Software development, music, and the World Wide Web

In a recent post, I wanted to upload a Stuffit file with a .sitx extension, but had a problem using the upload features in WordPress (error was “file type does not meet security guidelines”). After some searching, I found this article describing how to fix this problem (modifying wp-includes/functions.php to add ’sitx’ => ‘application/x-stuffit’). Once I updated the file, I was able to upload the Stuffit file successfully.

MacTech Magazine recently published my two-part article titled “Test-Driven Development Using AppleScript”. In the April 2008 issue, part 1 gave an overview of test-driven development techniques using the AppleScript language, then gave a short example of those techniques using the ASUnit testing framework. In the May 2008 issue, the ASUnit framework was used to develop a number guessing game using test-driven development techniques.

Back issues are available from MacTech magazine (issues 24.04 and 24.05). The following are the web links contained within the articles:

Part 1 (April 2008):

• Kent Beck’s work on testing frameworks for SmallTalk
• Junit testing framework for Java
• Directory of testing frameworks for many languages
• ASUnit AppleScript testing framework home page

Part 2 (May 2008):

• Example ASUnit tests for the SafeTerminal application
• Matt Neuberg’s book “AppleScript: The Definitive Guide“
• Article by Charles Ross on object-oriented programming techniques in AppleScript
• Wikipedia page on test-driven development

Finally, I am linking a file of the script listings from the two articles (Stuffit Expander required to expand the scripts).

ASUnit article example scripts

I have been testing the WordPress tool for the OPML Editor on a development WordPress weblog. Tonight, I decided to try it on my main weblog. Here goes….

It worked! I was able to successfully add another weblog to the tool setup.

After I installed the Copyblogger theme, I noticed that the “Archives” link in the header of the page did not display the archives for my site. I reviewed this article which talks about adding links to the header navigation area, but it did not have any information on my problem. After some searching, I found a comment on the main Copyblogger site which had the details I needed:

1. Create a page
2. Enter whatever you want in the title, but do not enter any content
3. Select “Archives” from the Page Template dropdown menu on the right
4. Enter “archives” (without the quotes) in the Page Slug field, which is also on the right
5. Save/publish your page

After following these steps, the archives link worked!

For those of you who are coming here from my article on Perl.com titled “Making Perl Reusable with Modules“, welcome! I have continued working with the concepts of Joseph Schillinger that I described in that article. I have created a short Perl script which allows the user to create a MIDI file from a Schillinger resultant. You will need to have the MIDI-Perl and Tk Perl modules installed on your system. The file containing the Perl script is attached to this post as a .txt file. See the file for instructions on how to run the script.

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