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Richard Wolf

is fixing Ma­cLearning'­s iTunes U c­ourse page. ­:)
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  • First Name Richard
  • Last Name Wolf
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  • City Chicago
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  • Current Employer The University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Job Title Research Programmer
  • Areas of Interest iTunes U, ­Podcast Pr­oducer, Ma­c OS X, Co­coa develo­pment, iPh­one develo­pment
  • Biography <p><­br>Since 1­989, I­9;ve been ­working fo­r the Acad­emic Compu­tation and­ Communica­tions Cent­er of
    ­<a href­="htt­p://www.ui­c.edu"­;>The U­niversity ­of Illinoi­s at Chica­go</a&g­t;,
    or ­UIC. Altho­ugh I wasn­'t or­iginally h­ired to be­ an Apple/­Mac expert­, it quick­ly became ­known to m­y superior­s that Mac­s were my ­special ar­ea of expe­rtise, and­ so now I ­serve as a­ one of tw­o ultimate­ Mac autho­rity on ca­mpus. I es­pecially l­ove creati­ng custom ­solutions ­for both M­ac OS X an­d the iPho­ne.
    <­;/p>­><p>­
    In 200­6, I becam­e deeply i­nvolved in­ the reall­y cool wor­ld of iTun­es U not l­ong after ­I created ­a tool des­igned to h­elp me wit­h the admi­nistration­ of UIC�­39;s iTune­s U site. ­That tool,­ or rather­ that set ­of tools, ­is called<­br><a h­ref="­http://itu­nes.uic.ed­u/woolamal­oo.html&qu­ot;>Woo­lamaloo<­;/a>.­r></p&g­t;
  • Richard Wolf
    Richard Wolf commented on Frank Lowney's article: Hi Frank,
    Just curious…you say:
    Traditionally, it is the esteem in which the journal or publisher is held that determines the value assigned to the work. A textbook published by one publisher may be rated lower than a textbook published by another recogni...  more    Hi Frank,
    Just curious…you say:
    Traditionally, it is the esteem in which the journal or publisher is held that determines the value assigned to the work. A textbook published by one publisher may be rated lower than a textbook published by another recognized commercial publisher.
    I wonder…might not that eventually be broken by student and peer recognition online? I have little doubt that what you say is true at the moment. But my suspicion is that eTextbook authors will have access to the same sorts of analytics that iOS app authors do now. Nothing says "recognition" more than ten or a hundred thousand downloads. In other words, if fifty thousand students of all flavors download an eTextbook, it might be reasonable to assume that that represented its use in hundreds of bona fide courses. :)
    While the iBookstore cannot give peer recognition (and Apple's recognition might not count for much in the academe), do you think that once pioneering souls put content in the iBookstore, that online ad-hoc groups w...    less
    • February 7
  • Richard Wolf
    Richard Wolf is now friends with Hilary Srere.
    • November 22, 2011
  • Richard Wolf
    Richard Wolf One of the things I did last weekend was pull together all my iTunes purchases…you know, kind of organize them. Crazy thing is that I discovered that I bought just over 180 albums. At roughly $10 an album, I've spent pretty close to $2000 at the iTunes St...  moreOne of the things I did last weekend was pull together all my iTunes purchases…you know, kind of organize them. Crazy thing is that I discovered that I bought just over 180 albums. At roughly $10 an album, I've spent pretty close to $2000 at the iTunes Store…and that's not counting my season passes for TV shows, like the recurring $9 I spend to get Colbert Report updates.

    I confess, I am an iTunes junkie. What is it that they say—the healing begins the moment you admit you've got a problem. :)  
    • November 17, 2009
  • Richard Wolf
    Richard Wolf I'm doing the fastest ever reading of Pragmatic Unit Testing by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas of Pragmatic Programmers fame. Good book. And about time I started getting the unit test religion!
    • November 4, 2009
  • Richard Wolf
    Richard Wolf It's like Facebook, just MacLearning style!
    • August 27, 2009
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    Chris Brewer: Welcome to MacLearning.org!
    • August 27, 2009
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  • Active Directory and iTunes U? dscl Is Your Friend

    • 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...

  • The Mysterious Case of iTunes U Encoding

    • 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 ...

  • Fixing Apple’s iTunes U Python Sample Code

    • 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...

  • Encode Different

    • 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...
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  • August 30, 2010 6:41:53 AM PDT
    in the topic Podcast Producer Library feeds and Blackboard 9 in the forum Mac OS X Server and Services
    ric, I think Atom is the heart of the problem. PcP2 publishes Atom feeds which are different enough from what most RSS aggregators expect so-as-to goof them up. I like your solution…it sounds as if your fix degronifies Atom enough to get Blackboard to accept it as straight-up RSS. :)
  • May 16, 2010 11:52:30 AM PDT
    in the topic Anyone going to WWDC? in the forum All Things Considered
    I know you know already from the iTunes U forums sir, but for the rest of the MacLearning community, yep, I'll be there. WWDC, here I come!!
  • November 17, 2009 9:43:38 AM PST
    in the topic Hosted sites…anyone notice a problem last week? in the forum iTunes U
    I was working on Duke's iTunes U site last week (I have permission to edit a couple of the course pages there) and I noticed a pretty funky problem. Just curious if others have seen it as well.By way of preamble, just wanted to say that Duke has a hosted public site…that is, the content for Duke's public site is hosted on Apple servers. If you've got an "new school" site that only uses RSS feeds from local servers, I am not sure you will have seen the same issue. Duke's public site is "old school".I noticed that after content was uploaded to a simple tab ("group") that it couldn't be moved or deleted without causing all kinds of display problems for the tab. Tracks would be displayed twice, or in the wrong order. Just all kinds of ordering wackiness. The only way I could find to fix the problem was to delete the tab and start from scratch. I noticed that the problem occurred about the same time as the most recent iTunes U update (but I do not know if there is any cause/effect relationship).The problem appears to be fixed now. And I'm not sure if it isn't just something that happened to me. But hey, if you noticed it, you are not going crazy. :)
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