I finally broke down and decided to compile my own software. I’ve been avoiding this for a while for no particular reason. Maybe I just didn’t feel ready to cross that particular Rubicon. But the day has come, and the world will never be the same. In the process I upgraded my compiler, so my compiling process is not quite the same as what I read online. But it does work on Mac OSX 10.4, and that’s really all that matters to me. Here’s what I did…
I’ve just recently taken some interest in the AppleScript language. Even though the language itself is somewhat anemic, it gives access to scripting some really good software. Safari, iTunes, Photoshop, and Mail to name a couple.
As a web developer, I found myself testing out the shell scripting interface right away.
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