Monthly Archives: November 2012

New Connections Mobile Command URLS

Posted by on November 17, 2012 Comments Off on New Connections Mobile Command URLS

The Connections apps released in October add additional command URLs to what we already had in them. See this post for details on the first batch and when you might use them, then come back here and check out the new ones. The account info is optional. To use these, call them wherever you would use an http url, such as in an “a href” tag.

Added for Connections 4 mobile apps, but they are client side so will work with a Connections 3.x server.

Launch Activities
ibmscp://com.ibm.connections/activities?<accountserver=encoded_url&accountuser=encoded_username>
Launches the app into the Activities service just as if you had tapped on the Activities icon from the home screen.

Launch Blogs 
ibmscp://com.ibm.connections/blogs?<accountserver=encoded_url&accountuser=encoded_username>
Launches the app into the Blogs service just as if you had tapped on the Blogs icon from the home screen.

Launch Bookmarks
ibmscp://com.ibm.connections/bookmarks?<accountserver=encoded_url&accountuser=encoded_username>
Launches the app into the Bookmarks service just as if you had tapped on the Bookmarks icon from the home screen.

Launch Files
ibmscp://com.ibm.connections/files?<accountserver=encoded_url&accountuser=encoded_username>
Launches the app into the Files service just as if you had tapped on the Files icon from the home screen.

ibmscp://com.ibm.connections/files?uid=file_uid<accountserver=encoded_url&accountuser=encoded_username>
Launches the app into the details of the file with the given uid.

Launch Forums
ibmscp://com.ibm.connections/forums?<accountserver=encoded_url&accountuser=encoded_username>
Launches the app into the Forums service just as if you had tapped on the Forums icon from the home screen.

Launch Wikis 
ibmscp://com.ibm.connections/wikis?<accountserver=encoded_url&accountuser=encoded_username>
Launches the app into the Wikis service just as if you had tapped on the Wikis icon from the home screen.

This should make it easier to move from your own apps or web sites into the Connections mobile app.

Chris Reckling
Mobile UX
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Chris Reckling | 17 November 2012 04:00:00 PM ET |

John Renbourn Guitar Pieces

Posted by on November 10, 2012 Comments Off on John Renbourn Guitar Pieces

front coverI’ve had this book since sometime in the late 1970s, when I was learning to play more intricate finger-picking guitar songs.  I don’t remember where I found it – at that time I was living in Flagstaff, so it could have been there. I didn’t read music, but this book is all in standard notation, so it gave me the incentive to learn how to read. Now I find it much easier than tablature, which I think is the scourge of all guitarists everywhere and should be banned by law.

Back then, the first one I learned was Judy – I still play it occasionally. I also took on “A Day at the Seaside”, “Debbie Anne”, and “Ladye Nothynges Toye Puffe”. A lot of them are in the English Renaissance style he is known for, but there are a couple of the folkie ones.

Anyway…I have never seen this book anywhere else and it is certainly out of print now. Early on, I made a copy and bound it and used that for my main book. Recently, I figured I should find the original again in my stuff and scan it. If you want the hard copy, real book, there are a couple available on Amazon…used, of course. My book has the binding apart, which makes it easier to scan page by page.

I’ll post the book here for all, because I love Renbourn’s music and more people should be able to play it. 🙂 He has other books on his own site and there are various tab books from records he did with Stefan Grossman (I have some of those too.)
John Renbourn – Guitar Pieces (25M PDF).

Enjoy,

Chris

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Grey Fox Festival 2012

Posted by on November 10, 2012 Comments Off on Grey Fox Festival 2012

Walsh Farm, NY. July 19-22, 2012. We attended the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival this year. I’m just getting around to writing it up, but it would certainly take a long time to capture all its awesomeness. Summary version: 4 days of listening, picking, and sweating. Yes, it was hot and dry for the most part, which was good, but it also forced you into the shade quite a bit. Luckily the Creekside Stage (aka Masters) was under a tent.

We arrived Wed about 6. J and Jennifer had already staked out a campsite cuz they got their earlier. We were next to 20+ year GF veterans, who had an bunch of campers and giant tents. They drank, swore, and were generally loud, but seemed to settle down over the week perhaps as they became more hungover and subdued. In the Picker’s Paradise, there is always a low hum of banjo and fiddle it seems.

Here’s the list of folks I was able to see:

Creekside Stage

  • Michael Daves Workshop (with Chris Thile)
  • Della Mae
  • Jessie McReynolds
  • Last part of Tim O’Brien cuz I was at the main stage watching Tony Trischka
  • Frank Sollivan
  • Dixie Bee-liners
  • David Bromberg (he was late and the sound on his guitar was horrible, so left)

Main Stage

  • Thurs: Dixie Beeliners; Thile-Daves; Bromberg Band
  • Fri: Deadly Gentlemen; Noam Pilkeny; Tribute to Scruggs, Watson; Del McCoury; David Grisman Sextet; Punch Brothers
  • Sat: Tony Trischka; Hot Rize

I posted some pics on my tumblr page.

When not attending concerts or workshops, J and I jammed, mostly in our campsite area, once with some friends we knew there. The whole idea was to play as much as possible, so we did that.

The food at the midway was excellent. I didn’t feel that compelled to cook at the campsite – who wants to do dishes and whatnot?

That’s it for now. Sorry I can’t review every concert we went to…no time, gotta practice!

Chris