Life of the IT-Drummer

A web log from Tobias Rusås Olsen.

iPod Shuffle Third Generation - Review

[All images are taken from Syl2m (http://www.flickr.com/photos/syl2m/), except the one with the generation-comparison - it's from digitalbear (http://www.flickr.com/photos/minami/), both on a Creative Commons license]

A couple of days ago my Creative Zen Stone mp3-player called it a day, and stopped working (with a high pitched noise). The Zen Stone is a competitor of Apples iPod Shuffle [...]

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Spring Tutorial,Java Spring Tutorials,Spring 2.5 Beginners Tutorial

Truben linked to a great page for Spring. Check it out!
http://truben.no/journal/spring-tutorialjava-spring-tutorialsspring-25-beginners-tutorial/

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Simple learning script

It’s exam time for me, and both Peder, Jostein and myself must learn things. Therefore me and Peder decided to make programs to help us learn things. He wrote his program in Java and I choose Python as my language.
The program is fairly simple. You select a text file containing lines with topics you [...]

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Video of Denver Mini live at Garage.

truben recorded a video of the Denver Mini (whom I play for) song “A Couple is Not a Pair” (The title is not yet confirmed) played live at Garage in Bergen. I’m behind the drum kit:

We warmed up for “My Little Pony”, a great band from Oslo. Pictures from the event will most likely [...]

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