Introduction BackgrounDRb is both a blessing and a curse. First, it allows you to farm off work to other Ruby processes, so that your main…
Update: Yikes, I hit the Post button before I really wanted to! So you’ll get to see more of my revision process than normal. Sorry about…
So I need to update my website a bit. After a bit o reorganization and backend rework. But, in the spirit of Useful Information Now, I’m…
Here’s a fun gotcha when creating commands for TextMate: if your command’s output is set to Create New Document on output, then that output…
PyAWS (originally py-Amazon by Mark Pilgrim), is a neat, simple, Python API for getting requests from Amazon Web Services. But it doesn’t…
So if you read my previous article on appscript’s get syntax, you might now be wondering how to do more advanced things with getters. For…
So, while this might be very obvious to other people, I found out an interesting thing about bundles today. In short, if you configure your…
For a while now I’ve been thinking about class attributes in dynamically typed languages. I usually view these languages as “less than 5…
For the adventurous: there’s a sample on how to integrate PyObjC with FSEvents at Neato.
I use appscript - a Python module letting me talk to scriptable applications on the Mac - everywhere I can. It means I can write less in the…