I’m on a bit of a productivity kick lately. I’m trying to listen to the little voice in my head that speaks up when I’m doing something incredibly tedious and error-prone, and could clearly be automated. Some people would say that spending 3 hours cranking out a script that might save you at most a […]

FastScripts 2.2.5 has been released and is available for download. This update fixes a few minor bugs and adds a significant new feature: custom menu sorting. FastScripts now recognizes scripts and folders named with the “BBEdit style” organization convention, and will sort them appropriately in the FastScripts menu. For those of you unfamiliar with this […]

If you’re like me, you take great comfort in the presence of the Terminal in Mac OS X. I love a great GUI, but the fact is that many tasks on the Mac are still best accomplished from the behind the wheel of a shiny new pseudo-tty. Usually I get the need for command-line access […]

Editorial note: This entry describes at length the process I went through to achieve the “perfect” script for determining and inserting the Subversion revision number into my builds. If you’d rather skip the details and jump to the copy/pasteable script, click here. Around the time I first tried Subversion, I noticed an interesting mailing list […]