Back when I used Mac OS 9 and earlier to manage my web sites, I wrote several AppleScripts to assist me. While I still use AppleScript a lot, I don’t use it so much for managing my web site. Now that Mac OS X includes Perl and Python, I use those to manage the site.
At the moment, I’m also using Django to store the site off-line, with a cron script to upload pages automatically when their content changes.
I’m keeping this software available for historical purposes, but it is unlikely that I’ll ever update it, or re-compile any of it for Mac OS X. When I need that kind of functionality, I use Perl or Python now.
- About Negative Space
- Negative Space was founded October 13, 1995, from the ashes of Cerebus the Gopher, FTP server extraordinaire.
- FireShare Macintosh Electronic Mail Fileserver
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FireShare Macintosh Electronic Mail Fileserver, an AppleScript fileserver and mailing list server, now defunct. - Negative Space Collection
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The Negative Space Collection was a collection of Perl scripts and Applescripts to make maintaining a web site a little easier on a Macintosh.
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- “Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.” Oh, the sweet smell of pragmatism.
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