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Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 218)
Well put. From this Twitter page, by Salt Bistro in Boulder, Colorado.
This little example shows the syntax of how to run some AppleScript/osascript from a Unix shell script on a Mac OS X system:
#!/bin/sh osascript <<EOF tell application "Safari" close window 1 end tell EOF
Just put your AppleScript in between the EOF parts, save it to a file, make the file executable, and this gives you a nice way to run a multiline AppleScript script from a shell script.
Here’s another example of what this looks like:
If you ever need to close a Mac OS X application (gracefully) from the Mac Terminal command line or from a shell script, I can confirm that this command works:
osascript -e 'quit app "Safari"'
I use that command from a Mac/Unix shell script to close the Safari browser in an automation script I’m writing, and it works fine. Just replace Safari in that command with the name of the application you want to close.
I’m currently trying to automate a GUI task, and as a part of that, one thing I need to do is move the mouse cursor.
In short, the solution I came up with was to write a Scala shell script that uses the Java Robot class to move the mouse. Here’s the source code for my script, which I named MoveMouse.sh:
In addition to Yahoo Finance and Seeking Alpha — my usual haunts — the following stock/investing websites look interesting, and may have the kind of visual information I’m looking for.
buyupside.com
These are the best links I’ve found so far:
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This is a glimpse of what the “Team Alpha Retirement Portfolio” looks like as of November, 2015. The image comes from this Seeking Alpha link (which leads you to other similar links).
I’m currently doing something completely different, and writing a little custom web browser using JavaFX and its WebView component. I’m using it so I can easily look at stock quotes and charts. I just started on it, and the current UI looks like this:
In some places in Colorado it’s very hard to see the stars at night. I know a few good places between Broomfield and Boulder where you can see them well, but in many areas the “light pollution” makes it impossible. See the full story at the Denver Post.
Many moons ago I thought I wrote an AppleScript script named GetStockUrls, whose sole purpose was to open many webpages from finance.yahoo.com at one time. I could run that script, then easily look at the stocks I owned.
Today I found that script on an old Mac computer, and when I did that I saw that I didn’t write it with AppleScript, but instead created it with the Mac Automator. This image shows all you have to do in the Mac Automator to achieve this result. On my current Mac this script opens the Safari browser and opens each URL shown in a new tab. I can then move between the tabs to see what I want to see, quickly and easily.
This image shows what the result looks like in the Safari browser:
Is the Nexus 6P the best smartphone of 2015? One reviewer on techaeris.com thinks so. (Note: Not just the best Android smartphone on the market, but better than Apple’s iPhone.)
Lest you think that reviewer is alone, Forbes also says that the Nexus 6P is better than the Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6S.
Personally, I can confirm that Android 6 (Marshmallow) rocks. A few weeks ago I wrote that Android 6 is faster and smoother than Android 5.
This upenn.edu link has online materials for a Haskell course. I don’t know if those notes will make any sense if you don’t know anything about Haskell, but if you know a little about Haskell the notes and assignments look useful. (I found this course via this learnhaskell Github project.)
As I mentioned one time before, if you are interested in dividend investing, you will eventually find David Fish, his DRiP list, and this list of Dividend Artistocrats.
suredividend.com has this nice page that summarizes eight rules of dividend investing. I’ve learned a little bit about dividend investing, and it’s helpful to have a summary page like this as a reminder.
Albert Einstein quote: “Education is not the learning of facts, but that training of the mind to think.”
I wrote about this in my book, A Survival Guide for New Consultants, that one of the few things I learned in college was how to learn. Everything else — the details that I actually learned at that time — are not important, especially now. But learning how to learn has made all the difference in my career and in my life.
androidpolice.com is among those reporting about Android Studio 2, and near the bottom of their article I was reminded of this xkcd.com cartoon about programmers slacking off because their code is compiling.
