Welcome to Jon Pugh's Home Page

The latest news:

My photo of an errant apostrophe made it onto Apostrophe Abuse and Apostrophe Catastrophes. My 15 minutes of fame ain't up yet.

I'm still too lazy to organize things in any better form than nested lists.

First off, the reason you are probably here, my software:

AppleScript stuff:

SmartString is an AppleScript library object which does high level string manipulations, like finding substrings, replacing substrings and tokenizing strings.

Jon's Commands X 3.0d3 (124K) is partially functional, being PPC only (i.e. it does not work on Intel). Offered under the "Something is better than nothing" theory. Note that Jon's Commands is old enough that it would need to be completely rewritten for Intel compatibility.
Last updated Fri, Oct 4, 2002.

Jon's Commands 2.1.2 (164K), a set of old 68K AppleScript scripting additions. Click here for the complete Jon's Commands documentation.
Last updated Mon, Sep 11, 2000.

Script Server 1.1 (84K), a Classic application which compiles and decompiles OSA scripts. I reworked the core of the application, using my MoreOSA package, removing the include feature which never worked well and generally making the thing work better than it ever has. This is functonally equivalent to the Mac OS X included "osacompile" command. Last updated Sat, Oct 21, 2000.

MoreOSA 1.0 C++ source code package for running AppleScripts from your applications. It's not well commented, but it's tested and functionally robust.

Java stuff, which is just my Galaxy applet and my CoolString class for doing string manipulation.

Hypercard stuff, my collection of XCMDs and stacks for doing a whole mess of stuff.

ToggleAT FKEY (14K), a handy FKEY for turning AppleTalk on and off without using the Chooser.

Then, my Macintosh Advocacy pages:

Why my family and I use Macintosh computers.

The Macintosh Jihad, which seems to be going a lot better these days.

Followed by some articles slamming Microsoft (some of these are old, but that shows you how long Microsoft has been playing hardball):

Insightful comparison of Microsoft & Vista to the beleagured Apple of the 90s.

What are you doing to oppose the Microsoft juggernaut?

Appraising Microsoft. Ralph Nader's doing his part to oppose Microsoft

Microsoft Related Links

Then some personal stuff:

A brief autobiography of yours truly.

A pictoral resume of some old business cards.

My Magic: The Gathering page, with cards I have and want to trade with.

If you don't believe in God, what do you believe in?
My second rant, about what I think is really going on in the universe.

My first pointless rant about spiritual aspects of life.

Finally, some links for you to follow:

My page of favorite links.

Jon's Ski Links.

AppleScript Resources on the Web.

Macintosh Links

And remember, MacOS Rules!

Created on Mon, May 18, 1998 and last modified on Wed, Aug 27, 2008.