Posts tagged ‘scripting’
Codify for iPad
October 30th, 2011 at 7:32 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m a little embarrassed that this old post of mine keeps generating steady traffic. It’s entitled “Scripting and the iPad,” and I imagine everyone who finds it through Google has high hopes that it’s going to tell them how to use Python or some other scripting language on their iPad. Of course it doesn’t. The…
Errr…
January 18th, 2011 at 9:29 pm by Dr. Drang
I feel I’ve been caught with my pants down. I read Merlin’s tweet this morning about his new podcast, Back to Work, with Dan Benjamin, but I was busy installing a new water heater (no, really1) and couldn’t watch the live feed. [43f] Merlin’s New Thing with Dan BenjaminGoes live in 15m at http://5by5.tv/livehttp://i-0.us/merlinby5by510:40 AM…
Quick email list
May 25th, 2010 at 11:20 am by Dr. Drang
Continuing my series of occasional posts on scripting as a way of quickly eliminating the drudgery of computer work, today I’ll describe how I generated a nice-looking list of email addresses from a spreadsheet. My wife and I are the parent organizers of the water polo team at our neighborhood pool, and this morning I…
Scripting and the iPad
April 6th, 2010 at 9:20 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m happy to see that Alex Payne has retracted some of the ill-considered things he said about the iPad back in January. While it would be nice to think that his change of heart came from listening to his elders, the real reasons he no longer thinks of the iPad as the harbinger of a…
My script hall of fame
January 27th, 2010 at 1:25 pm by Dr. Drang
Many of my posts here have been about the writing—or rewriting or rerewriting—of scripts to automate the dull, repetitive, clicky-click tasks so common to computer use. While almost all of these scripts have been worthwhile, a few have proved so useful that I use them on a weekly or even daily basis. These are the…
