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Tuesday, January 22 2002

Mark Hershberger : Myblogger.el

"is based on Simon Kittle's blogger.el, but where his code calls a Perl program, this code uses xml-rpc.el. As of this writing, my mods to xml-rpc.el are needed to add support for boolean types." mmmm...HTTPS. What's especially cool about this, for me, is that the code will probably be enough of an example/guide/bootstrap to do all kinds of fun stuff in Emacs! via scripting news

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The mod_perl Developer's Cookbook : Apache::TaintRequest.pm

"overrides the print mechanism in the mod_perl Apache module. The new print method tests each chunk of text for taintedness. If it is tainted we assume the worst and html-escape it before printing." see also : I hate squirrels

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James Spahr : JSp_weblog

"is the PHP object class the drives the weblogs here at Designweenie. It is not usable as it is because it depends on some functions in my employer's standard PHP library (which is not available right now). However this can be quickly fixed because the only the MySQL access ( a single function query() ) and the caching functions require the library." I look forward to reading this because, unless those are just clever design elements, it appears that James has gotten around to doing nested categories before me. update : I got a nice note from James saying they must be pretty design elements because "I'm not that anal (yet)". Does this mean the race is on? :-)

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Radio Crankypants 18-19 : Not Invented Here

18) That's unfair, really. The Frontier tcp verbs were around long before Apple released their URL Access Manager/Scripting widget. But the Apple widget has done HTTPS for almost three years now; somewhere in the Windows API there is support for HTTPS; still the Frontier kernel still does everything with plain old HTTP. Frontier/Radio, however, does talk AppleScript, which is a mixed blessing if I've ever heard one. Now that Perl ships with OS X I'm even less sure why I would want to :
trywith timeout of before I punch my computer 



     try with "easy to use English syntax" totell application "AppleScript"



           to do fucking anything!!!



        end tellend tryend timeoutend try
But hey, if you can deal with it, it does mean you should be able to do secure XML over HTTP on a Mac. I can't honestly remember the details of passing and returning data between Frontier/Radio and AppleScript, right now, but I know it's possible because I used to call the askPassword OSAX in Frontier 5. I have reached that punch my computer stage in this investigation so I have to stop now but it should all be possible with three scripts : one UserTalk, two AppleScript. The first would take your parameters and figure out whether you were running Classic or OS X. If Classic, then hand off to an AppleScript that calls the Late Night Software widget (you could also do this by hand...if you're insane) otherwise use the built-in methods available under OS X. 19) Why are there no verbs for creating XML-RPC or SOAP messages divorced from those that make the actual HTTP requests?

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : borality

The ethical conduct between bores
ex. When Max recounted two consecutive fishing trips I think I spoke for all when I reminded him of the borality of the situation.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : philomath

Philomath, GA Zip code(s): 30660 Philomath, OR (city, FIPS 57450) Location: 44.54050 N, 123.35708 W Population (1990): 2983 (1145 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97370 gazetteer
Philomath \Phil"o*math\, n. [Gr. ?; fi`los loving, a friend + ma`qh learning, fr. ?, ?, to learn.] A lover of learning; a scholar. --Chesterfield. web1913

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