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Launching AppleScripts with Keyboard Shortcuts
Jochen Walters, MacDevCenter.com: “AppleScript automation is one of OS X’s most useful features. It lets you automate common, repetitive tasks so you can spend your time on more important things. Some AppleScripts would be even more useful, and their usage more seamless, if you could launch them by just hitting a key combination. And you can.”
Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:22:58 GMT
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Replacing AppleScript with Ruby
Matt Neuburg, MacDevCenter.com: “I’ll explain how to download and install rb-appscript. I’ll discuss the basics of rb-appscript usage and show how to develop a simple ‘hello world’ script. Finally, I’ll rewrite the Ruby-AppleScript example from my book to use Ruby with rb-appscript instead.”
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:29:46 GMT
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How to Write a Cocoa Web Server
Jürgen Schweizer, MacDevCenter.com: “A couple of weeks ago a friend asked me to write a Mac-based HTTP server for an intranet web service he was building. I hadn’t forgotten how Mac OS X was praised because of its Unix underpinnings, and the strong networking capabilities that come along with that. As a Cocoa developer, I was confident that I could find a nice Cocoa API that would do the hard work for me, so I accepted...”
Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:39:57 GMT
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Getting Started with Quartz Composer
Erica Sadun, MacDevCenter.com: “Take Quartz Composer, for example. It’s a free utility that can bring new life and interest to your iMovie projects. In this article, you’ll learn how to use your own pictures to create a simple but flashy animation.”
Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:05:02 GMT
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The Power of mdfind
MacDevCenter.com, Andy Lester: “I had the power of Spotlight available to me from the Unix shell. Experienced Unix users will find mdfind’s interface familiar. Mac power users who have never used the Unix under the hood of Tiger are in for a treat.”
Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:52:36 GMT
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A Quick Look at the MarsEdit Weblog Editor
Derrick Story, O’Reilly: “It sports a clean UI that you’d expect from Ranchero (feeling very NetNewsWire like), is very easy to connect to your MT server, enables roundtrip editing in your favorite text editor (in addition to its own friendly editor interface), has easy-to-use image uploading (uses a separate window that also catalogs your previous image uploads for easy repurposing), includes an RPC console, and is AppleScriptable.”
Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:51:12 GMT
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Managing MySQL on Mac OS X
O’Reilly, Robert Daeley: “MySQL is a popular database management system with which most web developers are familiar. You can’t swing a cat on the internet without hitting a website running it on the back end.”
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:22:23 GMT
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Model-View-Controller in Web 2.0
O’Reilly, Fraser Speirs: “In the Web 2.0 apps that really Get It, they have a database backend, a web frontend and—crucially—some kind of web services API in between. Flickr is a great example of this kind of architecture—almost everything you can do through the Flickr website can be done programmatically through a desktop application.”
Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:32:30 GMT
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What Is Darwin (and How It Powers Mac OS X)
MacDevCenter.com: “Darwin is the Unix-derived core that provides the underlying foundation for Mac OS X. At Darwin’s heart is the XNU kernel—a Mach 3.0-based microkernel that has been modified to include portions of FreeBSD for performance reasons.”
Sat, 01 Oct 2005 18:01:38 GMT
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Fundraiser auction: get cool software for a good cause
Seth Dillingham’s PMC Software Auctions are now live. The disks being auctioned have incredible applications: BBEdit, Delicious Library, FlySketch, OmniOutliner, and tons more. (We at Ranchero donated copies of NetNewsWire and MarsEdit.) Check out the entire list.
There are great Windows disks too, with apps like FeedDemon, Lux, Onfolio Professional, and TopStyle. (And more.)
Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:11:55 GMT
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Web Apps with Tiger: Getting Started
Kevin Hemenway: MacDevCenter.com: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. You’ve got your Dashboard, your Automator, your Spotlight, your uber-Safari, and your RSS screensaver. And they’re great, dandy, zippidity-doo-dah. It’d be terrific if there were something new under the hood for web serving, right?”
Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:00:02 GMT
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Write Your Own Automator Actions
MacDevCenter.com, Matt Neuburg: “An Automator Action is extremely easy to write. Documentation on how to do so is copious and helpful... Still, all that documentation may seem overwhelming at first, so this article presents a simple hands-on example to get you started down the road to writing your own Actions.”
Wed, 04 May 2005 17:46:25 GMT
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The birth of a new app
O’Reilly, Giles Turnbull: “Enter Sam DeVore, full-time dad and part-time programmer. He saw the need for something new, and suspected he could create it very rapidly. He posted to the list, announcing his plan, and set to work.”
Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:14:38 GMT
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