Sybase announces Mac OS X development language support

- MacScripter.net: "Sybase Inc. has announced that its Adaptive Server Enterprise supports seven popular Mac development environments and all major Mac OS X programming languages, providing programmatic access using 4D, Omnis Script, REALbasic, PHP, C++, Java, Objective C, and AppleScript."
9:34:47 PM    

O'Reilly: Monday Photos from the Mac OS X Conference

- "In his morning tutorial, Sal Soghoian shows a full classroom the fundamentals of AppleScript."
9:24:53 PM    

O'Reilly: The Do's and Don'ts of Shareware, Part 1

- "As we continue with our Developing for Mac OS X series, Sanford Selznick tackles the do's and don'ts of building a shareware business. This first installment provides you with some excellent background material and helps you determine the feasibility of moving from the idea stage to creating the foundation for your new enterprise."
8:27:33 PM    

RPG 1.0.1

- RPG is a random password generator that uses AppleScript to create random passwords (and other random strings) of specific lengths and constitutions. Changes: Updated for Mac OS X 10.2.
11:48:05 AM    

Labor Day 1.0

- Labor Day uses AppleScript to help you time and monitor your labor contractions. After the report is done, you can e-mail the results via Mac OS X Mail to a doctor or other loved one.
10:30:48 AM    

MacInTouch: Jaguar 10.2.1 and Acme Script Widgets

- MacInTouch readers report problems with scripts that rely on Acme Script Widgets 3.0 in OS X 10.2.x.
10:20:48 AM    

LispMe Importer for Macintosh

- This AppleScript droplet from Nicholas Riley converts text files into notes in Palm Desktop, which become memos on a Palm device. Following the Palm standard, the first line of each text file becomes the title of the corresponding memo. Source code included. [MacScripter.net] Be sure to check out some of the other cool stuff that Nicholas has done, including WebDAV tool for Frontier/Radio, ICeCoffEE, and F-Script Anywhere.
9:05:52 AM    

XSLT Tools 1.0b1 released

- The XSLT Tools scripting addition, from Late Night Software, allows AppleScript to apply XSLT transformations to XML data and to use XPath expressions to extract information information from XML data. XSLT Tools also allows you to extend the XSLT processor using AppleScript functions.
8:53:03 AM    

XML Tools 2.5 is available

- The XML Tools scripting addition from Late Night Software allows AppleScript to parse and generate XML data. Changes: Added a new separate namespace URIs parameter to the parse XML command. Performance has been improved by roughly 20% on OS X 10.2 systems.

Sample applications are available to demontrate XML Tools. "Watch News" uses AppleScript, FaceSpan and XML Tools to read Userland Software's syndication files. XML-RPC is a sample AppleScript application that uses XML Tools in combination with the Mac OS's URLAccess Scripting feature to invoke a remote method via the XML-RPC protocol.
8:44:13 AM    

Keyboard Maestro 1.2

- Keyboard Maestro is a hot key/macro tool, a switcher, and it offers multiple clipboards. Among the changes in this version: The Execute Apple Script action now detects properly when the target script file has been modified.
12:36:06 AM    

Kung-Log 1.4

- Kung-Log is a donation-ware OS X application to post to and manage entries of a MovableType weblog. This release is only for the upcoming Movable Type version 2.5 (or higher). [release notes]
12:12:13 AM    

ScriptBuilders News

- Updates: Return Receipt 2.0
12:05:59 AM