Tao of Schuh

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-13

Paul — Sun, 13 May 2012 09:01:00 +0000

Happy 10th Anniversary @pairNIC –
Domain Name Registration for Smart People – http://t.co/s7siuF5i #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-06

Paul — Sun, 06 May 2012 09:01:00 +0000

Soundcheck at the Komen race at Salem College in W-S. #waxmojo #komenraceforcure #
Great morning gig!!! Ended up playing about twice as long as planned. Rock n Roll! #komenraceforcure #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-01

Paul — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:01:00 +0000

In Hong Kong for a couple nights. Making plans for some sightseeing tomorrow. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-21

Paul — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:01:00 +0000

It's a 1200 baud day today. Kickin' it old school on a VT220 terminal. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-24

Paul — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:01:00 +0000

Feeling very Xen right now — Linux Xen, that is. #
More Xen today. Discovered some pxeboot quirks that I need to work through. But so far, so good. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-17

Paul — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:01:00 +0000

@CharterCom Why are emails to people @charter.net bouncing with Invalid Recipient errors about 25% of the time, and OK the rest of the time? #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-10

Paul — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:01:00 +0000

Upgraded to WordPress 3.2 — checking out Twenty Eleven theme. http://t.co/kMCpRTd #

Paul’s web application thoughts — check ye olde web apps

Paul — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:30:03 +0000

It is 2011. Your client is using a recent update of a popular web browser. What does it tell your end user about your web application if they’re using the latest version of Firefox and the application directs them to a dead-end page that states you must use Netscape Navigator 4 or newer?

Make a point to check your old web applications periodically to make sure they are keeping up with the times.

You are not alone…

Paul — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:39:55 +0000

Dealing with customers can be incredibly trying and can require an enormous amount of patience and understanding when interacting with them. Sometimes it can be assuring to know you’re not alone. For examples of other tech’s interactions with end-users, take … Continue reading →

WP-iTunes MODS

Paul — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:34:18 +0000

[note: this is an old article I pulled from my archives. It is one of the top referral hits from other sites -- so I'm bringing it back.]

Hmmm… somehow my replies to a post on the WordPress Support site for this post about getting wp-iTunes to work with Recent Tunes on a Mac disappeared into the ether… anyway… here are my notes:

#1. December 6, 2004, 17:29
I had a problem with submissions with an apostrophe (’) getting ignored. (”Destiny’s Child” song “Jumpin,’ Jumpin’” on their album “The Writing’s On the Wall” is a good example…)
Near line 65 of wp-itunes.php, adding the PHP addslashes command, as below, will fix the problem with those songs.

$track = addslashes($_GET[”track”]);
$artist = addslashes($_GET[”artist”]);
$album = addslashes($_GET[”album”]);
$genre = addslashes($_GET[”genre”]);

Now, I’m not using the Amazon lookup, so that worked for me… you may want to change the Amazon lookup around line 71 to be:

$image = get_amazon_image($_GET[”artist”], $_GET[”album”]);

Which should work.

#2 December 7, 2004, 20:34
The :@ at the start of the URL are if you want to password protect the URL submission with an .htaccess file, for example. If you enter in a username and password in the ‘Recent iTunes’ Upload configuration, you’ll see them in the URL as they are posted.

http://username:password@myblog ….

I got it to work with just the ‘index.php’ URL on the upload page, and all the parameters placed in the ‘templates’ page with ‘Get Args’ selected.

Here is what I have set in my Recent iTunes preferences:

My upload URL (note, no ‘http://’ which was counterintuitive):
www.schuhfits.com/paul/index.php
My ‘Get Args’ templates (passsword changed, of course)
wpitunes=wp-itunespassword&track=^t&artist=^p&album=^a&genre=^g
Recent iTunes outputs the URL sent to the Apple Console, which helps with troubleshooting. (Console is in the Applications:Utilities folder on your Mac)

Hope this helps.