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….

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]