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Archive for March, 2006

OS X Application Guts

Monday, March 27th, 2006

If you’ve ever wondered how OS X launches an executable and what format an OS X executable is in, you’ll want to read this. It’s kind of surreal to read it in the middle of the night after a two-hour-long coding marathon. Kids, don’t try this at home….

International languages and xajax

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Supporting international languages via Ajax seems like it should be easy, since browsers send Ajax data using UTF-8, right? Well, it’s not that simple, because there are a large number of people out there still developing Web applications on the server using older ISO encodings (at least in the PHP world). So, with our project […]

Clipboard for the Web

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

You know what? Microsoft is really starting to fire on all cylinders. Maybe buying Groove and getting Ray Ozzie was a bigger event than I realized at the time.
Ray’s come up with one of the most brilliant technologies ever to hit the Web in my opinion: a standardized XML format describing clipboard data formats that […]

New book from 37signals: Getting Real

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

The 37signals guys never rest: not only do they have five awesome Web apps in their stable, but they’ve written a new e-book to boot. Called Getting Real, it’s available for $19 as a PDF download, and I have read it in its entirety. Buy it. Now. (That is, if you plan on releasing a […]