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To help illustrate the usefulness of the “Run Python Script” Automator Action I blogged about in my previous post, here’s an action that will upload files to the Amazon S3 Web Service. The script is pure Python and uses the extremely cool boto Python module to interact with Amazon web services. The script is really [...]

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I’ve written an Automator action that allows you to write python scripts directly inside your Automator workflow.

“Run Python Script” Automator action (catchy title) is written using Python and PyObjC (now built-in to Mac OS X 10.5). Apple already provides “Run AppleScript” and “Run Shell Script” actions with Automator which give Automator a high degree of [...]

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This Thanksgiving I truly have something to be thankful for. It isn’t my Wife, my home, my family, my friends, my health or my business. Although I am thankful for all those things. What I’m most thankful for this Thanksgiving is: I got me a stalker!!!

Yep. I’ve got my very own nutjob on the internet [...]

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You’d think that a rather uncommon last name like “Wight” would be a relatively easy name for others to spell correctly. It is uncommon enough that I’ve never met any other Wights outside of “my family“. And yet people seem to have trouble with it. People seem to think that it should be spelled more [...]

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Thanks to Matt Gemmell for pointing out that Apple has finally provided a pie chart style NSProgressIndicator for the circular/determinate modes. This style is new to Leopard. This means my Toxic Progress Indicator class can be retired, at least for 10.5+ only applications. Leopard has really helped to retire a lot of my code (for [...]

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Ask not what Ironcoder can do for you…

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It’s my second year of coaching a First Lego League team. The experience has been fantastic, I’m teaching 4th and 5th grade children about robots and computers, and teaching them to build and program their own robots. This year the kids are going to be learning how to use the new Lego Mindstorms NXT robot; [...]

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3Dconnexion (a division of Logitech) produces the coolest named device ever: The 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator . This is a 3D input device with 6 degrees of freedom, meaning you can move and rotate it through the X, Y and Z planes. I bought it originally on a whim (hey only 50 bucks!) for use with Google Sketchup [...]

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It looks like spammers are using fake email addresses at the toxicsoftware.com domain as a return address for their vile spam.

Toxicsoftware is not spamming you, we’re just as much a victim of this as the recipients of the spam. In fact the toxicsoftware catchall email account has received over 6000 bounced emails in the last [...]

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I’ve had a lot of emails asking where the subversion repository has gone.

The simple answer is I’ve stopped hosting my public subversion repository on DreamHost and have now created a Google Project for it. The project URL is:

http://code.google.com/p/toxic-public/

And the subversion root is here:

http://toxic-public.googlecode.com//

Google will be a lot more reliable than DreamHost ever will be. I [...]

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