FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SPIDERWORKS RELEASES DANNY GOODMAN’S NEW DASHBOARD BOOK FOR MAC OS X TIGER
Dashboard Guru Danny Goodman Teaches You How to Build Rock-Solid,
Professional Widgets
ARLINGTON, Virginia (July 5, 2005) – SpiderWorks, LLC today announced the
exclusive release of the “Mac OS X Technology Guide to Dashboard” by
world-renowned JavaScript and Dynamic HTML expert, Danny Goodman.
As the first published book dedicated to Dashboard, this release is now
available from the SpiderWorks.com web site as an eBook for
only $14.95 (US) and a printed softcover edition for only $29.95 (US).
BUY THE BOOK, DOWNLOAD THE EVALUATOR – A SpiderWorks Exclusive!
Save hours of troubleshooting time with Danny Goodman’s Dashboard debugging
tool, “The Evaluator” — included free with the book! The companion files
(available to customers from SpiderWorks’ online Customer Download Center)
also include several ready-to-run widgets and handy code templates for one-
and two-sided widgets that will speed your Dashboard development.
Danny Goodman shows you how to leverage your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
experience into innovative Dashboard widgets for Mac OS X Tiger. Numerous
widgets and examples are described in the book, demonstrating key Dashboard
programming possibilities, such as:
— Dynamically interacting with Web Services
— Invoking shell commands and AppleScript from inside widgets
— Multiple ways to read and write user preferences
— “Scraping” Web page content
— Implementing drag-and-drop from the Finder and documents
— Creating resizable widgets
For more information and to download a free PDF Preview, visit:
http://www.spiderworks.com/books/dashboard.php
Other Mac OS X Technology Guides include Ben Waldie’s “Mac OS X Technology
Guide to Automator” (now available) and forthcoming books on Spotlight.
Please visit the SpiderWorks.com web site for details.
Title: Mac OS X Technology Guide to Dashboard
Author: Danny Goodman
Publisher: SpiderWorks, LLC
eBook: PDF format, 228 pages, $14.95 (US)
Printed: Softcover, 233 pages, ISBN 0-9744344-7-7, $29.95 (US)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Danny Goodman is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and
best-selling books, including “Danny Goodman’s AppleScript Handbook (Mac OS
X Edition),” “The Complete HyperCard Handbook,” “JavaScript Bible,” “Dynamic
HTML: The Definitive Reference,” “JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook,” and “Spam
Wars.” He is a renowned authority and expert teacher of computer scripting
languages and has been deciphering high-tech for non-geeks since the late
1970s.
ABOUT SPIDERWORKS, LLC
SpiderWorks specializes in how-to eBooks and printed books, providing
quality content from respected authors at a low price. Where it takes some
publishers several months to get new technology-related books into the hands
of customers, SpiderWorks is able to bypass those traditional print
production hurdles by embracing the eBook format and utilizing the advanced
print-on-demand publishing services of Lulu.com, satisfying the immediate
needs of today’s digital lifestyles in a timely, cost-effective manner. For
more information, visit http://www.spiderworks.com