Is it a war between automatizing systems? Everything you can do with Automator, you can do it with Applescript but the inverse is not true. If you are a developer you will find it refreshing to automate some simple repetitive tasks with automator, but you will inevitably hit the limits of Automator and switch back to scripting; even if its a script action inside of Automator.
10Tips
2009
12.21
12.21
Nowadays we have to embrace Internet. No matter if you want to inform yourself about a product, search you way on a map or your best friend wants to show you his latest photos. From the very beginning of Internet(for the wide public) up to now I’ve spent a good deal of my life on the Net. This Internet time should be pleasing, agreeable and productive. It is a vital step to take time and organize your online life.
Quadcore MacBook Pro
2009
12.20
12.20
Still no trace, no hope for an announcement the next days/weeks? Should we really wait for the next Intel Chip Arrandale, or simply get the current CPU. I am in search every day, for some news. But only stumble across rumors.
Shoes
2009
12.19
12.19
I’ve set out to create a new uniform GUI, but soon found about Shoes. I had to do little bit more of googling. Now that I found THE toolkit I craved for I read about one of the creator “_why” which suddenly disappeared, from internet.
In the past I wouldn’t have bothered much about it, but with the new changes taking place in the internet world like cloud computing, where all our thoughts, photos, videos; lifes are online. We all have to remember that behind every line of text, except for the lines created from bots or spammers; there are human beings behind them.
This link is dedicated to him: _why
This link is dedicated to Shoes: Shoes
Unified Ruby GUI
2009
12.18
12.18
Ruby is incredibly adaptable to a multitude of environments, operating systems and GUI toolkits. It can become cumbersome to procrastinators like me who tend to be in search for the one true way to fit it all. Note that I call it unified ruby GUI vs standard ruby GUI, because I don’t think that a true standard toolkit would make the world happy. My humble expectations are:
- can be installed as gem and uses gem
- supports*: windows, mac os x, gnome, kde, web-interface
- *using the preferred toolkit** of that platform
- **no other dependencies should be added
- simple things should be simple
- complicated things should be possible
Macless life
2009
12.16
12.16
After 5 years spent with my PowerBook(ug13), which was an admirably well conceived and 1 year with a MacMini(Luke); as Luke was meant to become a multimedia center, he is now coupled with a nice FullHD TV. I am back using Linux Debian for my daily work and no computer for my private stuff.
Before switching to Mac I was living a happily windowless live( the 5 years before my switch to mac) with Linux. The last distribution I used for at least 2 years was gentoo. But it went from hard to very hard and time consuming to manage; and I had less and less time to be my own system developer/administrator, so the switch to Mac.
Convert to PDF Version 1.2
2009
11.07
11.07
A long time has passed and our favorite OS has been updated. The hardware we run our software has evolved.
This minor updates addresses these changes.
The action is now Universal binary compatible with 32bit/64bit, and a user friendly installer has been added.
A lot going on
2009
07.14
07.14
I am facing big changes in my life. Right now I am moving to a new apartment, an I managed to get a new job. I’m sorry not being able for the moment to stay in touch with you. But I will be back running this blog; very soon, as soon as I get back online with my new ISP.
Yours aye,
William
Ruby Inox Part 7: Native
2009
05.29
05.29
Originally this article formed one article with Ruby Inox Part 6: Widget as everything had to evolve concurrently of each other. But decided later to split them up into separated article to underline the importance of the xxxBase line of classes and there major difference to the xxxNative line of classes.
Ruby Inox Part 6: Widget
2009
05.28
05.28
We are steering toward a graphical user interface. In this article we lay out the firt visual stone, the Widget or more precisely the class WidgetBase.
A major cleanup of the code written so far is already planned and notice that these minor changes will be reflected only on github and no article will be posted until Inox becomes useable/stable.