When Apple was touting Automator as part of the OS X 10.4 Tiger upgrade, some people wondered whether AppleScript would be needed anymore. Now that we’ve seen Automator, AppleScript may be needed more ...

All kinds of things can go wrong with your shell scripts, but they don't have to. Let's look a some debugging tips that can help ensure your scripts run the way you intend. The first step in debugging ...

Last week's post provided some tips and tricks for debugging scripts. This week's provides some even better ones! In last week’s posting, I mentioned the -x and -v options that can be used on the ...

AppleScript is simultaneously one of the most-powerful and one of the least-used Macintosh utilities, the latter partially due to serious deficiencies in Apple’s own Script Editor. Late Night Software ...

As is so often the case in the cyclic world of software development, history repeats itself, but (despite Marx’s dictum) it’s better the second time. A couple of years ago, my TidBITS contributions ...

Script Debugger’s Explorer lets you experiment with the application, exploring the data provides and manipulate the data to see the consequences in the application. Script Debugger also boasts code ...

A recent post about debugging constructs surprised me. There were quite a few comments about how you didn’t need a debugger, as long as you had printf. For that matter, we’ve all debugged systems ...

AppleScript geeks, rejoice! Late Night Software's Script Debugger 4 is out, and it looks good. The UI has been overhauled to take up less screen real estate, while taking advantage of the wide screen ...

Late Night Software has updated Script Debugger to version 5.0, a major new release for the AppleScript authoring environment (for an overview, see Matt Neuburg’s “Script Debugger 4.5 Offers Power ...