When Apple was touting Automator as part of the OS X 10.4 Tiger upgrade, some people wondered whether AppleScript would be needed anymore. Now that we’ve seen Automator, AppleScript may be needed more ...

Under Mac OS X 10.2.x, Script Debugger fails to compile large scripts. When attempting to compile scripts over 3000 lines, the program will return an "out of memory ...

Script Debugger’s Explorer lets you experiment with the application, exploring the data provides and manipulate the data to see the consequences in the application. Script Debugger also boasts code ...

As is so often the case in the cyclic world of software development, history repeats itself, but (despite Marx’s dictum) it’s better the second time. A couple of years ago, my TidBITS contributions ...

AppleScript is simultaneously one of the most-powerful and one of the least-used Macintosh utilities, the latter partially due to serious deficiencies in Apple’s own Script Editor. Late Night Software ...

Retrospect 6 Driver Update 6.1.9.102: backup driver. This release has support for the Breece Hill Q16 Tape Library, Dell PowerVault RDX1000 (USB) Removable Drive and other new devices. Script Debugger ...

AppleScript geeks, rejoice! Late Night Software's Script Debugger 4 is out, and it looks good. The UI has been overhauled to take up less screen real estate, while taking advantage of the wide screen ...

Late Night Software has updated Script Debugger to version 5.0, a major new release for the AppleScript authoring environment (for an overview, see Matt Neuburg’s “Script Debugger 4.5 Offers Power ...

Software Ltd. today announced the release of Script Debugger 3.0.1, just weeks on the heels of the release of Script Debugger 3.0 on September 25th, ...

A recent post about debugging constructs surprised me. There were quite a few comments about how you didn’t need a debugger, as long as you had printf. For that matter, we’ve all debugged systems ...