Bradley == Bradley Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bradley Slartibarfast was a fjord designer in the hitchhikers guide to the
Bradley galaxy series, creating fjords in newly designed planets. He put his
Bradley name in the side of one because he wanted to (and not getting credit
Bradley
On 23/9/02 03:18, Randal L. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Phil == Phil Dobbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Phil As usual, the Perl section of this works flawlessly but the Applescript
Phil doo-dah chokes around:
Phil
Phil set output_file to
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 05:02:22PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Apple Corporation doesn't make celebrities out of its employees.
O'Reilly, on the other hand, loves to make stars out of its authors.
(or to make its authors see stars, depending on how well they write :-)
Apple'sInside
On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 09:26 AM, Andrew M. Langmead wrote:
Software About boxes used to have individual names, but now are all
attributed to Apple Computer, Inc.
One big reason is that software today is rarely the result of a single
person or even a consistent group... Not only do
On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 08:36 PM, Brian McNett wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 05:13 PM, Morbus Iff wrote:
Exactly. My article uses morbus as the dummy username, an obvious
giveaway.
A friend, when writing for Apple made several references to A
Bazilians Family
At 3:16 PM -0700 9/23/02, Erik Price wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 04:53 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Of course, we authors always figured out slartibartfast in the
fjords ways of getting our signatures in the book somehow. One time,
I stuck it in the ASCII values of a string that
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Erik Price wrote:
But then he got a phone call from someone in billing wondering
what it meant, and stopped doing it.
Man, what kind of sicko embeds silly pointless gag phrases in the
messages he sends out, possibly making things difficult for the
receivers? What a jerk,
On 22/9/02 02:04, Randal L. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erik == Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Erik I just found this article in my ADC and figured I'd pass it along to
Erik the list:
Erik http://developer.apple.com/internet/webservices/applescripttoperl.html
Thanks for
Chris == Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Chris I would prefer to know the face behind the voice rather than
Chris some kind of single nameless impersonal corporate identity, but
Chris maybe that's just me. I like being able to browse through the
Chris books in the store, see a new one by
Chris Devers writes:
What's with this whole conceal the author business? The OSX related
O'Reilly books all seem to be written by Apple Corporation:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learncocoa/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learncarbon/
I would prefer to know the face behind the voice rather than
some kind of single nameless impersonal corporate identity, but
maybe that's just me. I like being able to browse through the
books in the store, see a new one by someone I recognize (like,
say, Randal Schwartz or Ken Williams :),
Morbus == Morbus Iff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Morbus Right. My impression of the process is:
Morbus a) If you regain copyright, you regain author bios.
Morbus b) If you sell your rights, then it becomes the company's.
No, that's not my impression at all. I don't retain copyright for
any
On 22/9/02 02:04, Randal L. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erik == Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Erik I just found this article in my ADC and figured I'd pass it along to
Erik the list:
Erik http://developer.apple.com/internet/webservices/applescripttoperl.html
Thanks for
Phil == Phil Dobbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Phil As usual, the Perl section of this works flawlessly but the Applescript
Phil doo-dah chokes around:
Phil
Phil set output_file to (path to temporary items folder as string)
Phil fetch_headlines.html
Erik == Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Erik I just found this article in my ADC and figured I'd pass it along to
Erik the list:
Erik http://developer.apple.com/internet/webservices/applescripttoperl.html
Thanks for the promo.
And if you have any suggestions for anything else, please
On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 11:04 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Erik == Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Erik I just found this article in my ADC and figured I'd pass
it along to
Erik the list:
Erik
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webservices/applescripttoperl.html
Ken == Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ken Oh, was that you? I couldn't find an author name attached to the
Ken article.
no, but if you know where to look, you can get a pointer *to* the
article *from* my name in the list of authors.
Ken Are the articles in this series (like Morbus'
On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 08:04 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Erik == Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Erik I just found this article in my ADC and figured I'd pass it
along to
Erik the list:
Erik
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webservices/applescripttoperl.html
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