Wesley Alan Wright: Notes, Lessons, and Projects

Tina sent me this:

Hola Wesley!
I would like to invite you to the opening reception and artists’ talk for “Latitude/Longitude” this Thursday, October 18th, 5:30-7:30pm. You made my interactive section truly beautiful. It is always an honor for me to work with you. Thanks so much!
¡Gracias!

Jim McGarry, Exam Proctoring center, sent me this question:

I want to send an IM (AIM) based on user input on a webpage to one of about 6 recipients whose ids I know.  User wouldn’t compose IM – it would be something like ‘ “netid” is here for a meeting’ where netid is a field he enters.

This got complicated fast. AIM uses a proprietary protocol. Any APIs or code modules have been reverse engineered by traffic snooping. Nothing goggled up from php land except for one Russian library I didn’t want to trust

I did find a perl module, Net::OSCAR . But to run on cgi.uvm.edu (which historically is where perl, C, python, or other non-php scripts live), it needed XML::Parser . So I asked SAA if they could install XML::Parser on cgi.uvm.edu, and they told me that they hope to retire cgi.uvm.edu sometime this fall, would we like to test something new. I said, “Sure.”

So here’s the deal. epc and waw now have our own virtual web servers

http://epc.w3.uvm.edu
http://waw.w3.uvm.edu

Put php and perl scripts there, in www-root. Access and error message logs found in www-logs. You will need to install Net::OSCAR and any other necessary perl modules following these set-up instructions

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2980297/how-can-i-use-cpan-as-a-non-root-user

followed by

cpanm Net:OSCAR

add these lines to perl scripts to tell script where to find locally installed perl modules

use lib ‘/users/e/p/epc/perl5/lib/perl5’;
use lib ‘/users/e/p/epc/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi’;

I wrote the perl script using sample provided by Net::OSCAR, sent it to Jim with instructions

change these two lines

my $screenname = “screenname”;
my $password = “password”;

to send “holy moley batman” to screen name “maddodskideath” …

http://waw.w3.uvm.edu/aim.pl?to=maddogskideath&message=holy+moley+Batman

Finally added some color, fonts, and design to pages

updated (abandoned) release form

made it easier to find and watch new  videos