MacTech Magazine recently published my two-part article titled “Test-Driven Development Using AppleScript”. In the April 2008 issue, part 1 gave an overview of test-driven development techniques using the AppleScript language, then gave a short example of those techniques using the ASUnit testing framework. In the May 2008 issue, the ASUnit framework was used to develop a number guessing game using test-driven development techniques.
Back issues are available from MacTech magazine (issues 24.04 and 24.05). The following are the web links contained within the articles:
Part 1 (April 2008):
Part 2 (May 2008):
Finally, I am linking a file of the script listings from the two articles (Stuffit Expander required to expand the scripts).
I have been testing the WordPress tool for the OPML Editor on a development WordPress weblog. Tonight, I decided to try it on my main weblog. Here goes….
It worked! I was able to successfully add another weblog to the tool setup.
After I installed the Copyblogger theme, I noticed that the “Archives” link in the header of the page did not display the archives for my site. I reviewed this article which talks about adding links to the header navigation area, but it did not have any information on my problem. After some searching, I found a comment on the main Copyblogger site which had the details I needed:
After following these steps, the archives link worked!
For those of you who are coming here from my article on Perl.com titled “Making Perl Reusable with Modules“, welcome! I have continued working with the concepts of Joseph Schillinger that I described in that article. I have created a short Perl script which allows the user to create a MIDI file from a Schillinger resultant. You will need to have the MIDI-Perl and Tk Perl modules installed on your system. The file containing the Perl script is attached to this post as a .txt file. See the file for instructions on how to run the script.
Welcome to Andy Sylvester’s Web! This is a personal weblog which will cover a variety of topics I am interested in. See the Categories section on the sidebar to get a feel for my interests. Welcome aboard!
Setting up Firefox 2 context menu for Mac
I reinstalled Firefox 2 on a MacMini with OS X 10.3, but could not remember how to get the single-button context menu setting restored. Thanks to Google, I found a posting that had the information: