by Derek—2005.05.18 @ 1311
I'm very new to AppleScript and I'm slowly giving it a try. The concept is a little different than what I'm used to with Perl, but in many ways it can be a lot easier--especially with the hooks into individual programs. One thing I'm really trying to figure out is all the "default" variables, methods, subroutines, and fuctions in AppleScript. For example, trying to get date and time functions has been difficult. With Perl, I could easily look up a function in the Terminal:
% perldoc -f time
AppleScript isn't as graceful and I'm still looking for an easy reference (I may just have to go out and buy an O'Reilly book on the subject).
Now, with Apple's Tiger, I'm getting more interested in AppleScript and automation. One thing I'm trying is automating website publishing on the Mac. I found some XML-RPC references on AppleScript webpages and found BlogScript that will publish text directly to your blogging service. I'll see if I can't expand on the idea.
This entry was published using a modified version of BlogScript (I had to modify some of the variables that were causing a problem, but it seems to work now). Once I'm able to tweak it a little more, I'll publish the results here.