Linked List: June 27, 2005

Monday, 27 June 2005

Ridiculous Fish 

Peter Ammon:

I’m a developer on Apple’s AppKit team; I work to make Cocoa better. With a few exceptions, we are responsible for both AppKit and Foundation. This is my blog.

Ridiculous Fish is simply outstanding (and uses a very clever, albeit markup-heavy, implementation of rounded rectangles in the layout). It’s only a few weeks old, so you can easily catch up and read the whole thing to date.

The Fully Upturned Bin 

Why the Lucky Stiff on memory management and garbage collection in Ruby — although these basic tips might be useful in other scripting languages, too.

Programmatically Executing Automator Workflows 

Apple has not provided an API for third-party developers to execute Automator workflows, but the guys at Rogue Amoeba have figured out an unofficial way to do it.