CamelBones: Now on MySpace
All the people hanging out on MySpace looking for friends make me sad. A great programmer turning to MySpace looking for love for his project makes me sadder, especially when the project in question is arguably one of the most useful OpenSource projects out there for OS X. Nevertheless, Sherm Pendley sent the following around to the macosx Perl list early this morning:Well, I've finally given into peer pressure and created a MySpazz
account and CamelBones group:
<http://groups.myspace.com
I'm getting a bit discouraged because CamelBones isn't gaining much
traction, and that leads to lack of motivation, which leads to not a
whole lot (well... nothing) getting done, which leads to not many new
users, which leads to... you get the idea. I'm looking for ways to
gain some new users, some new ideas, and generally psyche myself up
for the push to Leopardville.
Maybe some networking through MySpazz will help. And who knows - it
may even turn out that tons of people are using it, only I just don't
know about 'em.
sherm--
For those of you who aren't familiar, CamelBones is an Objective-C framework that allows projects written in Perl to be easily wrapped in Cocoa GUIs. You could also think of it as a way for Cocoa programs to access Perl objects (and therefore that magic repository of all that is good in data manipulation and socket programming: CPAN). Either way, CB has made many programmer's lives much, much easier and helped secure Perl's place as an indispensable weapon in OS X programmers' arsenals.
So if you're a CB user and have a MySpace account, drop by the group. Say "hi" and maybe contribute a couple of those new ideas he's looking for.
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I'm writing a program/script right now for which I am forced to use Applescript and/or Apple Events. I don't really dig Applescript, and was thus thinking about using Perl and Mac::Glue instead of Applescript.
I ran across CamelBones in investigating that, but I did not download it (I know C better than I know Perl, and Obc-C and Cocoa are pretty easy and I'm getting better at those, so I wasn't sure it made sense to learn CamelBones, even though I was interested in it and like Perl).
Well, this post got me to go download it. I haven't had a chance to play with CamelBones yet, but the ShuX POD doc browser that comes with it is worth the price of admission alone!
Thanks.
why would anyone hate myspace?
January 17 2007 at 10:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOuch tim, harsh. Very harsh. I agree with Jay; Myspace sucks. There, I said it.
January 17 2007 at 8:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi have a myspace acct even though i dont think its the greatest thing in the world, but right off the bat, you alienated probably 95% of your readers.
you should be fired
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