Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X and “Growl lets Mac OS X applications unintrusively tell you when things happen”. The about page shows an example of what Growl looks like. If you have written a Java application and want to enable Growl notifications for it, you previously had the possibility to use [...]
Send growl notifications from Java using a script engine and AppleScript
April 12th, 2011 by Tobias Södergren — Java, Tips & Tricks, User Experience
Tags: AppleScript, growl, Java, os x, script engine, ui
Scripting in Ruby
January 16th, 2010 by Anders Janmyr — Tips & Tricks
I just read, or rather skimmed, the book, called Everyday Scripting with Ruby and it is awful. I had high expectations. I was expecting something like Perl for System Administration, where you right away get into hard core Perl scripting. This book is nothing like that! It is a really basic introduction to Ruby, and [...]
