The personal website of Matt Henderson.
28 May 2003
I’m looking for a MacOS X GUI utility to facilitate the launching of shell scripts. Ideally, I’d like to have something running in the menu bar, whose contents reflect a listing of the shell scripts (sh, bash, php, etc.) that I have stored in a particular folder. Selecting an item from the menu would switch to Terminal and execute the shell script in a new window.
23 May 2003
All I can say is – wow. This morning I’ve discovered an application for MacOS X that is simply awesome. (Ok, maybe the initial wow factor still hasn’t worn off.) It’s called RadioLover.
23 May 2003
For anyone interested, attached below (in the Extended Entry) is the script I run nightly from cron that informs me by email when my current iPhoto Library is getting big enough to consider taking an action with iPhoto Library Manager to create a new one.
21 May 2003
As mentioned on Macintouch, a Cnet column titled “Steve Jobs’s Half Note”, Evan Hansen writes that the iTunes Music Store’s innovation falls far short of the ideal for an online music distribution system:
21 May 2003
There’s a discussion going on at NSLog(); containing tips about shell aliases. I keep going back, so I thought I’d add it to my blog.
21 May 2003
User’s of Apple’s iPhoto software will notice that the responsiveness of the application is a function of the number of images (or size) of the photo Library. Once my Library contained over 1000 images, the application began to slow considerably. iPhoto Library Manager to the rescue.
21 May 2003
Lance Nicolas Henderson, born May 19, 2003 at 4:45 p.m. 3.8 kg and 52 cm. Mother, sister, Lance and daddy all doing great!
16 May 2003
Interesting article about test-driven development based on an interview with one of my preferred software development authors, Martin Fowler.