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Reverse Audio Channels in Windows

For whatever reason your stereo output might be flipped. Left on the right and right on the left. Windows has no "Swap stereo channels" button... go figure.

There's plenty of abandonware and overkill audio driver replacements. Or you can use Equalizer APO and add the following line to your config:

Copy: L=R R=L

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Plenty of pretty 'bows in The Thompson today.

Google I/O '13 Hacker Notes

Google's I/O conference started yesterday. Here's some of my "notes for hackers"*:

Anyone can use Compute Engine - billed by the minute + PHP support

Google Cloud Datastore is a NoSQL db

There's a rad new Google Maps coming -- bring on the API mashupery!

Hangouts is the new cross-platform Google Talk and has created some controversy

Android Studio looks pretty rad, better than Xcode?

Send money from Gmail with Google Wallet

Android app translation can be automated

Android apps can be in beta (for testing) before production

There will be a new Galaxy S4 with Nexus OS released by Google

They really love Chrome

Dev tools are getting better and better (thanks Paul Irish)

They are fully on board with Web Components

asm.js (of Mozilla) will be a target of V8/Chrome \o/

Google Play Music All Access is a Spotify/Rdio competitor

Google+ got a visual overhaul and some cool new photo features

Larry Page's closing was enjoyably authentic and that of a true hacker

If you made it this far and are craving more, the Google Developers Google+ page is chock full of more resources and announcements (no, really, they've been super annoying with their updates lately).

Relevant gif for those who saw the Auto Awesome part of the keynote.

Whatchya think? What'd I miss?

Transfer Rdio Playlists to Spotify

I finally had it with the abusively glaring white interface of Rdio and am giving Spotify another chance. Immediately my eyes felt better. Not to mention the wider availability of music I like. After my eyes adjusted and I treated myself to a couple albums not available on Rdio, I started missing my handcrafted playlists. Can I transfer my lists from Rdio to Spotify? Google turned up nothing... Not directly anyway. So I combined a couple of tools: [a bookmarklet](https://gist.github.com/3001053) to create plain text lists of Rdio playlists and [Ivy](http://ivyishere.org)'s copy/paste importer. The bookmarklet had to be modified to work with Ivy. Just make a bookmarklet from [my fork of the gist](https://gist.github.com/3977818):

#rdio #Spotify #music #playlist

AngularJS for Hipsters

I made a slightly more hip version of AngularJS's obligatory todo app example.

CoffeeScript, Express, Jade, Stylus.

It will probably serve pretty well as a boilerplate for Node-powered, single-page applications. Just add Mongo and stir for extra dev-hipster factor.

Fork it on Github

#node.js #webdev #javascript #coffeescript #hipster

How I Do Quick 'n' Dirty Front-End Templating

Handlebars, Haml, and CoffeeScript.

Comment at github

#webdev #coffeescript #rails

SublimeText 2 Pro Tip

You can set custom, per-syntax preferences. Here is my Ruby.sublime-settings file:

{ "color_scheme": "Monokai Bright.tmTheme", "ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true }

#webdev

A friend asked if I'm going to marry my current girlfriend

me: i've got it in my pipeline, so i'll loop back around and drop you a line. the ROI on this one looks good

friend:per our conversation, I'll keep that on my radar, and we'll revisit this subject closer to the proposal submission deadline

My friend mixes music things.

The Brand New Heavy by Rylan Bowers on Mixcloud

Instagram with Javascript

First things first, Instagram doesn't have an open API. A client must be authenticated to retrieve users and their media. Luckily, the API does support JSONP, so we can create a front-end gallery with just an access token.

Instagram doesn't allow a client to grab media by username, a user id is required. So, we have to chain a couple calls together, if we only have a username.

Warning: You really don't want to float an access token around that doesn't belong to the current user. i.e. Don't acquire your own and hardcode it into your application.

#webdev #instagram #API

Ruby Year to Date Range

`year_to_date = (Time.parse("1/1/#{Time.now.year}")..Time.now)` Know a better way?

#ruby

Dead Simple Basic HTTP Authentication with Express.js

Sometimes you just need to protect a specific route (from being crawled, for an admin resource, the perception of security, etc.). With Express.js it's extremely easy to drop in Connect's basicAuth middleware (in CoffeeScript):

This will protect the root route (and only the root route) with the username and password from line 4.

"But what if I don't have super_secret_stuff, and I just want to protect static content?" No big deal. Use basicAuth in conjunction with the static middleware:

#node.js

File Upload with Express for Node.js

How's that for an SEOd article title?

Almost all of the highly ranked search results for uploading files with Express are outdated (citing deprecated modules like connect-form). Node moves fast. So, on that note, this may too be wrong by the time you're reading it, beware.

Formidable is now a part of Connect, and therefor baked into Express. Simply, you can accomplish file POSTing with the following Express app (in Coffeescript, because I do what I want):

#node.js

Upgrading to Bootstrap 2.0

Disclaimer: 2.0 is in no way final! This is only for those on the bleeding edge, trying to prepare their work for the next version of Twttr Bootstrap.

12 columns is the new 16 columns.

.topbar is now .navbar, and .topbar > .fill is now .navbar > .navbar-inner.

Use the data-toggle attribute for dropdowns and tabs.

.zebra-striped is .striped-table

I'll add more as I run into changes while updating a few of my applications.

#webdev

Some Visual Updates in Bootstrap 2.0

** Even More Updates Below **

** See Update Below **

We're all very excited about the responsive layout.