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Other News: "Tiger" Bugs

Other News: "Tiger" Bugs 04/07/2005 12:39 PM
You might want to wait for Version 10.4._1_ before installing "Tiger"....

Other News: Apple Downplays Security
Bugs?

Other News: Apple Downplays Security
Bugs? 05/05/2004 09:36 AM
Some are claiming that Apple is inappropriately downplaying Mac OS X security holes.

News: AppleScript Pro Sessions to cover
Tiger, Automator

News: AppleScript Pro Sessions to cover
Tiger, Automator 04/14/2005 12:33 PM
With Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger's" release planned for April 29, 2005, the coordinators of AppleScript Pro Sessions have announced that their next event will feature coverage of Tiger and Tiger's new automation tool Automator. The sessions will happen in Monterey, Calif. from May 2 - 6, 2005.

Re: (IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because
of Bugs: Some Facts About Software and
Security bugs

Re: (IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because
of Bugs: Some Facts About Software and
Security bugs 07/07/2004 02:41 PM
Thomas C. Greene (Jul 06 2004)

(IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because of
Bugs: Some Facts About Software and
Security bugs

(IE/SCOB) Switching Software Because of
Bugs: Some Facts About Software and
Security bugs 07/01/2004 10:30 AM
Drew Copley (Jun 30 2004)

Bugs are everywhere!

Bugs are everywhere! 05/25/2004 05:52 PM
On Fornication And Genetics in The Breedster Age The site which launched a social networking app based around insect fornication and copulograms, gave rise to mass projects, insect personals, and even racist clans now presents some early findings including interesting animations of a populated world.

AppleScript Documentation

AppleScript Documentation 10/29/2003 12:13 AM
AppleScript is Apple's native scripting technology. It enables users to directly control applications, including the Mac OS itself, by creating sets of English-like instructions, or scripts. Developers can make their applications scriptable; that is, capable of responding to Apple events. Carbon and Cocoa applications both support scripting, allowing applications to execute scripts or send individual Apple events to take advantage of features of other applications.

macscripter's appleScript faq

macscripter's appleScript faq 12/02/2003 11:00 AM
MacScripter's AppleScript FAQ section has undergone a massive update. Julio J. Sancho (aka JJ) has re-organized the categories, updated the contents, and unified the FAQs overall appearance. Plus, JJ has added many important new AppleScript FAQs. MacScripter's AppleScript FAQ section is a comprehensive list of frequently asked questions based on a simple Q&A format. The FAQs are indexed and split into several sub-categories.

What is "delegation" in AppleScript?

What is "delegation" in AppleScript? 06/17/2004 12:59 PM
Delegation in AppleScript is similar to a filter. Using delegation, you can catch events which are not owned by you, then make some operations or let them flow.

Top Ten AppleScript Tips

Top Ten AppleScript Tips 02/01/2005 09:35 PM

If you think of AppleScript as only a nerdy, workflow-automation tool, you're missing out on a lot of power. By Adam Goldstein, O'Reilly Network

Applescript vs. Cocoa

Applescript vs. Cocoa 02/07/2005 01:20 AM
"Ken Ferry mailed me about my iTunes controller, wondering what the overhead was for using Applescript in my Lisp controller. With a little experimentation I found that calling out to the shell added about 350ms to the runtime for each call, plus execution time. To refresh a page which interrogates iTunes for the current track, the current volume, and whether it was set to play on random or not would take well over a second just to call the scripts."

Help With iTunes AppleScript

Help With iTunes AppleScript 01/22/2004 12:57 PM

Constructors in AppleScript

Constructors in AppleScript 06/10/2004 01:12 PM
jj: "Sample code to create and use a special structure in AppleScript mostly unknown as 'constructor'... Some of the features defined in the "constructor" maybe available only to OS X or special email clients (?), but this is simple source-code and can be adaptated."

AppleScript in Panther

AppleScript in Panther 10/29/2003 12:13 AM
Topping the list of important features is the new scriptable image processing architecture called Image Events. Script Editor application has been totally re-written to become a native Mac OS X application. Menus, windows, and dialogs of these applications can now be queried and controlled via AppleScript's new Graphic User Interface scripting architecture. iCal 1.5 includes the ability to set the execution of scripts as an action for calendar events.

