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  Active Directory and iTunes U? dscl Is Your Friend

  • Posted by Richard Wolf
  • October 22, 2009
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  If you’re looking for a simple way to authenticate Active Directory users within your iTunes U portal site, dscl is your friend. To show how you can use dsclto help manage an iTunes U portal site, I thought I would do a little write-up in the hop...
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  The Mysterious Case of iTunes U Encoding

  • Posted by Richard Wolf
  • October 21, 2009
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  Let’s start with a simple scenario. Suppose we have at our disposal a scripting language whose libraries contain a routine called encrypt(). encrypt() takes as its arguments two strings: the first is a string we want to encrypt and the second is ...
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  Fixing Apple’s iTunes U Python Sample Code

  • Posted by Richard Wolf
  • October 16, 2009
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  Mac OS X is a remarkable collection of software—nearly every scripting language important in the UNIX world is included as a part of any OS X installation. Yet although OS X is bundled with Perl, Python, and Ruby, it is not necessarily the case t...
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  Encode Different

  • Posted by Richard Wolf
  • October 13, 2009
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  Typically, a Podcast Producer workflow will contain one or more tasks which encode content for distribution. For example, the following workflow task, encode_ipod, sets up the pcastactioncommand to use its ipod encoder to encode content suitable for an...