September 28th, 2003 | by Derek Willis | published in Apple
At last, an AppleScript tutorial written expressly for OS X 10.2! In addition, since it’s being released as a PDF, it will be updated with new OS X releases.
September 21st, 2003 | by Derek Willis | published in Apple
John Gruber explains how to use AppleScript’s filtering syntax to place criteria on its actions. Some very cool stuff here.
September 11th, 2003 | by Derek Willis | published in Apple, Car Tools
For those of us who work on the Mac, this is great news: a new version of CocoaMySQL is out. This front-end to MySQL has a bunch of new features in version 0.5, including import and export abilities (it can export to XML, even!) and plenty of other goodies like table optimization. Importing CSV files [...]
September 8th, 2003 | by Derek Willis | published in Apple, Car Tools
This AppleScript prompts the user for a date in MM/DD/YY format, then queries the FEC’s electronic filings site to find a list of filings made on that day. Using curl, it saves the file to the user’s hard drive (you’ll need to change the path to match your system) and then opens it with Safari. [...]
September 2nd, 2003 | by Derek Willis | published in Apple, Car Tools
On my revamped Projects page you’ll find a link to my first AppleScript release – a small (but probably too long) script that fetches the HTML results of querying the Federal Election Commission’s electronic filings search engine, taking a date entered by the user. It’s not much, but it’s my intro to AppleScript and I [...]