Pimp Your Mac With Perl

A website by Mark Fowler

Slides and Video of the Talk

• The slides from my talk at YAPC::NA, pdf (18MB)
• Slightly updated slides from my talk at the London Perl Workshop, pdf (8.3MB)
• Video (requires Flash. 20min) of the talk I gave at the London Perl Workshop

Installing Your Own Perl

• Leo's instant one-line perlbrew instructions
• You'll want to do this because:
• Snow Leopard only ships with 5.10 and 5.8, both of which are deprecated and not supported (Updated: Lion now ships with 5.12.3, which is *still* deprecated, but at least still supported)
• Apple broke XS support for the system perl with XCode 4.0.2 in 2011
• Apple broke system perl with an upgraded IO.pm with a security update in 2009
• Setup the enviroment for graphical programs too:
  • mkdir ~/.MacOSX
  • touch ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
  • defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH "$PATH"
  • log out and back in again

Launchers

• LaunchBar
• Quicksilver
• Alfred
• Other launchers are available...

Growl

• Growl (notification system)
• Prowl (send growls as notifications to your iOS device)
• Interfaces to Growl from Perl
  • Mac::Growl
  • Growl::tiny
  • Net::Growl
  • Cocoa::Growl
  • Net::GrowlClient
  • Growl::Any

Services

• ThisService

Macro tools

• I like TextExpander

Mac::FSEvents

• The Mac::FSEvents module and the patch I applied to get it to install
• John Siracusa's discussion of FSEvents on Ars Technica

Launchd

• The Man Page for Launchd
• Using Launchd to start a plack app

Remote controlling Safari

• Mac::Safari::JavaScript

Writing Cocoa Apps

• Invoking other processes in cocoa