24 December 2001 about 1pm
OS X 10.1.2 is out. With that, AppleScript Studio applications are now fully deployable across client machines. You will still need the December 2001 Developer Tools CD to get AppleScript Studio in Project Builder if you wish to develop AppleScript Studio applications, though. ADC membership is free, so do go sign up right away!

13 December 2001 about 4pm
AppleScript Studio is available to developers. If you are already one, just log on to get the goods! Preliminary horsing around reveals (to me at least) that it is logical, quick and relatively easy to deploy. If you are already an experienced AppleScripter, this will open you up to a whole new world. I have created a simple app that compiles some scripts I use regularly (see screenshot - 60KB). Next thing is to do a deployable version of the XML creation script for OS X Server setups. Life is good...

1 December 2001 about 11am
Some geeky server/admin scripts are up. These are one of my most often requested scripts, especiallly from institution sys admins. One thing though - this is one of the first times I use them in OS X, and the speed increase is awesome. One in particular takes about 70 seconds in OS 9 to parse 2000 records. In OS X, the same record takes about 10 seconds. That's several hundred percent times faster!

29 November 2001 about 9am
Macscript.com Library 2.0 is out. This is an extremely useful library which works along the principle of loading a 2nd script full of great subroutines right at the beginning of your script, allowing you to call them anytime you need. Fantastic functionality, with added bonus of allowing you to make them completely portable. Its a 30 day demo, so you can decide if the subroutines are useful before buying. Please pay for shareware!

28 November 2001 about 6pm
Ok. Finally more presentable (ie. graphics). And more scripts. Remember to email me your scripts if you think they are cool and others should know of them. Will make you sure are credited, ok?

28 November 2001 about 2pm
This page is not really well populated yet. I will post any news of interest here as time goes by. Don't comprain-comprain lah! Only a 30 minute job leh...

I have also received quite a number of feedback emails from the class conducted at Informatics yesterday. Thanks to all who bothered; this will help us refine and make a really good AppleScript course in the future.

Some Feedback of note (and response):
1. Projector in the lab was difficult to see - We have managed to do the focussing properly today (finally). We will look into the brightness problem with Informatics
2. The course was too fast for some - We will look into breaking up the whole AppleScript course into 3 separate modules - Basic Syntax - Covering most of the syntax, Advanced Scripting - Scripting the Finder in detail, with a lot of assignment work, Scripting Applications - Covering IE, Outlook and other requested apps.
3. Could not bring back own work during course - Next course, we'll try to remind everyone to bring own CDRs, since the machines are SuperDrive G4s anyway.
4. Need copies of demoed scripts - hence this website :)

Finally, please email me if you wanna be part of the Singapore AppleScript Users Group. I need to show management here at Apple that it is a viable option to get the resources.