A Decade of Mixing and Now the Processing Language
So I’ve been a productive house music DJ and producer for a decade this month, and in the spirit of all that is open source software and the world wide web, I’m planning on coding up something special in Processing to deliver my mixed CD’s to the internet. For the past six months, whenever Rails would frustrate me and I would feel as though I’d wasted too much time stuck on a problem, I’d switch back over to mixing and produce music so that I could enjoy some fruit that upcoming work week for my additional time spent in front of the PC. I create stone monuments and other stone applications by handling all of the digitization, CAD, and CAM requisites for our stone manufacturing company as my day job, and so I feel it necessary to make additional time spent at the computer fruitful. CAD/CAM replaced Assembly and plain C for me, and is in all actuality a wonderful form of ‘programming’ in that you end up w/ a very substantive work of art for all of your efforts, which can be an elusive dream for many coders who are a part of a team effort. I’ve been looking into which language I’ll want to settle on for my own web projects for the past 6 months, and since I’ll have to maintain these applications for their entirety, I’d like to be more positive than I am at present about which language/framework I’m utilizing to this end. I’ve almost made up my mind that the Processing language would be the best place for me to focus my efforts right now, as I know it would be the language most likely to stimulate me to create fastidiously, since it craftily encompasses all of my interests (music production, photography, and programming). I’ve seen John Resig’s recent work getting Processing code over to Javascript, but I think I’m going to opt for Ruby-Processing and see if I can write some slick Processing code in Ruby. Hopefully, I’ll have some new, web-delivered conglomerate of my music, photography, and visualization code to share in the imminent future.
grantmichaels