AppleScript Editor 2.0

AppleScript Editor 2.0 11/03/2003 04:03 PM
Read, write, record, and save AppleScript scripts

Experiences with AppleScript

Experiences with AppleScript 04/08/2005 12:25 PM
Simon Brown: "If you've not seen AppleScript, it's a cross between a 3rd generation language and english. There's a fairly good language guide on the Apple website, although it's no tutorial. The script editor itself works well and I particularly like the way it auto-indents when you save or compile."

AppleScript Basics

AppleScript Basics 08/12/2004 01:26 PM
You use AppleScript's Script Editor application to write small programs or scripts that include specially worded statements. AppleScript statements are converted by Mac OS into Apple events--messages that can be understood by the operating system and applications. When you run a script, the script can send instructions to the operating system or applications and receive messages in return.

Flying bugs

Flying bugs 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 1:04PM GMT

Several Things about IE bugs

Several Things about IE bugs 12/13/2003 04:07 PM
Liu Die Yu (Dec 13 2003)

Bugs Online

Bugs Online 04/19/2004 11:04 PM
User Updates

Yahoo's Web Bugs: How to Opt Out

Yahoo's Web Bugs: How to Opt Out 05/11/2004 01:22 PM

A reader alerts me to Yahoo's use of Web Bugs, invisible files that let the company track a variety of behavior "inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Yahoo! products and services." Yahoo says no personally identifying information is collected, but since it knows who you are when you're doing email, that's a distinction without a difference, I think. Anyway, here's a page where you can opt out. Yahoo calls them "Web Beacons," a rhetorical trick. Note that you have to do it for each browser you use, and the browsers have to accept cookies. Also note that when you opt out you get a page that makes it all to easily to inadvertently opt back in. Be careful. For more information on web bugs, see this page by Richard Smith.

It's About Buzz, Not Bugs

It's About Buzz, Not Bugs 07/23/2004 11:16 PM

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It’s not about about being a serious beta tester anymore, these days it is about being one of the few or one of the first. This trend has really shown it’s face lately with the beta program for Google’s Gmail. While it is not a state secret that it is a beta service being offered by Google, you practically have to be royalty to get yourself invited to become a user. The odd thing is…

Microsoft's War on Bugs

Microsoft's War on Bugs 08/31/2004 06:23 AM
eBCVG.com Aug 31 2004 11:11AM GMT

Bugs, Exploits Dog XP SP2

Bugs, Exploits Dog XP SP2 08/19/2004 12:22 PM
Microsoft offers a hotfix for loopback bug, while security researchers report a new vulnerability in SP2 that could allow a malicious Web site to deposit an attack program on a user's system.

Re: [XSS] PHP-Nuke 7.4 Bugs

Re: [XSS] PHP-Nuke 7.4 Bugs 09/07/2004 06:23 PM
Blaine Elzey (Sep 05 2004)

What Will Bugs Feel Like?

What Will Bugs Feel Like? 05/12/2004 08:12 PM
Two months ago I spilled water directly into my laptop. Looked dead. I let it dry for a while and the screen came back, with static fuzz that faded into clarity after a week. Problem was, I lost the best...

Re: Several Things about IE bugs

Re: Several Things about IE bugs 12/15/2003 02:04 PM
http-equiv_at_excite.com (Dec 15 2003)

I see bugs, people

I see bugs, people 12/02/2003 04:59 PM

BUGS - The Bug Genie

BUGS - The Bug Genie 11/12/2003 11:34 PM
1.1 RC1 is uploaded!

Bugs are Free

Bugs are Free 03/13/2003 10:14 AM

Speaking with Dare today helped me to clarify one of my motives for doing "open source" things -- a motive that I suspect is shared by many.  This particular motive stems (in essence) from the psychology that "bug fixes should be free".  It's not about fixing bugs, but the psychology is closely related:

When writing code, programmers usually have some goal or outcome in mind -- some valuable vision which they wish to materialize.  The path between vision and realization is never as clear and clean as one initially imagines, though.  Nowhere is persistence in the face of disappointment more important than in computer programming.  Along the path from vision to reality, the programmer encounters many obstacles which warrant an attitude "it shouldn't be so hard to embed a web page in a WinForm!" or "why the heck didn't the docs say that this was a zero-based index??"  There are many things that one encounters when programming which are simply wrong, in a fundamental "the universe is not right" sense.

I believe that most programmers do not want to give away their valuable end-product without some kind of significant reward.It is unlikely that someone would sink the sort of psychological and material investment necessary to produce good software if they perceived it as being worthless.  On the other hand, the psychology will be quite different for code that was written to overcome obstacles on the path to realizing that vision.  When someone looks at a piece of code and thinks "I never should have been forced to jump through so many hoops to accomplish such a simple task", they are far more likely to think that the code should see wide distribution.

