AppleScript

The founder of Custom Flow Solutions, Hanaan Rosenthal developed his first drawing program and published a programming newsletter at the age of 11. He became a digital media and prepress consultant in 1991, specializing in Mac publishing. In 1996, he took on his first full-blown AppleScript automation project and never looked back. Since then he has helped reshape the workflow of numerous publishing companies and departments creating systems that save their owners millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours annually. His clients include Fidelity Investments, Wellington Management, The Boston Globe, and Showtime Networks.

Read me first: Introduction; Starting to script - all over again How to AppleScript: Values; Doing the Math: All about numbers; Picking up dates; Lists and records; Giving commands; Variables; Operations and coercion; Teaching your script to make decisions; The assembly line: creating repeat loops; More on manipulating dates and times; User interaction; Referring to files; Working with the clipboard; Turn errors in your favour; Other control statements; Defining and calling subroutines; Script objects Part 3: The wild world of AppleScript: AppleScript amenities in OS X; Scripting additions and extendibility; The fundamentals of automating applications; Many ways to run a script; Healthy scriptwriting practices; Scripting Apple apps; Scripting data and databases; Automating media workflow; Manipulating PDFs with Smile; Automating UNIX applications; Scheduling scripts; Soap and XML-RCP; Scripting remote Macs over IP Part 4: Scripting applications with AppleScript Studio: AppleScript Studio bgnd; Xcode and Interface Builder; Creating applications with AppleScript Studio Part 5: The business of AppleScript: Selling your automation genius; Working with clients.