Archive for the 'AppleScript' Category

Hit-And-Run

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter has posted the most definitive article I’ve ever seen on attaching keyboard shortcuts to scripts:

Hit-and-Run: Launching AppleScripts With Keyboard Shortcuts

Jochen Wolters explains the why and the how in brilliant detail. Of course, I’m also excited that his description of the how settles on FastScripts and QuickSilver as the best choices. I especially like [...]

My Appearance On Late Night Cocoa

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

I was honored to be a guest on Scotty’s excellent Late Night Cocoa podcast.

Those of you who have been regular listeners will notice that my episode is about twice the length of most of the previous episodes. What can I say? I like to talk.

This episode will be of interest (I hope!) to any developers [...]

Restart Xcode

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

As much as I basically like Xcode, let’s just say it’s not without its infuriating quirks. Among these quirks are a number of subtle bugs that seriously degrade its usability, but that only seem to appear after using it for several hours or days. Your text editors stop showing your changes, the spinning pizza of [...]

iTunes Script: Recent Podcasts

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

If you use iTunes to manage your podcast subscriptions, and you have enough of them, it can become quite difficult to sift through the list to see what has been recently updated. I often find myself wanting to quickly check whether anything new has arrived in say, the past day or two.

My Recent Podcasts script [...]