mikehadlow

Hi, I'm Mike Hadlow the creator of SAML Proxy. I first built a version of this for a previous employer, a B2B SaaS with hundreds of customers configured to log in via AWS Cognito and Auth0 using SSO SAML connections. The company wanted to migrate to Clerk, but discovered it was almost impossible to co-ordinate hundreds of customers to update their SAML IdP configuration at the same time. I built a SAML Proxy to migrate them all with just two DNS switches. This project is an open-source distillation of all I leant doing that. It shows a runnable example of a SAML Proxy, with an open-source SP and IdP thrown in for free.

Just a heads up that I also blogged about the making of Guitar Dashboard: http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2018/09/what-i-learned-creati...

It's very easy to add new tunings. I'll collect all the ones from the comments here and add them in the next few days.

Right now, I just want more people to know about it and get some good feedback on what works and what doesn't. I'd be super happy if guitar teachers and other music educators pick up on it. It'd be great if I got some good pull-requests too. I'd like to make more YouTube videos, relating Guitar Dashboard to the theory and showing some examples. I'm not a keyboard player, but Piano Dashboard seems like an obvious addition :)

I've found a looper pedal a fantastic tool for learning theory. Play some chords from a particular scale, then try improvising over it. You get a real feel for how the different modes sound.

I'd agree. For beginners, Guitar Dashboard is probably overkill. I really wrote it for people like me, who'd been playing guitar for a while and know all the basic chords, but want to get deeper into the underlying theory.

My favourite book on music theory is 'Songwriting Secrets of The Beatles' by Dominic Pedler. The title doesn't do it justice. It's a magnificent treatise on music theory and song writing using the Beatles songs as examples. If you're a Beatles fan like me, it's a must read!

That's a very good question. I had plans to add major and minor pentatonic scales until it became clear that they way they are used, especially in rock and other blues based music is a subset of dorian modes. There's some real insight to be gained, especially with regards to harmony, or more practically, what chords you can play against a major or minor pentatonic. It's a lot more than one would think!

So, to answer your question, I'm not going to add pentatonic scales, but I do plan to record a video showing how GD can give you some really cool insight into how they work harmonically.

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Hi I'm Mike Hadlow. Experienced .NET/C# developer. See my website: http://mikehadlow.com for details.

My most recent client was 7digital.

7digital is Europe's leading B2B digital media platform provider. I helped 7digital build large parts of the Juke.com platform back-end, including authentication, payment systems and partner integrations (such as the SONOS music player). Juke is a streaming music platform built for Media Saturn to serve the German market.

Actually the article very clearly says that the majority of professional developers don't have 'serious tech degrees', and that a large number of those that graduate from such degrees can't code. it makes the argument that there aren't any artificial barriers to entry, it's purely about aptitude.