Finally got around to the video. It was a great concert.

Elektricheskie Partizany, Brigadny Podryad, F.P.G.

On Saturday we went to an Est Est Est concert at the Kitaysky Lyotchik Jao Da club. I recorded the whole concert on a Zoom, putting it on the sound engineer’s table at the last moment. It turned out better than what we could hear ourselves. Several new songs. I want to try recording bootlegs at concerts. A first attempt.

Tracklist:

1. Reflection
2. Pasta
3. Olympiad
4. Winter
5. Lisbon
6. Palette
7. Painter Duck
8. Résumé
9. Spring
10. Autumn
11. Fantastika (without trumpet)
12. Squirrel Island
13. Parfyonovtsy
14. Victory Day
15. Udelochnaya
16. Fantastika (with trumpet)

Download (mp3, 320 kbps, 206 MB)

I am not going to record sound near the stage anymore. Especially when there are live drums. I tweaked it as best I could, but I still do not like how the sound turned out.

I had wanted to make something like this for a long time, so that when the page is scrolled some block would scroll together with the page up to a certain point and then stick. Today I found a plugin called jQuery Sticky Scroller

You can download it here.

It is connected quite simply:

var scroller = new StickyScroller("#menu",
{
    start: 270,
    end: 50800,
    interval: 200,
    range: 100,
    margin: 0
});

As the parameter name suggests, when scrolling goes more than 270 pixels past the top edge of the page, the #menu element is fixed on the page, that is, it gets the CSS property position: fixed;. The end parameter is responsible for the lower bound of scroll tracking, in case the fixed element should not stay fixed all the time. The margin parameter defines how far from the top edge of the browser window the element will be positioned.

The plugin also has several public methods; I do not see much point in describing them here, the description is available on the plugin page.

Version 1.1 of This Day for iPad has been released. At first I wanted to add swipe navigation for events and fix a few small things, but somehow it dragged on. When I finally coded it, I had to reject the app from the App Store 2 or 3 times because I kept finding nasty bugs that made it crash or display incorrectly. By the time I had fixed everything critical, the new iPad had come out, so I added graphics for it right after that. And at the very end I discovered that sharing to VK requires a captcha, so I had to google it and implement its handling.

So in the end, what started as small changes turned into a pretty substantial changelog for such an app:

• support for iPad with Retina display;
• events can now be swiped with a finger;
• when publishing an event to Facebook or VKontakte, the app now shows a notification that the publication succeeded;
• when publishing events to Facebook or VKontakte, they are now posted in a more understandable form with the full date;
• captcha handling for posting to VKontakte added;
• fixed a bug that prevented long events from being published;
• minor improvements and bug fixes.