Wow, I have not updated cavemonkey50.com in forever. I feel bad for not updating, but unfortunately the past few months have brought many changes in my life.
In August I moved from Allentown, Pennsylvania to State College, Pennsylvania to finish my last two years of college at Penn State’s Main Campus. In addition to the move, the last few months I have been launching a new freelance company with a good friend of mine, Jesse Altman (more on that in the coming weeks). So, I have not exactly had the time I normally put into blogging.
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Week 11 of the Summer of Code brought the ending to a summer long problem, the MT WSSE authentication issue. The MT importer is now officially a reality, and I am happy to say I will be able to complete my original set goals.
Fixing My MT WSSE Authentication Problem
Earlier this week I received a great deal of help from two Movable Type developers, Mark Paschal and Byrne Reese. After finding the source of my issue, Mark took a closer look at the specific problem. His diagnosis: I had a bug in my end of the WSSE authentication.
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I have great news this week. I have finally figured out the whole Movable Type authentication debacle.
The WSSE Authentication Problem
I want to preface my findings with this advisory. I do not have a full understanding of Perl, and my statements may be wrong. If anyone can correct me, please do. I would rather be told I’m completely wrong than continue down the wrong path.
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Week 8 of the Summer of Code was nothing short of a roller coaster ride. At some points I wanted to tear my hair out, other times I was jumping for joy. Here is what went down this week:
Bad: Regular Expressions Are Not My Thing
While working towards media importing this week, I had to write a few regex statements. I’ll admit it, I completely suck at regular expressions. They bring me back to my not so fond days of Discrete Mathmatics; days I would rather forget. Regardless, I managed to get through them and ended with some working code.
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The launch of Apple’s iPhone / iPod touch App Store appears to have been a great success. Apple managed to pull in several well known Mac, Palm, and game developers to contribute to the over 500 available applications at launch. Already there is an application to meet nearly every need, and with the majority of remaining developers being accepted into the developer program, I’m sure there will be more great applications in the coming days and weeks.
While the App Store and applications have been a huge hit, playing around with applications over the past two days has filled me with some worries. Worries that Apple will need to address if they want the iPhone to succeed as a platform.
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