Jan 28
David MartinezUncategorized
Found this on my "fortune" program today:
"Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?"
-- Alan Kay, "Computer Software", Scientific American, September 1984
Fantastic!
Jan 23
David MartinezMac, Ruby Mac, Ruby
Yesterday a coworker pointed me to ruby's appscript. I have found it nothing short of amazing.
I love my Mac, and many of us like the idea of automating our software, until we try to use AppleScript to do it. To say that Applescript is professional developer unfriendly is an understatement. I like ruby but to make ruby and applescript talk requires sending strings to osascript in just the right way and getting the output from osascript back. Not a lot of fun at all.
Enter appscript. Appscript is a ruby library that interfaces with applescript seamlessly.
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Jan 14
David MartinezMac Mac
If you're a developer and use Terminal.app, don't set "unlimited" on the buffer size. After a day of using it heavily to review logs and whatnot your computer will be *really* slow. It's Terminal.app keeping in RAM what you did yesterday. Stupid and Obvious, but still figured I'd write it down.
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