One of my work projects is a Windows-only media conversion application. As happens often in the software world, I had to hurry up and learn about installers. So, in late summer 2004 I googled and found Advanced Installer to be highly ranked. I tried the demo, as well as looking into a […]
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About ten years ago, Yahoo appeared on the net. It was so very cool because it was a central place where you could find anything you were looking for. By being popular itself, Yahoo decided what on the web was cool and what was not. Aside from the original NCSA list of […]
One of my current projects is to port an application to Japanese. The first port is always the hardest1, so I’ve learned a few things in the process. I’m going to accumulate a few of my successes in this blog category. The first and most significant is that the way encodings work […]