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
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So Mac OS X 10.7 now ships with Perl 5.12.3, which isn’t broken. It’s still deprecated (though, at least for the next year, supported.) I still wouldn’t trust the System Perl and still recommend installing your own with perlbrew.
It’s good to hear they managed to upgrade the version, slightly. I’m staying away from 10.7 until the first dot release.
I agree about perlbrew. After breaking my system multiple times with macports, having perlbrew give me what I need, in a reliable fashion, is very nice.