Tuesday: Coding By the Beach

So, the past weekend was pretty awesome!

I participated along with my coworker Graham Allen in the NY Music Ed Hack hosted by hacker league and Spotify!

What a fast couple of days, the time flew by and the result of our efforts was really cool. We won second place out of about 40 hacks with our MaKey MaKey Powered Musical Construction Kit. This victory provided us with $2000 in Amazon Web Services, along with 25 hours of development and consulting time with the folks at NYC Dev Shop! Neither of us really expected a second place victory out of all the hacks presented, but nonetheless it was a very pleasant surprise! Spending some time in the big apple was fun, but i've decided that it really isn't my scene, way too crowded :).

Now I'm down in Plymouth MA at our summer house for the week, the weather is nice as of now, but you can never really be sure. I've been doing some coding by the beach, which is really nice and relaxing. I dove back into Code Academy's html class, I need to get up to speed with html and javascript so that I can begin to work with some of the API's presented at Music Hack Day. We're hoping to maybe develop a web service coupled with our musical construction kit that will integrate some features provided by online musical databases and music listening sites like Soundcloud and Spotify. I forgot how easy it was to go through the motions and learn languages through Code Academy's website, really a great resource for anyone looking to get into coding. This whole project is growing to be som much more than just a chord playing board, I'm getting excited for all the possible directions that it might be pushed towards. Anything is possible as of now, exciting!

Goodnight all,

-Matt