I gave up on using AppleScript Studio for my Installer front-end application. AppleScript’s SOAP implementation seems to be broken. I ended up writing it in Objective C instead, using Web Services Core. It isn’t that much more difficult than writing it in AppleScript, and I’m able to use the window layout I already created for the AppleScript version. By encapsulating all of the web service method calls into a single class, I’m able to keep the code fairly simple.
Last night I had a cookout with 3 of my friends and neighbors. After dinner we played Wii Bowling and everyone loved it. In fact we’re planning more “Bowling Nights”. This morning one of my friends told me she had a sore arm from bowling.
These are people who never play video games and have no interest in traditional game consoles. This shows how the Wii is different. By bringing you into the game with physical activity rather than sitting on the couch with a gamepad, the Wii appeals to everyone.
For a while I’ve been having a problem with this site where the theme would spontaneously switch to the default theme at random times. Since it started happening around the same time I switched to DreamHost’s one-click install, I attributed it to some monitoring process they were using or the WP-Cache plugin, which was also installed. I worked around it by replacing the theme folder named ‘default’ with a symbolic theme to the actual theme I use. Today Aaron mentioned having the same problem and he doesn’t use DreamHost.
Searching the WordPress support forums turned up this article, attributing it to Alex King’s WP-Mobile plugin being installed incorrectly. However, I don’t use that plugin but I do use David Harper’s Ultimate Gamers’ Pack, which reformats the page for viewing on a Wii, PSP, or DS-Lite.
It’s basically the same problem – I didn’t install it correctly. Each plugin includes a theme folder, which needs to go in the themes folder rather than the plugins folder where I placed them. As soon as someone accesses the site with one of those devices, it will fail to access the theme, which will cause WordPress to revert to the default theme.
I just discovered that I messed up my .procmailrc file, so much of the email sent to mcdevzone.com, worldbeatplanet.com, or macmegasite.com ended up in a file sitting on my server rather than my mailbox. I fixed it and I’m now importing that old email into mail.app.
wiisee.net is one of the news feeds I subscribe to for Wii news. It usually has interesting items, but they only post excerpts with no link to the original article and no information about where the articles came from. If I want to read the full article, there’s no way to find it from their site.
I’m writing an AppleScript Studio application which needs to call some SOAP web services before running an installer. Somehow AppleScript seems to be adding a bogus namespace to the SOAP call.
The method I want to call should look something like this (actual names changed):
<RegisterUser> <UserData>xyzzy</UserData> </RegisterUser>
Instead, the request looks like this:
<m:RegisterUser xmlns:m="http://myserver/mynamespace"> <UserData>xyzzy</UserData> </m:RegisterUser>
The AppleScript code looks pretty standard:
tell application "http://myserver/endpoint" to¬
call soap {method name:"RegisterUser", ¬
parameters:{|UserData|:"xyzzy"},¬
SOAPAction:"http://myserver/namespace/RegisterUser", ¬
method namespace:"http://myserver/namespace"}
I have no idea where the bogus ‘m’ prefix came from. This same method is being called successfully from .NET under Windows.
There has been a lot of buzz about Panic’s new web development app, Coda. I’ve been trying it out but I’m still undecided whether I’ll buy it. I already own both BBEdit and TextMate. Both have features I like and neither of them does everything I want.
I do more than just web development. I usually write articles for MacMegasite and WorldBeatPlanet offline in a text editor. I need to be able to reformat the text and remove linebreaks. I really like using TextMate’s BBCode plugin to markup the text. I also like TextMate’s auto-completion features. However, TextMate lacks some basic features of BBEdit, like being able to easily switch line endings between Unix & DOS, which is essential for me, since my company uses Windows-based VSTS for source control. I also like BBEdit’s FTP browser and file compare feature, which TextMate lacks.
For web development, I really like Coda’s integration and workflow, but the editor itself isn’t as nice as either BBEdit or TextMate. I also prefer using multiple windows.
I’ve decided on a compromise for IntelliTXT at MacMegasite. I’m keeping it, but using the Userpoints module to disable it for users with more than 50 points, which means users who have submitted 5 or more articles.
PhotoShop CS3 finally arrived. Adobe shipped two separate packages, the user guide (which DHL delivered with no problem at 1PM today) and the software, which DHL had trouble delivering. Both were shipped to exactly the same address, yet DHL had no problem delivering one of them, but on the other couldn’t locate the apartment number.
Once again DHL failed to make a delivery to my home, in this case my PhotoShop CS3 upgrade. I got a call from them that they weren’t able to find my address, even though what they read was correct, including the apartment number. The guy said they’ll attempt to deliver it again this afternoon.
I’ve never had that problem with FedEx or UPS. They’re always able to find my apartment with no problems.
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