I've run off and created my own blog:
blog.segment7.net (and RSS).
It is mostly Ruby-related, but also includes sysadmin and work-related technical mumbo-jumbo.
-- Eric Hodel
February 2006 Archives
I'm posting this here mainly because it is perverse.
It is probably the most complex applescript I've ever had the "honor" of creating. This script generates a new applescript that will recreate the frontmost OmniOutliner document as best it can. It supports multiple columns and column datatypes. I used it while working at Omni to test the applescript support and help automate some of our testing. It should be of use to anyone who wants to automate some stuff into a clean editable format just shy of a full fledged spreadsheet (If you haven't looked at OmniOutliner's column support, you really should).
Continue reading UberOmniAppleScript.
I've been really bad at posting lately. Most of it is sheer laziness. I've been happily unemployed for the last three months (woo!) and digging through a bunch of esoterica. That has been mostly focused on doing software archeology, gathering miscellaneous source code from all of the machines I've had access to over time and putting them in one place. I've written a script to show a top level listing by overall newness (newest file in a directory subtree is the age of the directory) and categorized those into "new", "stale", "old", and "ancient" and exploring in reverse chronological order.
Damn has it been interesting reading some of my code (mostly ruby, but some applescript, bash, python, and perl) from 5 years ago! I'm hoping to reawaken some of those mini-projects and show some new stuff on here soon.
