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SSHreader Released

Good morning! I would like to announce that I have finally finished an initial release of a new/recently Open Soruce project named SSHreader! This Python module sets the Paramiko SSH module on top of Python’s multiprocessing and multithreading capabilities to allow a developer to run and collate SSH jobs to hundreds of UNIX machines almost simultaneously. This project has been in the works for over a year now inside my employer, Level 3 Communications, but I was just recently granted approval to make it open source.

Bye Bye Scripts

Thought I would drop a quick line “on the line” and just let everyone know that as of this moment I am not going to be developing the following projects anymore: ASTwitterLibrary LittleBirdOSX Lyricatcher The primary reason for the first two is that some of the changes that twitter has made in recent years (moving all API replies to JSON for example) has made native AppleScript support for using their API very difficult.

ASObject 0.9 Released

Good afternoon! I just finished uploading ASObject 0.9 and I must say I am very happy to announce that is available for all of you to download. There have been a TON of changes in this release that are helping me gear up for the 1.0 release of ASObejct (which, hopefully will not be more than a year out). Please be sure to read through the change log to ensure that you don’t get bit by one of the major changes that happened in this release!

Stardate 90123.8

Yesterday I posted a bash_profile function that would allow you to get the current Stardate. While this little bash tweak was cool I really wanted to do something a little more in-depth so I started searching for other ways of calculating the current Stardate. I eventually stumbled upon a perl script that I would like to share with you all now. Here is the perl script for you to copy and paste…

ASObject 0.8.1 Released

Just wanted to drop a quick note and let everyone know that ASObject 0.8.1 has been released. This is a small update but fixes some bugs that have been around for a while. However, this update makes the way for some of the other updates I have been working on. Version 0.8.1 of ASObject contains the following updates: Workaround - Bug with keychain scripting in 10.7 and later! Please download Scripting Additions Package Fixed - Bug with Previous_Application method!