Mac Geekery

I just thought I would share a discovery that I made the other day and have played with a little. There’s a nifty little tool called Pashua that you can use to provide a graphical interface to your shell or perl scripts for user input. The way you set up the calls to Pashua is a little clunky (in my opinion), but straightforward and easy to read. While I would prefer a more progmatic approach, Pashua does the job well enough. Additionally, Pashua comes with copious examples and suprisingly well-written documentation.

This one is freeware (as in beer) with the author making a rather casual request for donations to “encourage development.” This is a refreshing change from the normal nagware or crippleware floating around today. Kudos, Carsten Blüm!

You can get the disk image for Pashua from the author’s site.