one small step for Mac OS X, one giant leap for Mac OS X users. REALbasic developer James Sentman has released beta 2 of acgi dispatcher. now Apache can invoke AppleScripts and Apple Event-aware (i was going to link those, but i got lazy) applications via CGI. bridging Apache and AppleScript is a crucial step for those of us coming from a more traditional Mac OS background: it brings me closer to never having to look at Perl ever again.

Perl makes the Baby Jesus cry.