Applescript for the Internet (Visual QuickStart Guide)

AppleScript for the Internet: Visual QuickStart Guide is the only title to cover AppleScript in conjunction with the Internet, and it's the only book to cover the PowerPC native version. Written by one of the country's leading Apple Script programmers, this book offers extensive discussion of the latest addons and enhancements plus plenty of insider tips and tricks. It includes complete illustrated scripts along with clear stepbystep instructions and dozens of screenshots. The companion Web site includes even more: downloadable versions of scripts discussed in the book and links to online resources, for example. The book is divided into five parts: Basics-discusses getting started, Apple Scripting the desktop Using the Internet with Apple Script-covers automating a number of email programs and browsers with AppleScript CGI Scripting for the Internet-looks at building CGIsContent Production for the Internet-discusses using certain database, word processing, graphics, and design programs with AppleScript Advanced Techniques-covers debugging, building a Web server monitor, using Marionet, Timbuktu Pro, FaceScan, and more. Author Ethan Wilde lectures frequently about advanced AppleScript technology and the Internet. He is a principle in Meditrope, a SanFranciscobased consulting firm, where his degrees in architecture and architectural history serve him well dealing with clients such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Ethan Wilde bought his first computer, an Apple II, in 1979 after taking a programming class at San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum. The experience changed his life, and Apple computers have been close to Ethan ever since. Now a principal in Mediatrope, an award-winning multimedia company, Ethan has a whole family of Macs to script and care for, when he is not writing books and giving workshops on AppleScripting.