Comments on: Pitchfork MPD Client

By: lordjoe

lordjoe — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:30:22 +0000

I had a copy of it lying around and uploaded it: http://www.box.net/shared/s8jy2ne609

Hope it’s useful to someone!

By: alexjames

alexjames — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:04:18 +0000

The package file:

http://pitchfork.remiss.org/files/pitchfork-0.5.5.tar.bz2

Returns a 404 as well

By: alexjames

alexjames — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:38 +0000

When I navigate to the website of the AJAX client for MPD, Pitchfork

http://pitchfork.remiss.org/wiki

I now get a squirrelmail login page instead of the old wiki and other content that existed there. The google cache pages still exist, and have refreshed as recently as Aug 3rd 2008, but all of a sudden it’s gone now.

Any idea where I can grab a copy?

Thanks!

By: Paul M. Watson

Paul M. Watson — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:29:04 +0000

What Martin said. We froze jQuery and optimised it to our app, runs nicely now while still retaining a good level of ease of use.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 07 May 2007 08:19:51 +0000

You can also take a library that fits your needs best, freeze it and optiimize or replace the parts that need to be optimized.

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:27:30 +0000

Michael: Critique of my code is welcomed :] It probably isn’t the prettiest code in the world, but it’s fast. And the main point is really that there are optimizations which wouldn’t be possible if pitchfork was relying on libraries to do the hard part. Libs to help you do stuff is great, but people have *huge* playlists and because of that pitchfork has to be fast and make assumptions where available.

By: Michael Geary

Michael Geary — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:04:48 +0000

“Pitchfork has been written from the bottom without any external ajax libraries which makes it possible to make optimizations which otherwise would be impossible. This means that it isnâ€™t that far from a normal application you would run on your computer with regards to speed and usability.”

Now you know when you say something like that, you’re inviting people to critique your code, aren’t you? :-)

Let’s just say this: It may be a fine application – I haven’t tried running it yet – but coding everything from the ground up is NOT what makes it fine. That takes hard work and good design instincts, library or no library.