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How to use AppleScript to automate image processing
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How to set up a folder action to automate document processing
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Polishing your own apps
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Doing it in style: crafting your way past technology
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Polyglot programmer: some excellent programming environments for OS X
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Polyglot programmer: which languages support the GUI?
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Safe from prying eyes: a free script app for robust encryption
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Polyglot programmer: which languages generate standalone apps?
I earlier reviewed a rich range of GUI programming environments for OS X. Before taking any of them on more challenging projects, my next question is which of them can produce a simple standalone app...
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Polyglot programmer: Playgrounds and generators
Code playgrounds, in which you can interactively test and develop code fragments and chunks, and code generators are hardly new. But improved interpreters and compilers, and the formal overhead...
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Name that disk: what to call your storage
Because OS X is a hybrid operating system, a piquant mixture of Unix and NeXTSTEP, with a dash of Classic Mac OS, some parts of it offer a profusion of different naming systems. Among the most...
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How to use AppleScript to automate image processing
If you thought that AppleScript had been eclipsed by cross-platform scripting languages like Python, tcl and Ruby, you should take a look at its current power and utility. AppleScript itself has been...
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How to set up a folder action to automate document processing
AppleScript gives users the power to perform sophisticated functions, by calling on scriptable features in applications and the rich collection supplied in OS X. There are several ways in which you can...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Polishing your own apps
Creating a polished, double-clickable Mac application does not require you to become an Xcode Black Belt, nor to quaff Cocoa. Here is a summary of what you need to do. Producing a thoroughly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Doing it in style: crafting your way past technology
We have the benefit of powerful technology which facilitates almost everything we might want to do. So why not just use it? Yesterday afternoon we spent a few hours, sat in glorious autumn sunshine, on...
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Polyglot programmer: some excellent programming environments for OS X
My biggest weakness in programming is a love of many different languages. Having delivered commercial software in C, occam, APL, Common Lisp, Object Pascal, and AppleScript, and used many others, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Polyglot programmer: which languages support the GUI?
My previous article introduced an eclectic range of GUI development environments for OS X. If you prefer programming in such environments, then you will surely be interested in including a modern human...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Safe from prying eyes: a free script app for robust encryption
There are lots of good – and legitimate – reasons for wanting to encrypt documents, but not everyone is content to use the command line in Terminal. Here is a free, completely trustworthy, open source...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Polyglot programmer: which languages generate standalone apps?
I earlier reviewed a rich range of GUI programming environments for OS X. Before taking any of them on more challenging projects, my next question is which of them can produce a simple standalone app...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Polyglot programmer: Playgrounds and generators
Code playgrounds, in which you can interactively test and develop code fragments and chunks, and code generators are hardly new. But improved interpreters and compilers, and the formal overhead...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Name that disk: what to call your storage
Because OS X is a hybrid operating system, a piquant mixture of Unix and NeXTSTEP, with a dash of Classic Mac OS, some parts of it offer a profusion of different naming systems. Among the most...
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