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The new AppleScript Language Guide – finally, after 9 years!

April 18th, 2008

AppleScript Language Guide

Finally, after 9 years of waiting, the AppleScript Language Guide has been udpated!

It has been announced already last year by Apple with the release of Leopard but it took several more months till this promise got fulfilled. The last version was from May 5, 1999. The updated Language Guide bears the date March 11, 2008.

My first impression is rather good. The documentation looks complete and clearly laid out. Everything is well linked even in the PDF-Version. Changes from AppleScript 2.0 in Leopard, like text being completely Unicode, is well documented. The size has been drastically reduced from 415 pages to a mere 268. Looks like a lot of stuff got condensed or sorted out.

Finally an official source for the current state of AppleScript.

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“Working professionally with RagTime 6″

July 13th, 2007

“Professionell arbeiten mit RagTime 6″ ist the title of my new book about RagTime. In more than 600 pages I undertook the great effort to encompass RagTime as completely as possible without losing myself in superficial descriptions. This book is only available in German language. »Professionell arbeiten mit RagTime 6« is the most voluminous book written so far about RagTime.
Because of its completeness and its systematic approach, it can also be used by experienced RagTime-Users who just need to look up some facts.
All chapters are accompanied by small examples, mainly intended to enhance the understanding of complex matters.
You will find more information about this book (in German language) under http://www.djschulz.de/smartbook-ragtime-6/

»Professionell arbeiten mit RagTime 6« is now in the printing and is published by SmartBooks:

ISBN 978-3-908497-61-5
608 Pages
Hardcover, B/W
29,95 € (Austria: 30,85 €, sFr 52.30)
Publisher: http://www.smartbooks.ch/dtp/ragtime.phtml

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Problems with gettext in WordPress

July 10th, 2007

A few days ago, I discovered that parts of my Website lacked their german localisation. Mainly in the admin backend, but also in the time and date formats of the frontend. This must have happened during the updates to WordPress 2.2 or 2.2.1.

After tracking down the error for several hours, I could finally exclude the WordPress-Installation and the MySQL-Database as source for this behavior. Both worked without problem locally. So only my provider remained. As the translation in WordPress is done with gettext.php, something here must have been wrong.

After a long search in the FAQ and the forums of WordPress Germany I discoverd the following solution. It basically says, that gettext has problems with 64bit Servers which my Provider is using. But the advised solution to change the code in gettext.php didn’t change anything.

Shortly after this I found the solution in the forums here. Switch your domain to PHP4! So I went to the web-interface of my provider, logged in, and changed my domain to work with PHP4 instead of PHP5 and shortly after, everything was again translated correctly into german language.

I should have searched the Forums first…

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New ebooklet about RagTime

December 8th, 2006

My first book about Ragtime has just appeared and is available via eload24.
Its available only in german language.
RagTime itself is available in german, english, french and dutch localisations.

RagTime is a Layout-Software. It contains a Word-Processor, Spreadsheet, Diagrams, Buttons, Pictures, … everything intuitively in a single environment. No changing of software like between Excel and Word. Spreadsheets, pictures, text, diagrams can be placed as you like on the page.
RagTime is especially suited for working with a lot of numbers and diagrams that are spread out in the document. Spredsheets can be referenced upon in running text. So if data changes, you change it only once in the spreadsheet and all appearances in the text will change automatically.
But of course you can use it also for normal day to day office communication.

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