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These great cartoon illustrations used throughout the site
are by Ron Lieshman and
available at ToonClipart.com
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Here are some of the tools that I use to build and maintain this web site. As the site has grown over the years, several of this tools have been invaluable in maintaining the site and my sanity, especially BBEdit from Bare Bones Software.
My original web site, guitarresources.com created in 1992 was developed long before there where any editors specifically for web sites. Nothing like Dreamweaver or Flash existed. Adobe PageMill 1.0 wasn't release until late 1994, so I hand coded, and still hand code the site. It has evolved from simple html to now using php, MySql, sass, compass, javascript, jQuery and a variety of other programming goodies and languages.
When a full upload happens the site contains over 34,000 files. Yep! thirty four thousand files, which includes all the images, PDFs, MP3s, and content files, views and includes. There is over 1500 page of actual content
Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110-2704
Tel: 408-536-6000
Fax: 408-537-6000
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Adobe PhotoShop, Acrobat, InDesign and Illustrator
Started on Aldus PageMaker and a Mac II, then QuarkXpress and now I use InDesign®, Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat® software exclusively.
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Released with much fanfare in January of 1984, the Macintosh was the first affordable computer to include a Graphical User Interface. It was built around the new Motorola 68000 chip, which was significantly faster than previous processors, running at 8 MHz. The Mac came in a small beige case with a black and white monitor built in. It came with a keyboard and mouse, and had a floppy drive that took 400k 3.5" disks--the first personal computer to do so. It originally sold for $2,495.
Text courtesy www.apple-history.com
Everything done on a Macintosh computers.
Site is even hosted on mac by
MacHighway.
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Links
- www.BareBones.com
- WidipediA: BBEdit
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BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. BBEdit is not a word processor, meaning it does not have text formatting or page layout features. BBEdit's audience includes programmers and web designers.
Bare Bones Software also made a free and less-featured version of BBEdit called BBEdit Lite. Bare Bones Software discontinued BBEdit Lite at version 6.1 and replaced it with TextWrangler, which initially cost money (though significantly less than BBEdit), but several years later was released for free. BBEdit itself was available at no charge from its initial release in 1991, but went commercial in May 1993 with the release of version 2.5.
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Using their Acron - Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind - simplicity. Fast, easy, and fluid, Acorn provides the options you'll need without any overhead.
( from listing's site ) - Flying Meat Inc. is a privately held software company just north of Seattle, Washington; founded in 2003 by Gus Mueller with a single idea- to make a better Mac application. That idea was first realized with the award winning desktop wiki named VoodooPad, and later on with FlySketch and FlyGesture.
More information available on listings's web site.
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Panic Inc
315 SW 11th Ave 4th Floor
Portland, OR
97205
USA
Phone: +1 503 224 3451
Fax: +1 503 296 2185
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- Transmit
My main and only FTP program.
- Coda
Great program and I'm eagerly waiting for version 2.0.
- Candybar
I've always loved icons. This is a great program for organizing your collection and using them to customize your workspace/desktop/files.
Listing Info
( from listing's site ) - Panic is an Oregon-based American software company that specializes in shareware applications for Mac OS X. It was founded by Steven Frank and Cabel Sasser.
Their first program release was Transmit, an FTP client, in 1998. The program currently competes with Fetch, Interarchy and Cyberduck, the other popular FTP clients for Mac OS X. Transmit has won a number of design awards, including Macworld Best of Show and a 2005 Apple Design Award, for the Best Use of Mac OS X Tiger Technologies.
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Sibelius
Sibelius Software
Avid Corporate Headquarters
One Park West
Tewksbury, MA 01876
United States
Tel: 978-640-6789
Fax: 978-640-3366
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This
is the music notation program that I have been using for years. I gave up on Finale and this Sibelius was
so much easier to use and the learning curve was not as steep.
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For all my music notation needs.
Sibelius is the world market leader in software for writing, teaching and publishing music. It specializes in creating and distributing innovative, high-quality software that is easy to use. With products for composition, coursework, testing, reference, playback, publishing, authoring and e-commerce, Sibelius covers every aspect of music.
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I use Comcast for my high speed Internet access. I also have used a cheap dial-up access service like (isp.com) in the past for those times Comcast has been down (very, very, very rare) to check orders.
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FileMaker, Inc. is the worldwide leader in easy-to-use database software for business professionals. Millions of customers—individuals, small businesses, teams in education and government, workgroups in Fortune 100 companies—manage projects, people, and assets with FileMaker.
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Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Hewlett-Packard Company
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1185 USA
Phone: (650) 857-1501
Fax: (650) 857-5518
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Info
Get a B&W and color laser printer for your publishing business.
I use HP Printers (period)
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(from their site) -
Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of more than $2 billion in its fiscal year 2005. The company has nearly 7,000 employees with major offices in 13 states across the U.S., and offices in Canada and the United Kingdom.
