Monthly Archives: January 2007

If you missed the announcement on the official blog, here it is again.

The conference has a limited number of what we’re calling our level 2 sponsorships, left. Level 1 sold out pretty much the day we announced the conference. The Level 2 are going pretty quickly too.

With Level 2, you get more than four hundred pairs of eyes on your brochure. Brochure? Yeah, Level 2 sponsorship is a 2 page (front and back) brochure (color or black and white, your call)

If you’re interested, the guidelines are in the blog posting.

Don’t miss out, that’s a lot of press for the small shop or developer. Youre name and information will be in front of a lot of people.

Oh yeah. and if you’re on the fence at all about attending, that decision is about to be made without you. We’re past 95% sold now, I expect by this Friday we’ll be sold out. Don’t dilly dally.

I found Sean’s entry on setting his Skype status to the current iTunes track and immediately implemented it. Love it! But I had one problem, Sometimes I fire off iTunes to listen to a song in the music store before downloading, or am listenning to (or watching) a podcast and don’t care to have that sent over the intertubes, and more than that, don’t care to have Proxi launch Skype so it can update my status, when I don’t care to have skype running.

This minor mod doesn’t solve all situations, but if Skype isn’t running, and you’re using iTunes, Skype won’t be launched just so it update your status (which for me, happens a lot, so if nothing else, this helps me A LOT).

Here’s the entire piece of code, I’ve bolded my additions.

set messageText to ""
set SkypeIsRunning to 0
try
    tell application "iTunes"
        set trackName to name of current track
        set trackArtist to artist of current track
        set trackAlbum to album of current track
    end tell
    if not trackArtist = "" then
        set trackArtist to " by " & trackArtist
    end if
    if not trackAlbum = "" then
        set trackAlbum to " from " & trackAlbum
    end if
    set messageText to trackName & trackArtist & trackAlbum
end try
set commandText to "SET PROFILE MOOD_TEXT " & messageText
tell application "System Events"
    set SkypeIsRunning to count (every process whose name is "Skype")
end tell
if SkypeIsRunning > 0 then
    tell application "Skype"
        send command commandText script name "test"
    end tell
end if

If Skype isn’t running, SkypeIsRunning will be 0. If it’s 0 then I don’t want to update my status.

Was trying to checka WSDL today on my mac install of CFMX, and got an AXIS permission denied error. After consulting with Simeon ( i knew it’d be something silly, and it was) i discovered that when using my handy little applescript app, it wasn’t firing the shell script off as root. Well duh, that would explain my problem.

After a little poking around, I found this. which said this.

do shell script "command" user name "me" password "mypassword" with administrator privileges

 

I went back to my AppleScript app, made the change, and viola, WSDL loaded just fine. Don’t be a Wilker and forget to run things as root.

Simeon pointed out I coulda changed the entire directory to be mine, so it’d all work under my login, but i opted to figure out my as root problem.

Now if I could get my MS SQL data to MySQL I’d be in 7th, or probably 8th or 9th heaven

I’m booked, San Jose here I come. Hey! Maybe I’ll crack the semaphore

In preparation for 360flex, I’ll be winging out to San Jose to meet with Tom and Ted; we’ve got to meet with the Adobe peeps to do a walk thru (we did say there’d be kick ass night time fun, right?) of the Adobe location for the party one night. We’re also gonna bang out a ton of details since we’ll be face to face (it’s easier to choke people face to face, IM just doesn’t cut it some times ha)
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So come January 22 if anyone has the uncontrollable urge to say hi, let us know. Apparently there’s an Indian food joint that Tom has been raving about, time to see if it’s all that.

Not that we won’t have good things to say before hand, but definitely look for some great updates in the aftermath of the three of us meeting for an all day (mostly) planning session.

Anyone know a good place for dinner?