This is great! I'm learning to read sheet music and play the piano at the same time and have found the same problem: I'm just memorising the music, not _reading_it.
Just this weekend I tried jalmus, but couldn't get it running and ended up trying to write something kinda similar to this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/philip_roberts/status/61775984704... Mine just does one note at a time though and I didn't know about webmidi, so was using node with electron shell for midi access, definitely gonna switch it over to webmidi now though, thanks!
That's interesting given there's no licensing certainly on my video :) I will be asking scotlandjs to update the Vimeo page to ensure there's a Creative Commons non-commercial license specified as I'm not _super_ excited about people charging for access to my work.
To add another resource to the list, I gave an introductory talk to bacon.js and FRP last year which has similar diagrams to these which I animated with d3 if anyone'a interested: http://vimeo.com/m/68987289
With regards to "major version 4" we are doing our best to follow semver, where backwards incompatible changes require a bump in the major version.
So yes and no, this is a work in progress (what isn't) and we will constantly be pushing to make the docs better. We've been working hard over the last couple of weeks to get this into some form of a publicly releasable state, but yes it's not perfect :)
If you want to help us out, feel free to submit PRs or issues on github. The main site is at http://github.com/ampersandjs/ampersandjs.com while the API references are generated from their individual readmes, all available in that github org.
I read the book myself recently, and I can highly recommend it if you feel that you sit anywhere on the introvert spectrum.
It covers the "science" behind introversion, how introverts vs. extroverts think and respond to stimuli and neurochemicals. (I put science in quotes as I don't know enough about the brain to know how scientific the discussion is but I found it useful and interesting nonetheless).
It then goes on to look at how this affects introverts' interactions with themselves, others, and in social situations - with some thoughts and guidance on how to better integrate into an "extroverted world" without just trying to be more extroverted.
I have definitely found it helpful and it's made me think a lot about who I am and how I react to life as an introvert.
The best tip I've been given for practice is to actually sit with a piece of paper and write out your thought process whilst solving these little problems.
It's feels a bit laborious at first, but I find it makes for much more effective practice than getting to the answer in a roundabout way, and not really knowing how you get there.
As in hackerblues' comment, sitting and explicitly writing: "If I write a 5 in this cell then the column will contain two 5s. Therefore, this cell can't contain a 5." is more effective than bumbling around and just getting it right, particularly when practicing with simple examples.
I've been pitching quite a bit recently to various sizes of audience (although nothing as big as 2000 people) but meykey take away (perhaps unsurprisingly) has been practice, a lot.
More specifically:
- Practice in front of a mirror, this really helped me focus on my body language (reduce arm waving, and feet shuffling and the like). It also made me realise I don't look like a complete idiot or anything when I speak, and I actually look perfectly normal, which was a big boost of confidence.
- When you get bored of practicing the full talk, do more rapid run-throughs, focussing solely on the key-points. For an ignite talk that might be just one word or phrase per slide. It's quite energising to blast through your talk like that, particularly just beforehand, and it really helped me remember the main points for each slide.
Also, for every book sold he's giving away a copy to a child somewhere in the world: http://veryawesomeworld.com/foundation.html which seems like a pretty decent thing to me.
I can't tell you what I love about my office, but I can tell you what I would love to have:
- The ability to shut myself off from time to time. Our office is shared with another (somewhat loud) company of 2 people. As a developer it can be very hard to get "wired in" when there are people chatting.
- A table-tennis table. Being able to bond, refresh and get a bit of exercise for 15 minutes would be awesome. Very high on my list for when we have the money!
- A bigger whiteboard. Whiteboards are how I think, and I have a little one propped up on a chair. Not ideal.
Just this weekend I tried jalmus, but couldn't get it running and ended up trying to write something kinda similar to this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/philip_roberts/status/61775984704... Mine just does one note at a time though and I didn't know about webmidi, so was using node with electron shell for midi access, definitely gonna switch it over to webmidi now though, thanks!