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Mmmm Minty!

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

The NewsHawker public beta has generated enough referral links that by the end of January I could no longer easily determine which referrals were new with Awstats. I like to keep track of and visit new referrals since the referring site often has feedback on the application or has questions which I may be able to answer. Mint 2 was recently released and I was very pleased to discover it solved this problem extremely well and was a joy to use. Mint was easy to install but, nonetheless, I’ll share what I did to integrate it with my WordPress 2.0-based site. …

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Strip HTML Tags

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

I needed to convert HTML to plain text for the application that I’m developing. I figured someone else had done this before; so, I searched for a solution. I found one that leveraged WebKit and worked well but was too slow for my usage. I found another that leveraged libxml2 and was fast but crashed. In the end, and only because I could browse the source to the version of libxml2 included in Mac OS X, I was able to work around the crash and keep the faster solution. …

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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

When learning a new programming language or technology, I learn best by working through a book with lots of examples and tutorials. I learned HyperTalk by reading Danny Goodman’s The Complete HyperCard Handbook, I learned C by reading Dave Mark’s Learn C on the Macintosh, and I learned C++ by reading his Learn C++ on the Macintosh. (Actually, I didn’t really learn C++ until I read Bjarne Stroustrup’s Design and Evolution of C++.) So, when it was time to learn Objective C and Cocoa, I looked for a book. I bought Aaron Hillegass’ Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X and I was not disappointed.

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