Edge Cases

Brave New World of Interprocess Communication

Wolf Rentzsch follows up with Andrew Pontious about AppleScript, Apple Events, appscript, Distributed Objects, distributed computing, JSTalk, and sandboxing’s IPC implications.

Links:

• appscript « SourceForge
• has comment on post “Applescript Alternative?” « Clark’s Tech Blog
• Wolf Rentzsch tweet: “not sure why AppScript is EOL’d: AESendMessage and AEDesc aren’t deprecated in 10.7 SDK http://appscript.sourceforge.net/status.html cc:@mjtsai”
• Help AppleScripting Notes app in ML? « Arstechnica Forum
• Re: Crash on AESendMessage « applescript-implementors
• Fallacies of Distributed Computing « Wikipedia
• The Subtle Dangers Of Distributed Objects via Wayback Machine
• NSXPCConnection Class Reference
• IPC Made Easy: Introducing XPC and NSXPCConnection « A Few Guys Coding Blog

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Woodpecker That Destroys Civilization