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AppleScript for the Internet (Visual QuickStart Guides)

AppleScript for the Internet (Visual QuickStart Guides)

by EthanWilde (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $3.46
Synopsis

Mac power users have long turned to AppleScript to automate repetitive tasks in apps such as QuarkXPress and FileMaker. But in the past few years, AppleScript has evolved beyond its desktop origins into the second most popular language for CGI development (after Perl). This new focus on the Internet opens a world of possibilities--if you know how to make the most of the latest version of AppleScript.

Whatever your prior scripting experience, AppleScript for the Internet: Visual QuickStart Guide will have you adding dynamic features to your Web site and other Internet apps in no time. The book's clear, step-by-step instructions are augmented with sample scripts that you can adapt to your own needs. Want to learn how to use AppleScript to create files and images for your Web site? To manage your mailing list for you? To build a simple custom Web browser? You'll find all this and more in AppleScript for the Internet: Visual QuickStart Guide.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 339
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Peachpit Press
Published: 29 Dec 1998
ISBN 10: 0201353598
ISBN 13: 9780201353594
Book Overview: Mac power users have long turned to AppleScript to automate repetitive tasks in apps such as QuarkXPress and FileMaker. But in the past few years, AppleScript has evolved beyond its desktop origins into the second most popular language for CGI development (after Perl). This new focus on the Internet opens a world of possibilities--if you know how to make the most of the latest version of AppleScript. Whatever your prior scripting experience, AppleScript for the Internet: Visual QuickStart Guide will have you adding dynamic features to your Web site and other Internet apps in no time. The book's clear, step-by-step instructions are augmented with sample scripts that you can adapt to your own needs. Want to learn how to use AppleScript to create files and images for your Web site? To manage your mailing list for you? To build a simple custom Web browser? You'll find all this and more in AppleScript for the Internet: Visual QuickStart Guide.

Author Bio

Ethan Wilde bought his first computer, an Apple II, in 1979 after taking a programming class at San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum. The experience changed his life, and Apple computers have been close to Ethan ever since. Now a principal in Mediatrope, an award-winning multimedia company, Ethan has a whole family of Macs to script and care for, when he is not writing books and giving workshops on AppleScripting.