Of course, one could say that the act of eliminating a common road-block that has plagued other programmers is valuable, and therefore should be priced accordingly.  In fact, this is the case.  Much of the software industry produces "platform" products which are essentially middlemen sitting between (and ideally assisting) programmers and the real-world "solutions" that they create.  I think that the real psychological difference, however, is the way that software producers view their obstacles.  Even if you are writing "platform" software which is not directly addressing real-world solutions, your software is "real-world" to the extent that someone will pay you licensing fees for it (in other words, it could be very real value as far as you're concerned).  On the other hand, every unexpected obstacle that "shouldn't have been a problem in the first place" will be perceived by most as annoying expenses that reduce the profit margin (monetary or otherwise). 

Happiness isn't a universal right, but pursuit of happiness is.People are far more likely to be altruistic about removing unreasonable obstacles (as perceived by them) to the pursuit of happiness.

 

The Reality of Bugs

The Reality of Bugs 11/13/2003 12:38 AM

As some comments in my previous blog entry illustrate, I think people simply don't grasp the magnitude of the Web. There are (conservatively) 10 million Web sites on the Web. Let's say (conservatively) that each Web site has 50 unique Web pages. That's 500 million Web pages that the Web browser has to work perfectly on.

Let's imagine that the browser has done a fantastic job of emulating all the quirks of WinIE and Netscape 4, and that it is really good at laying out malformed HTML. An awesome browser would be (conservatively) 95% compliant, which means that it would have some sort of bug or problem on 5% of those 500 million Web pages.

5% of 500 million Web pages is 25 million malfunctioning Web pages. Let's now assume that only 10% of those Web pages are even seen by someone using Safari itself. Now we're down to 2.5 million pages seen by Safari users.

If only 10% of those users even bother to report a bug, that's 250,000 unique bugs that have to be screened.

This is the reality of the Web. People are constantly shocked and amazed that their pet bug hasn't been fixed in subsequent releases (e.g., in Mozilla or Safari), but those people simply don't understand how many hundreds of thousands of bugs their particular problem is competing with.

Bugs found in EU, US

Bugs found in EU, US 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
Bit old tech for them, we reckon...

Set monitor resolution via AppleScript

Set monitor resolution via AppleScript 09/09/2004 10:28 AM
Prepare for the skinny on how to build a AppleScript to allow for quick resolution changes. This is quite useful if you like to use different resolutions for applications, or if you have TV-out, like I do (which works in only...

Use AppleScript as a simple calculator

Use AppleScript as a simple calculator 08/11/2004 11:52 AM
You can use AppleScript as a standard calculator in a pinch -- just type in the equation as you would normally, and leave out the = sign. The answer will be displayed in a window titled 'The Result.' For example, enter (663 *...

AppleScript Pro Sessions return

AppleScript Pro Sessions return 07/21/2004 01:06 AM
Scripting Matters, Inc. has announced its upcoming AppleScript Pro Sessions, which offer five days of classes and tutorials on mastering AppleScript, from starting out with the software to scripting in Panther, QuarkXPress, InDesign, and more. This year the sessions will be held in Newport, RI and will cost $1,200 for any three days or $1,600 for all five. An early bird registration discount is available through October 6.

Keynote AppleScript Support

Keynote AppleScript Support 01/04/2005 08:40 PM
This link is for Tom: Keynote AppleScript Support Plugin. Includes Salling Clicker support. Yay!...

NetNewsWire 2.0 to del.icio.us
AppleScript

NetNewsWire 2.0 to del.icio.us
AppleScript 03/23/2005 08:52 PM
Daytime Running Lights: “this Apple Script lets you post to del.icio.us from NetNewsWire - from the browser pane, not the subscriptions!”

Update: AppleScript Handbook

Update: AppleScript Handbook 02/05/2005 09:01 PM
Buy Danny Goodman's AppleScript Handbook in a new Mac OS X edition that's a PDF file.

10.3: Fax from command line (or
AppleScript)

10.3: Fax from command line (or
AppleScript) 12/05/2003 11:21 AM
I was working on this to be able to fax from Filemaker with FM scripting and AppleScripting. I needed to print to a file (a .ps file), then send the resulting file to the fax. Fax is actually a CUPS print queue, and I just ne...
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