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A weekly podcast about (mostly Apple-related) software development by Andrew Pontious and Wolf Rentzsch.

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15
24 Aug 2012

Brave New World of Interprocess Communication

play (39 minutes 20 MB)

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