Songkick is a music service that finds local concerts based on your personal tastes. You give it some info about what you like, either through an exported iTunes library, Pandora playlist, or Last.fm scrobble history, tell it where you’re interested in going, and it lets you know who is playing and where. I’ve been a happy user for at least two years now, and it’s a really good tool for tracking tours and concert history. ...
Ok, so my name is Bradon Kanyid, and I’m a Senior Computer Engineering student at Portland State University in the [Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science ]. I have a lot of interests, mostly computer-related. At the end of fall quarter, I decided that it would be useful to start documenting projects and things I enjoy somewhere online. Where to start? I decided to make this blog, but definitely do not have a lot of prior webdev experience. I’ve made little internal pages for work and such, but never really looked into hosting, domain registration, frameworks, or anything of the sort. I started asking my fellow students and CAT members, and decided that the best thing for me would be to get my own VPS, register my own domain name, and find a static HTML site generator. ...