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NASA's Through-Hole Workmanship Requirements.
I'm guessing this is overkill for most earthbound projects, but hey, it can't hurt to double check your work...they have standards for everything from solder joints to wire stripping, splicing, electrostatic discharge and more -- check out the full reference here:
In my last post I mentioned that it was possible to build a static music app using Drupal as a backend and Pushtape Cassette as a static frontend. I have put off writing this tutorial because such a simple approach has some real limitations, but maybe it can help folks out there who are curious about decoupled architectures, and perhaps serve as a proof-of-concept and inspiration for your own project.
Here's a quick way to build a static music site for free using Pushtape Cassette as the frontend, hosted on Github Pages, with MP3s served via Dropbox.
You'll need:
Overview
In my last post about the Pushtape Drupal distribution I mentioned two critical issues that I wanted to solve before tagging a stable 1.0 release:
I'm happy to report these last puzzle pieces are now complete and version 1.0 has been released!
I tried working with Bootstrap 3 a few times last year, and while I liked the grid & responsive utility classes, everything else was just way too much. You can configure your Bootstrap build using their customizer to only include the grid, but for my needs I had to fork it (to make it work with LessPHP, without normalize.css, and because I needed to rename the xs, sm, lg class names). I uploaded the result to my github:
I've been thinking a lot about Pushtape development, and I figure it is worth taking a minute to write down where I'm at.
It's important that things don't stay in beta forever. The goal with Pushtape 1.0 is to get a foundation for a stable distribution, and I'm happy to say that after many months being in beta, beta bug reports have tapered off. Thanks to everyone who filed bug reports and provided feedback!
That being said, there are a couple of critical issues I want to tackle before a 1.0 release:
Over the weekend Pushtape Alpha 5 was released.
Download here: http://www.drupal.org/project/pushtape
This updated alpha release adds many improvements including:
I just committed a YAML discography schema proposal over on github. This came about as a potential method to import/export discography information for Pushtape. Existing music schemas tend to be either too specific to their implementation, too general for discography use, or too difficult to implement. [1]
A while back I picked up a used Yamaha EG-112 electric guitar. A cheap strat clone, yes, but it was a decent guitar for my purposes - which usually involves lots of heavy detuning, feedback, and general abuse. But I found myself not playing this guitar much.