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Wednesday, December 11, 2002
MacDevCenter: Getting Fit for the Holidays
by Daniel H. Steinberg. Final Thoughts: "In this article, I took a look at the newly released Fit framework and introduced you to some of the possibilities available in using CGI on your Mac. There are a lot more elegant ways to accomplish the same result. What if we wrote our scripts in Perl or Python or Ruby? What type of installation nightmares would we need to endure to use those languages? None. Perl, Python, Ruby, and even AppleScript would provide alternative ways to accomplish the same results and they're all built in to Mac OS X."
12:53:06 PM
macosxlabs.org: Radmind PDFs available
Radmind is a suite of Unix command line tools for remote administration of file systems for Mac OS X and other Unix systems. "Radmind - Mac OS X File System Maintenance" (PDF) gives an overview of the tools, the process of using the tools, terms, execution and status customizations, tips and tricks. "Radmind - U of U Customization Details" (PDF) offers customization details including multiple examples of executing radmind like startup, login, logout, manually, and scheduled with perl, shell and AppleScript scripts. Also includes details on customizing login panel, system menu to display status information. Note: These were posted to their news page on 11/21/02 - I just discovered them today.
11:40:03 AM
FileMaker Pro 6.0v4 update available
Mac Net Journal notes that FileMaker Pro 6.0v4 is now available. I've since downloaded and installed the update and, according to "Update Read Me.pdf", there are a ton of changes.
11:16:28 AM
MacScripter unScripted - AppleScript Studio: About the About Box...
MacScripter.net news editor Kirk Klingbiel: "unScripted delves into editing the default About Box of AppleScript Studio projects. 'One of the more enjoyable parts of developing Mac software is the venerable about box. Some like to have fun with it and add goofy company names and credit distant relatives or caffeine-soaked foodstuffs. Others prefer to keep their about box serious, clean and no-nonsense.' T.J. offers step-by-step instructions for creating and adding custom About Box content, and discovers how to add inline pictures."
10:25:33 AM
Note to GraphicConverter scripters
Since I'm aware of several scripters who have been bitten by this bug, I'll mention it here. Certain versions of GraphicConverter have a bug where, in OS X, the application cannot create new files via AppleScript. According to the version history (title link), this bug was fixed in version 4.5. I recently upgraded to the latest version (4.5.1) and I'm pleased to confirm that the bug has been fixed.
9:41:19 AM
DMG Tool 3.0
DMG Tool is an AppleScript Studio GUI front end for the command line tool hdiutil. It was created to simplify the process of quickly creating compressed disk images in Mac OS X. Version 3, which requires OS X 10.2, is a complete rewrite which offers a smaller file size, less code duplication and various improvements and enhancements. A previous version of DMG Tool is still available for users who haven't upgraded to Jaguar.
1:00:39 AM
by Daniel H. Steinberg. Final Thoughts: "In this article, I took a look at the newly released Fit framework and introduced you to some of the possibilities available in using CGI on your Mac. There are a lot more elegant ways to accomplish the same result. What if we wrote our scripts in Perl or Python or Ruby? What type of installation nightmares would we need to endure to use those languages? None. Perl, Python, Ruby, and even AppleScript would provide alternative ways to accomplish the same results and they're all built in to Mac OS X."
12:53:06 PM
macosxlabs.org: Radmind PDFs available
Radmind is a suite of Unix command line tools for remote administration of file systems for Mac OS X and other Unix systems. "Radmind - Mac OS X File System Maintenance" (PDF) gives an overview of the tools, the process of using the tools, terms, execution and status customizations, tips and tricks. "Radmind - U of U Customization Details" (PDF) offers customization details including multiple examples of executing radmind like startup, login, logout, manually, and scheduled with perl, shell and AppleScript scripts. Also includes details on customizing login panel, system menu to display status information. Note: These were posted to their news page on 11/21/02 - I just discovered them today.
11:40:03 AM
FileMaker Pro 6.0v4 update available
Mac Net Journal notes that FileMaker Pro 6.0v4 is now available. I've since downloaded and installed the update and, according to "Update Read Me.pdf", there are a ton of changes.
11:16:28 AM
MacScripter unScripted - AppleScript Studio: About the About Box...
MacScripter.net news editor Kirk Klingbiel: "unScripted delves into editing the default About Box of AppleScript Studio projects. 'One of the more enjoyable parts of developing Mac software is the venerable about box. Some like to have fun with it and add goofy company names and credit distant relatives or caffeine-soaked foodstuffs. Others prefer to keep their about box serious, clean and no-nonsense.' T.J. offers step-by-step instructions for creating and adding custom About Box content, and discovers how to add inline pictures."
10:25:33 AM
Note to GraphicConverter scripters
Since I'm aware of several scripters who have been bitten by this bug, I'll mention it here. Certain versions of GraphicConverter have a bug where, in OS X, the application cannot create new files via AppleScript. According to the version history (title link), this bug was fixed in version 4.5. I recently upgraded to the latest version (4.5.1) and I'm pleased to confirm that the bug has been fixed.
9:41:19 AM
DMG Tool 3.0
DMG Tool is an AppleScript Studio GUI front end for the command line tool hdiutil. It was created to simplify the process of quickly creating compressed disk images in Mac OS X. Version 3, which requires OS X 10.2, is a complete rewrite which offers a smaller file size, less code duplication and various improvements and enhancements. A previous version of DMG Tool is still available for users who haven't upgraded to Jaguar.
1:00:39 AM