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Be sure to sign up for your Staples Rewards card. It can mean a few hundred dollars a year.
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- www.AbominableProductions.com
- To The Nines Wedding Videography: www.ToTheNinesVideo.com
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(from their site) - Abominable Productions is the fusion of an innovative videographer and a passionate dancer-choreographer. Together they specialize in exceptional videos that showcase the true art of dance.
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- www.CurtSheller.com
- www.JazzGuitarResources.com
- www.UkuleleChords.net
- www.UkuleleClubs.com
- www.UkuleleForGuitarPlayers.com
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Publishing
We (1) are, am a small independent publishing company catering to the needs of musicians, guitar players and ukulele players worldwide with the resources and information needed to develop as a musician. Curt Sheller Publications was created by Curt Sheller (me) in 1995 and has been on the web since. Curt Sheller has over 40 years of playing experience, 20 plus years of teaching experience.
Here are a few of the Curt Sheller Publications titles available:
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ToonClipart
digital toon clipart by Ron Leishman
187 Sunmills Drive S.E.
Calgary, AB T2X 2P1
Canada
Phone: (403) 256-3035 (Mountain Time)
eMail: ron@toonclipart.com
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- Cartoons
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( from listing's site ) - A cartoonist working mainly in the digital realm. Adobe Illustrator is my weapon of choice
As a child, Ron always wanted to be a mountie (as in “Royal Canadian Mounted Police”) but when he discovered that they didn’t get to ride horses all the time and didn’t get to wear those nifty red coats every day (red being his favorite color as a child) he decided that the next best thing was being a cartoonist.
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- Main Site
- BluepringCSS Group
- github.com
- Links to Blueprint Resources by Lee Honeycutt
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Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
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( from listing's site ) - CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you're a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you're tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks
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( from listing's site ) - Compass is a stylesheet authoring tool that uses the Sass stylesheet language to make your stylesheets smaller and your web site easier to maintain. Compass provides ports of the best of breed css frameworks that you can use without forcing you to use their presentational class names. It’s a new way of thinking about stylesheets that must be seen in action!
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Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages. The library offers these features and advantages:
- No plugins like Flash or Java required.
- Popup blockers are no problem. The content expands within the active browser window.
- Single click. After opening the image or HTML popup, the user can scroll further down or leave the page without closing it.
- Compatibility and safe fallback. If the user has disabled JavaScript or the JavaScript fails in any way, the browser redirects directly to the image itself or to a fallback HTML page. This fallback is able to cope with most exceptions and incompatibilities.
More information available on company's web site.
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(from their site) - JQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
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- www.MacroMates.com
- WidipediA: TextMate
- Ciarán Walsh’s Blog - Entries on TextMate, Cocoa and Mac OS X
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(from WidipediA site) - TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X, created by Allan Odgaard. It provides users with innovative abstractions to support declarative customizations which are at once transparent and flexible. Though its users are mostly programmers[1] and its basic feature set may require more learning than simpler graphical editors, TextMate is much easier to customize than many other text editors. Notable features include tabs, recordable macros, folding sections and snippets, shell integration, and an extensible bundle system, all built around its novel scope system.
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Mint
Shaun Inman
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(from their site) - Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard. Learn more!
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( from their site ) - The Raxan (Rich Ajax Application) Framework is a combination of Cascading Style Sheets and Javascript libraries that can be used to create accessible, standard compliant and elegant looking web sites and applications with enhanced user interface features and experience. The Framework is bundled with the latest jQuery libraries and a CSS framework that makes it very easy to create aesthetically beautiful web pages with a few simple and easy to use CSS classes.
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Main Ruby Links
- Ruby Programming Language
- Ruby: Programmers' Best Friend
- Ruby on Rails
- RubyGems - the Ruby community's gem hosting service
- Ruby Central
- WidipediA: Ruby (programming language)
- google: comp.lang.ruby
- SQLite (default), MySQL, or PostgreSQL
Some of the rails databases
- Rails Guides
- Ruby on Rails Wiki
- Railscasts
- Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book
- Programming Ruby
- Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
- Ruby Essentials
- Ruby QuickRef
There are also some good free resources on the internet for learning Ruby, including:
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Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language. Originating in Japan in the mid 1990s, Ruby was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto and combines syntax inspired by Perl with SmallTalk-like object-oriented features.
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Ruby on Rails
- Ruby on Rails
- APIs, Books, Tutorials, etc...
- Wiki
- WebLog
- Community
- Rails Framework Documentation
- Rails Guides: Asset Pipeline
- WidipediA: Ruby on Rails
- google: Ruby on Rails: Talk
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Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology that is used by web developers for rapid development.
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( from listing's site ) - Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.
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Additional Resources
- Silk Icons - (www.famfamfam.com)
This is a great collection of icons. I use a ton of them on the site for a little color.
