http://www.esuperbrands.com Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:27:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.esuperbrands.com/soc-atompub-week-11-status/ 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. ... http://www.esuperbrands.com/soc-atompub-week-10-status/ 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 ... http://www.esuperbrands.com/soc-atompub-week-8-status/ 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, ... http://www.esuperbrands.com/how-to-make-the-iphone-a-trusted-platform/ In short, this past week of the Summer of Code has been a rebuilding and planning week. In addition to filling out midterm surveys and reports, I shifted gears toward media importing. Why Import Media? The first question I asked myself this week is why should TypePad’s media be imported into WordPress. ... http://www.esuperbrands.com/soc-atompub-week-7-status/ Time is flying. The conclusion of this week marks the midway point of the Summer of Code, and the supposed ready for core date I set back in the beginning of summer. So, how did I stack up? This Week This week saw the addition of Atom URI detection based on the ... http://www.esuperbrands.com/soc-atompub-week-6-status/ Another week down, another step closer to a working AtomPub importer. Unfortunately, week 5 went anything but according to plan. Sure, I fixed the bugs found at the end of last week, but new issues came to light, requiring changes in the week’s plan. New Issues Found Additional testing early in the ... http://www.esuperbrands.com/soc-atompub-week-5-status/ Now completing the fourth week of coding, the AtomPub importer is finally starting to take shape. This week I managed to retrieve trackbacks, successfully start importing the previously retrieved data into WordPress, and added a user interface enhancement. Trackbacks Are Go If you remember last week, I had some difficulties getting trackbacks ... http://www.esuperbrands.com/soc-atompub-week-4-status/ Alright, that is a sensationalist title, but I needed a strong title to show my hypocrisy. Today, I have made the switch from Safari 3 to Firefox 3. I have realized despite the numerous advantages Safari has with direct operating system integration, Firefox still wins out feature-wise. To help make ... http://www.esuperbrands.com/why-should-anyone-use-safari-on-mac/ Week 3 of the Summer of Code has been by far the most productive week yet. The main focus of this week was to parse the AtomPub data into a PHP array, and I’m pleased to say this was a success. The XML Parser I started the week off by writing the ... http://www.esuperbrands.com/soc-atompub-week-3-status/