Monday, April 22, 2002

Make BBEdit into an AppleScript Development Environment In answer to a comment on the BBEdit-Talk list about the desire for using BBEdit to create AppleScripts, among many other replies, Charlie Garrison noted, "But for those who just want to use BBEdit for writing simple scripts and then compile them (& are using OSX), there is a unix command line tool to do just that... osacompile - compile OSA scripts." (OSA Is Open Scripting Architecture.) This seemed like an interesting exercise and I began to try and create a script that would take the text of a BBEdit window, compile it in AppleScript and save it to a compiled script. Little did I know that it would lead to a much more interesting exercise.   7:26:49 PM  Google It!  comment

Another Undocumented Google Syntax -- Date-Based Searching Google didn't completely not-document the daterange: syntax. They just put it in their API documentation and not on their Web site. But it works just fine from the Web-based interface. On the other hand you can do some fun stuff with it using the Google API too.   6:25:25 PM  Google It!  comment