:: jenny chowdhury says, “put that in your pipe and smoke it” ::

I got this email from Cory (my applescript/perl guru friend) today:

“Hey Jenny,

I’m starting to be afraid I led you down a rabbit hole with the
perl->applescript stuff.

I found this, which you might want to check out:

http://quicksilver.caup.washington.edu/software/peacepipe/

…;”

Turns out my plan to have an applescript launched from my perl backend won’t work because of the way apache is set up.
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After surveying everyone on the floor about viewing perl/cgi files locally and coming up empty handed, I found some other documentation showing that the cgi files can be in a completely different folder than the one I was trying to work with. Not sure what was up with all those other docs.

http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?read=10381

Last week, I realized that it would probably be best to write the backend of my website in perl since I’ve already got a perl script talking to applescript. i’ve run into problems running my first perl script locally on my machine though. It works fine on my itp website so I know it’s not the code. Unfortunatly, much of the documentation on how to do this is written for OS 9. I had Josh Klein help me out for a bit. He found some leads, but i’m still not sure what’s wrong.

I’ve posted to the list and asked Cory for his advice. Hopefully, I can resolve this administration problem soon. In the meantime, I will try to work from the web.

I. Description/User Scenario:
1)User wants one or more of the following end results:
a)To look popular
b)To get out of a bad date/boring meeting
c)To be reminded or some event.

2)Via a web interface,
a)user registers with name, cell phone number, time to be called.
b)user chooses male/female canned message.
c)User chooses type of message

3)Site calls user at chosen time, message plays.

4)User listens for prompts in the message and, hopefully, convincingly fakes a phone conversation.

5)User looks popular, gets out of a bad date/boring meeting, is reminded to do something.
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