Wayne Priestley

Two books I’ve been waiting for have arrived from Amazon today.
Dot robot written by Jason Bradbury and The Cult of Mac by Leander Kahney.

Dot.com billionaire Devlin Lear, founder of the top-secret defence force Mex, has been watching Jackson Farley. He knows he has found a digital genius.
Along with three other brilliant gamers from different corners of the world, Lear wants Jackson to join him and stop the criminal heist of the century using the most highly advanced state-of-the-art-robots ever invented.

The Macintosh is more than a computer it’s a way of life…
This book is about what it is to be a Macintosh person.
It gives insight into the greatest love and loyalties of any product of our era.

The Dot Robot is a book for my 10 year old Son, but I admit I’ll be reading it myself after he’s done reading it.

The Cult of Mac is without question for me. I’ve been waiting for the movie to appear on iTunes here in the UK but so far without any Luck.

I will be posting an update when I’ve read them and let you know what I thought.

A couple of weeks ago I took delivery of AppleScript 1-2-3 by Sal Soghoian.
This book is a over 1½”chick and it’s going to take a while to get through.

chapter 1 in the Apple site, It’s a good teaser and even after one chapter you’ll have written a script or two that are useful.

By the end of chapter one I had myself a nice little script for opening two Finder windows on my Desktop, one opens at my Downloads folder and the other at my Dropbox folder.

I spend a lot of time transferring files between these two folders so after writing the script I created a small icon in Pixelmator and added it to my script, I’ve now got the script saved as an application and have the icon in at the top of my Finder window for easy access..

My idea when I first got this book was to play along as I read on my Mac but I found that it just isn’t working for me.
I’ve decided to read through the book first, mostly on an evening and once I’ve read from front to back and got a good understanding of what’s going on I will play along on my Mac as I’m sure was the intention.

I will post a review of the book once I’ve come to the end of it and let you all know what I think.
So far it’s one of those books that you always want to get to the next chapter of because you just want to know what Sal will have you scripting next.

AppleScript is a powerful tool if you learn its full potential and this has to be the best book out there to do just that.