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Brent Simmons’ Macintosh scripting weblog.
Friday, March 22, 2002
Manila Envelope 1.0.3 Released. Tim Jarrett’s Manila Envelope is an external editor for Manila weblogs. This release adds a couple new features and fixes some bugs.
2:20:37 PM
Macrobyte: RCSearch. “RCSearch is the super-easy-to-use search engine for UserLand’s Radio Community Server. It’s also a Just-in-Time search engine: within minutes of a new page being uploaded to your community server, the page will be fully indexed and searchable.”
2:20:08 PM
James Sentman: acgi Dispatcher 1.0b4. “New in Beta 4: Adds ‘debug windows’ that let you see exactly what data is going back and forth between dispatcher and the scripts.” acgi Dispatcher allows traditional-style acgi scripts and apps to run behind Apache on OS X.
2:17:01 PM
Jesse Shanks: Scripting Apple DVD Player. “The DVD Player application comes with a scripting dictionary that allows the intrepid user to control aspects of the way the player acts, looks and responds. Besides commands to start, stop, pause and stop DVDs, there are commands for the arrow keys, the return key and ability to go to any of the menus found on a disc.”
2:16:26 PM
perl.com: A Perl Hacker’s Foray into .Net. “So for our exploration, the components of the .NET Framework that we care about are the Common Language Runtime and the C# language. And to nail it down beyond any doubt, these are things that you can download and use today. They’re real, they exist and they work.”
2:15:31 PM
evolt.org: Regular Expression Basics. “If you’ve seen a regular expression before and thought it looked like alien space-algebra, it does, but have no fear—you’ll be fluent in alien space-algebra in no time!”
2:14:52 PM
Apple Technical Note: AEBuild*, AEPrint* and Friends. “The AEBuild* suite of routines provide simple to use and easy to maintain facilities for constructing complex Apple event structures in memory for sending information to other applications. AEPrint provides a symmetrical pretty printer routine for viewing complex Apple event structures as strings formatted using the same syntax as the strings AEBuild* is able to read.”
2:14:09 PM
A List Apart: Modifying Dreamweaver to Produce Valid XHTML. “Problem: Dreamweaver 4 falls short in its ability to produce well-formed, standards-compliant markup. Solution: You can easily harness Dreamweaver’s two greatest strengths, its flexibility and its user community, to make it one of the best tools on the market for producing good XHTML.”
2:12:38 PM
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