News
Reflections on Water
During a trip to Uganda my daily experience with water is very different from my normal life. I wrote a guest blog post for Sustainable Good: Reflections on Water. [18 February 2009]
Top usability issues in MuseScore
See my top ten list for usability issues in note entry, selection, playback, and open/close interface. [30 September 2008]
Mouse interaction in MuseScore
MuseScore has evolved rapidly since my initial impressions back in April. Many of the issues mentioned in the article have been resolved and a stable release of the new 0.9.3 version is in discussion. After using the scorewriter MuseScore for a few months I wrote up some ideas for improving mouse interaction in MuseScore. [12 September 2008]
MuseScore v. Finale NotePad
I wrote a blog post comparing the features of MuseScore and Finale NotePad. It is available on the MuseScore website. [8 September]
Update (10 November 2008): The post is cited by more than a half-dozen blogs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) and Lasonic translated the blog post to French.
MuseScore
MuseScore is another free software scorewriter for Linux and Windows. It has a great interface and is further along in development than Canorus. I highly recommend the program and will be installing on the computers at school. I recorded my experiences, both good and bad, during the first few days using MuseScore (see First Impressions of MuseScore). [20 April 2008]
Grade Book 0.2
I've updated Grade Book Online. The new version includes usability enhancements and support for Internet Explorer 7. You can also download offline version which runs from you local computer. The offline version can save files to your computer if you are using a Mozilla based browsers such as Mozilla Firefox. Saved files are more reliable than cookies (which are still used as a backup). [5 January 2008]