall direction, in addition to some SHOUTcast based ideas I have. I think the best way to do this is via im. My msn id is tj8212@hotmail.com or for gtalk, tj8212@gmail.com I look forward to talking with you and sharing my ideas. Thanks

Posted by esther from the netherlands Sun 21 Jan 2007 at 06:37 from 194.109.241.x
//just thankfull monkey radio is online again//

Posted by Revolver Mon 09 Apr 2007 at 22:11 from 67.161.220.x
I love MonkeyRadio.org, and listen to it all the time. Is it bad for me to re-broadcast it from my site when I give full credit to you, and include links to MonkeyRadio.org? Let me know: www.gordonbsmith.com/meebo.html

Posted by matias Sun 12 Oct 2008 at 03:16 from 91.63.78.x
Hello Brennan,

I know this is the wrong place for this, but it's tough getting a hold of you.

Anyway, I'd like to listen to Tech Beats. This is what Pandora.com says:

Dear Pandora Visitor,
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S.....

Is there any other possiblity to listen to Tech Beats?

Maybe you can include a small note in Monkeyradio.org or here?

Enjoy you Sunday,
Matias

Posted by Ken Mon 27 Apr 2009 at 19:00 from 71.68.31.x
I've been listening to monkeyradio.org for YEARS and I code almost exclusively to it. Thank you.

Posted by Roger Mon 11 Jan 2010 at 20:57 from 138.25.137.x
Hi there,

I am a research student at University Technology Sydney and writing a paper on improvisation in realtime audio platforms such as your excellent ninjam, which I have jammed in on a number of occasions myself.

However in researching this, I have been surprised by the lack of academic recognition or information that i have been able to find about your good selves when trawling books, texts and online papers about similar platforms.

I was therefore wondering if you have written anything about how, when why you created ninjam or point me to any references I may have missed.

Cheers
Roger

Posted by Roger Mon 11 Jan 2010 at 20:59 from 138.25.137.x
Regarding above post my email address to respond to is

Roger.H.Mills@student.uts.edu.au

Posted by Jasmine Reese Thu 21 Jan 2010 at 18:26 from 173.26.224.x
Hello Brennan, I have a collaboration proposal for you.  Can you please email me at jreese@latestartermusician.com

Thank you,
Jasmine

Posted by Brennan Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 02:49 from 66.92.185.x
Roger: If I can just point you to my original blog post announcing/explaining NINJAM: badmofo.org/hl/?article=288
I will try to email you soon and see how else I can help you out.

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