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Heh! There's something innately pleasing about doing something that 90% of the general public doesn't understand, even after you explain it to them. This week, I checked all my breakbeat loop .WAVs into a Subversion repository. :D In other news, I'm trying my damnedest to fend off job offers, but I think one might finally have broken through my barriers...
Subversion is wicked - it's a source code versioning repository, designed to let a group of programmers work on a common base of software sourcecode. The idea is that you "check out" the whole source code tree (often thousands of text files), and build the software on your own machine. When you work on the source code, you have a full copy to work with, and you can change anything, testing it as you go - and when you're done working, you run the Subversion tool and it sends your code changes up to the server. The server remembers who made what changes, and when, and if the code breaks it can be rolled back to a previous version with no problems. See, I see this as a fantastic way to share a collection of audio files with friends. There's very little chance that I'm going to manually warp all 800 or so breaks loops by myself, especially when I only really do the warping when I use a particular loop. However, if there's a few people sharing the repository, then if one person makes a change, the next time someone checks out the repository, the change will be there already. Sweet! I'm basically testing it out as a way to collaborate over the net. Next step: see what happens if I check an Ableton project into the repostitory... On the job front, I've been approached by some guys with an interesting little Linux audio project. I signed an NDA, so I can't really discuss it, but it seems like they might actually have a niche market for their idea. I'm tempted to sign on with them for a while to help them out with the Linux side of things. It wouldn't be fulltime, of course, but the project is interesting and challenging - well, not too challenging, more of an excuse to play with some cute little hardware. ;) Goddammit, I don't want a job yet though! ...then again, we haven't talked money yet. I wonder if they can afford me?
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