This is an updated shell script / AppleScript for opening a new tab in your current directory (or the specified directory). The last version was for the pre-tabbed version of Terminal.
#!/bin/sh -
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
PATHDIR=`pwd`
else
PATHDIR=$1
fi
/usr/bin/osascript <<-EOF
activate application "Terminal"
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "t" using {command down}
end tell
tell application "Terminal"
repeat with win in windows
try
if [...]
One very nice thing about JavaScript is it’s support for first-class functions and closures. Crockford calls JavaScript “Lisp in C’s Clothing”. I’m no Lisper, but I enjoy I discovering new tricks or applications of functional programming in JavaScript.
I wanted to hook all the browser’s asynchronous JavaScript “entry points” : events, timers, asynchronous XMLHttpRequests, script tags, [...]
John Resig posted today about a nifty new feature available in Firefox nightlies, browser paint events. He also posted an example script and bookmarklet called TrackPaint. He goes into greater depth in his post, so I won’t bother here.
I wanted something more “real-time” and closer to the Quartz Debug utility included with the Mac OS [...]
A few months ago I started working on a JavaScript to Objective-C bridge. We had already implemented Objective-C in JavaScript, so I figured “why not?”
Well, I never got very far, but thankfully Patrick Geiller apparently had the same idea and actually executed it: He announced JSCocoa today. It looks like it’s a solid bridge, about [...]
My friend Andrew recently posted a teaser for a new project he’s working on, but with part of the headline pixelated to obscure what the project actually is. My curiosity got the best of me and I decided to do what any self-respecting geek would do: write a program to figure out what the censored [...]
Posted by Tom on October 1st, 2008 — in Git, Programming
This feature of git is too cool not to blog about: git bisect, and more specifically, git bisect run.
“git bisect” is a tool that facilitates a binary search of changes to your git repository to help find where a bug was introduced. You can walk through the process manually using “git bisect {good,bad,skip}“, or if [...]
