Crib Notes: Pimp Your Mac with Perl
Written 27 Jun 2011
Title: Pimp Your Mac with Perl
Speaker: Mark Fowler
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All slides are on site. Highly recommend reviewing them.
Apple standard perl is seriously broken.
pbcopy/pbpaste for clipboard interaction from cli
growl integration
Numberous Perl modules to do this
Cocoa::Growl
Growl::Any
Mac:Growl
Net::Growl
Once used your script appears in the growl preferences for configuration.
OS X Automation
Mac::Safari::JavaScript
Use ThisService to create a Mac Service(free)
Keyboard shortcuts tend to collide with other apps.
Doing things Automatically
Example of tidying Downloads folder
launchd
uses plist format, a variant of XML
~/Libary/LaunchAgents to run at login
fsevents
similar to dnotify
Mac::FSEvents
is a pain to install