commontone's comments

Hey, thanks for the nice hug, everyone! It's been a fun night. :)

I updated the mirror that ewoodrich referenced; what was up there before was a slightly older version. The new one has a few more pages in it and a few typos fixed here and there.

I've also swapped out the page on my site with a redirect to the mirror, since my web hosting service has rebooted the server twice now. The mirror is on my faculty web space at work, so we'll let them worry about it now! :)

No worries, though. Glad you all are finding the materials useful.

As a matter of fact, I am a programmer as well, and I agree with the original comment here; a multimedia experience is the best way to do it. Of course, I'm a college professor, and I give my students that experience every day in class, but having something online makes a lot of sense.

If I had time, I'd start on it right away, but as it is, it's on the Big To-Do List. However, one thing I am actively working on right now is an aural skills practice site that includes the advanced stuff (most existing sites only deal with the basics) and which uses HTML5, CSS and other open standards tech (most existing sites are flash-based). I'm also designing it with an interface that works equally well using a mouse or a touchscreen. This is, IMHO, a huge need in my field. But my project is still in it's infancy, and not ready for prime time.

I'm the author of the pages, and wow... I was wondering where all the sudden traffic was coming from. Thanks, dmmalam, for getting my stuff on the front page, and for those who emailed and let me know about it.

First, sorry about the Issuu thing. These pages are actually several years old, and at the time Issuu was actually the easiest way I knew to make them available without burning out my personal hosting bandwidth. I created the index page later on, but used the Issuu links since they were there. (You have to understand, there has never been more than a trickle of a demand for them outside of my own students.)

The other reason I was a little hesitant to bundle them all together is because I'm still working on them, and I didn't want to "publish" something that had the air of being complete.

But the internet has spoken... I've added a link at the top of the page which takes you to a single PDF. (Thanks to jamie_ca and pyroMax for doing this before I stumbled into the party.) Oh, and I fixed the <title> tag, too.

Also, thanks very much for the other feedback that has been sent my way; I do genuinely appreciate it. While I'd like to retain sole authorship (at least for now) rather than make them open-source, I most definitely welcome comments on how they can be improved.